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An anonymous reader shares a report: Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404 Media reporting has shown was used for creating nonconsensual pornography, until Civitai banned them due to pressure from payment processors. Users downloaded the models from Civitai and reuploaded them to Hugging Face as part of a concerted community effort to archive the models after Civitai announced in May it will ban them. In that announcement, Civitai said it will give the people who originally uploaded them "a short period of time" before they were removed. Civitai users began organizing an archiving effort on Discord earlier in May after Civitai indicated it had to make content policy changes due to pressure from payment processors, and the effort kicked into high gear when Civitai announced the new "real people" model policy.

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New official statistics show the number of foreign nationals receiving the benefit in the UK has risen from 883,470 in 2022 to 1.26million last month.

The never Nvidia networking party just got another option

Chip vendors like AMD may be closing the gap with Nvidia on GPU FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and HBM capacity, but without a high-speed interconnect and switch, like NVLink and NVSwitch, their ability to scale that performance remains limited.…

Brooklyn Beckham has given up on his plan to create his own liquor line - after being handed a headache by the firm behind German booze brand Becks.

The road was closed while specialist officers investigated

The Hollywood star, 55, led the celebrities who flocked to watch legendary singer Stevie, 75, headline at the London festival, which took place over two weeks.

The man, named only as Thomas, says he overstayed his 90-day tourist visa by only three days when a brush with police saw him taken into ICE custody.

The highly-anticipated TV adaptation of J.K. Rowling 's book series was first confirmed in April by the show's producers.

Authorities believe influencers have defrauded the state of around €300 million through organised tax evasion.

Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, have been found guilty at Mold Crown Court of the murder of their two-year-old grandson Ethan Ives-Griffiths.

The plane crash tragically killed four people onboard

Today after 23 months of being gagged, the Daily Mail can reveal the scheme to bring in thousands of Afghans, and how Parliament has been deliberately kept oblivious.

Emergency services were called to the scene on the B1137 between Terling Hall Road and Bury Lane shortly after 2pm.

Emergency services were called to the scene on the B1137 between Terling Hall Road and Bury Lane shortly after 2pm.

The AA has unveiled the winners of its Bed and Breakfast Awards for 2025, recognising the very best places to stay across England, Scotland and Wales.

The tech giant has added another six products to its official 'vintage' list - most of them not even a decade after their release.

A new survey of 2,000 Gen Z and millennials reveals the exact age you're considered 'old' - and it's much younger than you think.

Candy Crush-maker King is cutting approximately 200 employees, with many positions filled by AI tools the departing workers helped develop, according to multiple sources who spoke anonymously to industry publication MobileGamer.biz. The layoffs heavily target level designers, user research staff, and UX and narrative writers across King's London, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Berlin studios. The London-based Farm Heroes Saga team faces cuts of roughly 50 people, including key leadership positions. "Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they've spent months building tools to craft levels quicker," one staffer said. "Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams."

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This is the moment a van driver ploughed into a cyclist, leaving him with a ruptured spine, broken ribs and internal bleeding, before claiming that he thought 'he hit a sheep'.

Dignity in Dying campaigner Emma Bray spent her final days in a hospice this summer after voluntarily deciding to stop eating and drinking.