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Tiger Woods is going to be back on a golf course on Saturday but he doesn't want his fans expecting much out of him at the PNC Championship in Florida.

Farzem Mehrabi, 34, who was found guilty of 24 charges in September, was sentenced to 15 years in prison with a non parole period of 13 years in Perth District Court on Tuesday.

DNA tests reportedly revealed the two seemingly unrelated adults were both conceived using sperm donated by a senior lab technician.

A car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, leaving 'at least two' dead and nearly 70 people injured. 

Ronnie Wood 's wife Sally has revealed the secret behind the couple's happy 12-year marriage.

Five years ago, journalist and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow published a short story that explored the radicalization of individuals denied healthcare coverage. As The Guardian notes in a recent article, the story "might seem eerily similar" to the recent shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO. While it appears that the alleged shooter never read the story, Doctorow said: "I feel like the most important thing about that is that it tells you that this is not a unique insight." Doctorow continued: "that the question that I had is a question other people have had." As an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, it's important to note that Doctorow advocates for systemic reform through collective action rather than violence. Here's an excerpt from the The Guardian's article: In Radicalized, one of four novellas comprising a science fiction novel of the same name, Doctorow charts the journey of a man who joins an online forum for fathers whose partners or children have been denied healthcare coverage by their insurers after his wife is diagnosed with breast cancer and denied coverage for an experimental treatment. Slowly, over the course of the story, the men of the forum become radicalized by their grief and begin plotting -- and executing -- murders of health insurance executives and politicians who vote against universal healthcare. In the wake of the December 4 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which unleashed a wave of outrage at the U.S. health system, Doctorow's novella has been called prescient. When the American Prospect magazine republished the story last week, it wrote: "It is being republished with permission for reasons that will become clear if you read it." But Doctorow doesn't think he was on to something that no one else in the U.S. understood. [...] In one part of the story, a man whose young daughter died after an insurance company refused to pay for brain surgery bombs the insurer's headquarters. "It's not vengeance. I don't have a vengeful bone in my body. Nothing I do will bring Lisa back, so why would I want revenge? This is a public service. There's another dad just like me," he shares in a video message on the forum. "And right now, that dad is talking to someone at Cigna, or Humana, or BlueCross BlueShield, and the person on the phone is telling that dad that his little girl has. To. Die. Someone in that building made the decision to kill my little girl, and everyone else in that building went along with it. Not one of them is innocent, and not one of them is afraid. They're going to be afraid, after this." "Because they must know in their hearts," he goes on. "Them, their lobbyists, the men in Congress who enabled them. They're parents. They know. Anyone who hurt their precious children, they'd hunt that person down like a dog. The only amazing thing about any of this is that no one has done it yet. I'm going to make a prediction right now, that even though I'm the first, I sure as hell will not be the last. There's more to come."

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This is the moment a Saudi doctor who ploughed into a massive crowd at a German Christmas market, killing at least two and injuring nearly 70, was arrested.

It is on sale at the moment, too!

The Prime Minister's decision to appoint the man once dubbed 'The Prince of Darkness' to the coveted role has caused consternation, especially among his old foes in the Labour movement.

For the first time in the SAS's history, two elite operators will appear in court over their alleged involvement in trafficking banned substances.

Christmas revellers have began to soak up the festive atmosphere piling into pubs and clubs in Leeds as the party season gets well and truly underway. 

In the biggest overhaul of local government in more than 50 years, ministers want to scrap hundreds of small local authorities as part of Angela Rayner 's 'devolution revolution'.

Health experts have tried to justify the increases by claiming hospital trusts are under 'huge financial pressure' and cannot afford to maintain car parks free of charge.

They say a picture paints a thousand words and never has it been more true than in the case of the Christmas cards sent out by the Duchess of Sussex and the Princess of Wales.

Ms Siddiq's aunt, Sheikh Hasina - who was until recently prime minister of Bangladesh for more than 20 years - is also being investigated, along with her mother, Sheikh Rehana Siddiq.

These days, the response - or not - to a social media post can be highly revealing about interpersonal relations.

Truly, this was a year that began on a high for killer Oscar Pistorius. January saw the former Olympic hero's release on parole from prison after serving eight-and-a-half years for the murder of his girlfriend.

They fell out of a folder recently as I was decluttering a filing cabinet. And, boy, did these old photographs take me back.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband justifies his dogmatic dash to decarbonise our national electricity grid by claiming it will free us from dependence on the fossil fuels of foreign dictators.

The rise of AI has rendered traditional CAPTCHA tests increasingly ineffective, as bots can now "[solve] these puzzles in milliseconds using artificial intelligence (AI)," reports The Conversation. "How ironic. The tools designed to prove we're human are now obstructing us more than the machines they're supposed to be keeping at bay." The report warns that the imminent arrival of AI agents -- software programs designed to autonomously interact with websites on our behalf -- will further complicate matters. From the report: Developers are continually coming up with new ways to verify humans. Some systems, like Google's ReCaptcha v3 (introduced in 2018), don't ask you to solve puzzles anymore. Instead, they watch how you interact with a website. Do you move your cursor naturally? Do you type like a person? Humans have subtle, imperfect behaviors that bots still struggle to mimic. Not everyone likes ReCaptcha v3 because it raises privacy issues -- plus the web company needs to assess user scores to determine who is a bot, and the bots can beat the system anyway. There are alternatives that use similar logic, such as "slider" puzzles that ask users to move jigsaw pieces around, but these too can be overcome. Some websites are now turning to biometrics to verify humans, such as fingerprint scans or voice recognition, while face ID is also a possibility. Biometrics are harder for bots to fake, but they come with their own problems -- privacy concerns, expensive tech and limited access for some users, say because they can't afford the relevant smartphone or can't speak because of a disability. The imminent arrival of AI agents will add another layer of complexity. It will mean we increasingly want bots to visit sites and do things on our behalf, so web companies will need to start distinguishing between "good" bots and "bad" bots. This area still needs a lot more consideration, but digital authentication certificates are proposed as one possible solution. In sum, Captcha is no longer the simple, reliable tool it once was. AI has forced us to rethink how we verify people online, and it's only going to get more challenging as these systems get smarter. Whatever becomes the next technological standard, it's going to have to be easy to use for humans, but one step ahead of the bad actors. So the next time you find yourself clicking on blurry traffic lights and getting infuriated, remember you're part of a bigger fight. The future of proving humanity is still being written, and the bots won't be giving up any time soon.

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