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Publishers to bill AI firms for unwanted scraping – and take them to court if they don’t pay

Publishers to bill AI firms for unwanted scraping – and take them to court if they don’t pay

Published by Sam Flores

Search-only contract with AI company logos. Google’s new $1bn London headquarters could be receiving a visit from the bailiffs this summer after publishers opened up a new front in the battle against AI bots. Some 31 UK websites, backed by the Movement for an Open Web (MOW), have added new “Search-Only Contracts” (SOC) to their website terms and conditions which prohibit the copying and repurposing of content by LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The terms seek to beef up existing robots.txt notices on websites, which are currently widely ignored by generative AI companies. The contracts set out payment rates, typically £500 per article, for unauthorised website scraping which pave the way for future legal claims. In simple terms, they state that website users enter into a contract when they access a web page and agree not to copy and reuse content without permission. According to MOW the new system makes it easy for publishers to lodge small legal claims over unwanted scraping. All they need is proof that a particular LLM has …

The Mandalorian and Grogu sets unwanted Star Wars box office record

The Mandalorian and Grogu sets unwanted Star Wars box office record

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Mandalorian and Grogu has set an unwanted record to become the Star Wars film with the lowest opening weekend box office in the sci-fi franchise’s history. The film, from Iron Man director Jon Favreau, did actually top the box office charts. However, as Variety reports, the film made just $82 million in the U.S., a touch below the $84 million banked by 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Mandalorian and Grogu is predicted to make $102 million through the end of the holiday weekend on Monday. Solo, which also opened on a Memorial Day weekend, made $103 million in the equivalent timeframe. Solo was the first Star Wars movie ever to lose money during its theatrical run, having cost around $300 million to make. By contrast, The Mandalorian and Grogu’s $165 million budget makes it the cheapest Star Wars …

Stop Fighting Unwanted Thoughts | Psychology Today

Stop Fighting Unwanted Thoughts | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

The harder you fight your unwanted thoughts, the louder they get. Neuroscience shows us alternatives. Let your body do what it knows how to do – heal. Journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis1 recently ended a New York Times essay on self-transformation with a cartoon: a butterfly peering down at a caterpillar, dispensing advice with the easy authority of someone who has only recently sprouted wings. “The thing is,” the butterfly says, “you have to really want to change.” The joke, as Denizet-Lewis points out, is obvious. The caterpillar’s transformation has nothing to do with wanting. It becomes what it becomes. Another way to put it is that your body knows how to heal if you can learn to get out of the way. After more than three decades as a spine surgeon, I have watched this same paradox destroy people’s chances of getting better. Not because they didn’t try hard enough — but because they tried too hard, in exactly the wrong direction. The Invisible Trap Most people I see with chronic mental and physical pain are …

Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that

Expecting charity shops to recycle your unwanted clothes is creating a rubbish pile – here’s how to help to avoid that

Published by Sam Flores

Charity shops are generally seen as a responsible way to get rid of unwanted belongings. In theory, donating items allows them to be reused and raises money for important causes. However, many charity shops struggle to make use of the donations they receive. The UK has more charity shops per person than any other country, handling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of used clothing every year in addition to a wide range of other household items. When goods are donated to charity shops, they are either sold to local customers to be reused or purchased by commercial companies and traded through complex international markets. An estimated 70-90% of donated goods follow these routes, with local traders reusing and recycling as much as possible. However, large quantities are also dumped and burned, resulting in environmental damage and waste. My ongoing research shows the challenges charity shops face in reusing donated goods. Charity shops are the primary outlet for used textiles in the UK: roughly half of all textiles currently collected for reuse and recycling are charity …

King orders aides ‘to leave no trace of Andrew at Royal Lodge’ as staff burn unwanted belongings

King orders aides ‘to leave no trace of Andrew at Royal Lodge’ as staff burn unwanted belongings

Published by Sam Flores

The King has given orders to remove any trace of the disgraced ex-Prince Andrew from his former home on the Windsor estate, it is reported. Skips have been spotted around the 30-room Royal Lodge in Berkshire, with one staffer seen burning old furniture as the stately home was emptied. It is known on February 2, King Charles ordered Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to finally leave the home, where he had lived for over 20 years paying peppercorn rent, under cover of darkness. The move came amid continuing revelations about the extent of Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah’s friendship with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The former Duke of York was also arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations he shared sensitive information with Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy. Andrew, 66, who has taken up residence at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, denies any wrongdoing. This week, royal aides were spotted removing the last possessions from Royal Lodge, including the apartments where the ex-Duke of York’s personal staff used to reside. …

Adults Who Were Singled Out & Felt Unwanted As A Child Often Develop These 11 Destructive Habits

Adults Who Were Singled Out & Felt Unwanted As A Child Often Develop These 11 Destructive Habits

Published by Jenni Sidey

People develop much of their self-worth based on the messages they received in their formative years, which is why adults who were singled out or felt unwanted as children can develop destructive habits. If you were treated with kindness and acceptance, you probably learned to value yourself and believe in your abilities. If not, the opposite can be true.   Our emotional well-being is impacted by our sense of belonging. Fortunately, there are ways to change these patterns once we recognize them.  Adults who were singled out & felt unwanted as a child often develop these 11 destructive habits 1. They avoid rejection Pheelings media | Shutterstock As human beings, we’re inherently social creatures, which means we need connection with other people to survive and thrive. If you were excluded as by other kids in school, it likely lowered your self-esteem and affected the way you form attachments in adulthood. A 2017 study titled “Causes and Consequences of Social Exclusion and Peer Rejection Among Children and Adolescents” noted that exclusion isn’t always intended to cause …

The Europa League has become Forest’s unwanted distraction after Midtjylland take control

The Europa League has become Forest’s unwanted distraction after Midtjylland take control

Published by Sam Flores

The Europa and Conference Leagues have reached the last-16 stage and we will be focused on two English clubs in action tonight. At the City Ground, Nottingham Forest host Midtjylland. When these teams met on this ground during the league phase, Midtjylland won 3-2 over Ange Postecoglou’s Forest in early October. Fast forward a couple of managers later and Forest head into this last-16 tie with Vitor Pereira at the helm. Forest are only outside of the relegation zone on goal difference but Pereira is not writing off Europe to solely focus on Premier League survival. “For now, we try to be competitive in both, in the Europe League and try to get points and results in our league,” Pereira said. “I need to try to balance, but to be competitive in the next game and afterwards against Fulham. It is important for the players to be ready to help the team, we need to be ready to challenge and perform. We have quality in the squad, they are working hard, with good energy, trying …

How people are making money from clutter and unwanted gifts

How people are making money from clutter and unwanted gifts

Published by Daniella Wilson

A new year clearout can be a great way to make room for gifts you received over the festive period or to get rid of unwanted ones, as well as offloading unused clutter and making a bit of extra cash. But rather than letting unwanted items rot in the loft or the back of the shed, you could make money by selling them online – or save money on having to buy presents for others by regifting. Research by online selling platform Vinted identified a surge in sales of unwanted gifts in January, with listings up by nearly a third (29.4 per cent) annually. The top five listed categories for unwanted gifts between Christmas day and early January were perfume, jewellery, makeup, body care, and facial care. Here are the best ways of getting rid of unwanted items, from gifts to old and unused gadgets. Be honest Whether it’s Christmas or your birthday, sometimes a gift just goes wrong. A recent survey by consumer watchdog Which? about unwanted gifts found one respondent received a Tottenham …

‘Most unwanted’ dogs still in kennels for more than 2 years

‘Most unwanted’ dogs still in kennels for more than 2 years

Published by Sam Flores

Jimmy and Hector, who have been up for adoption for more than two years. (Image: FACEBOOK/Miracle’s Mission) The duo were saved from a grim, confined shelter with virtually no natural light, where they had been all but abandoned by the world beyond. The dogs, now approximately five years old, were discovered trapped in a tiny room with “four walls, no view, no air, and no life”. They were rarely permitted outdoors until animal rescue organisation Miracle’s Missions intervened to rescue them. READ MORE: ‘I’m a crime scene cleaner – there’s 1 rule we never break’ READ MORE: Dog owners are only just learning the reason pets show them their bellies Rescue worker Emma expressed her distress at the dogs’ ongoing battle to secure a home, revealing their ordeal hadn’t ended after they were rescued. She said: “Two beautiful boys that nobody wants. “Jimmy and Hector have been up for adoption for over two years. They’ve had applications, but everyone has pulled out for their own reasons – nothing to do with the boys. “They are …