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Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

Myleene Klass was seen for the first time since revealing her 'terrifying' breast cancer scare as she stepped out with her son Apollo on Thursday.

Willis, 71, and Heming, 50, exchanged vows in 2009 and have since welcomed two daughters into the world, Mabel, 14, and Evelyn, 12.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is replacing the rule with a "case-by-case review" of each proposed merger. "This will empower the FCC to approve deals that promote the public interest while allowing the agency to reject any deals that do not meet that standard," Carr's office said in a press release today. Without the 39 percent rule, broadcasters will be better able to compete against streaming companies that don't face similar limits, Carr's office said. The change, if not stopped by courts, will make it easier for Carr to allow broadcast mergers that result in more favorable news coverage for President Trump. Carr has consistently threatened to revoke licenses from broadcasters who have drawn Trump's ire, including by ordering an early license review of all ABC-owned stations. Carr said local broadcast TV stations are becoming "undifferentiated passthroughs of national programming produced in Hollywood and New York," and he justified repealing the ownership rule by arguing it will help the stations invest in local news. "It's worth noting that Republicans with deep firsthand knowledge of this issue also agree the commission cannot do what it is attempting today," said Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, who voted against the decision today. "Former FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly has been unequivocal that the FCC lacks authority to change the cap. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who negotiated the 39 percent compromise, has stressed that Congress intentionally wrote the cap into law to prevent FCC revision. And Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz has said he is 'skeptical a change can be made absent an act of Congress.' Their consensus reinforces a simple point: Congress set the cap, and only Congress can change it." Gomez, in addition to arguing that "Congress deliberately enshrined the cap in statute and removed it from the Commission's review process," said removing the cap will hurt local broadcasters. "Digital giants compete for their most valuable programming and advertising, while consolidation pressures at the national level threaten the local reporting and public-safety functions on which communities rely," Gomez said. "But eliminating the cap does not free local broadcasters from that strain. It just changes who is doing the squeezing. A handful of station-group giants does not represent the wishes of local broadcasters. They are large national companies that own local stations and increasingly dictate what airs on them without much local input. Trading a squeeze from Big Tech for a squeeze from Big Media does nothing to protect the communities this cap was designed to serve."

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Ash Ranallo,18, suffered life-threatening injuries after falling about 20 stories from a grain elevator in Minneapolis on Monday night.

Holidaymakers have said that the Mediterranean Sea is so hot they can't even go for a dip to cool off. 

IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships

For years, I've had to sidestep one of the most annoying questions known to womankind: when will you be giving your child a sibling?

Longtime Slashdot reader mccalli writes: Times Magazine has started serving adverts with "brand messages" to AI crawlers, which are not part of its main page. The aim seems to be to influence chatbots to talk about the brand offerings in a positive light that can't be traced back to the actual page. Notably, they've excluded Google chatbots from this, likely because Google penalizes companies that show different search offerings to its bots versus actual human visitors. "Maybe it's more important to influence the agent than even the human, because with a human you influence one person. When you influence ChatGPT, you're influencing potentially all of ChatGPT," said Jonah Goodhart, co-founder and CEO of ad tech platform Mobian. "If ChatGPT changes what it says about [a brand], it's massive and it's more than any one campaign could ever do. The big idea here is LLMs and AI want trusted information about brands. We're serving that up to them in a very straightforward, easy way." The ad strategy was uncovered by Germany-based freelance software developer Vincent Schmalbach, who detailed his findings in a blog post. Digiday and The Register both reported on the story.

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When Chris Sylvester was just 12 years old, he was introduced to heroin in a toilet cubicle at school. The next 26 years saw him in active drug addiction, in and out of prison, hospitals and homelessness .

Frustration exploded into fury in Thetford, Norfolk, following weeks of protests at a nearby former military barracks which has already been earmarked to take 1,250 male migrants.

You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

Traffic is slow with the A12 partially blocked after a crash Colchester-bound.

A Russian 'human safari' drone appeared to chase a terrified Ukrainian man, a newly surfaced video shows. 

A keen solo traveller, Josh Rogers had visited the Spanish seaside town for a week-long holiday. Less than a day into the trip, he vanished without a trace.

Far fewer Islamist cases were adopted by the Prevent programme under the 'Channel' scheme, compared with 'extreme Right-wing' cases.

I've always had a sensitive bladder, which is exacerbated by anxiety, and am still haunted by the horrifying memory of wetting myself in front of a school friend aged 15.

Perez Hilton's podcast co-host Chris Booker broke his silence as the gossip blogger recovers in hospital following distressingTikTok livestream.   

Some experts are now warning the benefits of extended antidepressant use are being overstated. And they point to studies that suggest they may be linked to serious side effects.