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If Brigitte Macron believed she had put the poisonous rumours she was born male behind her, she will be bitterly disappointed.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday. The parties did not disclose details of the settlement and defense lawyers did not address the judge, Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. McCormick adjourned the trial just as it was to enter its second day and she congratulated the parties. The plaintiffs' lawyer, Sam Closic, said the agreement just came together quickly. Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who is a defendant in the trial and a Meta director, was scheduled to testify on Thursday. Shareholders of Meta sued Zuckerberg, Andreessen and other former company officials including former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in hopes of holding them liable for billions of dollars in fines and legal costs the company paid in recent years. The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion in 2019 after finding that it failed to comply with a 2012 agreement with the regulator to protect users' data. The shareholders wanted the 11 defendants to use their personal wealth to reimburse the company. The defendants denied the allegations, which they called "extreme claims." "This settlement may bring relief to the parties involved, but it's a missed opportunity for public accountability," said Jason Kint, the head of Digital Content Next, a trade group for content providers. "Facebook has successfully remade the 'Cambridge Analytica' scandal about a few bad actors rather than an unraveling of its entire business model of surveillance capitalism and the reciprocal, unbridled sharing of personal data. That reckoning is now left unresolved."

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Hollywood lothario Pete Davidson shocked his fans this week with news that he's going to be a first-time father.

The White House clarified Thursday that President Donald Trump did not support the idea of appointing a special prosecutor to review files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Meteorologists have warned that a surge in tropical moisture could set off dangerous flash floods all the way from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley, impacting residents in parts of 11 states.

The 84-year-old actor had long gray hair and a beard as he was dressed casually in a pale light mint green shirt with one pocket that was not buttoned all the way up with no jacket.

He says he grew up dreaming of having his own family

At around 5am a loud bang awoke local residents who quickly realised a yacht on the Elbe river, between the Queen Edith Bridge and the Customs Bridge, had caught fire.

Fiona Phillips' husband Martin Frizell has opened up about the toll his wife's undiagnosed Alzheimer's took on their marriage, revealing they were 'living separate lives' before her devastating diagnosis. 

Alesha Dixon and partner Azuka Ononye reunited back in April in an attempt to save their relationship following a brief 'split'.

Dr. Sara Reardon, a pelvic floor physical therapist, revealed what you shouldn't be doing when you pee as she issued a stark warning about how urinating incorrectly can cause health issues.

Several people are feared to have been injured in the horrific smash on the A396 in Somerset at around 3pm this afternoon.

Vanessa Feltz appeared to make a subtle dig at her ex Ben Ofoedu live on her Channel 5 show on Thursday.

Apart from helping you improve bone health and immunity, this high-quality supplement- priced at 20 cents per capsule or $17.99 for 90 - may also protect your brain from decline and dementia.

So that's why ministers wanted to hush it up: secret database the Government lost contained details of more than 100 British operatives as well as the 18,800 Afghans, defence sources revealed

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has said that the majority of his company's new code is written by AI, with "close to 100%" of engineers using AI code editors. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Tenev estimated around 50% of new code at the trading platform is AI-generated. Tenev said the 50% figure is imprecise due to advanced "agentic" code editors that have made it difficult to distinguish human-written from AI-generated code. The company has progressed from GitHub Copilot to Cursor and now Windsurf, where "nearly all of the code is written by AI," he said. Tenev estimated only a "minority" of new code at Robinhood is written by humans.

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A Swedish couple's dreamy Italian getaway to Baveno took an unexpected turn this month when they discovered their hotel balcony view wasn't quite what it seemed. 

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, is alleged to have put his hand on the schoolgirl's leg, asked her for a kiss and suggested they make 'Jamaican babies' in Epping over two days last week.

He has been sent to prison

Talks between health secretary Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association ended without a breakthrough last night but both sides described them as 'constructive'.