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The actress, 30, previously played Olivia Radfield on the ITV soap, but has earned millions after launching her clothing brand Mars The Label.

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other 'AI' tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion that easily passed. The second motion was on disallowing projects whose code was substantially generated by LLMs like Claude, OpenAI Codex, and similar. This motion passed with 358 in favor versus 144 against. In the earlier linked blog post the reasoning behind especially this second issue is expanded upon, covering not only "license whitewashing," but also the direct and indirect hardware costs, with the expanding 'AI' datacenter hyperscaling having massively increased hardware costs for Codeberg over the past years, as the costs have been largely externalized. Also covered is the aspect of these LLM-based tools destroying the OSS community, which is something that is backed up by recent studies.

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A Clacton home has been left uninhabitable after a fire spread to four gardens and damaged two houses.

A Clacton home has been left uninhabitable after a fire spread to four gardens and damaged two houses.

MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4

Legendary singer-songwriter Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Hannah Fry, 29, became unwell on July 13 at her home in Longridge, Lancashire and was taken to hospital but died later that day.

Two-year-old Annelise Camp was celebrating Memorial Day on May 25 in Houston, Texas when she wandered into the pool after taking off her life jacket and drowned.

The former TOWIE star, 37, finally confirmed he was dating his longtime pal earlier this month, with a gallery of snaps on Instagram, after they enjoyed a 'wonderful' trip to Ibiza.

Chan Mathok Atak is charged with endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK after a crossing on Thursday.

Russ Foster-Jones, 51, was found hanged in an Airbnb in June 2025 a year after a probe into his behaviour during his time in the RAF was launched.

A set of footprints that date back more than 1.4 million years reveals our ancient relatives may have travelled in all-male gangs.

According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom's Hardware reports: The Information didn't name the manufacturer, but its sources described the operation as having pulled DUV development teams from several Chinese companies, one of them the state-backed startup Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology. SMIC has been testing a Yuliangsheng immersion tool since September 2025. Most components in the new systems are domestic, though some critical parts still come from Japan, and delays at local suppliers have held back output this year. [...] China accounts for around 20% of ASML's net sales this year, down from 33% in 2025, driven mainly by mainstream logic demand... Independent analysis from the AI Futures Project in June put commercial-scale Chinese immersion DUV in the mid-2030s, with ASML holding 98.7% of the immersion market. Qualifying the new machines for production lines could take many months, and they trail ASML's tools on performance and build quality. China's domestic EUV effort, which Reuters first reported as a working prototype in December, remains years away.

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The UNESCO World Heritage-listed Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the famous Lovell telescope, has lost its funding and is now peering down the barrel of insolvency.

The van driver, Brannon Mullan, 36, appeared in court on Monday charged with causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.

Thick black smoke can be seen across Clacton as emergency services are responding to a "large" house fire this evening.

Thick black smoke can be seen across Clacton as emergency services are responding to a "large" house fire this evening.

Robert Bush stockpiled dozens of dead bodies and had half a ton of ashes in his funeral home, which was likened by a staff member who raised the alarm to a 'horror scene.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the "broad qualities" of those authors "while remaining distinct in its own voice," for example. This morning, Ars received the following response to a test prompt asking for a story introduction in the style of Stephen King: "I can definitely write with the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and small-town dread, but I can't write in Stephen King's exact style or closely imitate his distinctive voice. Here's an original opening that captures a similar feeling while remaining its own..." In testing, ChatGPT generated similar dodges for other authors both living (J.K. Rowling, Amy Tan) and dead (Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway). An analysis published by No Latency earlier this month (PDF) found the same behavior for living authors but found ChatGPT complied with style-copying requests for deceased authors. In refusing to directly copy the "exact style" of various authors, ChatGPT offered instead to capture an overall "feeling" by incorporating some of the common features found in those authors' work. That may seem like a distinction without a real difference at first glance. But the slight alteration could be legally important as OpenAI continues to fight a number of lawsuits brought by book authors alleging large-scale copyright infringement by models trained on their work. One of those suits specifically cites ChatGPT's "uncanny ability to generate text similar to that found in copyrighted textual materials," for instance. An OpenAI spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment from Ars Technica. In the US, copyright law generally protects only a specific expression of an idea, not the more intangible style of an author. But an AI-generated stylistic imitation could become infringing if it becomes "substantially similar" to the work of the original author. "We've never had a situation in which this personal style of individual creators could be imitated as well and as inexpensively as we now have with AI," George Washington University Law School Professor Robert Brauneis told Bloomberg Law.

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