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Sydney Sweeney’s controversial jeans ad draws praise from President Trump – National

9Aug

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Sydney Sweeney’s controversial jeans ad draws praise from President Trump – National

U.S. President Donald Trump is commending Sydney Sweeney for her recent American Eagle campaign, following a wave of social media backlash over its messaging. The denim brand’s latest advertisement, fronted by the Euphoria actor, whose tagline plays on the words “jeans” and “genes,” has been targeted by critics who suggest the brand is celebrating traits typically associated with whiteness.“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair colour, personality and even eye colour. My jeans are blue,” Sweeney says in the ad, which appears to have been scrubbed from the internet. Other versions still remain, such as this one, below. Story continues below advertisement On Monday, Trump told a reporter while disembarking a plane in...

OpenAI’s Rollout of GPT-5 Is Going Terribly

9Aug

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OpenAI’s Rollout of GPT-5 Is Going Terribly

On Thursday, OpenAI officially revealed GPT-5 to the world. The much-hyped presentation was sparse on many specific benchmarks comparing GPT-5 to its past models, but OpenAI's staff was adamant: this model is the best, most knowledgeable, and most powerful one to date.GPT-5 has its hatersMany of the users who have been test driving GPT-5 in the 24 hours since, however, disagree. A visit to r/ChatGPT is enough to see the scope of the situation: The front page is full of posts complaining about the current state of the model, including: "GPT-5 is the biggest [piece] of garbage even as a paid user," "OpenAI just pulled the biggest bait-and-switch in AI history and I'm done," and "ChatGPT-5 rollout is an unmitigated disaster."One of the most prominent complaints concerns OpenAI's decision to d...

Researchers identify antibodies that can protect children from Strep A infection

9Aug

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Researchers identify antibodies that can protect children from Strep A infection

UK scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to Strep A, a common bacterial infection -- a vital breakthrough which could help develop vaccines to save up to half a million lives globally each year. While Strep A often causes a mild sore throat or skin infections, it sometimes be life-threatening. In low and middle-income countries hundreds of thousands of people die each year after contracting the infection. This increased risk is often linked to heart damage resulting from repeated infections. Researchers from the University of Sheffield were able to identify the specific antibodies that are linked to protection from the potentially fatal infection. "Our findings represent a significant step towards a safe and effective vaccine that could save around half ...

Andhera trailer: Prajakta Koli-starrer promises to give you nightmares

9Aug

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Andhera trailer: Prajakta Koli-starrer promises to give you nightmares

Prime Video, in collaboration with Excel Entertainment, unveiled the spine-chilling trailer of its upcoming supernatural horror-investigation series. Headlined by Priya Bapat, Karanvir Malhotra, Prajakta Koli, and Surveen Chawla, the series also boasts a powerhouse cast featuring Vatsal Sheth, Parvin Dabas, and Pranay Pachauri in pivotal roles. Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Kassim Jagmagia, Mohit Shah, and Karan Anshuman under the banner of Excel Entertainment, with Vishal Ramchandani as Associate Producer, the eight-episode series is written by Gaurav Desai, Raaghav Dar, Chintan Sarda, and Karan Anshuman, and directed by Raaghav Dar. Andhera trailer Rooted in a world where logic meets the unknown, Andhera weaves a chilling investigative drama with atmospheric supernatura...

I Ran OpenAI’s ‘Open-Weight’ Model on My Laptop (but I Wouldn’t Recommend It)

9Aug

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I Ran OpenAI’s ‘Open-Weight’ Model on My Laptop (but I Wouldn’t Recommend It)

All AI eyes might be on GPT-5 this week, OpenAI's latest large language model. But looking past the hype (and the disappointment), there was another big OpenAI announcement this week: gpt-oss, a new AI model you can run locally on your own device. I got it working on my laptop and my iMac, though I'm not so sure I'd recommend you do the same.What's the big deal with gpt-oss?gpt-oss is, like GPT-5, an AI model. However, unlike OpenAI's latest and greatest LLM, gpt-oss is "open-weight." That allows developers to customize and fine-tune the model to their specific use cases. It's different from open source, however: OpenAI would have had to include both the underlying code for the model as well as the data the model is trained on. Instead, the company is simply giving developers access to the...

‘The Paper’ trailer is here, teasing the return of an employee from ‘The Office’ – National

9Aug

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‘The Paper’ trailer is here, teasing the return of an employee from ‘The Office’ – National

The first trailer for The Paper, the new spinoff of The Office, has dropped, and while it’s been a long time coming, now that it’s here, it’s left legions of fans satisfied and smiling. (That’s what she said.)The premise of the mockumentary series, much like the original, follows another struggling industry as it attempts to revive its business.This time around, the same documentary crew that followed Michael Scott and his employees at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin is now zeroing in on a Midwest local newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, as it tries to get back on its feet with a team of (untrained) volunteer journalists.Meet the newsroom 🗞️#ThePaper arrives September 4 on Peacock. pic.twitter.com/M6T5RDun0J— Peacock (@peacock) August 8, 2025 Story continues below advertisement ...

Study decodes mechanism behind severe weight loss in cancer patients

8Aug

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Study decodes mechanism behind severe weight loss in cancer patients

Increasing weight loss experienced by cancer patients that often leads to deaths may be caused by communication between the brain and liver, according to a study. Nearly a third of cancer-related deaths are caused by cachexia -- a currently incurable metabolic syndrome that involves substantial weight loss, including depletion of muscle mass and body fat. It also contributes to therapy resistance and increases mortality among affected patients. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, US, have discovered that one of the reasons for this loss is disrupted communication between the brain and the liver. When the activity of the vagus nerve -- a major axis of brain-liver communication -- is dysregulated by cancer-tr...

Trump says he’ll meet with Putin in Alaska next week to discuss Ukraine war – National

8Aug

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Trump says he’ll meet with Putin in Alaska next week to discuss Ukraine war – National

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in a week’s time, as he continued to raise the prospect of finally reaching an end to the war in Ukraine. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”Trump confirmed the meeting with Putin as Canada said it intends to lower the price cap on Russian oil, alongside Britain and the European Union, to exert “renewed pressure” on Moscow to end the war it started more than three-and-a-half years ago with its invasion.Friday also ma...

Group threatens N.S. with legal action over ‘grossly disproportionate’ woods ban

8Aug

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Group threatens N.S. with legal action over ‘grossly disproportionate’ woods ban

A national advocacy group is threatening Nova Scotia with legal action over its decision to restrict travel in the woods, a policy that Premier Tim Houston said was necessary to blunt a brutal wildfire season. The Canadian Constitutional Foundation, which supports legal challenges across the country generally relating to Charter rights, is behind the legal threat, which claims Nova Scotia has overstepped.The group said it supports a provincial burn ban, but Houston’s prohibition on hiking, camping, fishing and picnicking in the woods is a step too far.“We’re creating a culture where we value safety above any other value, including our fundamental freedoms, our freedom to move around our communities,” Christine Van Geyn, the CCF’s litigation director, told Global News. ...

In rare interview, Poilievre’s campaign chief says she regrets riding loss – National

8Aug

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In rare interview, Poilievre’s campaign chief says she regrets riding loss – National

The Conservative Party’s 2025 federal campaign chief Jenni Byrne says not realizing sooner that leader Pierre Poilievre was in trouble in his riding remains one of her main regrets from the election. “I do wish that we had seen what was happening in Pierre’s riding sooner than what we did,” Byrne said in an interview on the “Beyond a Ballot” podcast this week.In the interview, Byrne’s first since the April election, she spoke about the campaign and what’s next for her following her time as one of Poilievre’s top advisers.The longtime political strategist, who also served as an adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper during his years in government, told the podcast that despite her regret about not recognizing trouble in Poilievre’s riding, she isn’t sure they could have done much a...