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On the Eurostar platform at St Pancras International station in London, Great Britain, on 1 November 2025.Stephane Mouchmouche | Afp | Getty ImagesGripped by drought, raging wildfires and a summer of weather extremes, countries across Europe are scrambling to address the widely underestimated climate challenge of extreme heat.Supercharged by the climate crisis, a series of record-breaking heat waves in recent months has wreaked havoc across large swaths of the world’s fastest-warming continent. Severe infrastructure stress brought on by the searing heat has forced companies and policymakers to respond.Eurostar, for example, recently announced that it is preparing to for unprecedented heat…

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Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup. That’s why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data to work with AI”—has so many of them. Want a job interview? Score a perfect 7/7 on the company’s own “Is it a Lemon or a Lime?” game. Or—hear me out—get something permanently tattooed on your flesh. LemonLime has tried both tactics in the past few weeks. The tattoo stunt generated the most publicity, of course, much of it negative. According to a writeup in Inc., seven people took the deal and got tattooed with…

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Previous Ars testing of Google’s SynthID system has shown that Google’s digital watermark can persist despite substantial image edits and data loss. However, Ars also encountered the issue of SynthID limiting image checks to about 10 per day. When Ars prompted Google’s Gemini app to run a SynthID check on several AI-modified images generated within Google Earth—before Google removed the Google Earth feature—Gemini responded that it had “detected digital watermarking indicating that part or all of this image was generated or edited using Google AI tools.” But Ess questioned why Google’s policy on preventing the creation of AI-generated images on…

July 31 (Reuters) – Opposition mounted on Friday to FIFA’s plan to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors, after a senior adviser to the organisation’s President Gianni Infantino resigned in protest and a report said the proposal had been scrapped. The New York Post, citing four sources, reported that FIFA’s plan to raise up to $4.2 billion by selling about a 20% stake in a new unit, valuing it at $20 billion, had collapsed after an open revolt by soccer officials around the world. Reuters could not independently confirm the report. FIFA, world soccer’s governing body,…

The fight is seemingly far from over, though, with Engelmayer noting that SerpApi and Perplexity AI may prove through discovery that Reddit never authorized Google to protect its content in search results. SerpApi may also strengthen its defense if it can prove that all publicly accessible content in Google search results is not protected by the Copyright Act, a footnote in Engelmayer’s opinion suggested. Last week, a DMCA expert with Public Knowledge, Meredith Rose, told Ars that Google and Reddit seemed to be “sort of grasping at whatever tool is available” in the face of the sudden, continuous rise of…

FIFA scraps World Cup sell off plans, Infantino says Source link

A Google spokesperson has expanded on the FAQ and confirmed to Ars that people living in sanctioned nations will not be allowed to go through the verification process. That means they will not be able to effectively distribute software through any channel internationally. Today, someone making an app in, say, Cuba can distribute it freely around the world, as well as at home. Anyone can install it and see their work in action after tapping through a few sideloading alerts. In the coming months, that will no longer be the case. These unverified apps will only be easily installable in…

Concerns have been raised over the level of a debt accumulated by a council.Northumberland County Council owed £898.4m as of the start of the financial year – up from £830.8m in April 2025.At a meeting of the audit and standards committee, Independent councillor Patrick Lambert said he was concerned that the amount of debt was equal to £5,500 per household in the area and council taxpayers may “have to pick up the pieces”.The cabinet member for finance, Nick Oliver, said the council’s spending choices had been affordable and “in the best interests of the residents of Northumberland”.The Conservative administration has…