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Briton felt ‘tired’ before Lausanne Diamond League 200m
Audrey Werro triumphs in 800m in front of home crowd
Britain’s Amy Hunt, who won a historic four golds at the recent European Athletics Championships, had to be happy with second behind the American Kayla White in the 200m at the Lausanne Diamond League on Friday.
White won in 22.18sec, with Hunt holding off Nigeria’s Favour Ofili in a photo-finish at 22.32. Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the two-time former world champion in the event, pulled up with 70m of the race to run. Hunt said she had been “tired before the race and my pre-competition felt pretty stiff”.
Continue reading...Police department for Navajo Nation neither identified the victim nor said what type of bear had killed him
In a rare kind of attack, a bear killed a man in Crystal, New Mexico, on Thursday, local police said.
The police department for the Navajo Nation said officers within its Window Rock district received a call at about 1pm that a bear had attacked a man.
Continue reading...European regulators have imposed billions in penalties on US technology companies due to privacy, competition and digital market rules
The Dutch data protection authority has fined Uber €825m ($966m) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to a 17 August decision.
The penalty would be the second-largest issued yet under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Continue reading...KRYVY RIH (ANP/DPA/RTR) - Russische drones hebben een dodelijke aanval uitgevoerd op een winkelcentrum in de Oekraïense stad Kryvy Rih, meldt Oekraïne. Volgens het land zijn er minstens vijftien doden gevallen en ruim 130 gewonden, onder wie ook enkele tientallen kinderen.
De regionale gouverneur Oleksandr Hanzja meldt dat 29 personen ernstige verwondingen hebben. De stad, zo'n 350 kilometer ten zuidoosten van Kyiv, was enkele dagen eerder ook al het doelwit van een dodelijke Russische aanval.
President Volodymyr Zelensky heeft de aanval op het winkelcentrum in zijn geboorteplaats fel veroordeeld. "De aanvalsdrones kwamen in twee golven: een halfuur na de eerste inslag en brand volgde een tweede aanval, gericht op de hulpdiensten", verklaart hij op X. Hij spreekt van "terroristische daden" en roept de wereld op actie te ondernemen. Zelensky pleit opnieuw voor meer druk op Rusland.
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Na het geweld in Kryvy Rih werd ook de regio Mykolajiv aan de Zwarte Zee getroffen. Volgens de Oekraïense autoriteiten zijn daar zeker vier mensen om het leven gekomen. Onder de slachtoffers zouden drie kinderen zijn.
De Oekraïense hoofdstad Kyiv was donderdag het doelwit van zware Russische aanvallen. Daar vielen volgens de autoriteiten zeventien doden en tientallen gewonden. De VN-monitoringsmissie in Oekraïne meldde onlangs een stijging in het aantal burgerslachtoffers in Oekraïne. In juli vielen zeker 437 doden, het hoogste aantal sinds mei 2022.
NEW YORK (ANP/RTR) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn vrijdag met winsten het weekend ingegaan, al moesten de belangrijkste beursgraadmeters op weekbasis wel verlies incasseren. Beleggers werden op de kast gejaagd door schommelende rentes op staatsleningen en onduidelijkheid over de voortgang in het Midden-Oosten. Voor de brede S&P 500-index en techbeurs Nasdaq kwam hiermee een einde aan een winstreeks van drie weken, terwijl de Dow-Jones voor de tweede week op rij verlies leed.
Een stijging van de rente op langlopende Amerikaanse staatsobligaties zorgde eerder deze week voor onrust. De stijging werd veroorzaakt door zorgen over de groeiende schuldenlast van de overheid en de hoge inflatie in de Verenigde Staten.
Vrijdag kwam de obligatiemarkt echter weer wat tot rust en dat werkte door in de risicobereidheid van aandelenbeleggers. De S&P 500-index won 0,4 procent tot 7674,37 punten en de Nasdaq ging ook 0,4 procent omhoog, naar 26.180,46 punten. De Dow eindigde met een plus van 1 procent op 53.277,01 punten.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - TikTok is met het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie een schikking van 400 miljoen dollar overeengekomen in een zaak over vermeende schendingen van de onlineprivacy van kinderen. Het ministerie stapte in 2024 naar de rechter omdat de filmpjesapp de privacy van kinderen niet zou hebben beschermd en illegaal gegevens van hen zou hebben verzameld, aangezien ouders niet eerst om toestemming was gevraagd.
De schikking is door de overheid zelf naar buiten gebracht. Uit rechtbankdocumenten blijkt tevens dat de aanklacht tegen TikTok en het Chinese moederbedrijf ByteDance definitief is ingetrokken. In januari stemde ByteDance er al mee in om een zogenoemde joint venture op te richten die voor de meerderheid in Amerikaanse handen is. Dit moet de Amerikaanse gegevens beveiligen en een Amerikaans verbod van de app voorkomen, die door meer dan 200 miljoen Amerikanen wordt gebruikt.
AI companies are buying loads of physical books, hoovering up the texts for model training, and then physically destroying the originals. A group of 18 advocacy organizations on Friday asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the book butchering and knowledge hoarding. Fresh details of the practice emerged earlier this year via document disclosures in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, a copyright case brought by authors of books that the AI company used for training without permission. Anthropic's book scan-and-destroy operation was known as "Project Panama." It was described in a 2024 internal memo as "our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world." Anthropic gave the operation a codename "because we don’t want it to be known that we are working on this," the court exhibit explains. "This document is visible to all Anthropic employees, but you should avoid talking about it in public areas, and the fact that we are working on this should not be shared with anyone outside Anthropic." Older books turn out to be valuable for AI training because they're unpolluted by AI-generated text, which has been seeping into recent written work. And destroying books once they've been scanned avoids the cost of storage. In some circumstances, scan-and-destroy operations may support fair use claims. In the Bartz case, the district court accepted the argument that a physical book can be digitized and destroyed, substituting the electronic copy for the physical book in a transformative act of fair use. But that didn't work out for the Internet Archive. Anthropic, which did not respond to a request for comment, is not the only company consuming and trashing texts. A recent report found Amazon has been participating in book scanning and shredding. Amazon also did not respond to a request for comment. The subject has become a public relations headache, in part because of the barbarism of book destruction and its association with authoritarian regimes, and in part because of the broad backlash against AI companies for pillaging public resources in pursuit of private gain. Intermediaries appear to be feeling the heat. ISBNdb, which reportedly helped broker the acquisition of books for destructive scanning, recently disavowed the practice. The biz noted last month, "We've removed a recent landing page, 'Printed Books Sourcing for Your AI LLMs Dataset Needs.' It was part of exploring demand, and we've chosen to pivot away from that direction." In light of these revelations, civil society groups want the FTC to look into book buy-and-destroy operations on the basis that they prevent competing AI developers and the public from accessing those resources. "The secretive and reckless way that major AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon are acting shows that there is real smoke here that the FTC needs to investigate," Kate Oh, special advisor to the Demand Progress Education Fund, said in a statement provided to The Register. The groups' letter [PDF] casts scan-and-destroy operations primarily as anticompetitive – the FTC being notionally a competition watchdog – but it hints at the anti-democratic consequences of monopolized knowledge. "Through their practice of permanently destroying books en masse and thus removing those non-renewable resources from broader access, AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity's written works – after having destroyed the originals to get there," the letter says. We're unaware of whether any texts have been shifted entirely into AI models without leaving any physical copies. But then how would anyone verify that when AI companies refuse to divulge their training data? The letter asks the FTC to answer that question: "What the public record does not establish – and cannot, from the outside – is how often the destroyed physical books are the last or among the last surviving copies of a given work." ®
After a last-minute call-up to Red Bull ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend, Liam Lawson will line up in P11 on the grid for Saturday's Sprint.
Yuki Tsunoda has reflected on his first day at the Dutch Grand Prix, where he returned to Racing Bulls as part of his reserve driver duties.
Alpine's Pierre Gasly progressed through to SQ3 for the 2026 Dutch Grand Prix, ending the Sprint Qualifying in eighth and taking the honours of the best of the rest.
The drivers and teams report back on all the action from the Sprint Qualifying ahead of the 2026 Dutch Grand Prix from Zandvoort.
