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The best walks in every English county have been named, and the Essex walking route has been described as "lovely".

Ford Focus stripped of bonnet, bumper and headlights in broad daylight at Beaulieu Park Station car park on October 19 as police appeal for witnesses

The best walks in every English county have been named, and the Essex walking route has been described as "lovely".

A major redevelopment project could see the school completely changed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last month, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Meta to hand over the command histories of the servers it used to torrent pirated books. These logs would presumably reveal how Meta's torrent clients were set up, including any changes to their upload settings. [...] The server logs could reveal what happened on Meta's machines. However, publisher Entrepreneur Media also wants to know who approved the torrenting activity. Entrepreneur Media, which publishes Entrepreneur magazine, filed one of the related lawsuits where it accuses Meta of contributing to piracy by uploading (seeding) works to third parties, similar to the authors' contributory infringement claim. To find out more, the publisher asked Meta to identify everyone who "made, authorized, or approved" the decisions to obtain the shadow library datasets, and to do so via BitTorrent. Meta's answers named several people who are believed to have been involved in data-related decisions. However, Meta said it couldn't identify anyone who "formally" made or approved decisions to acquire or use books for its first two Llama models. Those decisions were often the result of team consensus, Meta argued. When it came to the torrenting itself, Meta pointed to the employees who ran the downloads, describing their choices as technical decisions. Meta added that the acquisition of data from Anna's Archive went through an internal legal review in early 2024, which involved its in-house lawyers. In other words, the company didn't name anyone higher up who approved the use of BitTorrent. "On that construction no one at Meta decided to torrent anything, yet Meta torrented shadow libraries repeatedly from 2022-2024," Entrepreneur Media countered. An internal Meta logbook warned that using torrents would involve sharing copyrighted material with others. "Using torrents would entail seeding the file such as sharing content outside. This would be legally not okay," the logbook stated. Although Meta admits downloading data from LibGen and Anna's Archive via BitTorrent, it claims no one "made, authorized, or approved" a decision to distribute the material and that measures were taken to limit seeding. Meta's own expert previously estimated that uploads from its AWS servers amounted to no more than roughly 30% of the data downloaded during a period in 2024. Judge Thomas Hixson is not convinced and ordered (PDF) the company to identify everyone involved in approving the downloads, including those who decided "whether or how to seed, or to mitigate seeding."

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Some network operators like to wear belts and suspenders to keep their services up

Trump's visit comes as part of a multi-state campaign blitz he's launched in the final stretch of the midterms.

Nigel Farage has announced a £250,000 fund for charities and community organisations in Clacton following his re-election as the area's MP

Nigel Farage has announced a £250,000 fund for charities and community organisations in Clacton following his re-election as the area's MP

His blond hair was the last glimmer of hope for a survivor in Aberfan after a tragedy so severe struck the close-knit mining community that it haunted Welsh society and Queen Elizabeth II.

Florida cop Brian Louis Sguros allegedly made himself at home after discovering a dead man's body - moving into his house and spending $214,000 renovating it

The reality star, 45, dressed as none other than her 13-year-old daughter North West - and spared no detail in replicating her teen's distinctive style.

Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz put on a loved-up display while feeding each other pizza in cosy new snaps on Tuesday.

She is a talented actress with more than 60 film and television credits to her name. The Santa Rosa, California native's most notable roles came in the 1980s and 1990s.

He might be the son of David and Victoria Beckham, but even Cruz faced the inconvenience of a broken down car on Tuesday. 

The 18-year-old high school student made her cover debut for Vogue Germany as she talked candidly about getting opportunities due to her famous parents.

Ukrainian infantryman Kostiantyn Vlasenko endured 491 days in the killzone, hiding in a cramped concrete pipeline and later in a cast iron furnace before he was evacuated by drone.

One man was dropped down the side of the slippery wall in Ancoats with a group holding onto his feet as he tried to pull up the panicked dog, Sumak.

John Healey's Budget will aim to please Labour backbenchers rather than businesses or the bond markets, Andy Haldane, an ex-adviser to the Prime Minister has said.

Relatives told how sick hospital patients were discharged into homes alongside their vulnerable loved ones, while staff had very little PPE to help curb the spread of the virus.