1 hour ago Make mine an AI IPA: How chatbots are brewing up a storm in the world of beer

People have been making beer for millennia. Are robots taking that job, too, asks Josh Barrie

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1 hour ago ‘Our job is to maximise their losses’: how Ukraine’s forces attempt to claw back against Russian advances

Along Donetsk’s frontline, a small counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops aims to help change perceptions about the war among Kyiv’s western alliesAs Donald Trump prepared to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August, Russia launched an offensive in eastern Ukraine. Small groups of soldiers pushed forward near Dobropillia and, meeting little resistance, they advanced 15 to 20 km and seized a chain of villages.It is a small pocket of land, but one that has driven perceptions of the war in the last months. At the time of the Alaska summit, it was seen as proof that Russia had momentum; as Ukraine had taken back territory – albeit in the context of Russian advances elsewhere – it may have contributed to Trump’s dismissive assessment of Moscow’s military as a “paper tiger”. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Richard Ashcroft: ‘I’ll never experience anything like this summer again’

Exclusive: The former Verve frontman has been riding high with his fellow Britpop legends Oasis for their much-celebrated reunion shows. Now with an arena tour and a new solo album of his own, he buries the hatchet with Mark Beaumont and reflects on his extraordinary, rebellious career so far

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1 hour ago I reported a man for walking into my changing room, and he was convicted: it’s proof that women need to report ‘the small things’

Olivia Petter was made to feel as if an incident with a stranger in a clothing shop’s dressing room was something she was supposed to simply brush off. But several bureaucratic roadblocks and a police investigation later, she finally felt vindicated

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2 h. ago Heartbreak as south London lollipop lady loved by generations faces redundancy

Heartbreak as south London lollipop lady loved by generations faces redundancy  This Is Local London

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3 h. ago Lavender will 'flourish' if you use 3 food scraps that will give them 'additional nourishment'

Lavender plants are often associated with serene summer days, offering a sense of tranquillity with their fragrant aroma - and there's a way to make them even healthier

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3 h. ago Leon King opens up on Rangers, summer uncertainty and his 'new lease of confidence' at Ayr United

The centre-back is enjoying life in the Scottish Championship away from Ibrox on loan

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10 h. ago Michel Ange Balikwisha on his 'desperate' Celtic moment that inspired Motherwell madness

Brendan Rodgers' summer recruit was desperate to make an impact and did just that to tee up Daizen Maeda's dramatic winner

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11 h. ago Paris Fury on hilarious reason husband Tyson prefers training camp to life at home

Paris Fury opens up about life at home with Tyson in this weekend's Notebook as well as spilling her beauty secrets including her love of collagen

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12 h. ago Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic's wife's dinner meeting as tennis stars grow close

Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic share a strong friendship, and the Australian Open champion recently revealed they were out for dinner together after she trained with him in Greece

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13 h. ago Lost chapter of Jack Kerouac's On The Road discovered in estate of New York Mafia boss

A manuscript written by iconic Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac as part of his On The Road saga had been languishing in the files of murdered Mafia boss Paul Castellano for 40 years

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13 h. ago This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on itWhen he first learned that federal agents had detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his university housing complex, Jameel Jaffer knew he was in for a fight.Jaffer is the director of a Columbia-affiliated institute devoted to the defense of the first amendment, and Khalil, a green card holder, had been a fixture at the pro-Palestinian encampments on campus. Months earlier, Jaffer’s organization had hosted a symposium about the free speech rights of noncitizens. The institute had been established to defend the very constitutional principles the Trump administration was now openly flouting – and that Columbia seemed too scared to defend. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago The big mistake boxers make when preparing for a fight... and how it can cost them

Coming into camp overweight can affect an athlete’s training and hand the advantage to their opponent

Sport

14 h. ago The Guide #212: The Taylor Swift backlash has me asking: how much good music can one artist really produce?

In this week’s newsletter: The mixed response to The Life of a Showgirl is proof that even the biggest star isn’t immune to creative burnoutAmid the flood of discourse around Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, one recurring sentiment jumped out: that the album – which many critics have declared a misstep in Swift’s otherwise consistently solid discography – felt hurried, hasty, rushed. “The Life of a Showgirl Is 40 Minutes of Elevator Music Rushed Out to Break a Beatles Record”, read the particularly savage headline of a piece on Collider. In the Guardian music desk’s excellent round table on the album, just about every panellist expressed a wish that Swift would take a break from the constant churn of releasing records, in order to recapture a lost spark.And it has been quite the churn. Since 2019 Swift has on average released an album a year, and that’s not counting the Taylor’s Version re-records of her older albums. All of this managed alongside a certain billion-dollar-gros...

Culture

15 h. ago Farewell to ‘the people’s champion’: Manchester says emotional goodbye to boxer Ricky Hatton

Family, friends and celebrities pack Manchester Cathedral with Liam Gallagher and Wayne Rooney among mournersTens of thousands lined the streets of Manchester on Friday to pay tribute to Ricky Hatton, the former world champion boxer who died last month aged 46.Hatton was one of the most respected and adored sportsmen of his generation, able to tempt thousands of fans across the Atlantic to America for his fights against the likes of legendary boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. His death at home on 14 September was mourned throughout the world, with a minute’s silence held during the Manchester football derby that was played later that day. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Travellers told to brace for long delays at Dover and Eurostar as new EU entry

Britons could be asked to provide proof of travel insurance and hotel bookings by EU border guards

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15 h. ago The John Stones moment that highlights Man City contract dilemma

John Stones managed 80 minutes for England against Wales on Thursday night but the Manchester City defender did suffer an injury scare.

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15 h. ago Peter Kay thought he was 'dead' when diagnosed with condition that led to surgery

Peter Kay has opened up about his health scare in a new book

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16 h. ago It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so muchTake a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman’s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person’s appeal. Please come home, Sheila – we’re all worried sick and we just want you back.If that joke seems off-colour, or crass, or some kind of manipulative stretch – please, don’t worry. I’m using the OpenAI gold standard of giving-a-toss, where the unwilling subjects of any generated content have to formally, time-consumingly and bureaucratically opt out of being used/abused/exploited any way anyone likes. I haven’t hear...

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16 h. ago Sow vegetable in October for delicious bumper crop in spring

Broad beans are a great crop to grow in the vegetable garden, they are easy to grow and are a great source of protein. They are also a good source of vitamins A, C and K, as well as being high in fibre.

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