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Brittany Fortinberry, 31, who has been accused of asking underage boys to 'gangbang' her while wearing Scream masks has been re-photographed after spending weeks behind bars.

Donald Trump said he wants to set up a White House 'compensation fund' for a group of people he said were 'treated very unfairly' by Joe Biden.

A POPULAR singer from Brightlingsea who appeared on Eurovision and has gone onto to achieve great success  has spoken about not winning an Emmy award.

A POPULAR singer from Brightlingsea who appeared on Eurovision and has gone onto to achieve great success  has spoken about not winning an Emmy award.

Several local business owners, including those from the Bubble Tea shop, have expressed concern that despite making multiple reports.

A fire at a waste recycling site in Braintree was “most likely” caused by a battery which had been disposed of incorrectly, the fire service says.

Christy Collins, 27, said that her "relationship with food wasn't healthy"

Frederik officially ascended the throne on January 14, 2024, after Queen Margrethe stepped down following her 52-year reign.

Oprah Winfrey has been dragged into hip-hop icon Russell Simmons' high-profile rape case.

Actress Cindyana Santangelo - better known as 'the Latin Marilyn Monroe' has died at age 58.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures -- adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic -- Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them, spoofing user-agents and cycling through residential IP addresses as proxies. Desperate for a solution, Iaso eventually resorted to moving their server behind a VPN and creating "Anubis," a custom-built proof-of-work challenge system that forces web browsers to solve computational puzzles before accessing the site. "It's futile to block AI crawler bots because they lie, change their user agent, use residential IP addresses as proxies, and more," Iaso wrote in a blog post titled "a desperate cry for help." "I don't want to have to close off my Gitea server to the public, but I will if I have to." Iaso's story highlights a broader crisis rapidly spreading across the open source community, as what appear to be aggressive AI crawlers increasingly overload community-maintained infrastructure, causing what amounts to persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on vital public resources. According to a comprehensive recent report from LibreNews, some open source projects now see as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots, dramatically increasing bandwidth costs, service instability, and burdening already stretched-thin maintainers. Kevin Fenzi, a member of the Fedora Pagure project's sysadmin team, reported on his blog that the project had to block all traffic from Brazil after repeated attempts to mitigate bot traffic failed. GNOME GitLab implemented Iaso's "Anubis" system, requiring browsers to solve computational puzzles before accessing content. GNOME sysadmin Bart Piotrowski shared on Mastodon that only about 3.2 percent of requests (2,690 out of 84,056) passed their challenge system, suggesting the vast majority of traffic was automated. KDE's GitLab infrastructure was temporarily knocked offline by crawler traffic originating from Alibaba IP ranges, according to LibreNews, citing a KDE Development chat. While Anubis has proven effective at filtering out bot traffic, it comes with drawbacks for legitimate users. When many people access the same link simultaneously -- such as when a GitLab link is shared in a chat room -- site visitors can face significant delays. Some mobile users have reported waiting up to two minutes for the proof-of-work challenge to complete, according to the news outlet.

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The UK's longest serving prisoner appeared via video link from HMP Woodhill to perform for customers at The Hilderthorpe pub in Bridlington on Saturday.

Footage has captured a big cat lurking around a skip in the dead of night, sparking fears that a large mystery beast may be on the loose in Buckinghamshire.

The head of The National Federation of Fish Fryers (NFFF) has voiced concerns that the transition to green energy risks exacerbating costs for chippies.

Leo Foster, a solicitor who worked at bank BNP Paribas in London , had to pay an additional £16,000 in costs after admitting to using names such as 'Mad Paul', 'The Idiot' and 'Jabba the Hutt'.

Mark Holland made a string of inappropriate comments including calling a student a 'dumb blonde' and telling a female pupil she 'could do better' in reference to her boyfriend.

Former editor of Vanity Fair Graydon Carter has written a new memoir that reveals his most memorable showbiz encounters in very candid detail.

Albert Arnaiz claims to have had more than 100 affairs while in serious relationships, and is now on a mission to tell you, or indeed your spouse, how to get away with doing the same.

The mayor was gifted two tickets, worth £275 each, by the FA declaring them in the City Hall register of gifts saying they were accepted due to a 'stakeholder engagement'.

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. …

Upstart Xsight Labs Raises Up The Programmable Switch Banner High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.