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A couple of months ago, while eating a Waitrose fried chicken wrap, I bit down on something hard and white, which felt like stone.

Thomas Martel returned to his family's six-bedroom Illinois home, owned by a roofing dynasty spanning three generations.

Rolls-Royce chief exec Tufan Erginbilgic said talks with the Government were progressing but urged ministers to get on with making a decision.

Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: FireFox 153 was released today. The most important user-facing changes are improvements to PDF handling (you can now merge PDFs and add images to them), and HDR video playback (on Windows, provided HDR is active systemwide). Other under-the-hood changes include browser-wide containers and QWAC support. The full list is in the change notes. But the most important feature is that this version is an ESR and, therefore, defines the ESR feature set for the next year. Why is being an ESR so important, you ask? 1.) ESR, rather than "normal" (a.k.a. Rapid Release), Firefox is the out-of-the-box browser for many important distros, including Debian, RHEL, Kali, Tails, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Slackware, and others. 2.) Many organizations, large and small, standardize on Firefox ESR as their default browser, regardless of the default browser included with their OS. 3.) Firefox ESR is the basis for many downstream projects, such as Waterfox and KaiOS. All these projects will inherit, for a year, whatever ESR brings to the table today. 4.) Many ISVs and SaaS providers, if they certify their wares for Firefox at all, certify for the ESR version only. Please note that ESR 153 will not be offered as an automatic update until two months from now (ESR 140 will still be supported). If you want it now, you will need to download and install it manually. Also of note, ESR 115 will be supported until March 2027. If you use an unsupported version of macOS or Windows (like Windows 7 or 8.x), this is the version to get. However, even Mozilla cautions against running a supported browser on an unsupported OS: "Note that Microsoft ended official support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in January 2023. Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates and have known vulnerabilities. Without official support from Microsoft, maintaining Firefox for outdated operating systems becomes costly for Mozilla and risky for users."

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Jarrett Vick, 27, was arrested after the now-viral altercation in 2025. The student pleaded guilty and the case has been closed.

Arada is proposing a 1,500-home development called 'Thameside West' in the once-neglected Royal Docks area of east London, as part of a wider project to build 5,000 properties.

While Ginger Spice's wardrobe is dominated by the colour, some felt Geri, 53, should have picked a different frock for Mel C and Chris Dingwall's nuptials at The Country House in Cumbria.

Dane Bowers has admitted he is completely 'hooked' on the saga between his ex-girlfriend Katie Price and her latest husband Lee Andrews.

The 57-year-old singer and model wife Nadia Ferreira, 27, took to Instagram on Tuesday morning to share a joint Instagram post in which they revealed they have welcomed their second child.

McIlroy's comment on social media appeared to be another jab at LIV, with the Northern Irishman one of the most outspoken critics against the rival tour as it continues to fight for its life.

The couple, both 28, wed on Richard Branson 's Necker Island in front of 70 friends and family members. The festivities kicked off on July 14 and reportedly lasted an entire week.

For many homeowners, it is their worst fear. Their idyllic view, their noise barrier, their privacy, destroyed in a weekend. It is a nightmare the residents of Bridgefoot Cottages know all too well.

Jeremy Newmark, leader of a Hertfordshire council, allegedly called Nigerians 'crooks' and said they 'cannot be trusted', according to an official standards complaint but was later cleared.

Ministers admitted just days before the new Prime Minister was installed that small-boat arrivals made up just 7 per cent of migrants booted out.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. "Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don't include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in "model collapse," a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models. "Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage [...] "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools." [...] ISBNdb advertises that it can keep the identity of AI companies secret. "Strict NDA [non-disclosure agreement] on every engagement," ISBNdb's site says. "Every project begins with a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. Your identity, strategy, and acquisition targets are never disclosed." ISBNdb notes that AI companies may not want to be caught destroying printed books during the scanning process. "The optics problem is real," ISBNdb's site says. "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy."

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In his previous stint as a Treasury minister John Healey was involved in the creation of Child Trust Funds, which put £250 in a savings account for every newborn that they could only access when they 18.

Cersei, one of the show's most ruthless power brokers, is introduced to viewers in the throes of an affair with her warrior brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

The couple married in a 'perfect' Lake District wedding in the grounds of The Country House Cumbria, and they have now shared snippets of the magical day.

Ms Rayner made a stunning return to Cabinet on Monday night when she was appointed to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham's top team.