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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding rumors have the internet swirling.

University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg

fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. [...] According to a police report, facial recognition software concluded with 93 percent confidence that the suspect was Robert Dillon. [...] The ACLU is now suing the city of Jacksonville Beach, as well as the individual police officers and officials involved in the case. According to the lawsuit (PDF), the responding officer viewed security camera footage of the suspect but didn't take a copy; instead, he took pictures of the screen with his cell phone. "In the photos, the suspect image is low resolution, and the suspect's face is partially shadowed and off-axis," the lawsuit claims. When an investigator queried the facial recognition system, it was with the officer's grainy secondhand cell phone photos. [...] But as the ACLU notes, facial recognition's accuracy "depends significantly on the quality of the probe image. Lower-quality images contain less interpretable facial data, degrading the system's ability to produce a reliable template." At the very least, it requires a much better source image. Besides, no such investigative tool should form the sole basis for an arrest warrant. "If you came to me with a facial recognition hit and that was your probable cause, I would probably kick you out of my office because that's not how it works," Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told local news. (Waters is among those being sued in the ACLU lawsuit, because it was an investigator from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office who ran the grainy photo through facial recognition and advised O'Connell it was a "93% match" to Dillon.)

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The Sudanese Belfast knife attack suspect was a policeman in Khartoum before he travelled to the UK through the asylum 'back door', friends have revealed.

Take That fans Jennie and Hazel Summerbell from Thirsk, North Yorkshire paid £150 to see Take That for the first time in 30 years at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland - but were left feeling deflated.

Tom Trueman, 42, received a complaint from the animal welfare charity after reports that his border collie had been seen 'worrying' sheep.

Anticipation has reached fever pitch, with the 2026 World Cup less than two hours away from kicking off at the iconic Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

At its worst, Lewis Milton's habit saw him rack up debts with dealers; lose jobs and friendships; and suffer devastating health consequences.

It will shock no one more than Katie Price that her ex-husband has extended something of an olive branch amid her ongoing marital woes with current husband Lee Andrews.

It was reported in February that Keys, who has lived in Qatar for 13 years while working as a presenter for beIN Sports, was told by the network that his contract would not be renewed this summer.

The Only Murders in the Building star, who has called Swift one of her closest friends, shared her thoughts on the NBA Finals showdown between the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks.

Conor McGregor 'took powerful, banned drugs' and 'tried to evade' anti-doping officials, it has been claimed. McGregor sustained a horrendous and complicated break to his tibia and fibula.

The parents of convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony have vowed to keep fighting after their fundraiser seeking $1.3 million for 'pre-trial needs' was shut down.

Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Shropshire are among the local authorities urging locals not to attach flags to lampposts or signs without permission.

OpenAI is reportedly considering sharp price cuts for paid access to its AI models as competition with Anthropic intensifies and both companies race for users ahead of potential IPOs. "The company is weighing significant cuts to what it charges for tokens, the unit of measurement artificial-intelligence firms use to bill for their products," the Wall Street Journal said, adding that it was "in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic." CNBC reports: The ChatGPT producer, which did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment, currently charges consumers in tiered subscriptions of $8, $20 and $100 and above each month for access to its flagship GPT-5.5 models. Anthropic conversely charges users $17 each month with an annual subscription to Claude Pro, and $100 and above monthly for a subscription to Claude Max. OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO on Monday, just a week after Anthropic made its own filing.

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Another day, another Windows exploit code

As exclusively revealed by the Daily Mail last week, the Wegovy Pill - the tablet form of the once-weekly Wegovy injection - has been greenlit by health officials.

All residents have been removed from Essex hotel, The Bell Hotel, used to house asylum seekers, with fire safety concerns reported.

All residents have been removed from Essex hotel, The Bell Hotel, used to house asylum seekers, with fire safety concerns reported.