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Football clubs will have to prove financial health before being granted licence under IFR plans

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"We are making substantial progress on bringing the Independent Football Regulator regime forward," he added."We will support clubs at every step to reinforce these higher standards."In a statement, the IFR says it will place "significant emphasis on clubs' liquidity positions and the sources of funding on which they rely."The IFR will work with clubs to stress-test their finances, to improve decision-making and ensure long-term resilience."Should clubs be unable to demonstrate sound financial planning, the IFR will have the ability to require clubs to take steps to better manage day-to-day spending, such as increasing cash reserves, controlling costs or reducing debt,"…

Broadcom Stock, Chipmaker Shares Surge; Casino Stocks Fall

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Broadcom shares tore higher Monday after the company said it would collaborate with OpenAI, while other semiconductor makers got a boost from a more favorable outlook on trade with China.Shares of Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts fell after a report showed a drop in Macau gaming revenue, reflecting disruptions from major weather events. Semiconductor stocks gained ground Monday as China tariff concerns dissipated, while one chipmaker got a boost from a major artificial intelligence partnership announcement. Shares of casino operators fell as stormy weather dragged on gaming revenue in a key region. Major U.S. equities indexes bounced back as…

karpathy/nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

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The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy. This repo is a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase. nanochat is designed to run on a single 8XH100 node via scripts like speedrun.sh, that run the entire pipeline start to end. This includes tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, inference, and web serving over a simple UI so that you can talk to your own LLM just like ChatGPT. nanochat will become the capstone project of the course LLM101n being developed by Eureka Labs. The fastest way to feel the magic is to run the…

WATCH: Johnson responds to critics on why he won’t call House back for shutdown negotiations

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen. Watch Johnson speak in the player above. Standing alone at the Capitol on the 13th day of the shutdown, the speaker said he was unaware of the details of the thousands of federal workers being fired by the Trump administration. It’s a highly unusual mass layoff widely seen as way to seize on the shutdown to reduce the scope of government. Vice President JD…

The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also-ran NYC band in leather jackets’ | Music

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The Fiery Furnaces had no expectations for their second album, 2004’s Blueberry Boat. The sibling duo recorded it before their debut had even come out, and so had no idea that 2003’s Gallowsbird’s Bark would receive such wild acclaim: in an 8.4 review, Pitchfork called its shambolic rock’n’roll and frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger’s arcane lyricism a “a mess of weird, undulating musical bits that are hugely intriguing despite not always making a whole shitload of sense”. They were busy fulfilling a five-album deal with Rough Trade, a luxury that was pretty much par for the course as a buzzy Brooklyn band…

3 Best Smart Displays (2025): Tested By a Smart Home Addict

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Comparing Our Favorite Smart DisplaysMore Smart Displays We LikeEcho Hub for $180: The Echo Hub isn't exactly a smart display. It lacks powerful speaker capabilities and doesn't have a camera for calls or Amazon's Drop-In video call feature. Instead, it focuses entirely on being a smart home dashboard with built-in Alexa, plus features like widgets and the photo frame. I think it takes the best, most easily used features of a smart display and cuts out the rest. But if you want a good speaker, don't choose this one.Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen, 2023) for $90: The smaller and cheaper…

Luke Littler: World champion suffers shock defeat to Beau Greaves in World Youth Championship

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Beau Greaves emerged victorious from a 6-5 thriller against Luke Littler as she became the first woman to reach the final of the World Youth Championship.Littler came into the tournament on the back of his 6-1 demolition of world number one Luke Humphries in the World Grand Prix final on Sunday.The 18-year-old had breezed through his three matches in the round-robin phase of the event, with wins over Dutchman Jeffrey Keen, Iceland's Alexander Thorvaldsson and Belgium's Matthias Moors.However, the world champion put in a below-par last-16 display against fellow Englishman Charlie Manby. Littler was on the brink of defeat at…

New vehicle prices top $50,000 amid rising auto loan delinquencies

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A salesperson (left) shows vehicles to a shopper at a Toyota dealership.Getty ImagesDETROIT — Look no further than the automotive industry for the latest indication that U.S. consumers could be facing a "K-shaped" economy, where the wealthy keep seeing gains while those who have lower incomes struggle.The average price paid for a new vehicle last month topped $50,000 for the first time ever, Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book reported Monday. Meanwhile, auto loan delinquency rates remain near all-time highs for those with low credit ratings.Consumers who can afford a new vehicle are on a buying spree, while those on tighter…

Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera’s Spec

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I bought a 1979 Chinon CM-4 film camera in Tijuana. Film is expensive, so before wasting a roll I decided to learn exactly how this machine works — by taking apart its specs, one line at a time.So here is my three step planUnderstand what I really have in my hands. Michael Butkus created a comprehensive document that covers the details and specifications of the Chinon CM 4. My main goal with this document (aside from knowing what every button does) is to understand the specs and know exactly how every aspect influences the photos captured.Make sense of the numbers…

Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone as Trump focuses on Columbus

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From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance over centuries marked by trauma. Tribal nations and communities gathered at powwows, markets and musical performances among other joyful events to honor their culture and their history. Some states and cities have for decades now made the second Monday in October about honoring Native Americans alongside the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, for whom the federal holiday was declared in 1937. And President Joe Biden signed a declaration recognizing both days. President Donald Trump, keeping a vow he made…