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Catherine Pégard said the tapestry looked to be in a 'wonderful state', adding: 'We can see that all the precautions have been taken… I believe that it will reassure all the sceptics'.

The team and manager Thomas Tuchel have received backlash for their approach after going ahead against Argentina, with some defensive moves resulting in them conceding twice.

Brandon Booth, 42, who is employed by contractor GEO Group, was detained in Aurora, just east of Denver, at about 7.30pm on Thursday.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke that is choking US cities.

A major 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexico coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami threat for around one million people.

England fans are still recovering from the gut-wrenching defeat by Argentina on Thursday, which saw Thomas Tuchel's side take the lead before collapsing and ultimately losing 2-1.

An attorney for the family of missing nuclear lab worker Melissa Casias said shocking new evidence has been found that calls the entire police investigation into question.

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alum also clarified he 'never tackled the guy, but everybody thinks I did and I'm not correcting them. I want people to think I did, because it's cool.'

Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, and if anti-AI absolutists have a problem with that, they can "fork it" or "walk away." An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." The statement came amid a lengthy thread arguing about the use of Sashiko, an "agentic Linux kernel code review system" that its creators claim can, in tests, independently find 53.6 percent of the bugs that would end up being fixed by human coders in later commits. But the tool can also waste maintainers' time by sending "false positive" reports of bugs that don't exist, at a rate Sashiko's maintainers estimate is "well within [the] 20% range." In discussing whether maintainers should be subjected to a flood of these kinds of automated, AI-powered bug report emails (true or false), one poster cited the Software Freedom Conservancy's recent statement that the open source community "should support, not just tolerate, those who outright reject LLM-gen-AI systems" and that "every FOSS contributor deserves self-determination regarding LLM-gen-AI." In the face of that statement, Torvalds said that he rejects those who demand that their open source projects not accept any LLM-generated code or revisions. "We're not forcing anybody to use [LLM tools], but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it," Torvalds said. Torvalds said his position on this is a pragmatic one that's "based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools." And when it comes to utility, Torvalds said that "AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that 'clearly' even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it." [...] While Torvalds acknowledged that "AI isn't perfect," he urged detractors to compare the output of these tools to the performance of human code maintainers. "Anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time," Torvalds wrote. "Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either."

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A health emergency has erupted in the northern US as multiple cities see their air quality become the worst in the world due to the Canadian wildfires raging out of control.

The 1975 singer, 37, and the model, 28, announced their engagement in 2024 after a whirlwind nine-month romance.

The ballot for the Clacton by-election has been revealed, showing a record 34 candidates will compete for the seat.

The ballot for the Clacton by-election has been revealed, showing a record 34 candidates will compete for the seat.

Andy Burnham has been unveiled as the winner of the bizarre one-candidate contest at an event in London, watched by fawning would-be Cabinet ministers.

The success of Prince Harry's quiet trip to Britain shows that anonymity is in fact the best form of security, not round-the-clock police protection, the Daily Mail's Richard Kay has argued.

Doug Band, who was Bill Clinton 's former top aide, appeared for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee last month amid the government's Epstein investigation.

The 63-year-old was found guilty of raping a woman when she was a minor during a 23-year campaign of child sexual abuse covered up by his wife.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Axios: Kimi K3, a massive new model by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, threatens the foundations of Americas AI boom. Its release Thursday dazzled developers, jolted Silicon Valley and reset the AI race overnight. Kimi immediately vaulted into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests by AI evaluator Arena. In Arenas broader text ranking, Kimi finished ahead of Anthropics Opus 4.8 -- the company's flagship model until Fable 5 arrived in June -- while costing 40% less. Unlike the premium U.S. models its challenging, Moonshot plans to release Kimi as an open-weight model on July 27 -- allowing companies and governments to customize and run it on their own systems. Kimi's arrival suggests that cushion may have collapsed far faster than expected. "The entire game has changed. I expect this will trigger some code red for some," AI analyst Kim Isenberg predicted. For companies, governments and developers, a model that performs near the frontier, costs 40% less and can be customized or run in-house may be the more attractive option. Its very existence puts pressure on the pricing power of U.S. labs, the enormous valuations built around their technological edge, and the case for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ever-larger data centers.

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While a certain Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce event may have taken most of the headlines this month, it was a different bash in New York that the great and good of the tennis world headed to.