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Gruesome images show the 15-year-old's severely blistered skin. Owner Ryan Sihra, 26, was jailed for 20 weeks after he admitted two charges under Health and Safety at Work legislation.

Grand Theft Auto V topped Twitch viewership charts in 2024 with a staggering 1.4 billion hours watched, according to data released by the streaming platform. The 11-year-old game outperformed all competitors, including League of Legends, which also surpassed the billion-hour mark. Competitive shooters filled the remaining top spots, with Valorant recording 804 million hours, Fortnite exceeding 500 million, and Call of Duty reaching 451 million hours watched. V-Tubers -- streamers using animated avatars instead of showing their faces -- saw viewership increase by 10% year-over-year, accumulating over a billion hours watched collectively.

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The single seater crashed while 'on approached' to the base in Hampton Thursday.

Rob, 58, and Masha Glanville, 61, originally from Canada, got rid of all their possessions and left their abode in 2017 with only what could fit in their backpacks. They have now visited 196 countries.

President Donald Trump is not hiding his desire to run for a third term; in fact, merchandise for his potential run is already for sale.

A Massachusetts mother who fell to her death in front of her three children while hiking the famed 'Purgatory Chasm' has been identified.

Amarildo Huba, 20, had been employed as a gardener in the huge commercial operation in Warrington in Cheshire to pay off his illegal entry into the UK.

French-Argentine nun, Sister Genevieve Jeanningros, was seen in footage from the first day of Francis' lying-in-state approaching a restricted area to pray before the coffin of the late Pontiff.

Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix

While The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.…

Francine Washington told other members of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) she needed to 'get laid'.

Beyond Shabazz, from Tampa, Florida, took matters into her own hands after finding out homeowner Tyler Chambers had threatened to shoot her nine-year-old daughter Sincere.

The family of a 19-year-old college student who burned to death after being trapped inside a Tesla Cybertruck has make shocking accusation against the vehicle's owners.  

Google's search AI is confidently generating explanations for nonexistent idioms, once again revealing fundamental flaws in large language models. Users discovered that entering any made-up phrase plus "meaning" triggers AI Overviews that present fabricated etymologies with unwarranted authority. When queried about phrases like "a loose dog won't surf," Google's system produces detailed, plausible-sounding explanations rather than acknowledging these expressions don't exist. The system occasionally includes reference links, further enhancing the false impression of legitimacy. Computer scientist Ziang Xiao from Johns Hopkins University attributes this behavior to two key LLM characteristics: prediction-based text generation and people-pleasing tendencies. "The prediction of the next word is based on its vast training data," Xiao explained. "However, in many cases, the next coherent word does not lead us to the right answer."

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Stefani, a devout Catholic, revealed how a higher power played a role in her relationship as she chatted with Drew Barrymore on a November episode of her talk show.

Ryan Liam Morgan, from Morecambe, tragically died on Easter Sunday, April 20, after a Peugeot van driven by his father left the carriageway of the M6 and crashed into a tree.

The actor is playing Detective Jack Bergin in 'The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery,' in an audio drama from Audible Originals.

Male college enrollment in Lake County, Ohio plummeted by more than 15% over the last decade -- the steepest decline among any large U.S. county. Nationwide, men now constitute virtually the entirety of the 1.2 million student drop in college attendance between 2011 and 2022. Financial concerns dominate decision-making, with even public in-state education costing approximately $25,000 annually. One high school senior secured a $15/hour collision repair job, Bloomberg reports, calculating he'll earn "upwards of a grand every other week" while avoiding student debt. Social media significantly influences these choices. "You see a lot of influencers saying you don't need to go to college, and when people see that, they listen," explained one student from Perry High School.

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Motorist Ewan Valentine, 36, spent more than £20,000 on a replacement for a cherished car which was taken from his driveway - then discovered he had accidentally bought back his own stolen car.

Leah, who is from the East Midlands, revealed she got a 'free' bathroom renovation, while homeowners would have to splash out £10,000 of their own money.

Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway

US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire, likely without these individuals' knowledge or consent.…