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Who is Missy? Anna Nicole Smith's ex-love calls her 'manipulative monster' for faking childhood abuse in Netflix's ‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know'
Melissa Byrum aka Missy revealed that Anna Nicole Smith suffered greatly due to drug addiction but her quest to earn fame led her to invent abusive childhood
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Who is Nija Townsend Jr? 'Dedicated' Navy sailor ‘who always showed up for work’ goes missing in San Diego
Nija Townsend Jr's mother Courtney Frazier said she was worried as her son was a responsible and dedicated sailor who had never missed his duty before
2023-10-08 00:55

Americans' credit card debt hits a record $1 trillion
Americans' credit card debt levels have just notched a new, but undesirable, milestone: For the first time ever, they've surpassed $1 trillion, according to data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
2023-08-08 23:11

Sunak Says Patience Is ‘Wearing Thin’ Over Blocked Rwanda Plan
Rishi Sunak said his “patience is wearing thin” over the UK’s inability to push through its flagship Rwanda
2023-12-01 18:00

Kenya’s Ruto, AfDB’s Adesina Say Tackling Climate Depends on Africa Debt Fix
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2023-10-08 18:05

Four takeaways from Real Madrid's thrilling Champions League win over Napoli
Four takeaways and analysis of Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Napoli in the Champions League, inspired by another superb performance from Jude Bellingham.
2023-10-04 22:15

Reddit goes dark: Why are thousands of the world’s most popular forums shutting down?
Most of Reddit has now gone “dark” in protest against the management of the online forum. The controversy began when Reddit announced that it would start charging for access to its API, the technology that allows other developers access to its data. Some of those developers immediately announced that the pricing was so high that it would make their apps unsustainable – and one, widely-respected client Apollo, has since said it will have to shut down. That set off outrage across Reddit. While that initially focused on the decision to start charging for access to its data, it has since grown, with many users suggesting that they are generally dissatisfied with the way the site is being managed. What has happened to Reddit? On June 12, many of the world’s biggest subreddits went “dark”. That meant setting their privacy settings to private, so that only anyone who is already a member can see them. For anyone who tries to visit those forums and is not a member – which includes most of those on Reddit, including many of its biggest – they will see a message that it has gone private and is therefore not available. In a widely circulated message explaining the outage, users explained that it was intended as a protest. Some will return on 14 June, after 48 hours of darkness, it says, but others might opt to never come back again if the problem is not addressed. That is because “many moderators aren’t able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app” the message reads. “This isn’t something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.” Why did Reddit change its policy? All of this began because Reddit announced that it would start charging for access to its API. Many of its users – including Christian Selig, the developer of the Apollo app that is at the centre of much of the controversy – say that this is reasonable. Reddit’s data is used by sites such as Google and to train artificial intelligence systems, for instance. And at the moment, Reddit is not paid for that usage, despite the fact that it costs the company (which is not profitable) to host that data. But it was the pricing and the way it was rolled out that caused such controversy. Mr Selig said that the pricing would cost his app $2 million per month, which is much more than storing the user data is thought to cost Reddit, and he and others were given only 30 days to respond. Which Reddit forums are part of the blackout? Almost all of them. The latest numbers suggest that 7259, out of 7806, of the site’s subreddits are currently unavailable to the public. Of the seven subreddits that have more than 30 million subscribers, all but one – r/pics – have been made private. A full, live list that shows both the subreddits that are down and the overall impact of the protest can be found on this tracking page. How can this happen? Reddit is unusual among social networks in that it depends heavily on its users, who administer the forums and moderate the content that appear on them. That saves it a lot of money – Meta, for instance, spends vast sums on ensuring that problematic content does not appear on Facebook and Instagram – and means that those users feel as if they should be listened to when it comes to such issues. It also means that they are able to take decisions that the management of Reddit might not like them to, including turning those subreddits private. Some 30,000 moderators are thought to be running the subreddits that are involved in the protest, and working together has given them considerable power to grind the site to a halt. Read More Reddit down amid major protest Popular Reddit app Apollo shuts down as site’s users revolt against it Millions of Reddit users face a blackout over pricing revolt Elon Musk refuses to pay Twitter’s Google bill, leaving site in peril Apple’s headset is not the most important thing it announced this week Mark Zuckerberg reveals what he thinks about Apple’s headset – and it’s not good
2023-06-13 01:41

UK Energy Bills Are Increasing For The Poorest Households
The UK’s energy price cap drops from Sunday but almost half of the lowest income households will see
2023-10-01 14:00

Germany presents long-awaited strategy on China as a rival and partner
The German government has presented a long-awaited strategy for relations with China that points to a “systemic rivalry” with the Asian power and a need to reduce risks of economic dependency, but highlights Berlin’s desire to work with Beijing on global challenges such as climate change
2023-07-13 18:45
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