George Russell secured a straightforward victory during the Sprint in the Netherlands.
Charles Leclerc was pleased to begin the second half of the season on a positive note for Ferrari after taking P2 in the Zandvoort Sprint.
Lando Norris has given his assessment of McLaren’s performance after he lost P2 to Charles Leclerc in the Zandvoort Sprint.
George Russell converted his pole position into a Sprint win at the Dutch Grand Prix, the Mercedes driver beating Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and McLaren's Lando Norris.
Live coverage of Saturday's F1 Sprint ahead of the 2026 Dutch Grand Prix.
Red Bull's Alisha Palmowski secured pole position for the F1 ACADEMY Zandvoort Feature Race.
According to a post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on LinkedIn's new "Seems like AI slop" button, which launched after one analysis found 41% of the platform's longform posts were fully AI-generated. The Verge reports: In Thursday's post, Srinivasan said that users are overall "now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago." LinkedIn is also adding a new message that will tell users who make a post if "Some members told us this post seems like AI." "We approached this assuming good intent; I know I'm increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI & the goal is to provide helpful feedback," Srinivasan said.
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Tonitherese has added a photo to the pool:
Several young men arrested over incidents at games
Trend emerged last season during games
Cryptocurrency group has claimed responsibility
Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud has spoken out after the return of a trend that involves sex toys being thrown on to the court during WNBA games.
Arena staff removed the objects from the court during the Sky’s win over the Golden State Valkyries on Friday night. Players stayed on court during the incident. A suspect was detained during a similar incident on Thursday during the Atlanta Dream’s win over the Los Angeles Sparks.
Continue reading...Content creators are fighting proposal to boost traditional broadcasters in video platforms’ all-powerful algorithms
The millions who subscribe to the content creator Simon Squibb’s social media channels are usually delivered tips and hacks on how to turn their dream business idea into reality. But they were recently presented with something completely different.
In an Instagram post entitled “the government wants to control YOU”, Squibb issued an urgent call to arms. He asked his followers to fight against a proposal that he said could force content from the BBC and other traditional broadcasters into their social media feeds and recommendations whether they liked it or not.
Continue reading...Separate criminal convictions come as domestic violence charities warn of tech-facilitated abuse and coercion
Two men have been convicted this week in separate criminal cases that revealed they had posted explicit content on OnlyFans without the full consent of the women whose images were uploaded.
In the first case, Alexander Tang, 37, took and uploaded 47 intimate images and four videos of a woman to OnlyFans, without her consent, and was paid money for the material he posted to the website.
Continue reading...A Democrat’s remarks have resulted in impassioned defenses of the Trump aide. The right has discovered misogyny
Jon Ossoff is quite the miracle worker. Perhaps the Democratic senator can’t turn water into wine, but he has managed to turn whining conservatives into impassioned feminists.
During a rally last Sunday, the Georgia senator delivered a takedown of Donald Trump, which included a reference to his aide Natalie Harp. “He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said of the president. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Streamed auctions offer a cheap way to buy the precious gems, but experts warn that quality is not guaranteed
The first time Andrea Greenhill came across a livestream auction for lab-grown diamonds while scrolling on TikTok, she was stunned. While the diamond engagement ring her husband proposed with years ago had cost thousands of dollars, these loose lab-grown diamonds were selling in seconds at a fraction of the price.
“I have two rings that are both natural diamonds and cost a fortune,” she said. I saw the prices they were going for in the auctions, and I was like, “This is insanity.’”
Continue reading...Automobilisten hoeven niet bang te zijn dat Joost (34) ze bij het stoplicht probeert af te troeven. Hoewel zijn Volkswagen Golf over meer dan voldoende vermogen beschikt, trekt hij altijd uiterst beheerst op. “Ik heb op andere vlakken al genoeg meegekregen.”
Volgens Joost zou het ‘ongepast’ zijn om naast zijn uitzonderlijk grote penis ook nog eens als eerste weg te zijn bij het stoplicht. “Op een gegeven moment moet je je afvragen hoeveel succes een man eigenlijk nodig heeft.”
Regelmatig wordt hij door een Fiat Punto of een oudere vrouw met een elektrische fiets ingehaald. “Tuurlijk doet dat iets met je ego, maar zij weten niet wat ik weet. Niet iedereen begint met dezelfde kansen. Ik vind dat je daar rekening mee moet houden.”
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