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As a health journalist, I am always on the lookout for the latest and greatest health gadgets or wellness products.

The men sentenced to death for gang-raping a French tourist in Pakistan in front of her three children six years ago have been pictured.

Love Island fans went wild as Aidan's younger brother Kavan arrived in the villa as a bombshell during Thursday night's episode.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that those chatbots will scrape -- in this case, a popular Reddit community. In a post last week, the moderators of r/biohackers said they would be banning new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) because of attempted manipulation by the companies that make, market, and sell them. [...] "As AI search engines increasingly pull answers from Reddit, companies are using us for AEO. On top of that, there's been an explosion of peptide interest and AI usage flooding the sub. Together, this has put serious pressure on content quality," a post by the moderators read. [...] It has become incredibly difficult to stop Reddit manipulation, because the firms doing it are getting more sophisticated. The moderator said that there are really standard and long-running strategies where brands will hop in the comments and suggest their products: "That type of marketing has always existed and if people want to try something new because the brand resonated with them, cool. That's the way marketing should flow in my mind," they said. "But what I'm seeing that is way scarier to me is that there are companies that will reverse-engineer the actual prompt patterns that are prioritized by LLMs, and so you'll see someone post a super clickbait, high-traction, vague question like 'Is all the hype around Vitamin D actually worth it?" they added. "And that thread will do really well because everyone on biohackers actually has an opinion, so it gets engagement and prioritized by LLMs, and then brands will sneak in and they'll embed their brand mentions in those threads in the exact right places in a seemingly organic way. But none of it is organic, the entire thing is a strategy by an agency to prioritize brand mentions or a narrative within an LLM." The Reddit accounts that are doing this are "warmed up" or are made to seem human, meaning they have a posting history that is not just promotional. This makes them much harder to detect and moderate against. Some of the agencies doing this are paying real people to post promotional content, or have built communities where people are incentivized to post promotional content. The moderator said that Reddit's automated moderation tools have been helpful, but that the type of promotion happening has become so sophisticated that it has become more of a you-know-it-if-you-see it kind of thing. "A lot of it has become pattern recognition," they said. "You literally just sort of know what to look for. But the problem is you don't want to become punitive to the people who aren't doing this maliciously, and so I think the over-moderation risk is very real."

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Essex is one of 13 English counties predicted to see a return to extreme heat

New official statistics show there were 466,372 teachers in 2025, a decrease of 1,900 on the year before, when Labour came to power.

Officers from the Met Police were called to the scene of the stabbing on Dudden Hill Lane, near Willesden, shortly after 10.30pm on Saturday night.

It seems part of a wider effort to secure President Trump's enduring legacy.

Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with some early partners and is looking forward to releasing it this month. "The muse spark API will be coming soon," Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang announced in a post on X in April. Meta unveiled Muse Spark in April as the first model built to close the gap with rivals. Muse Spark is the first in a new series of models created by the company's Superintelligence Labs. Earlier on Wednesday, Meta unveiled an AI agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, hinting at the company's ambitions to compete with rivals such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet's Google.

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Now, at 97, the former UN chief weapons inspector claims Trump is following George W Bush down the path toward the 'law of the jungle' over US actions in the Middle East.

Just two hours later, Doja returned with another fiery post, escalating her criticism of the tech billionaire.

David Koepp suffered a huge blunder as he fell over in front of Emily Blunt at the UK premiere of Disclosure Day in London on Thursday.

Emergency services were called to St Minver Holiday Park, near Wadebridge in Cornwall, following reports of a 'physical altercation' on May 30.

Emergency services are responding to a reported crash on the A120 near Coggeshall.

Emergency services are responding to a reported crash on the A120 near Coggeshall.

Dennis Quaid looked positively giddy as he awkwardly reunited with his ex-wife this week at their son's high school graduation - after filing to end child support payments.

It marks a happy turn since his worry in March, when he was taken to hospital after falling ill at Old Trafford ahead of United's 3-2 win over Liverpool.

Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb

Fears of overcrowding and crime have once again forced shops and restaurants to close for the six day event which attracts around 10,000 travellers.

Iraola, 43, spent three years with the Cherries and led them to a Europa League finish last season, just three points behind his new club.