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The system will help councils keep track of children who were previously caught in 'blind spots' when they were deregistered from school.

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

kettle  When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …

EastEnders legend Pam St Clement is reportedly set to maker her TV comeback in the new series of Rivals this month.

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of a fire at a commercial property in Burnley just before 3pm on Monday.

The biggest night of fashion is hours away from returning to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and fury has been growing over the involvement of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.

A liberal federal judge in DC has sparked outrage after apologizing to Donald Trump's alleged would-be assassin for restrictions placed on him behind bars.

Lauren Sanchez looked somewhat subdued as she stepped out alongside Anna Wintour ahead of fashion's biggest night.

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

FEATURE  In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…

Heidi Klum was seen walking her dog in NYC on the morning of the Met Gala before she got her nails painted white then zipped herself up in an oxygen chamber.

AMD is preparing expanded HDMI 2.1 support for Linux, following earlier delays after the HDMI Forum rejected an open source implementation of HDMI 2.1 as proprietary technology. As GamingOnLinux reports, AMD developer Harry Wentland submitted a patch series to the Linux kernel mailing list, noting that it brings "HDMI FRL support to the amdgpu display driver" and that "DSC is still being tested and will be sent out later." A forum post on Phoronix from an AMD driver developer also said "a full implementation will ultimately be available once the patches are ready and have completed compliance testing."

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Chris Essery, 66, praised Jen Essery Lillikakis for still taking home £64,000 - and says there is no bad feelings after he drew a blank when she called for a question worth £500,000.

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted Britain's relationship with the United States has been badly damaged by the Iran war and other recent conflicts.

The American, 38, rose to international prominence throughout a series of highly publicised trials in which she was twice convicted and acquitted for the murder of her Meredith Kercher in 2007.

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…

Footage taken inside Gordon Ramsay Street Pizza's Battersea location and posted to TikTok shows a person holding a sausage dog on a lead over the training pad in the middle of the dining area.

The 2026 Met Gala is already shaping up to be one of the most talked-about in the event's history, with a star-studded guest list and whispers of jaw-dropping surprise arrivals still to come.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg's Ashley Carman: Welcome to the modern era of podcasting in which thousands of new shows are released into the world every day with a sizable portion likely being AI-generated. Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this issue seriously. In only the past month or so, Amazon launched a feature that explains a product by generating a quasi-podcast, complete with co-hosts talking to each other and taking questions from users. Shout out to Business Insider reporter Katie Notopoulos for spotting this (and, naturally, demoing it with an adult diaper rash-cream). Not long ago, Nicholas Thompson, chief executive officer of the Atlantic, noted "podslop" dominated his Spotify search results when he typed in the word "Sora." This was around the time that OpenAI shut down its user-generated, AI-content-only app. [...] All of which raises some big, difficult questions. For one, what should the listening platforms do about this incursion? As of right now, Apple Podcasts requires creators who generated a "material portion" of their show using AI to disclose it. The platform also bans misleading or deceptive content. Spotify hasn't published any specific guidelines around AI, though it maintains general rules around dangerous and misleading content. Where this conversation gets even trickier is when it comes to money. Many of these podcasts are hosted on at least one free service that allows programs to opt into their ad marketplace with zero barrier to entry, meaning these shows (and the hosting service) profit off every listen or download. Spreaker, a company owned by iHeartMedia, is the primary one to watch here. Though it tells users to disclose when they rely on AI, it still allows those shows to opt into its programmatic ad marketplace, which pays creators 60% of the revenue generated by the ads placed in their shows. It stands to reason that most of these thousands of shows don't reach many people. But in the aggregate, the ears and dollars could add up. Are the advertisers on board with being next to AI-generated content, some of which might be deemed "slop?" There's also the question of how to define "slop." Jackson of the Podcast Index and his co-host Adam Curry treat it as something listeners simply know when they hear it, while Alberto Betella, co-founder of RSS.com, defines it as "fully automated content with no human review." Jeanine Wright, co-founder of Inception Point, rejects the debate altogether: "The people still talking about slop are still making 6-7 jokes," she said. "It's still yesterday's conversation."

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The 44-year-old pop star did not appear in person in front of a judge weeks after being taken into custody on March 4, but entered a guilty plea via her lawyer Michael A. Goldstein.