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The BGT judge, 55, looked nothing short of sensational in the tiny green two piece as she showcased her gym honed physique.

MarketWatch looks at "surveillance wages," pay rates "based not on an employee's performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees' knowledge." According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance — to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said... A first-of-its-kind audit of 500 labor-management artificial-intelligence companies by Veena Dubal, a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and Wilneida Negrón, a tech strategist, found that employers in the healthcare, customer service, logistics and retail industries are customers of vendors whose tools are designed to enable this practice. Published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a progressive economic think tank, the August 2025 report... does not claim that all employers using these systems engage in algorithmic wage surveillance. Instead, it warns that the growing use of algorithmic tools to analyze workers' personal data can enable pay practices that prioritize cost-cutting over transparency or fairness... Surveillance wages don't stop at the hiring stage — they follow workers onto the job, too. The vendors that provide such services also offer tools that are built to set bonus or incentive compensation, according to the report. These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job. Nearly 70% of companies with more than 500 employees were already using employee-monitoring systems in 2022, such as software that monitors computer activity, according to a survey from the International Data Corporation. "The data that they have about you may allow an algorithmic decision system to make assumptions about how much, how big of an incentive, they need to give to a particular worker to generate the behavioral response they seek," DiSalvo said. The article notes that Colorado introduced the "Prohibit Surveillance Data to Set Prices and Wages Act" to ban companies from setting pay rates with algorithms that use payday-loan history, location data or Google search behavior for algorithmically set. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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An 'outstanding' dystopian Netflix series has been hailed by fans as 'better than The Handmaid's Tale' with viewers pushing it for more recognition.

Busted star James Bourne has issued a health update, telling fans that "major surgery" could help "extend" his life.

Busted star James Bourne has issued a health update, telling fans that "major surgery" could help "extend" his life.

Molly-Mae Hague unveiled her and partner Tommy Fury's lavish master bedroom renovations as she continues to transform her £5M Cheshire mansion. 

The former Hear'Say star, 44, broke down in tears in February as she detailed her 'messy and unexpected' break up from fiancé Sam Greenfield after 11 years together.

A non-league goalkeeper was caught on camera appearing to punch a rival fan during a match on Friday before being escorted off the pitch.

An 83-year-old woman is missing from the Clacton area.

An 83-year-old woman is missing from the Clacton area.

The Labour veteran was scathing. 'Starmer's blown it already,' he said. 'He's kicked off the local election campaign by saying to the voters, "I don't care what you do, I'm staying."'

Anthropic's making a big and sudden change — and connecting its Claude AI to third-party agentic tools "is about to get a lot more expensive," writes the Verge: Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will "no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw," according to an email sent to users on Friday evening. Instead, if users want to use OpenClaw with Claude, they'll have to use a "pay-as-you-go option" that will be billed separate from their Claude subscription. Anthropic's announcement added these extra usage bundles are "now available at a discount." Users can also try Anthropic's API, notes VentureBeat, "which charges for every token of usage rather than allowing for open-ended usage up to certain limits, as the Pro and Max plans have allowed so far. " The technical reality, according to Anthropic, is that its first-party tools like Claude Code, its AI vibe coding harness, and Claude Cowork, its business app interfacing and control tool, are built to maximize "prompt cache hit rates" — reusing previously processed text to save on compute. Third-party harnesses like OpenClaw often bypass these efficiencies... [Claude Code creator Boris Cherny explained on X that "I did put up a few PRs to improve prompt cache hit rate for OpenClaw in particular, which should help for folks using it with Claude via API/overages."] Growth marketer Aakash Gupta observed on X that the "all-you-can-eat buffet just closed," noting that a single OpenClaw agent running for one day could burn $1,000 to $5,000 in API costs. "Anthropic was eating that difference on every user who routed through a third-party harness," Gupta wrote. "That's the pace of a company watching its margin evaporate in real time." However, Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw who was recently hired by OpenAI, took a more skeptical view of the "capacity" argument."Funny how timings match up," Steinberger posted on X. "First they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source." Indeed, Anthropic recently added some of the same capabilities that helped OpenClaw catch-on — such as the ability to message agents through external services like Discord and Telegram — to Claude Code... User @ashen_one, founder of Telaga Charity, voiced a concern likely shared by other small-scale builders: "If I switch both [OpenClaw instances] to an API key or the extra usage you're recommending here, it's going to be far too expensive to make it worth using. I'll probably have to switch over to a different model at this point." "I know it sucks," Cherny replied. "Fundamentally engineering is about tradeoffs, and one of the things we do to serve a lot of customers is optimize the way subscriptions work to serve as many people as possible with the best mode..." OpenAI appears to be positioning itself as a more "harness-friendly" alternative, potentially using this moment as a customer acquisition channel for disgruntled Claude power users. By restricting subscription limits to their own "closed harness," Anthropic is asserting control over the UI/UX layer. This allows them to collect telemetry and manage rate limits more granularly, but it risks alienating the power-user community that built the "agentic" ecosystem in the first place. Anthropic's decision is a cold calculation of margins versus growth. As Cherny noted, "Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully." In the 2026 AI landscape, the era of subsidized, unlimited compute for third-party automation is over. For the average user on Claude.ai, the experience remains unchanged; for the power users running autonomous offices, the bell has tolled.

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Taking to Instagram on Saturday, James wrote: 'I realised it's been about six months since I posted last. I have a plan in place to have major surgery that should extend my life.

Scarlett Moffatt has revealed her second time in the Jungle, in the upcoming All Stars series, was far from harmonious.

Lindsey Graham said he is 'completely convinced' the US president would take decisive action if Tehran continues to block the vital oil shipping route and refuses a diplomatic deal.

According to a new report, President Donald Trump has discussed firing two other Cabinet members. He has not made any final personnel decisions yet.

Two schools - one in Manchester and another in Northampton - this year collected at least £500,000, according to Department for Education figures.

Residents living in and around Broomhill Road, in Bulwell, say they have experienced sleepless nights and intimidation during the Saturday night bashes.

The 28-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver showed off his remarkable trimmed down physique in a navy crewneck sweatshirt and off-white joggers

The I'm A Celebrity star partied the night away at the bash - which saw guests arrive in style, with a helicopter seen landing at their £20million mansion.