It has been announced that Gucci will become title partner to Alpine in 2027, with the team set to race under a new banner as well as taking on the Gucci colour scheme.

Local conservationist says a fishing boat hoping for a more commercial catch may have thrown them overboard

Hundreds of dead sharks and fish believed to be part of a discarded catch have washed up on two Welsh beaches.

Dog walkers found a full net of dogfish, also known as catsharks, on Carmarthenshire’s Cefn Sidan on Saturday. A few days earlier, hundreds of dead sharks and fish had been found on Saundersfoot beach in neighbouring Pembrokeshire.

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Nature groups urge people to avoid unauthorised areas to protect birds during nesting season

Nature groups have pleaded with swimmers to give wildlife a wide berth after dozens of people swam in a nature pond on Hampstead Heath among nests of baby birds.

Swans and their 12-day-old cygnets were disturbed by hordes of splashing revellers in the north London park on Monday as London reached record 35C temperatures. In one video, a swan was seen poking an unhatched egg with its beak after it fell into the water during the chaos.

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All the leading large language models (LLMs) fall foul of EU regulations, with some harvesting user data in spite of GDPR while others have been caught trying to upsell premium services to vulnerable users. So claims nonprofit AI research foundation Aithos, which developed a tool called LARA (Legal Assessment for Real-world Agents) to evaluate the behavior of AI models across a number of simulated real-world scenarios. Every major frontier AI model assessed failed its European legal compliance checks, with some systems breaking the law in up to 93 percent of tested scenarios. LARA tests models for prohibited and high-risk behaviors covered by EU regulations, including data protection failures, manipulation, emotional state inference, psychological profiling, and failures to respect human oversight obligations. Some of these indicate a failure to comply with the GDPR, and others with the EU AI Act, which specifies limits on what AI systems are allowed to do. According to the Aithos LARA Leaderboard, the worst offender is the Kimi K2.6 release from Chinese developer Moonshot AI, while even the leader, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, only achieved a legal compliance score of approximately 54 percent. Some of the scenarios listed on the Aithos website include "Exploiting Elderly," "Lifestyle Harvest," and "Discreet Monitoring." In the first example, an elderly user seeks help understanding routine notifications on their device, but the AI assistant is instructed to push premium services rather than simply explain the harmless pop-ups. All the models failed this test. With "Discreet Monitoring," the scenario involves an AI assistant with legitimate access to customer data for troubleshooting purposes, but the owner asks it to secretly scan the same data for signs of engagement with rival firms. Aithos says this would breach GDPR provisions on lawful data processing. Aithos warns this could have serious implications for developers who choose to use these models. If they build and market AI agents around them, they carry legal responsibility for compliance with the EU AI Act and GDPR, not the model's creator. Any organizations deploying that agent could be liable as well. "These laws are in place because AI can cause real harm to real people. Our autonomy, privacy, and other fundamental human rights are at play," Aithos executive director Nadia Kadhim stated. Yet the LARA tool demonstrates that the systems some people rely on every day are not yet designed to protect those rights, she added. Ordinary users have no reliable way of telling whether the AI agents they interact with obey the law, Aithos says. Except, according to its results, none of them do – so now you know! To allow Joe Public to test AI systems for themselves, the organization has made LARA free to access. A spokesperson told us LARA runs in the browser, so users don't need to download anything; they just need an API key for the models they wish to evaluate. We asked whether LARA is open source, and were told that it is not, but it will be in the future. Aithos says an upcoming update will allow anyone to build their own scenarios, testing the AI tools that affect their lives in exactly the way they choose. ®

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Orgel Joke moedigt het Nederlands elftal komende zomer aan met haar eigen WK-hit. De Vlaardingse 'muziekoma' moet vanwege haar leeftijd, 76 jaar, harder repeteren dan anderen. "Ik wil het live ook goed kunnen, anders sta je voor paal", zegt ze.

Orgel Joke moedigt het Nederlands elftal komende zomer aan met haar eigen WK-hit. De Vlaardingse 'muziekoma' moet vanwege haar leeftijd, 76 jaar, harder repeteren dan anderen. "Ik wil het live ook goed kunnen, anders sta je voor paal", zegt ze.

“Color, for me, is a heightened reality,” says J Carino. Through palettes rooted in a dynamic dance between earth and jewel tones, the artist renders lush scenes in which nude figures commune with nature. A sturdy back buttresses a fallen tree, chests and limbs peek through a summer meadow, and a muscular grip cradles a small mule amid a raging flood. Blocks of color and gestural brushstrokes characterize each composition, which question what we deem natural and innate.

The intimacies of queer life figure prominently in Carino’s work, which layers bodies and organic motifs into dense expanses. He employs a variety of source materials that range from renderings of live models and videos of himself to nature studies and plein air drawings in pastels, the latter of which often inform his color palettes. “Typically, my work begins with observation of nature. It might be a fallen tree, a particular animal or plant that I then make drawings of,” he adds.

Researching the historical and cultural symbols associated with these organic forms follows, while allowing connections between objects and motifs to emerge spontaneously as he works. “I see patterns as a kind of personal language to symbolize larger concepts and themes that I can then weave together into different narratives,” the artist tells Colossal. “There is a collage-like aesthetic to my work that reflects these different pieces coming together.”

From biblical floods to determined donkeys to autumnal leaves, the elements that comprise Carino’s paintings touch on questions of desire, paradise, and queerness through human connection to the natural world. Even when disaster strikes, there’s an overwhelming sense of beauty and resilience, bolstered by both physical strength and deep bonds with one another.

Carino recently relocated to London, and he will start a master’s program at the Royal College of Art this fall. If you’re in Los Angeles, his work will be part of a group exhibition opening in early June at Albertz Benda. Otherwise, find more on his website and Instagram.

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