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Calls for an inquiry into the dropping of a China spy case grew yesterday amid fears it has made Britain a 'soft target' for enemy states.

Special prize for the laziest, least imaginative title of the year goes to the hospital drama Doc.

When on the segment Jenna & Friends the blonde - who used to be a fashion model - was asked if she gets attention for her thirst trap posts on Instagram.

The promoter and the fighter were gathered at a press event in London ahead of next month's rematch between Eubank Jr and Conor Benn on what has been a hugely sad week for boxing.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: The CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit have been called to Congress to testify about the "radicalization of online forum users" on those platforms, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced Wednesday. "Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence," said chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, in a statement. "To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit must appear before the Oversight Committee and explain what actions they will take to ensure their platforms are not exploited for nefarious purposes." Letters from the House Oversight Committee have been sent to Humam Sakhnini, CEO of Discord; Gabe Newell, president of Steam maker Valve; Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch; and Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, requesting their testimony on Oct. 8. "The hearing will examine radicalization of online forum users, including incidents of open incitement to commit violent politically motivated acts," Comer said in a letter to each CEO. [...] Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit execs will have the chance to deliver five-minute opening statements prior to answering questions posed by members of the committee during October's testimony.

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She rose to fame on Love Island in 2022, winning over viewers with her charm and becoming one of the show's standout stars.

A new study has surprised NASA scientists, who fear the sun is ramping up and could impact our planet over the next year.

Tyler Robinson allegedly confessed to his live-in partner Lance Twiggs , 22, after shooting the conservative commentator dead at Utah Valley University last week.

Scotland's centuries-old not proven verdict is to be abolished following an historic vote by MSPs.

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?

Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

Two Xpeng AeroHT flying cars collided during a rehearsal for the Changchun Air Show in China, with one vehicle catching fire upon landing. While the company reported no serious injuries, CNN reported one person was injured in the crash. The BBC reports: Footage on Chinese social media site Weibo appeared to show a flaming vehicle on the ground which was being attended to by fire engines. One vehicle "sustained fuselage damage and caught fire upon landing," Xpeng AeroHT said in a statement to CNN. "All personnel at the scene are safe, and local authorities have completed on-site emergency measures in an orderly manner," it added. The electric flying cars take off and land vertically, and the company is hoping to sell them for around $300,000 each. In January, Xpeng claimed to have around 3,000 orders for the vehicle. [...] It has said it wants to lead the world in the "low-altitude economy."

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Eagle-eyed royal fans may have noticed that Melania Trump, 55, or President Donald Trump, 79, did not bow before King Charles or Queen Camilla during the start of their State Visit in Windsor on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump subtly reminded the British people of the Western values that made their country great.

The First Lady slipped into a different ensemble for the special dinner, hosted at Windsor Castle.

Bannon does not believe Robinson's text messages tell the full picture of the horrifying events surrounding Kirk's murder.

Broadcasters in The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain and Slovenia have said they are considering pulling out of the annual music extravaganza, which is set to be hosted in Vienna, Austria in 2026.

News of a probe will likely spook Kimmel's bosses at ABC.

Cara Delevingne said she ''got her power back' after quitting drugs and booze, and sobriety has clearly given her bank balance a boost. 

House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software

AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers. …

Microsoft is now prioritizing Anthropic's Claude 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 in Visual Studio Code's auto model feature, signaling a quiet but clear shift in preference. The Verge reports: "Based on internal benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 4 is our recommended model for GitHub Copilot," said Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, in an internal email in June. While that guidance was issued ahead of the GPT-5 release, I understand Microsoft's model guidance hasn't changed. Microsoft is also making "significant investments" in training its own AI models. "We're also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster. So today, MAI-1-preview was only trained on 15,000 H100s, a tiny cluster in the grand scheme of things," said Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, in an employee-only town hall last week. Microsoft is also reportedly planning to use Anthropic's AI models for some features in its Microsoft 365 apps soon. The Information reports that the Microsoft 365 Copilot will be "partly powered by Anthropic models," after Microsoft found that some of these models outperformed OpenAI in Excel and PowerPoint.

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