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Americans don't understand sport. They think it's a form of entertainment, which is why they're generally so bad at it. Sport done properly is far too important to be enjoyable.

Wes Streeting, 43, said Russia is losing the war - hours after a wave of their ballistic missile and drone attacks on Kyiv left at least 17 people dead and 44 injured.

The chart-topping singer bought the 400-year-old Grade II listed farm close to his 16-acre home in Suffolk two years ago.

Consumer group Which? found some pricier products contain less active ingredient than the recommended daily intake and less than cheaper alternatives.

Those convicted of PC Andrew Harper's manslaughter remain eligible for early release. But do you think the Government should block this from happening?

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can't take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that "weak sensing" hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. [...] Dolgov made the comments in a talk at Y Combinator's Startup School, walking through the lessons Waymo has learned building its driver over close to two decades. He put the sensor question on the table plainly: "there's been a long-standing debate about what kind of sensors do you actually need for autonomous driving." His answer draws the line that camera-only advocates tend to skip right past. "Humans of course can drive with just eyes, so there's that proof of existence," he said. "If the goal were to just approximately match human performance or to build an assist product, that's a very reasonable way to go." Then the catch. If you're targeting full autonomy and strongly superhuman performance, he said, "you find that weak sensing just leads to a safety curve that flattens out way too early." Dolgov said that cameras, lidar, and radar are complementary rather than redundant: "These different sensing modalities, they're not backups to each other," and combining them produces a view "vastly superior to what you get with any one sensor." He said multiple sensor types also protect against physical failures, such as a leaf or branch blocking a camera, while helping Waymo climb the "exponential ladder of nines" required for fully driverless safety. Dolgov warned that camera-only systems may improve quickly before plateauing "way before the performance that is required by your product." He also pushed back on the cost argument against lidar, calling it "a number that has a fairly short shelf life" as hardware costs continue to fall.

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Radio 1 had an average of 7.48 million weekly listeners between April and June last year, compared to 6.9 million in the same period this year - a drop of 579,000.

Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional

Explora III is aiming to redefine luxury at sea. We step aboard the new ship to discover extraordinary suites, fine dining, elegant spaces and eye-catching features.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the new centres will be a 'lifeline' for the thousands of people who are waiting months for help.

Gere, who turns 77 at the end of the month, has been cast in the movie as a revered author called Ezra while Silvers, 28, plays a literary assistant called Alice.

Rio and Kate Ferdinand are apparently the big money signing for ITV's new I'm A Celebrity spin-off, Wild Frontier, which films in Canada next month.

Tied to the moped was a carrier bag containing MDMA, cocaine and pink cocaine, a popular cocktail of ketamine, MDMA and caffeine mixed with pink food dye.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents -- the most serious case arising when Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models' capabilities by the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research organization within the UK government, in late July. The researchers discovered (PDF) 19 instances in which "AI agents took unsanctioned action on the live Internet, including cases that targeted real people and organizations," according to an AISI blog post published on August 4. Almost all the "autonomous, unsanctioned" actions came from Anthropic's Mythos 5 model, with two such actions coming from OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. [...] The most serious case involved Mythos making multiple attempts to execute a supply chain attack on the open source project repository hosted on the developer platform GitHub, including using social engineering techniques to try to convince the repository's human maintainers to merge malicious code into the repository. After first opening a pull request to merge the malicious code into the repository, Mythos created fake online "sock puppet" personas that claimed to have independently reviewed and verified the code as not containing malware. The AI agent also sent five emails to two human maintainers of the repository, including some emails containing malware and others attempting to persuade a maintainer to accept the pull request. Mythos even opened a GitHub Issue on a second repository -- also owned by a maintainer of the first repository -- that contained a prompt injection with malicious instructions targeting "issue-triage AI coding agents." This line of attack came from Mythos reasoning that the repository maintainer could be an AI coding agent such as Claude Code.

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After five months of regional conflict, the prospective deal paves the way for Iran to deny access to Western ships along the key route.

Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found

Princess Andre looked effortlessly stylish in a floral minidress as she sipped cocktails at Oh Polly's Italian Piazza summer party on Wednesday.

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and oversees foundation model development. Wang joined in June of last year as the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to revamp his company's flailing artificial intelligence strategy. "You can install it with one command and then use it to take on complete software engineering tasks across a wide variety of use cases, planning changes, writing code, validating the results," Wang said in an interview on Wednesday. [...] The new tool, like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex assistants, makes it easier for people to build apps within a single user interface while managing fleets of AI-powered digital agents that can help underpin the software development process. Muse Code, available in a preview version, works alongside the company's latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2. Wang declined to share user statistics related to the company's Muse Spark AI models, but said "adoption has been exciting and strong." The latest Muse Spark model was developed and trained alongside Muse Code, which Wang said improves the overall coding performance.

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A deadly shooting broke out in Prospect Hill, North Carolina, on Wednesday around 8.30am. Three members of the same family were killed and one was rushed to the hospital.