Reform council confirms ‘patriotic’ flag policy

Reform has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to scrap the previous administration’s flag flying policy at Leicestershire County Council. The party discontinued a previously agreed schedule of flags due to be displayed outside County Hall in Glenfield during its first cabinet meeting on 12 June, which included those to mark LGBTQ+ Pride Month,…

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AI spots deadly heart risk most doctors can’t see

A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest. The linchpin is the system’s ability to analyze long-underused heart imaging, alongside a full spectrum of medical records, to reveal previously hidden information about a patient’s heart health. The federally-funded work, led by Johns Hopkins University researchers, could…

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden,…

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AMD’s impressive free RX 9070 XT speed boosts confirmed in new benchmarks – and they make the GPU a better buy than Nvidia’s RX 5070 Ti

AMD’s RX 9070 XT is now considerably faster than it was at launch It’s 9% quicker, in fact, with the latest graphics driver compared to the initial release That’s based on benchmarking across a suite of games conducted by Hardware Unboxed, and those results are broadly reflected elsewhere, too AMD’s RX 9070 XT graphics card…

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US economy surpasses expectations to add 147,000 jobs

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US economy added 147,000 jobs in June, breaking through expectations and leading investors to scale back their bets on interest rate cuts. Despite uncertainty over Donald Trump’s trade and immigration policies, Thursday’s figure from…

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