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The actress, 31, rose to fame with her role in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, and earlier this year starred in the sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.

The FCC is proposing (PDF) a public "robocall mitigation scorecard" that would grade phone companies on how well they block illegal spam calls while avoiding false positives on the legitimate ones. "The Scorecard will empower consumers and encourage providers to continue to combat illegal robocalls by providing the public with an assessment of the effectiveness of voice service providers' efforts to protect consumers from illegal robocalls," the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau said in a public notice. Ars Technica reports: The scorecards could include call-blocking statistics along with data on customer complaints and enforcement actions. The FCC said scorecards could grade providers on a number scale, with letter grades, or by classifying providers as low risk, medium risk, or high risk. The proposed tool would rate wireless, wireline, and VoIP providers on efforts to block robocalls and their "actual results in protecting [consumers] from illegal robocalls," the FCC said. "In practice, that means moving beyond a simple administrative checklist (i.e., did the provider file the right paperwork, did they offer the right tools) and toward a composite set of metrics that reflects both operational practices and measurable outcomes, including how often legitimate calls are blocked." Whether the tool is useful for consumers will depend on how it's designed, how easy each provider's scorecard is to find, and what data sources it relies on. The proposed scorecard would apply to domestic voice service providers with retail customers, but not telcos that operate solely as wholesale or intermediate providers. "Combatting the scourge of illegal robocalls remains the FCC's top consumer protection priority... As proposed in today's public notice, the FCC aims to develop a scorecard that will give consumers more information about the measures providers are taking to fight illegal robocalls, and it will also incentivize providers to improve their efforts," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a press release.

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The British Retail Consortium has written to the new Chancellor to ask him to raise the threshold at which employers pay their staff's NI contributions.

Police have arrested a 15-year-old following an alleged assault in inner Sydney that left another teenager with a severed hand.

Francesca Jones' punchy three-sets win against Magda Linette for her first-ever US Open victory was the only silver lining as storm clouds over New York sparked a British washout.

While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often

The British actor, who played Peter Parker in the 2012 and 2014 Spider-Man movies, said he still believes that the Marvel character is an inclusive one.

Reggie and Ronnie have been named after notorious London gangsters, but these Kray-nines looked more playful than perturbing as they celebrated their first birthday.

1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "The popular password manager is now a 'distinguished corporate patron' of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy," reports The Verge. From the report: One viral blog post declared that 1Password "Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe" because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding of a project from Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH. The donation has also resulted in internal pushback from employees of 1Password who are disappointed by the affiliation, The Verge has learned. 1Password CEO David Faugno and cofounder Roustem Karimov have since posted internal messages addressing what Faugno describes as "concerns, both internally and externally" that have been raised "due to the polarizing nature" of DHH. DHH is a Danish entrepreneur best known for creating Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and the Hey email client. Omarchy is DHH's "opinionated" version of Linux, meaning it's Linux the way he likes to use it. It's based on Arch Linux, with certain apps that install by default. It's also, apparently, one of 1Password's big customer environments. [...] In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password's Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following: "As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind. However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you. There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked." 1Password CEO Faugno took a different approach, trying to reassure staff that "1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH." Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a "mission-driven" position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says "the scale and growth of [Omarchy's] use among our customers is significant -- Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users." Faugno then tries to create distance, telling staff that its contribution is "to the Omacom Foundation, not an individual." Still, he says "we recognize that Omarchy is associated with DHH, its founder. Our donation is not in any way an endorsement of his personal views or conduct."

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The chair of the Thames Valley Police Federation who campaigned against the early release of the killers of PC Andrew Harper said she would like the PM to understand what it's like to be a cop.

Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds

Hallmark cards ought to do a special 'In Sympathy' line for actors who thought they were going to appear in the second series of a drama, only to be abruptly written out.

The veteran Labour MP wrote on social media that 'the imminent threat from Russia is a NATO fiction to justify their complete capitulation to Trump's demands for more military spending'.

Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'

The Prime Video show is set to return on Thursday, with viral train-spotter Francis Bourgeois, YouTuber James Engelsman and motoring journalist Thomas Holland taking over as hosts.

Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions ... They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more broadly to CERN's computing infrastructure. It's unclear whether the Debian migration covers all server infrastructure or what scientific-research-based systems are included. Our shops have done much the same in recent years, mostly due to CentOS and CFEngine getting the can. Phoronix adds some additional context in its article: CERN was a longtime RHEL/CentOS shop, previously co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative, moved to CentOS in 2015, and later considered CentOS Stream. CERN says Red Hat's adoption of the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag by default, which it viewed as "forced obsolescence" of older hardware, was the "straw that broke the camel's back."

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The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial told the judge they could not come to an unanimous decision after five days of deliberations.

Four people have been arrested 32 years after farmer's widow Doreen Morris, 64, was found dead in her burned-out bungalow on the outskirts of Holyhead, Anglesey, in March 1994.

Donald Trump's brand-new gold-colored $1 coin sparked chaos at the US Mint as a record rush of buyers overwhelmed its website and left customers stuck in massive virtual queues.

Harriet Boyles, 19, from Stoke-on-Trent, suffered serious injuries in the early hours of August 22 following a collision in Lichfield Road, Armitage - dying in hospital four days later.