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EU lawmakers push to ban term ‘veggie-burger’

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BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.Lawmakers at the European Parliament voted by 355 to 247 in favour of an amendment to a regulation designed to give farmers a stronger negotiating position so that powerful companies in the food supply chain do not impose unfavourable conditions. Sign up here.The text of the final regulation will follow negotiations between representatives of the Parliament, EU governments and the…

Fact-checking Hawley’s claims that the FBI ‘tapped’ his and other senators’ phones

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This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said the Biden administration’s FBI tapped several Republican senators’ phones while investigating 2020 election interference. “Yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped my phone … tapped Lindsey Graham’s phone, tapped Marsha Blackburn’s phone, tapped five other phones of United States senators,” Hawley said Oct. 7 during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Justice Department with Attorney General Pam Bondi. READ MORE: 3 takeaways from Bondi’s combative DOJ oversight hearing Hawley repeated the statement the same day on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” show. Wiretapping refers to the…

A secret history of gay people in the US military

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A unique depiction of military lifeNow Boots shines a spotlight on the courage and resilience of service members, who sublimated an integral part of their identity in order to serve. Created by Andy Parker, whose previous credits include Netflix's adaptation of Armistead Maupin's LGBT literary classic Tales of the City, Boots is faithful to the spirit of Cope White's book, which is candid, comedic and bigger on positivity than pity. Miles Heizer stars as Cameron, a closeted gay teenager who enlists in a Marine Corps boot camp in a desperate effort to belong – much as Cope White did. "I…

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

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Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, a whopping 15x leap from its $545 million valuation just seven months ago. The company, which originally focused on autonomous coding agents, is now positioning itself as both an open source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. The startup was launched in March 2024 by Misha Laskin, who led reward modeling for DeepMind’s Gemini project, and Ioannis Antonoglou, who co-created AlphaGo, the AI system…

Willie Peters: Hull KR revived by coach as treble opportunity looms

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At around 5ft 5in (1.65m) tall, Willie Peters was a crafty, skilful "larrikin" half-back as a player who made the grade in Australia's National Rugby League with South Sydney, but then switched to the other side of the world to join new Super League franchise Gateshead Thunder in 1999.Wigan came calling in 2000, and he featured in that season's Grand Final against St Helens before heading back to Australia to play for St George Illawarra and then Souths again before a short stint at Widnes brought his career to an end.It was those opportunities that prompted Peters to move from…

Delta Air Lines (DAL) Q3 2025 earnings

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Delta Air Lines Flight Museum in Atlanta, Ga.Leslie Josephs/CNBCDelta Air Lines forecast a better-than-expected end to 2025 and a strong start to next year thanks to rising airfares and resilient luxury travel demand.The airline on Thursday projected adjusted earnings of between $1.60 and $1.90 a share for the fourth quarter, compared with the $1.65 per share analysts polled by LSEG were expecting. Revenue in the last three months of the year will grow as much as 4%, Delta said, above the 1.7% Wall Street expects."Looking to 2026, Delta is well positioned to deliver top-line growth, margin expansion and earnings improvement…

My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Whether it's building a new project from scratch, implementing a big feature, or beginning a large refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that. We've all experienced that feeling of excitement starting a new project. The first few weeks you can't wait to get on the computer to work. Then slowly over time you get distracted or make up excuses and work on it less. If this is for real work, you forcibly…

New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge, AP source says

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WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration, becoming the latest foe of the president to be prosecuted by his Justice Department. James, who infuriated President Donald Trump by suing him and his company for fraud in a case that played out as he was running for office, was indicted on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution following a presentation to a grand jury in Virginia by a prosecutor who was hastily appointed last month amid Trump administration…

‘We’ve all done stupid things but we’re all capable of redemption’: spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen on fighting hate with hope | Music

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Playing Glastonbury almost made Joshua Idehen quit music – twice. The first time was in 2007, when the spoken-word artist’s slot followed a dancer who had successfully roused a crowd of 800. By the end of his first poem, only a handful of punters were left in the tent, even though it was pouring with rain outside. “People were like, ‘Nope, I’d rather get soaked than listen to you,’” he says. “That was a sucker punch.”Nearly two decades later, on the Greenpeace stage this summer, the 45-year-old faced the opposite problem. Five thousand people turned up – another “earth-shattering” experience,…

While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes to call them. He promised this is the “first of many” such Nvidia AI factories that will be deployed across Microsoft Azure’s global data centers to run OpenAI workloads. Each system is a cluster of more than 4,600 Nvidia GB300 rack computers sporting the much-in-demand Blackwell Ultra GPU chip and connected via Nvidia’s super-fast networking tech called InfiniBand. (Besides AI chips, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also had the foresight to corner the market on InfiniBand when…