autotldr

This is the best summary I could come up with:

For many voters in the south-east of England, tackling the issue of sewage in the sea and waterways will play a vital role in how they vote at the general election.Emma Muddle, a sea swimmer from Hastings, said the “relentless and quite often unlawful” dumping of sewage into the sea was at the front of her mind heading into the election.And Sarah Broadbent, from the Rye & District Chamber of Commerce, said most of the businesses in the area relied on the visitor economy – made harder by ongoing sewage issues.And while Southern Water said it was "working hard" to make improvements in the region, all the political parties have laid out their plans for East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent and Surrey.

From sewage to shortages, the region has been plagued by issues in recent years.Fellow sea swimmer Deirdra Whelan was one of about 32,500 Southern Water customers in Hastings and St Leonards who had their supplies disrupted at the start of May after a pipe burst.

The next Labour government will put the water companies under special measures and strengthen regulation to force them to clean up their act,” a Labour spokesperson said.“We will give the regulator tough new powers to make law-breaking water bosses face criminal charges and ban the payment of their multi-million pound bonuses until they clean up their toxic filth.”

"Hastings' beautiful beaches, rivers and streams have been infested with filthy sewage after years of Conservative government neglect,” a spokesman said.

"We will not turn a blind eye as the Conservative Party has, and actually hold water companies to account instead of letting them line the pockets of their shareholders.”

“The picture in Hastings is actually one of real improvement as the Pelham Beach rating has gone from sufficient in 2019 to being good consistently over the last three years.“Our goal is for our collaborative approach to enhance this further.”

The original article contains 1,041 words, the summary contains 315 words. Saved 70%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), which was responsible for purchasing and delivering Covid PPE, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.The Labour Party described the contract as a "staggering waste" while the Liberal Democrats said it was a "colossal misuse of public funds".

Full Support Healthcare agreed a £1.78bn deal in April 2020 to deliver face masks, respirators, eye protection and aprons - the largest Covid PPE order from a single supplier, accounting for 13% of the government’s total spend.Before the pandemic, the company, which was already a specialist manufacturer of PPE, had 25 employees and annual profits of £800,000, external.Any profits since the contract was fulfilled are not known because in 2021 the co-directors, Sarah Stoute, 50, and her husband Richard, 53, based the business offshore in Jersey for privacy reasons.They and the company continue to pay all UK tax.

"It is staggering waste and I think we need a full and frank account as to how so much public money was thrown down the toilet," he said.The BBC contacted the DHSC and the Conservative Party several times with no reply to set out our findings and ask a number of questions.In an earlier statement the government said it had "acted swiftly to procure PPE at the height of the pandemic, competing in an overheated global market where demand massively outstripped supply".

Sarah Stoute, a former nurse, set up Full Support Healthcare in 2001 in Wellingborough and her husband became a director three years later.As experienced providers of PPE during previous pandemics, they moved quickly to boost supply as Coronavirus took hold in late 2019.Under an existing arrangement with the NHS, their company won two DHSC purchase orders, including one for £1.78bn, for face masks and other items.Speaking at the time, external, Mrs Stoute said volumes of their product, shipped from China, increased from “eight sea freight containers every month to 800”.In a post on X, then known as Twitter, in October 2020 she wrote that her “team of 25 people” supplied “one fifth of the PPE national stockpile”.She added: “I’ve paid a few people’s mortgages off this last few weeks.”Afterwards, Mrs Stoute and her husband bought a £30m seafront villa in Barbados; a yacht; a £6m house in the south of England and an international equestrian centre in Bedfordshire.Giving evidence to the Public Accounts Committee in 2021, she said they "risked everything as a company and went into mass production with no security at all".

Lawyers representing the Stoutes said: “Full Support Healthcare stock arrived quickly by summer 2020, much earlier than most and in larger quantities.“It had either a two- or three-year shelf life.

Full Support was in no way responsible for the stockpile.The company’s lawyers said the Stoutes were only made aware of the volume of unused stock when the BBC told them.They said it was a matter for the government who had not contacted them at any stage about it.Four years since the first national lockdown in England and Wales, the DHSC continues to store and dispose of billions of items of excess PPE at a cost of millions of pounds a week.

The original article contains 1,212 words, the summary contains 522 words. Saved 57%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WikiLeaks announced Mr Assange's whereabouts shortly after court documents showed he was due to plead guilty this week to violating US espionage law, in a deal that would allow him to return home to Australia.

WikiLeaks posted a statement on social media platform X saying Mr Assange was free and had left the UK on Monday morning local time.

Mr Assange's father, John Shipton, told ABC Victorian Mornings his son had spent 15 of his most productive years "in some form of incarceration or another".

"We are aware Australian citizen Mr Julian Assange has legal proceedings scheduled in the United States," a spokesperson said.

"Prime Minister Albanese has been clear — Mr Assange's case has dragged on for too long and there is nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration."

Many press freedom advocates have argued that criminally charging Mr Assange represents a threat to free speech.

The original article contains 843 words, the summary contains 148 words. Saved 82%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report already found that infant and newborn mortality rates in the U.S. rose in 2022 for the first time since 2001.

“This shows what probably was expected before the Dobbs decision, that there would be downstream unintended consequences by banning abortions in early pregnancy,” said Dr. Mary Rosser, director of Integrated Women’s Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who was not involved with the study.

Rosser added that such bans disproportionately affect marginalized populations including low-income families and people of color, and that further research is needed to better understand these effects.

The researchers of the new study also highlighted the ripple effect that a newborn or infant’s death can have on a family, including trauma and medical bills.

“Behind these numbers are people,” said Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.

The original article contains 588 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 69%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

"Civil rights guardrails are essential for consumer trust in a system that allows companies to collect and use personal data without consent," the legal group said in a statement.

When first proposed in April by US House Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the APRA was sold as a way to give all Americans meaningful data privacy protections, something many have sought for decades.

The lobbying organization in April said it wanted to avoid the creation of "a federal floor" that might "encourage states to pass more restrictive privacy laws."

"Moving forward without baseline civil rights protections would create blind spots and permit discriminatory data practices to remain undetected and unchallenged," said Ruiz.

"This was the one comprehensive privacy bill that had a real chance of passing and now Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal to appease right wing extremists," Greer opined to The Register.

By removing crucial civil rights language, lawmakers have turned it into a bill that effectively endorses privacy violations and discriminatory uses of personal data.

The original article contains 755 words, the summary contains 179 words. Saved 76%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with an original story taking place before the events of the main game: “Set out under the command of renowned General Edmund Clayde with the goal of laying the foundations of a new world.

A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with an original story taking place before the events of the main game:

“Set out under the command of renowned General Edmund Clayde with the goal of laying the foundations of a new world.

A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with its own self-contained story: “After crash-landing in the territory of a once powerful kingdom, you must navigate your way through the various factions fighting over what remains.

There's also a new in-game guide you can bring up any time, and a classic feature returns with formation speed limiting.

For people who enjoy online play there's several big improvements there too including a new UI for joining games, there's advanced port mapping so you can now use PCP, NAT-PMP, and UPnP to improve the ability to successfully host games.

The original article contains 345 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 50%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Aside from winning their two target seats, Plaid Cymru’s immediate challenge is to keep their profile high.Their leader Rhun ap Iorwerth - and the party's views and policies - have had a lot of coverage over the past fortnight across Welsh and UK media.But this is the time when voters really start to make up their minds, and the prevailing narrative is of a potential Conservative wipe-out and a potentially enormous Labour majority.So how does Plaid Cymru continue to attract attention - and votes?

Part of their pitch is to wavering Labour voters, who might feel let down.

And they have opted for discussion rather than timetables for independence, aware that it makes some potential waverers uneasy.Mr ap Iorwerth set that stall out early when he took over as party leader last summer.He has also recently confirmed that all the recommendations from a damning report into an alleged culture of bullying, misogyny and harassment within Plaid had been implemented, and Plaid's campaign has so far avoided any damaging revelations which have beset some of the other parties.

Winning their two target seats at this election - Caerfyrddin and Ynys Môn - will nonetheless be tough, even with the profile and the clean-up operation.Their bigger goal is the Senedd election in 2026, when Mr ap Iorwerth will be aiming to become Plaid's first ever first minister of Wales - especially with polls suggesting Labour might be in trouble.But if you thought this election campaign was long, two years is an age away in politics.Bethan Rhys Roberts will be joined by a live studio audience with questions for Mr ap Iorwerth as part of the Question Time Leaders’ series on BBC One Wales at 19:00 BST on Monday.

Five takeaways from the Wales election debatePoll tracker: How do parties compare?Compare all the election manifestos and policiesGeneral election 2024: All BBC stories and analysisWhat photo ID will you need to bring to vote?

The original article contains 320 words, the summary contains 320 words. Saved 0%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

And that, dear reader, means On Politics will now start showing up in your inbox every weekday evening, as my colleagues and I try to make sense of this weird and weighty election.

Some years, presidential debates come with wild anticipation — a moment for people on either side of the political divide to rally ahead of a battle for the future of the country.

But Biden’s history of successful debates has not stopped his supporters from worrying, especially when Republicans are doing everything they can — including deceptively editing videos — to stoke doubts about his fitness because of his age.

Seventy-five years ago, a group of businessmen worried that communism was going to take over this country started a small charity called America’s Future.

As Phyllis Schlafly, a leading right-wing anti-feminist activist, became more of an influence on the organization starting in the 1970s, its material called for the review of school curriculums to make sure children were being taught about traditional roles of the sexes.

And it became aligned with the next phase in far-right conspiratorial ideology: the false notion that there’s a shadowy cabal of high-level officials involved in exploiting and trafficking children.

The original article contains 1,335 words, the summary contains 197 words. Saved 85%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday.

The guilty plea, which must be approved by a judge, brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S. government’s years-long pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among many press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing.

Prosecutors have agreed to a sentence of the five years Assange has already spent in a high-security British prison while fighting to avoid extradition to the U.S. to face charges, a process that has played out in a series of hearings in London.

The Justice Department’s indictment unsealed in 2019 accused Assange of encouraging and helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published in 2010.

He was never charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, but the inquiry laid bare in stark detail the role that the hacking operation played in interfering in that year’s election on behalf of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Justice Department officials mulled charges for Assange following the documents’ 2010 publication, but were unsure a case would hold up in court and were concerned it could be hard to justify prosecuting him for acts similar to those of a conventional journalist.

The original article contains 921 words, the summary contains 268 words. Saved 71%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Victoria will trial pill testing of illicit drugs this summer, Premier Jacinta Allan has announced, saying it was "a common sense way to save lives".

The premier made the announcement on Monday evening across social media – but provided no details of how the trial would work.

"I think the Victorian government is proceeding very carefully here and it's important that we acknowledge that it's a big step forward," Professor Komesaroff said.

And we know that by having access to this service where they can simply be aware of the risks and dosage they're taking, it can save their life," Mr Puglielli said.

"It's great to hear that pill testing is happening, now we need to make sure it's rolled out widely and quickly by the Summer festival period in order to keep young people safe."

The decision follows Labor's U-turn on supporting a second safe drug injecting room in the CBD, despite expert advice backing that plan to reduce fatal heroin overdoses.

The original article contains 550 words, the summary contains 163 words. Saved 70%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.

The proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver has been the hold-out on Ubuntu in sticking to the GNOME X.Org session out-of-the-box rather than Wayland as has been the default for the past several releases when using other GPUs/drivers.

But for Ubuntu 24.10, the plan is to cross that threshold for NVIDIA now that their official driver has much better Wayland support and has matured into great shape.

Particularly with the upcoming NVIDIA R555 driver reaching stable very soon, the Wayland support is in great shape with features like explicit sync ready to use.

Canonical's Daniel van Vugt of the Ubuntu desktop team made the change last week for the GDM session manager to drop their NVIDIA-prefers-X11 patches so that NVIDIA Linux users will find Wayland being used by default.

Updated Revert-data-Disable-GDM-on-hybrid-graphics-laptops-with-v.patch to ensure Nvidia 5xx drivers always get Wayland as the default unless there's a stronger reason why it won't work (like modeset has been disabled on the kernel command line).

The original article contains 268 words, the summary contains 187 words. Saved 30%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A massive factory fire that began after several lithium batteries exploded has killed at least 22 people in South Korea.The blaze broke out on Monday morning at the Aricell plant in Hwaseong city, about 45km (28 miles) south of the capital Seoul.

Local television footage showed large smoke clouds and small explosions going off as firefighters sought to put out the fire.

A part of the roof had collapsed.South Korea is a leading producer of lithium batteries, which are used in many items from electric vehicles to laptops.Fire official Kim Jin-young said 18 Chinese, one Laotian and two South Korean workers had been confirmed as among the dead.

"Most of the bodies are badly burned so it will take some time to identify each one," Mr Kim said, according to news agency AFP.A further eight people were injured - two seriously - out of the 100 who had been working when the fire broke out.The Aricell factory housed an estimated 35,000 battery cells on its second floor, where the batteries were inspected and packaged, with more stored elsewhere.Mr Kim said the fire began when a series of battery cells exploded, though it remains unclear what triggered the initial explosions.He explained it was difficult to enter the site initially "due to fears of additional explosions".It is not yet clear what started the blaze.

"Battery materials such as nickel are easily flammable," he told Reuters news agency.

"As a lithium fire can react intensely with water, firefighters had to use dry sand to extinguish the blaze, which took several hours to get under control.However, there is still a risk that after the fire is extinguished, it could reignite without warning due to the chemical reaction.

The original article contains 364 words, the summary contains 283 words. Saved 22%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!