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Google says it will overhaul Search in Europe to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, giving more prominence to comparison services like Expedia and Hotels.com while stripping some real-time features from hotel, airline, and restaurant results. "These changes degrade the user experience for Europeans -- boosting online intermediaries at the expense of local businesses, and removing helpful features people rely on every day," said Nick Fox, senior vice-president of knowledge and information at Google. The company claims its past search changes for DMA compliance were tied to a 30% decrease "in free, direct booking traffic to European businesses." Engadget reports: That sanction was the latest salvo between the EU government and a US tech company for infringing on its Digital Markets Act. The debate centers on the DMA requirement that major tech brands "must not treat their own services more favorably in ranking than third-party services." [...] According to Reuters, Google's revised search results "will highlight one specialized search engine at the top of the page, followed by two others with fewer details. A carousel of hotels, airlines and restaurants, for example, will sit below them with key features such as real-time prices stripped out." Those specialized engines include sites like Expedia or Hotels.com, also known as vertical search services, so European users may soon see those aggregators and comparison sites prioritized more highly than individual businesses' websites in their results. Reuters noted that "the rankings will be determined by Google's algorithm," meaning the tech company still holds a lot of control over how results are displayed. The EC had given Google 60 days to comply with its rules, but the company has not specified an exact timeline for when European users will start seeing the changes.

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Andrew Garfield has transformed himself into controversial OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino's Altman biopic, Artificial. 

It's a habit shared by thousands of Britons while working from home. But doctors have warned that resting your laptop against your body could cause a disfiguring skin reaction.

A brisk half-hour walk each day could be just as good for your health as achieving the much-coveted 10,000-step target, scientists have found.

Karetsas was seen kicking the ball back to his team-mate before sitting down on the pitch in discomfort, with Dortmund medical staff coming onto the pitch to attend to the attacker.

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See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

Five-year-old Cane Corso Kila gave birth to the largest litter of puppies ever seen at the RSPCA rescue centre where she is being cared for.

Almost the only thing missing was the bomb scare.

The photographer, 53, celebrated Dannielynn Birkhead's bold new identity as he highlighted a series of moments from her life in a video clip set to the sounds of Lenny Kravitz's Happy Birthday.

The former Little Mix star was in attendance for the ceremony at London's O2 Arena after receiving a nomination in the Authored Documentary category.

English schools are one of this country's great success stories - and you don't have to take my word for it.

The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing (PDF) several Chinese AI companies of carrying out "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns against leading U.S. models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Since at least 2024, the companies have allegedly routed millions of requests across accounts, APIs, proxies, cloud providers, and third-party aggregators to extract capabilities for their own models. "China-based artificial intelligence companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies' models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns that form the core -- not merely a supplement -- of their AI development strategy," the agencies wrote. CyberScoop reports: DeepSeek, for example, distilled frontier U.S. models to generate synthetic training data for its R1 and R3 models, including four different versions of Claude, two versions of Gemini, five versions of ChatGPT and Grok 4. Those models helped train DeepSeek's capabilities in areas like agentic functioning, question and answer optimization, creative and occupational writing and others. Another Chinese company, Moonshot AI, allegedly distilled 18 different U.S. models -- including Fable 5, Anthropic's current, most advanced commercially available model -- to train its Kimi-K2 and Kimi K3 models. The company used millions of queries meant to extract enhanced capabilities in areas like agentic reasoning, coding and data analysis, computer vision, larger logical frameworks, visual processing and others. Chinese AI companies manage a sophisticated set of tools and systems that route requests and prompts through multiple pathways to avoid detection. The advisory lists common tactics observed by Chinese companies, including spreading requests across different accounts, models and platforms, using native APIs, remote cloud providers, and third-party aggregators to obfuscate user metadata, and leveraging proxies and gray tech markets to get around geographic restrictions, terms of use and safeguards built into frontier models.

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She moved house last week and Stacey Solomon has already made sure to share some hilarious content with fans as she got ready in their humongous new bathroom. 

It emerged last October that Loughlin and Giannulli, who share daughters Olivia Jade, 26, and Isabela 'Bella' Rose, 27, had separated.

Police officers were injured and vehicles damaged during a stand-off with more than 500 balaclava-clad men after the migrants were brought ashore at Eastney Landing on Sunday.

The 47-year-old actress, who shares her 20-year-old daughter Suri with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, indulged in a boating trip with her new man on Tuesday.

It's an agonising and disfiguring skin condition that plagues one in every 100 Britons - yet very few have ever heard of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS).

My property backs on to farm fields used for sheep grazing. I recently bought one of the fields from the farmer so our children could play there.