FONT-ROMEU (ANP) - De wielrenners in de Vuelta zijn maandag in de slotfase van de derde etappe gestopt vanwege noodweer. In de hagel nam rodetruidrager en wereldkampioen Tadej Pogačar het initiatief door het peloton van de weg te dirigeren.

Op beelden is te zien dat de renners bij een gebouw naar binnen gaan om te schuilen voor de hagelstenen.

Het peloton was in de derde etappe over Frans grondgebied onderweg van Gruissan-Aude naar Font-Romeu.

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Bannau Brycheiniog, Wales
The traditional fire might be banned this year, but festivalgoers are treated by energetic performances by Four Tet, Tamikrest and Westside Cowboy

Driving towards the bucolic Welsh valley that’s home to the Green Man festival feels a little apocalyptic this year. Charred peat and grassland smoulder on the hillsides, the remnants of one of the 20 wildfires that blazed through south and west Wales the previous week. The dangerously dry conditions pose a problem for the festival organisers: the traditional closing ceremony, during which a towering effigy of the titular Green Man adorned with punters’ handwritten wishes is set alight, has been cancelled. A sensible decision, but one that left longtime festival-goers with a serious question: where would all those wishes go?

Then, the heavens open. Manchester quartet Westside Cowboy pack out the main stage arena on Friday afternoon, thousands of soggy cagoules bobbing along to the band’s charmingly ramshackle blend of British indie and amiable Americana. “We were over there last year,” grins vocalist and guitarist Jimmy Bradbury, gesturing towards the significantly smaller Rising stage. They’re clearly over the moon – and it’s infectious. To close the set, the band down instruments – save a guitar and a handheld drum – and gather round one mic for a rallying performance of In the Morning. The recorded version sounds like a lullaby, but here they transform it into a euphoric boot-stomping finale.

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• 46-year-old charged with possessing criminal tools

• York fined and sentenced to two days in jail

• 49ers CEO also owns stake in Leeds United

The San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York has pleaded no contest to two criminal charges after being arrested at an Ohio trailer park over the weekend.

KRON4 News in San Francisco reported that York was initially arrested on suspicion of engaging in prostitution but that count was amended to a charge of disorderly conduct. He was also charged with possessing criminal tools.

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Het is vier maanden sinds de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten aankondigden uit de OPEC te stappen. Inmiddels is te zien wat de gevolgen van die keuze zijn. Staatsoliebedrijf Adnoc produceerde een recordhoeveelheid olie, koopt meer schepen en doet miljardenovernames. „Ze zien zichzelf als streetwise.”

Xavi Hernández wordt deze dinsdag als nieuwe bondscoach gepresenteerd in Zeist. De vraag is of hij voldoende invloed kan uitoefenen om zijn aanvallende doctrines over te brengen.

More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July. Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, said that compared to the period before launching the AI slop reporting button, those who copy-paste AI-written posts are seeing around 40 percent fewer views. “Despite the progress, we know we have more to do to ensure LinkedIn remains a place where you can find real people and real perspectives... this all remains very top of mind,” he said. No single piece of feedback is used to adjust how widely a post travels, inside or outside a user’s network, he said, and distribution is determined by a range of signals. Srinivasan added that users will also start seeing messages in their analytics dashboards to understand how viewers are receiving their posts. If people think there’s too much AI use, the platform will relay that to the user. Any logged-in user can report a post for suspected AI slop using the platform’s three-dot option menu. The CPO made it clear in his initial announcement of the reporting button that there is a difference between AI and “slop.” LinkedIn believes people have a right to continue using AI to, ironically, make themselves sound more authentic. Regardless of what some may think about the button being used to train AI itself - rather than LinkedIn’s users - on how to sound more human, the company also wants the white-collar social media tryhards making these posts to get human feedback instead of an automated AI detector. Srinivasan said that, behind the scenes, LinkedIn is working on an array of automatic detection mechanisms for AI slop content. Prior to launching the slop button, the platform had used these detections to catch hundreds of thousands of AI-slop comments each day, and “billions of other automation attempts,” such as slop posts and posting at scale, “in the last couple of months alone.” As part of the war against slop, Srinivasan also announced in July that LinkedIn was removing its AI-driven “enhance your post” feature that made posting slop all the more simple. It replaced the feature with a proofreader. In announcing “slop” as its word of the year for 2025, Merriam-Webster noted that the term relates to a broad range of lazily compiled content. Fake news can be slop. Social media posts, on LinkedIn and X especially, can be slop. Propaganda spread by the US president can be slop. Institutions as treasured as UK pubs stand accused of sloppy practices, and pretty much everything in between – AI slop pervades the modern world. In the security space, AI slop bug reports have been a recurring issue. The nature of the headache, however, has changed. As Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL, explained earlier this year, AI-generated vulnerability reports have become a serious drain on maintainers' time as they often look credible at first glance but turn out to be baseless once investigated. Now, though, maintainers are struggling to tackle the high volume of high-quality bug reports that are made with the help of AI – no slop. ®

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