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Following an investigation, the family’s life was turned upside down when Remy was diagnosed with an aggressive rhabdoid tumour the day before Christmas Eve.

A striking barn conversion on the edge of Great Dunmow, complete with its own indoor swimming pool and leisure suite, has come onto the market.

From cannoli-and-coffee hits to sunset pizzas, consider this your permission slip to snack first, plan later

A striking barn conversion on the edge of Great Dunmow, complete with its own indoor swimming pool and leisure suite, has come onto the market.

Following an investigation, the family’s life was turned upside down when Remy was diagnosed with an aggressive rhabdoid tumour the day before Christmas Eve.

From cannoli-and-coffee hits to sunset pizzas, consider this your permission slip to snack first, plan later

They have a sun-trap beer garden, a children's play area and annual events

The former Little Mix star, 34, announced she's expecting her third child with her footballer husband, 35, earlier this month.

Josie Gibson has revealed she hired a £500-a-month oxygen chamber to help her heal following her liposuction surgery.

Former Sky News presenter Boulton issued the apology on X on Saturday after making comments about ex-Tory minister Ms Widdecombe, who was found murdered on Thursday.

Across the nation, prices of ice cream are also soaring as people grapple to keep cool, with a single scoop of the confectionery now setting buyers back just shy of a tenner in some areas.

Meta "said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties," reports Reuters, "over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users and misled the public about their safety." Meta put forward the figure in its response to the attorneys general's filings on how penalties should be calculated if the states prevailed at trial. The number, which has not previously been disclosed and is close to Meta's market capitalization of around $1.5 trillion, comes ahead of an August trial in Oakland, California, over the claims brought by California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey against the company. Meta said the amount was unsupported by the evidence. "A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement," the company said in the filing. "The plaintiffs' outlandish calculations have no basis in fact or law," the company said in a statement, adding that it would continue to defend itself against the states' demands. A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement the lawsuit "alleges Meta has prioritized profits over the safety of kids and fueled the mental health crisis we see impacting a generation of American children. The California Department of Justice looks forward to holding Meta fully accountable at trial in August...." Meta has denied the allegations, saying the attorneys general have no evidence it misled consumers about its platforms' alleged addictiveness because "social media addiction" is not an established psychiatric condition, and therefore statements that its platforms were not addictive could not be false... Last month, [U.S. District Judge] Rogers rejected Meta's bid to cancel the trial, saying there remained factual disputes over whether its social media platforms were addictive, whether Meta falsely denied it designed them that way, and whether it "partially" directed the platforms at children. "A further 14 states have brought claims under their own laws, which will be heard at a separate trial in February..." Thanks to Slashdot reader Sparkatron for sharing the article.

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Nothing ruins a sunny afternoon in the garden quite like the buzz of a wasp. But if your outdoor space seems to be crawling with the insects this summer, you may not be helping.

The Three Lions in Trondheim has found itself at the centre of the city's sporting universe after almost three decades screening international football.

The daughter of supermodel Kate Moss, 23, looked incredible as she showed off her toned figure in the tiny two-piece.

Millions of us will gather in pub gardens and living rooms around the land today in the hope that Harry Kane & Co will fire England into a World Cup semi-final.

Their off-white outfits were exquisitely co-ordinated. Equally matching were their smiles of delight as they held hands for all to see.

The All England Club's new Christmas collection has proved an unexpected smash hit after shoppers rushed to snap up its set of three Wimbledon-themed baubles.

"Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!" A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcement... led to me and my wife being surrounded by police, hands on their guns, in a Kohl's parking lot in suburban Minnesota." After dropping off our Amazon returns, we'd just gotten back in the Range Rover and reversed maybe two feet out of the spot when four cop cars came flying out of nowhere and boxed us in... The Plymouth Police Department had been tracking me for days using Flock license plate cameras, waiting for the right moment to strike, because they thought I'd stolen the Range Rover. And the reason I was ID'd as a dangerous car thief was a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in California, creating an edge case within an edge case that Flock's AI camera network was unable to handle... "The plates on this car are stolen," Officer Ganshyn said... This made absolutely no sense. Car companies keep meticulous track of the fleets they loan out to the media. The vehicles all have special manufacturer or dealer plates that are logged every time one enters or exits... The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock's system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle... Flock's AI tech wasn't registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town... I connected the final dot. A lot of vehicles in [Range Rover manufacturer] JLR's media fleet have a New Jersey manufacturer plate with the same alphanumeric structure — 34 ## DTM — and Officer Ganshyn observed that meant it was now a nationwide issue. Anywhere a police department has a partnership with Flock, any other JLR-owned car with the same plate structure is going to get flagged as stolen. In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn. I was just the first one to get nabbed. The only way to stop it would be for the LAPD to correct their initial report and update Flock's system, which Jaguar Land Rover was now racing to make happen following the phone call. Still, he warned me to drive straight home, park the Range Rover, and leave it there. If I were to cross into the neighboring town, I'd probably get flagged again and go through this entire ordeal again with a different set of officers. His parting words were ominous: "You're lucky we're in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would've come at you with guns drawn." Ironically, even the original license plate wasn't stolen either, the article points out. It was reported misplaced during a Los Angeles photo shoot, and "The corporation had to report the plate as lost to law enforcement," according to the police report — and even then, the plate "was reported as NJ 34DTM instead of NJ 3403DTM." The author's conclusion? "Once these systems have you in their crosshairs, there's pretty much only one way it can go... A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down. I mean, they even had a drone flying overhead during the 'bust'... "Thank God our kids weren't with us." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools