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TAMARA PRENN AT WIMBLEDON: The Italian is on yet another impressive run at Wimbledon, one year on from his quarter-final debut in SW19.

The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey. "The core issue seems to be whether Xinuos even has the right to litigate the matter, or if some ancient legalese in the original agreements means the window for legal argument has long since expired," reports The Register. From the report: [T]he roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX for x86 CPUs. Those two companies, plus Intel and Sequent, created "Project Monterey" -- an effort to create a unified version of UNIX that could run on multiple processors. By 2001, Project Monterey was close to delivering a unified UNIX, an achievement made possible by blending code from IBM and SCO. By then, a little project called "Linux" already ran on multiple processors. Big Blue decided Linux was the future and bailed from Project Monterey -- then allegedly contributed some Monterey code to the open-source project and to its own AIX and Z operating systems. SCO felt it owned some of that code, so sued IBM. SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as owner of parts of the Linux codebase, and IBM's code, had the potential to turn into a colossal payday. The case and its successors ended in 2021, with a settlement that saw litigants agree to end the matter without IBM admitting fault. But by then, SCO had sold its software to a biz called Xinuos that decided to fight on. The Xinuos case has burbled along quietly since, and on June 22nd reached the milestone of a hearing. The matter has become a little more modern, if only because this hearing was held online and the presiding judge appeared to unwittingly be on mute at one point. But the arguments otherwise seemed to revisit Project Monterey, debated the relevance of past litigation, contested who owned what, when they owned it, and how they could prove it. Xinuos argued IBM never had a license for SCO code. Big Blue argued that it did nothing wrong.

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Donald Trump Jr. made a surprise appearance at Tyler Robinson's hearing today as the 23-year-old stands accused of murdering Charlie Kirk.

Another round of protests have erupted in the Spanish hotspot, with around 10,000 people involved.

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The 36-year-old slipped as he jumped over an advertising board during the celebrations following England's 3-2 win at the Azteca Stadium.

Chandler Harrod marketed his bungalow in Ormesby St Margaret - nicknamed by locals as 'Orgy St Margaret' - in Norfolk as a perfect getaway spot for couples.

The singer, 35, revealed in January her now one-year-old twins, Ocean and Story, had been diagnosed with SMA Type 1, a rare muscle-wasting condition.

Simon Tilley, 45, was reportedly found dead in his hotel room in Corby, Northamptonshire, on Friday after failing to check out.

Charlotte, 11, was captured beaming as she embraced her mother Catherine, 44, in a heartwarming post uploaded to Instagram as she crossed the finish line.

OLIVER HOLT: Until one enchanted evening in Mexico City, I would have told you that the best match I had ever seen was the 2022 World Cup final, the 3-3 draw between Argentina and France.

Speaking at the White House, the President offered no apologies for his unprecedented move but insisted he did not demand Balogun's ban was overturned.

Annabelle Rogers, from Nottingham, first began building her 'dream' pergola during the pandemic - fit with an outdoor fire and even a small stock tank pool.

Scientists may have finally solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of Hannibal's legendary Alpine crossing.

Bumblebees stick out their tongue and 'lick their lips' after tasting a sweet treat, scientists have revealed. But when they gave the bees bitter drinks, they shook their heads in disgust.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of user trust." Last week, a web developer known as "Thereallo" was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using "prompt steganography" to hide code that tracks Chinese users "in plain sight." This code wasn't malicious, but it was sending information to Anthropic that most users wouldn't detect, relying on shorthand markers to quietly flag users' timezone, proxy, and potential connection to Chinese AI labs that Anthropic has accused of distillation attacks. On X, Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar confirmed that the tracker was added to Claude Code as an "experiment" in March. According to Shihipar, the code "was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation." Regarding the former, The Washington Post found unauthorized retailers have sold access to free models for $1 a month, and pro subscriptions that can cost $100 monthly sell for "as little as $12." Supposedly, Anthropic has "actually been meaning to take this down for a while," Shihipar said of the hidden code, because engineers have "landed stronger mitigations since then." Privacy advocates were not happy with the explanation, though, warning that the code is evidence that Anthropic is willing to cross lines to surveil users. That's perhaps especially surprising, considering that Anthropic riled the Trump administration by refusing to allow the US government to use Claude to surveil US users. The AI firm has since sued the White House over the clash. The Post suggested that the tracker incident is a sign that US firms like Anthropic are taking "increasingly aggressive measures" to block Chinese AI firms from copying their models. A more defensive stance has apparently become critical. In the past year, Chinese firms have "consistently matched" US firms' model capabilities "within months," the Post reported. Most recently, "a new, free AI model from Chinese company Zhipu AI was better at finding computer vulnerabilities than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model, which was released in May," the Post reported.

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Richard Keys appears to be enjoying life away from football broadcasting after sharing photos of himself and his wife relaxing on the Isle of Wight during the World Cup.

A 13-year-old boy has died following a house fire in Blackpool - amid fears an e-bike charger exploded.

A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself