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Jordan had a rollercoaster ride of a life, not just within racing, and the former team owner's entrepreneurial instincts paired with his character brought him a whole host of success.

The “genteel” market town of Saffron Walden tops the list of 72 locations chosen by The Sunday Times. Here's why it got the crown for 2025.

The “genteel” market town of Saffron Walden tops the list of 72 locations chosen by The Sunday Times. Here's why it got the crown for 2025.

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI attempted to purchase hundreds of millions of arrest records including social security numbers, mugshots, and even email addresses to incorporate into its product, 404 Media reports. From the report: For years, Clearview AI has collected billions of photos from social media websites including Facebook, LinkedIn and others and sold access to its facial recognition tool to law enforcement. The collection and sale of user-generated photos by a private surveillance company to police without that person's knowledge or consent sparked international outcry when it was first revealed by the New York Times in 2020. New documents obtained by 404 Media reveal that Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase "690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos" from all 50 states from an intelligence firm. The contract further describes the records as including current and former home addresses, dates of birth, arrest photos, social security and cell phone numbers, and email addresses. Clearview attempted to purchase this data from Investigative Consultant, Inc. (ICI) which billed itself as an intelligence company with access to tens of thousands of databases and the ability to create unique data streams for its clients. The contract was signed in mid-2019, at a time when Clearview AI was quietly collecting billions of photos off the internet and was relatively unknown at the time.

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They are all unique and loved for different reasons

David Norris, 48, has always denied being involved in the 1993 murder of the teenager. But as he makes a bid for freedom ahead of a parole hearing, a ruling released revealed this has changed.

Today we have a whole batch of category errors, picked out from the rash of submissions and a few that have been festering on the shelf. Just for fun, I threw in an ironic off-by-some meta-error. See if you can spot it.

Adam R. "I'm looking for hotel rooms for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Most hotels haven't opened up reservations yet, except for ridiculously overprice hospitality packages. This search query found NaN facilities available, which equates to one very expensive apartment. I guess one is not a number now?"

 

Intrepid traveler BJH had a tough time at the Intercontinental. I almost feel sympathy. Almost. "I stare at nulls at home all the time so it made me feel comfortable to see them at the hotel when traveling. And what is that 'INTERCONTINENTAL W...' at the top? I may never know!"

 

Hoping to find out, BJ clicked through the mystery menu and discovered... this. But even worse, "There was no exit: Clicking Exit did nothing and neither did any of the buttons on the remote. Since I'd received more entertainment than usual from a hotel screen I just turned everything off."

 

Striking out for some streaming entertainment Dmitry NoLastName was silently stymied by this double-decker from Frontier.com.

 

No streaming needed for Barry M. who can get a full dose of fun from those legacy broadcast channels! Whatever did they do before null null undefined null? "Hey, want to watch TV tonight? NaN."

 

Hah! "That's MISTER Null, to you," declared an anonymous contributor.

 

And finally, another entirely different anonymous contributor clarified that there are apparently NaN cellphone towers in Switzerland. Personally, I'm intrigued by the existence of that one little crumb of English on an otherwise entirely German page.

 

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Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied

Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…

Freedman is representing the It Ends with Us director and leading man in the drawn-out litigation with Lively surrounding the stormy production of their summer hit.

Qubit awkward, you might say

GTC  Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…

It sets out how they will tackle homelessness in the district

The majority of surgeries in this area have already adopted the "total triage" system.

Upcoming closures from March 21 to 23 on the A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

Upcoming closures from March 21 to 23 on the A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

London's biggest terminals have been forced to shut down after a fire at a substation less than two miles away caused a major power outage.

The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …

Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

More than 70 firefighters and ten fire engines rushed to the scene, on Nestles Avenue in Hayes, to tackle the blaze this evening.

We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue

IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff at the corp's Cloud Classic operation.…

President Trump signed a long-expected executive action on Thursday calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities." From a report: "We're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs," Trump said. "And this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it's a common sense thing to do, and it's going to work, absolutely." The move has been expected since early February, when the White House revealed its intentions but withheld the action until after McMahon's Senate confirmation. It now arrives more than a week after the Trump administration has already begun sweeping layoffs at the Education Department. According to the administration's own numbers, Trump inherited a department with 4,133 employees. Nearly 600 workers have since chosen to leave, by resigning or retiring. And last week, 1,300 workers were told they would lose their jobs as part of a reduction in force. That leaves 2,183 staff at the department -- roughly half the size it was just a few weeks ago. The order instructs McMahon to act "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law," an acknowledgement that the department and its signature responsibilities were created by Congress and cannot legally be ended without congressional approval. That would almost certainly require 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

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The sculpture of the popular children's character, unveiled last October in Newbury, Berkshire, was damaged before the broken pieces were stolen earlier this month.