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Isack Hadjar: F1's first Arab driver
He's stepping onto a grid dominated for decades by European drivers and teams. And his rise comes at a moment when Arab nations are reshaping the sport. Samantha Johnson breaks down what Hadjar represents, on the grid and off it. Why does Israel play in European Football? What's behind bans on away fans?
Scientists have come up with an unusual way to stop the Gulf Stream collapsing and plunging Europe into another Ice Age - and it involves MELTING an ice sheet
National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC'terror attack' are named... as Afghan gunman's chilling 40-hour drive across the country emerges Patrick Mahomes' bizarre addition to his Thanksgiving meal leaves fans disgusted My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Bryan Kohberger becomes nightmare prison diva... as he throws huge tantrum over BANANAS behind bars Campbell's under fire again just a day after top exec was canned for soup ingredient bombshell Watch distressing moment'drugged' Tara Reid COLLAPSES... as friends reveal urgent developments about'surveillance footage': 'They should be prosecuted' Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to'self deport' Cuckolded ex of writer who'had affair' with RFK Jr rebounds with lookalike feminist... who hates men but fetches his coffee How my bifold doors nearly killed me. It's a middle-class status symbol, but a horrific danger landed me in surgery. Her people tell me extraordinary accusation is'highly defamatory'. Princess of Wales visits the Anna Freud Centre to launch new project supporting children's mental health READ MORE: Gulf Stream on the verge of collapsing reveals key'fingerprint' Melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could save the Gulf Stream, a remarkable new study reveals. The vast icy mass in the southern hemisphere contains around 750,000 cubic miles of ice - enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly three billion times.
Do YOU drink more than your partner? Mismatched alcohol consumption is a 'warning sign' for your marriage, study finds
National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC'terror attack' are named... as Afghan gunman's chilling 40-hour drive across the country emerges Patrick Mahomes' bizarre addition to his Thanksgiving meal leaves fans disgusted My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Bryan Kohberger becomes nightmare prison diva... as he throws huge tantrum over BANANAS behind bars Campbell's under fire again just a day after top exec was canned for soup ingredient bombshell Watch distressing moment'drugged' Tara Reid COLLAPSES... as friends reveal urgent developments about'surveillance footage': 'They should be prosecuted' Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to'self deport' Cuckolded ex of writer who'had affair' with RFK Jr rebounds with lookalike feminist... who hates men but fetches his coffee How my bifold doors nearly killed me. It's a middle-class status symbol, but a horrific danger landed me in surgery. Her people tell me extraordinary accusation is'highly defamatory'. Princess of Wales visits the Anna Freud Centre to launch new project supporting children's mental health Do YOU drink more than your partner? Mismatched alcohol consumption is a'warning sign' for your marriage, study finds Couples who booze together, stay together, according to a new study.
Spotify users think they've cracked the launch date for Spotify Wrapped - and it suggests there's not long to wait
Spotify Wrapped is the streaming service's yearly review of users' listening habits. When it does arrive, the recap will likely fix the usual mix of users' top songs and most-streamed artists, as well as some interesting facts about how much you've listened over the year. In previous years, Spotify has always made sure to drop in a few unusual or surprising features, so expect to see a new way of reviewing your music this year. Despite users clamouring to learn when Spotify Wrapped will arrive, the company has never set a firm date for its release. Currently, you can access a landing page for the 2025 Spotify Wrapped, but it only links back to the 2024 recap.
UN confirms planetary defenses will observe interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it races through our solar system
Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to'self deport' Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Katy Perry's legal victory as judge orders disabled veteran to pay singer nearly $2m over Montecito mansion Trump reveals next DC renovation project to remove'Biden filth' after White House ballroom Cracker Barrel CEO whines that she got'fired by America' for woke redesign Kroger employee reveals shocking amount laundry products have increased by... 'biggest price jump I've seen in a single week' Hollywood heir, 23, whose mom Anne Heche died in horror car fireball has secret LOVE CHILD with 43-year-old... now she's telling all Missing Melodee Buzzard's mom'left her daughter with strangers she met at the zoo' Rachel Zoe reveals why she dumped husband of 26 years... and if she has started dating again Horrific moment cops found body of Cowboys star Marshawn Kneeland after he shot himself at end of 145 mph chase'This is pretty lurid' Jenny McCarthy, 53, reveals health emergency that involved NINE surgeries, her'teeth falling out' and'growth' on her eyeballs Maryland grandma, 58, dragged across floor after being deported to country she'has never even visited' The United Nations (UN) has confirmed that Earth's planetary defenses will be observing the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it races through our solar system . Starting on November 27, a global team of scientists with the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) will kick off a two-month campaign to track the comet as it nears our planet . 'While it poses no threat, comet 3I/ATLAS presents a great opportunity for the IAWN community to perform an observing exercise due to its prolonged observability from Earth and high interest to the scientific community,' the UN explains on its website. 'This 3I/ATLAS campaign is the 8th IAWN observing exercise since 2017 - IAWN holds these exercises roughly once a year.' While 3I/ATLAS was only discovered in July 2025, the UN explained that this'comet campaign' has long been planned.
Australia clamps downs on 'nudify' sites used for AI-generated child abuse
Australia clamps downs on'nudify' sites used for AI-generated child abuse Internet users in Australia have been blocked from accessing several websites that used artificial intelligence to create child sexual exploitation material, the country's internet regulator has announced. The three "nudify" sites withdrew from Australia following an official warning, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said on Thursday. Grant said such "nudify" services, which allow users to make images of real people appear naked using AI, have had a "devastating" effect in Australian schools. "We took enforcement action in September because this provider failed to put in safeguards to prevent its services being used to create child sexual exploitation material and were even marketing features like undressing'any girl,' and with options for'schoolgirl' image generation and features such as'sex mode,'" Grand said in a statement. The development comes after Grant's office issued a formal warning to the United Kingdom-based company behind the sites in September, threatening civil penalties of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($32.2m) if it did not introduce safeguards to prevent image-based abuse.
G-Net: A Provably Easy Construction of High-Accuracy Random Binary Neural Networks
Aghasi, Alireza, Marshall, Nicholas, Pourmand, Saeid, Whiting, Wyatt
We propose a novel randomized algorithm for constructing binary neural networks with tunable accuracy. This approach is motivated by hyperdimensional computing (HDC), which is a brain-inspired paradigm that leverages high-dimensional vector representations, offering efficient hardware implementation and robustness to model corruptions. Unlike traditional low-precision methods that use quantization, we consider binary embeddings of data as points in the hypercube equipped with the Hamming distance. We propose a novel family of floating-point neural networks, G-Nets, which are general enough to mimic standard network layers. Each floating-point G-Net has a randomized binary embedding, an embedded hyperdimensional (EHD) G-Net, that retains the accuracy of its floating-point counterparts, with theoretical guarantees, due to the concentration of measure. Empirically, our binary models match convolutional neural network accuracies and outperform prior HDC models by large margins, for example, we achieve almost 30% higher accuracy on CIFAR-10 compared to prior HDC models. G-Nets are a theoretically justified bridge between neural networks and randomized binary neural networks, opening a new direction for constructing robust binary/quantized deep learning models. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/GNet2025/GNet .
A Unified Understanding of Offline Data Selection and Online Self-refining Generation for Post-training LLMs
Offline data selection and online self-refining generation, which enhance the data quality, are crucial steps in adapting large language models (LLMs) to specific downstream tasks. We tackle offline data selection and online self-refining generations through an optimization perspective. Specifically, bilevel data selection is used for offline data selection with respect to the validation dataset, and we treat online self-refining generation as a model adaptation step of selecting the model trained on current responses that best fits the validation data. Our framework offers a unified understanding of offline data selection and self-refining generation by assigning a learned data weight to each question and response, either explicitly or implicitly. For the first time, we theoretically demonstrate the effectiveness of the bilevel data selection framework and demonstrate its performance gains over unfiltered direct mixing baselines. By combining offline data with validation-weighted online generations, our method enhances fine-tuning performance. Experiments on quality enhancement and safety-aware LLM fine-tuning validate its effectiveness.
Campbell's FIRES executive secretly recorded saying its soups are full of 'bioengineered meat' and made for 'poor people'
Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to'self deport' Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Katy Perry's legal victory as judge orders disabled veteran to pay singer nearly $2m over Montecito mansion Trump reveals next DC renovation project to remove'Biden filth' after White House ballroom Cracker Barrel CEO whines that she got'fired by America' for woke redesign Kroger employee reveals shocking amount laundry products have increased by... 'biggest price jump I've seen in a single week' Hollywood heir, 23, whose mom Anne Heche died in horror car fireball has secret LOVE CHILD with 43-year-old... now she's telling all Missing Melodee Buzzard's mom'left her daughter with strangers she met at the zoo' Rachel Zoe reveals why she dumped husband of 26 years... and if she has started dating again Horrific moment cops found body of Cowboys star Marshawn Kneeland after he shot himself at end of 145 mph chase'This is pretty lurid' Jenny McCarthy, 53, reveals health emergency that involved NINE surgeries, her'teeth falling out' and'growth' on her eyeballs Maryland grandma, 58, dragged across floor after being deported to country she'has never even visited' Campbell's FIRES executive secretly recorded saying its soups are full of'bioengineered meat' and made for'poor people' Campbell's Soup has fired the executive caught in a secret recording insulting customers and claiming the company's products were filled with bioengineered meat. Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Martin Bally was originally placed on administrative leave after a lawsuit against Campbell's was filed last week and the audio recording was released. In the audio, a speaker identified as Bally was heard saying: 'We have s**t for f***king poor people. It's not healthy now that I know what the f**'s in it.' The voice, alleged to be Bally, also claimed that the chicken used in the brand's soups'came from a 3D printer.' Campbell's revealed on Wednesday that their investigation concluded that the voice on the secret recording was Bally and the executive was removed from the company on Tuesday.
Russia says talks to end Ukraine war 'serious' but rules out concessions
What is in the 28-point US plan for Ukraine? Why is Europe opposing Trump's peace plan? Is the fall of Pokrovsk inevitable? 'A corruption scandal may well end the Ukraine war' Russia says talks to end Ukraine war'serious' but rules out concessions Russia says the United States-brokered talks to end the war with Ukraine are "serious", but its officials caution that an agreement is a long way off and Moscow would offer no major concessions to Kyiv. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in televised comments on Wednesday that the negotiations were ongoing and "the process is serious."