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Opinion  With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots.…

Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, who killed his 83-year-old mother Suzanne Adams then himself in her Connecticut home, exchanged disturbing messages with a chatbot leading up to the crime.

The EastEnders actress, 49, who revealed she'd lost a whopping 6.5st following weight-loss surgery was the epitome of elegance in a white ruffled gown.

The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a call from the National Association of Broadcasters and some industry trade groups that would have imposed cable-style regulatory fees on streaming services, tech companies and pure broadband providers. From a report: In a Report and Order issued on Friday, the FCC reaffirmed that regulatory fees are calculated based on the number of full-time equivalent employees assigned to specific industries under the agency's jurisdiction. Broadcasters, satellite operators and other licensees are already assessed annual payments, which help fund the FCC's operational costs. The NAB, in concert with other groups like Telesat, Iridium and the State Broadcasters Associations, pressed the FCC to expand the list of fee payers to include broadband providers and large technology firms. They argued that companies operating online platforms and broadband services rely on FCC resources and should contribute to the costs of regulation. "Big Tech should not be permitted to free ride on the FCC's oversight," NAB said in submitted comments earlier this year. The NAB argued that online platforms enjoy regulator benefits without paying into the agency's budget, as broadcasters and satellite operators do.

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I completed an epic road test of more than 2,500 miles - probably my longest ever - across Europe to Poland and Czechia, in a Kodiaq SUV.

Police have launched a second face covering ban due to a planned demonstration in Epping.

Police have launched a second face covering ban due to a planned demonstration in Epping.

Scientists have made a shocking discovery in the progression of the human language, warning that the change should 'worry us.'

It may not be officially Fall yet, but Starbucks has already released its menu for the season - and customers can finally get their hands on that highly anticipated Pumpkin Spice Latte.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of "specific targeted users." The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its security advisory that it fixed the vulnerability, known officially as CVE-2025-55177, which was used alongside a separate flaw found in iOS and Macs, which Apple fixed last week and tracks as CVE-2025-43300. Apple said at the time that the flaw was used in an "extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals." Now we know that dozens of WhatsApp users were targeted with this pair of flaws. Donncha O Cearbhaill, who heads Amnesty International's Security Lab, described the attack in a post on X as an "advanced spyware campaign" that targeted users over the past 90 days, or since the end of May. O Cearbhaill described the pair of bugs as a "zero-click" attack, meaning it does not require any interaction from the victim, such as clicking a link, to compromise their device. The two bugs chained together allow an attacker to deliver a malicious exploit through WhatsApp that's capable of stealing data from the user's Apple device. Per O Cearbhaill, who posted a copy of the threat notification that WhatsApp sent to affected users, the attack was able to "compromise your device and the data it contains, including messages." It's not immediately clear who, or which spyware vendor, is behind the attacks. When reached by TechCrunch, Meta spokesperson Margarita Franklin confirmed the company detected and patched the flaw "a few weeks ago" and that the company sent "less than 200" notifications to affected WhatsApp users. The spokesperson did not say, when asked, if WhatsApp has evidence to attribute the hacks to a specific attacker or surveillance vendor.

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The apartment building of Jewish New York Times editor John Kahn was splattered with red paint by one or multiple pro-Palestine protestors, police said.

Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party

Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. …

Lochan Nowacki, 27, is planning to sue his former partner, Whitney Adebayo, after she publicly claimed that he called her skin 'dirty' during their relationship.

Now an insider has cleared the air over the legitimacy of the relationship between the 58-year-old Baywatch legend and 73-year-old Taken star  and even shed some light on their connection.

Queen Elizabeth II was a Remainer opposed to Britain's decision to leave the European Union, a new book has sensationally claimed.

Christian Brückner, who is serving a sentence in northern Germany for a rape conviction will be released by September 17.

MATTHEW LAMBWELL: As Raducanu's Grand Slam season was ended by yet another defeat at the hands of the Big Four, the British No 1 believes the elite players in the women's game are out to get her.

Pete Davidson's pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt shared some very fun photos on Friday that were taken during her late summer vacation in Greece.

DOD: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft program that has allowed Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to work on sensitive DOD cloud systems. In a digital video address to the public posted yesterday, the secretary said DOD was made aware of the "digital escorts" program last month and that the program has exposed the Defense Department to unacceptable risk -- despite being designed to comply with government contracting rules. "If you're thinking 'America first,' and common sense, this doesn't pass either of those tests," Hegseth said, adding that he initiated an immediate review of the program upon learning of it. "I want to report our initial findings. ... The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It's over," he said. Additionally, Hegseth said DOD has issued a formal letter of concern to Microsoft, documenting a breach of trust, and that DOD is requiring a third-party audit of the digital escorts program to pore over the code and submissions made by Chinese nationals. The audit will be free of charge to U.S. taxpayers, he said.

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The 21-year-old royal was spotted today (pictured) at the British Carriagedriving National Championships at the Ashfields Carriage and Polo Club, near Great Dunmow, Essex.