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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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• Huge hailstones prompt organisers to act 15km from end

• Riders seen heading into hotel on route to take cover

The third stage of the Vuelta a España ended without a winner after being halted because of hail on Monday.

Riders started taking shelter in shops and restaurants by the road with about 15km to go on the difficult 174km route from ‌Gruissan to ‌Font-Romeu that was due to finish in the French Pyrenees. Organisers neutralised the race as the peloton scaled the Col de Mont-Louis and huge hailstones began pelting the ‌riders, with ice on the road and the threat of lightning. They eventually suspended the stage and declared no winner.

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Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles

The cult star proves she is ready for pop’s big leagues in a show that blends chaotic punk energy with technical finesse

The last time Slayyyter toured, in 2023, she struggled to break even and had to fly home boxes of unsold merch. Back then, she was still largely the domain of Twitter gays: a subcultural figure to those who assessed music in terms of “flops” and “bops”.

Then, midway through 2025, she released the electro-trashy Beat Up Chanel$, and suddenly caught everyone’s attention. With a career-defining Coachella set earlier this year, she had broken through into the mainstream alongside a class of flop-no-more artists – Zara Larsson, Raye and Tinashe – who had spent years seeming cruelly shut out of its central sphere, only to break through with a surprise big hit. For these artists, and Slayyyter in particular, the urgency of a last chance had become as galvanizing as the urgency of a first.

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Sunday’s draw with Newcastle shows Andoni Iraola’s new ideas as manager will need to overcome the squad’s lack of balance

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The good news for Liverpool is that, Arsenal aside, every other team with vague title aspirations who played over the weekend looked undercooked, and that Andoni Iraola’s men did, in the end, come away from Newcastle with a point. But the vulnerability to the counter that undermined them so often last season has not gone away, and nor have they suddenly found a new creativity under Iraola.

The main theme of the first three days of the new season was the value of stability. Manchester City under a new manager were poor and fortunate to overcome Bournemouth. Aston Villa, after big changes of players and backroom staff, were hammered at Brighton. Tottenham, midway through yet another overhaul, were dismal in losing at Brentford. Manchester United at least provided a degree of stability by looking very much like the United of the past decade in their defeat to Hull.

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Arbitrator determined the Post improperly fired Karen Attiah, a union-protected employee, over social media posts

An independent arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire the high-profile opinion columnist Karen Attiah, abruptly fired by the news organization last September over comments she made on social media about Charlie Kirk, the then recently slain conservative activist.

On Monday, an arbitrator ruled that the Post had violated her rights as a union-protected employee and ordered the newspaper to reinstate her and compensate her for lost wages.

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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
From Jacob Rees-Mogg as a child to Frank Sinatra’s ego in space, this is a wild collage of clowning and performance art

There are plenty of works-in-progress on the fringe. Frankie Thompson insists (or has the voice of Peppa Pig do so) that her show is a work-in-regress, an expunging of Horrible Things from the deepest recesses of her, and our, recollection. Thompson, whose brand of clowning-meets-performance art more or less guarantees something interesting will happen on stage, parades these Things as lip-synced audio and audience-terrorising stunts, all marshalled by our brisk and wild-eyed host, brooking no nonsense in a polka-dot dress.

Women in the crowd can relax: Thompson’s Horrible Things are usually male, her victims in the crowd likewise. The first sketch sound clips an interview with 12-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg, and if you ever doubted lip-sync as an art form, I offer you Thompson’s performance here as the very junior minister. As his every word damns the way this country’s ruling classes are raised, her hyper-expressive face and nanosecond-precise timing pass sharper commentary than a thousand satirical words ever could.

At Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, until 30 August. Then at Soho theatre, London, 9-21 November.

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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.

Het voorstel om het aantal vergaderingen in de Tweede Kamer fors af te schalen, leidde in een adhoc-vergadering met de fractievoorzitters tot „een pittige sfeer met emotie en…

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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Unieke POV: 5 F'35s door de rotor van een Chinook

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Meteen even je gehele Luchtmacht uit de rotatie maar dan heb je ook wat. Vijf F'35's vanaf twee basissen plus een Chinook met de Heilige Vlag. Bovenstaand toch ook wel een unieke manier waarop de jagers te zien zijn, namelijk bovenluiks door de rotor heen. Onderstaand een omgekeerde aftermovie, want er komt toch heel wat kijken bij zo'n flyover. En weer daaronder gewoon lekker swipen door de foto's gepubliceerd door de Luchtmacht zelf.

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In de Noordtunnel (A15) is tijdens de maandagavondspits een ongeluk gebeurd met meerdere auto's. De tunnel is dicht in de richting van Ridderkerk en er is een lange file ontstaan.

Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here. (I’ll still be posting though…it’s nice to sit down and flow state through some links occasionally.)

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak is maandag met een kleine winst gesloten. Beleggers namen winst op technologieaandelen in afwachting van belangrijke kwartaalcijfers van het Amerikaanse chipconcern Nvidia later deze week. Daarnaast zijn aandelenhandelaren in afwachting van een toespraak van Kevin Warsh, voorzitter van de Amerikaanse centrale bank op vrijdag.

De chipbedrijven behoorden tot de grootste verliezers bij de hoofdfondsen. Zo zakte Besi 2,3 procent. ASML en ASMI eindigden met minnen tot 1,1 procent. Techinvesteerder Prosus daalde 1,3 procent.

De AEX-index in Amsterdam ging met een plus van 0,4 procent de markt uit, op 1109,95 punten. De MidKap, met daarin de middelgrote fondsen aan het Damrak, verloor 0,3 procent op 1110,69 punten. Frankfurt, Londen en Parijs toonden een wisselend beeld. Frankfurt en Parijs daalden tot 0,4 procent, Londen steeg licht.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De begrotingsonderhandelingen zijn maandag volgens PRO-leider Jesse Klaver niets opgeschoten. "Het proces zit muurvast", zei hij na een gesprek met premier Rob Jetten, vicepremiers Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) en Bart van den Brink (CDA) en financiënminister Eelco Heinen.

"De verschillen tussen het kabinet en PRO zijn nog steeds levensgroot", aldus Klaver. "We zijn geen stap dichter bij elkaar gekomen. Dat betekent dat het kabinet nog maar een paar dagen heeft om een meerderheid te vinden." De PRO-leider zei urgentie te missen bij het kabinet.

Klaver vindt het "mega risicovol" wat het kabinet nu doet met de begroting. "Ze gokken op heel veel verschillende paarden." Jetten en Heinen zeiden eerder al "zo breed mogelijke steun" te willen voor hun begroting, en daarvoor zowel naar links als rechts te kijken. Klaver had gehoopt maandag een keuze te horen over welke richting het kabinet op zou gaan.

Mogelijk niet genoeg steun

Hij wees op de mogelijkheid dat het kabinet op Prinsjesdag een begroting presenteert waar nog geen meerderheid voor is, en dat het pas later steun zoekt tijdens de begrotingsdebatten in de Tweede Kamer. Hij is "super strijdbaar" om het dan met het kabinet uit te vechten.

Voor Klaver is het noodzakelijk dat de bezuinigingen op de sociale zekerheid worden geschrapt voordat PRO de begroting voor komend jaar steunt.

De begrotingsonderhandelingen zijn maandag volgens PRO-leider Jesse Klaver niets opgeschoten. "Het proces zit muurvast", zei hij na een gesprek met premier Rob Jetten, vicepremiers Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) en Bart van den Brink (CDA) en financiënminister Eelco Heinen.

"De verschillen tussen het kabinet en PRO zijn nog steeds levensgroot", aldus Klaver. "We zijn geen stap dichter bij elkaar gekomen. Dat betekent dat het kabinet nog maar een paar dagen heeft om een meerderheid te vinden." De PRO-leider zei urgentie te missen bij het kabinet.

Klaver vindt het "mega risicovol" wat het kabinet nu doet met de begroting. "Ze gokken op heel veel verschillende paarden." Jetten en Heinen zeiden eerder al "zo breed mogelijke steun" te willen voor hun begroting, en daarvoor zowel naar links als rechts te kijken. Klaver had gehoopt maandag een keuze te horen over welke richting het kabinet op zou gaan.

Mogelijk niet genoeg steun

Hij wees op de mogelijkheid dat het kabinet op Prinsjesdag een begroting presenteert waar nog geen meerderheid voor is, en dat het pas later steun zoekt tijdens de begrotingsdebatten in de Tweede Kamer. Hij is "super strijdbaar" om het dan met het kabinet uit te vechten.

Voor Klaver is het noodzakelijk dat de bezuinigingen op de sociale zekerheid worden geschrapt voordat PRO de begroting voor komend jaar steunt.