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Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing

Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target, so that Amazon can appear to have lower prices, California authorities allege.

The global conglomerate became concerned even if a competitor was selling an item for as little as a penny less, according to one segment of the newly unredacted evidence.

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Chancellor says she is ‘working through a range of options’ to boost the armed forces but does not want to put up taxes

Rachel Reeves has warned “difficult choices” are required to increase defence spending and other budgets may have to be cut, including welfare.

Under pressure for a faster rise in military spending amid the Iran conflict and Russia’s war in Ukraine, the chancellor said she was “working through a range of options” but preferred not to increase taxes or add to government borrowing.

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Jay Bryant negotiating plea deal in New York death of Run-DMC star, over which one conviction has been overturned

One of the three men charged in the killing of Jam Master Jay plans to plead guilty, court records show, in what would be the first admission anyone has made in court to any role in the Run-DMC star’s death in 2002.

Jay Bryant pleaded not guilty to murder after his 2023 indictment, but his lawyer and federal prosecutors told the court in recent letters that they were negotiating a plea agreement.

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Forest have five players who are one yellow card away from suspension. Of tonight’s starters, Murillo and Morgan Gibbs-White are on the tightrope; Morato, Igor Jesus and Ryan Yates will also need to watch themselves should they come on.

Six members of the Porto starting line-up are a booking away from missing out on the first leg of the semi should their team make it. Jan Bednarek, William Gomes, Gabriel Veiga, Zaidu, Pablo Rosario and Alberto Costa are all on Behaviour Watch, as is Dominik Prpić should he see action tonight.

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is "less broadly capable" than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, "which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month," reports CNBC. From the report: The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February. Anthropic said the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases, including industry benchmarks for agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use and agentic computer use, according to a release. Anthropic said it experimented with efforts to "differentially reduce" Claude Opus 4.7's cyber capabilities during training.

The company encouraged security professionals who are interested in using the model for "legitimate cybersecurity purposes" to apply through a formal verification program. Claude Opus 4.7 is available across all of Anthropic's Claude products, its application programming interface and through cloud providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The new model is the same price as Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic said.

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USSOUTHCOM murdered three people in the Pacific bringing their total to 177. US DoD to cancel collective bargaining agreements for civilian employees. GOP Senators block fourth attempt to force end of Iran war. US Army shuts down Soldier for Life media accounts after the organization boosted it's tribute to Senator Duckworth. These stories are among 15 highlighted by Gov Brief Today on April 15th. Gov Brief Today curates a dozen or so stories each day on the actions of the US government (not always military).

More stories form the 15th: US to send 10,000+ more troops to war in Iran -

The personnel will join the estimated 50,000 troops that the Pentagon has said are involved globally in operations to counter Iran.

US DoD continues ramp up of Cuba invasion plans. France is attempt to secure release citizen -

The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.

Pentagon approaching automakers with discussions to repurpose facilities to military use. -

The Trump administration wants automakers and other American manufacturers to play a larger role in weapons production, reminiscent of a practice used during World War II.

Oud-Feyenoorder Terence Kongolo stopt per direct met voetballen, schrijft de 32-jarige verdediger op zijn eigen Instagram. Kongolo stond sinds februari onder contract bij de Georgische club FC Iberia, maar speelde maar één wedstrijd.

Piepklein stormpje in het omgestoten glaasje water van de onafhankelijke Nederlandse media gisteren. VVD-senator Marjolein van der Linden is al meer dan vier maanden actief als manager public affairs/stakeholders bij mediareus DPG, maar had dat niet aan de Eerste Kamer gemeld, tot GeenStijl er naar vroeg. Es even kijken wat de pluriforme media uit het rijke arsenaal van meer dan 50 DPG-merken hier vandaag hierover te melden hebben.

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If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard

Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…

WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De oorlog in het Midden-Oosten raakt de economische groei van landen in de regio, onder meer doordat de Straat van Hormuz vrijwel volledig is afgesloten voor olie- en gastankers. Bovendien zijn energiefaciliteiten beschadigd door aanvallen en het vliegverkeer rond de Perzische Golf is ernstig ontregeld. Dat meldt het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (IMF). Vooral Qatar, Irak en Iran worden hard geraakt.

Het IMF verwacht dat de economie van Qatar, een van 's werelds grootste exporteurs van vloeibaar gemaakt aardgas (lng), dit jaar met 8,6 procent zal krimpen. Voor Irak wordt nu een krimp van 6,8 procent verwacht en voor Iran een krimp van 6,1 procent, aldus het fonds.

De twee grootste economieën van de Golfregio, Saudi-Arabië en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, laten nog wel groei zien, maar fors minder sterk dan eerder gedacht. Het IMF voorziet voor die twee landen een groei in 2026 van 3,1 procent. Zij hebben alternatieven om de Straat van Hormuz te omzeilen via andere exportroutes voor olie en gas.

WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Volgens de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is Iran akkoord om het "nucleaire stof" over te dragen, waarmee hij lijkt te doelen op het verrijkte uranium waarmee Iran volgens de Amerikanen een kernwapen zou kunnen bouwen.

Hij zei ook dat Iran bereid zou zijn om af te zien van een kernwapen, en dat een deal tussen de VS en Iran "heel dichtbij" is.

De hackers hebben „mogelijk inzage gehad in patiëntgegevens en deze mogelijk in handen gekregen”, aldus het Oogziekenhuis in Rotterdam.