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Ben Affleck got a hefty boost to his reported $150 million fortune when Netflix acquired his AI start-up company InterPositive last week.

President Donald Trump praised First Lady Melania Trump as a movie star at a Women's History Month event at the White House on Thursday afternoon, celebrating her recent documentary.

Amanda Meadowcroft, 53, and Bradley Couzins, 34, worked as a pair in a bid to bring substances they believed to be worth almost £300,000 into the UK.

Barry Keoghan, 33, sparked fresh speculation that he has received tweakments when he attended the premiere for The Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man in New York earlier this month.

The US military is cracking down on catching two mysterious thieves who stole four drones from a secret Army base amid fears of an Iranian drone attack on US soil.

Security experts have issued a stark warning over how Iran can launch devastating attacks on American soil and revealed the exact locations of likely targets.

Jesse Mulley, now 36 years old, used to tip the scales at 550lb. But today he weighs 230lb after following one simple dieting rule.

Prison officer Brian Stack was shot in the back of the head by a member of the IRA while attending a boxing event in Dublin in 1983. He was paralysed and died 18 months later.

Apple's new MacBook Neo is "easier to repair than other modern MacBooks," according to Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham. It introduces a more repairable internal design that makes components like the battery and keyboard easier and cheaper to replace. An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from the report: Replacements for pretty much any component in the Neo are simpler and involve fewer steps and tools than in the M5 MacBook Air. That includes the battery, which in the MacBook Air is attached to the chassis with multiple screws and adhesive strips but which in the Neo comes out relatively easily after you get some shielding and flex cables out of the way. But the most significant change in the Neo is that the keyboard is its own separate component. For essentially all modern MacBooks, going back at least as far as the late-2000s unibody aluminum MacBook designs, the keyboard has been integrated into the top part of the laptop case and is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to replace independently. [...] Apple hasn't yet listed MacBook Neo components in its parts store, but based on the repair prices it has announced, Neo components should cost quite a bit less than those for higher-end MacBooks. An out-of-warranty battery replacement for the Neo will cost $149, down from $199 for current Airs and $229 for current MacBook Pros; fixing accidental screen or external enclosure damage will cost AppleCare+ subscribers $49 for a Neo, down from $99 for other MacBooks.

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Wood, who was born in Connecticut but had been living in Chile for nearly 13 years, had been at a beach in Algarrobo on Monday evening.

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered

American parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do.…

So that's what put the kibosh on the al Quds hate march through London in support of Iran this weekend? Er, not as such.

International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries

Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide and carry out digital fraud, costing businesses and consumers millions.…

Maria Solecki's daughter Maya (pictured) suffered severe damage to her kidneys in January 2024.

A new study has revealed that fast food restaurants outnumber supermarkets by a staggering 534 per cent across the UK.

The funny man was one of the last people to see the director before his life came to an abrupt halt inside his Los Angeles mansion on December 14.

Zara and Mike Tindall appeared as loved up as ever while attending the third day of the Cheltenham Festival today.

Perplexity AI has introduced a "Personal Computer" agent system that can run on a local machine such as a Mac mini, giving its AI agents access to a user's files and applications to automate tasks. According to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the heavy AI processing runs on Perplexity's "secure servers" but sensitive actions will require user approval. There will also be activity logs and a kill switch available to help ease concerns. AppleInsider reports: Perplexity Computer is, effectively, an AI that is a go-between for other AIs. Instead of issuing specific instructions to multiple AIs, you provide the general outcome of the task to Perplexity Computer. Perplexity Computer then breaks down the task into subtasks, which it then provides to sub-agents to do the actual work. In effect, you're talking to a project manager, who then delegates the task to other AIs, before combining the results and presenting them to you. The managing AI has a lot more freedom in how it orders its subordinates than users may think. While one may create documents while another gathers data, the manager may go as far as to order the creation of software to complete its tasks. Personal Computer is an extension of this, in that it is a locally run app that ideally runs on a Mac mini. The app gives always-on, local access to the Mac's files and apps, which Perplexity Computer and the Comet Assistant can use and alter if required.

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Solma Ahmed, 65, was elected to the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) last month in the same vote that saw Jeremy Corbyn become its de facto leader.