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[Written Question] Trading Standards: Organised Crime
Question by: Cameron Thomas Answering Body: Home Office Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of reported threats against Trading Standards officers made by criminal gangs.
Experts warn of ‘potentially harmful’ beauty products sold on major online marketplaces
Experts warn of ‘potentially harmful’ beauty products sold on major online marketplaces UV nail gel, skin lighteners and Kambo skin cream are three products highlighted as key concerns by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Potentially harmful gel nail polish imported directly from China is being sold on major online platforms, an expert has warned MPs, criticising Amazon for failing to "hold to account or vet" its sellers. Richard Knight, lead...
New powers to shut down ‘dodgy’ vape shops and barbers for a year
New powers to shut down ‘dodgy’ vape shops and barbers for a year The Government plans to bring in secondary legislation to extend the closure orders by the end of the year - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Police are set to gain significantly expanded powers to shut down businesses linked to organised crime, including vape shops, barbers, and nail salons, for up to a year. New legislation, expected later this year, will double the current maximum closure period of six months. The Home...
Pyramid rings seized in their dozens on way to Appleby Horse Fair
99 pyramid rings seized by police on way to Appleby Horse Fair Cumbria Police issued a warning this morning after officers seized dozens of the rings en route to Appleby Horse Fair, after also seizing BB weaponry and ammunition Police are set to destroy several dozen pyramid rings seized in an early morning bust after citing how similar trinkets were "used to cause significant injury to people". Cumbria Police said this morning that officers had seized 99 rings en route to the Appleby Horse...
Squishy dumpling toy safety alert given as UK councils 'seriously concerned'
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Kebab company fined £500,000 for selling meat that 'contained little actual lamb'
Kebab company fined £500,000 for selling meat that 'contained little actual lamb' An Essex-based company has been slapped with a £500,000 fine for mislabelling lamb kebabs sold in restaurants and takeaways across the UK An Essex-based company that supplied kebabs to takeaways and restaurants across the UK has been slapped with a £500,000 fine for selling "lamb" that was mostly "skin and fat". Swansea Crown Court heard that kebabs produced by Kismet Kebabs Ltd and labelled as lamb contained...
Lawyer urges anyone shopping online to use quick Google search
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AI giant Broadcom sheds $300bn in market value as outlook misses sky-high expectations
The American chipmaker Broadcom reported a 48% revenue surge and AI semiconductor sales up 143%, but its refusal to raise its long-term sales target sent shares tumbling more than 12% in after-hours trading. Broadcom's second-quarter results were, by almost any standard measure, exceptional. Revenue climbed 48% year-on-year to a record $22.2 billion (€19.1bn), AI chip sales more than doubled, and adjusted earnings per share rose 54% to $2.44, comfortably beating consensus estimates.
sGPO: Trading Inference FLOPs for Training Efficiency in RLVR
Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) training allocates a fixed rollout budget to every query, without regard for what each query's difficulty means for the current policy. This leads to two symmetric failure modes: easy queries produce near-zero advantage because the policy already solves them, while unsolvable queries produce no signal because the policy never solves them. Both regimes waste training FLOPs without contributing to a...
Global supply chains keep workers poor: Three case studies show how the cycle can be broken
Global supply chains keep workers poor: Three case studies show how the cycle can be broken Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Globally, about 1 in 5 people in jobs live in poverty. A key reason lies in how global supply chains are organized.