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Roughly 1,000 NHS patients a week have a pacemaker implanted to steady their heart rate and protect them against potentially fatal abnormal rhythms.

Six-year-old Harry Warren was badly burned when the meal slid off his tray table into his lap on a flight between Exeter and Faro in Portugal.

Spotify was found publishing AI-generated songs on the official pages of deceased artists like Blaze Foley and Guy Clark -- without permission from their estates or labels. The tracks, flagged for deceptive content and now removed, were uploaded via TikTok's SoundOn distribution platform. "We've flagged the issue to SoundOn, the distributor of the content in question, and it has been removed for violating our Deceptive Content policy," a Spotify spokesperson told 404 Media. From the report: McDonald, who decided to originally upload Foley's music to Spotify in order to share it with more people, told me he never thought that an AI-generated track could appear on Foley's page without his permission. "It's harmful to Blaze's standing that this happened," he said. "It's kind of surprising that Spotify doesn't have a security fix for this type of action, and I think the responsibility is all on Spotify. They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so. And I think they should take that responsibility and do something quickly." McDonald's suggested fix is not allowing any track to appear on an artist's official Spotify page without allowing the page owner to sign off on it first. "Any real Blaze fan would know, I think, pretty instantly, that this is not Blaze or a Blaze recording," he said. "Then the harm is that the people who don't know Blaze go to the site thinking, maybe this is part of Blaze, when clearly it's not. So again, I think Spotify could easily change some practices. I'm not an engineer, but I think it's pretty easy to stop this from happening in the future."

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Tony Blair was warned by Home Secretary David Blunkett to keep private an 'explosive' focus group report which showed the public felt immigration was 'out of control', despite Labour efforts.

Araghchi confirmed Tehran was severely damaged during the recent Israel-Iran war in which Washington bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.

Private remarks from the US President in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq underlined his commitment to 'ridding (the world) of evil-doers', according to the UK's ambassador.

Now left picking up the pieces, wife Noor Haris, 55, a medical doctor from Malaysia living in Newcastle, has spoken for the first time about the terrifying ordeal.

Daniel Perry, a privately educated performer who attended the £16,000-per-term Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, has worked as a dancer since 2013, according to an online biography.

Alice Evans and loan Gruffudd's tumultuous divorce battle has once again ramped up as she demands more money to support their two daughters.

Yesterday, angry locals gathered outside The Bell Hotel in Epping again to protest against its use as asylum seeker accommodation after a man was charged over three 'sexual assaults'.

Hundreds of furious locals gathered outside the Bell Hotel on Thursday after Ethiopian resident Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was charged with sex attacks on schoolgirls.

Kate Kniveton, the former Tory MP for Buxton, suffered a horrifying campaign of violence from Andrew Griffiths before battling a court ruling that he should still have direct contact with their child.

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air grounded all flights Sunday night due to a major IT outage, prompting a system-wide FAA ground stop that lasted until early Monday. Although operations have since resumed, passengers are still facing delays and residual disruptions. Gizmodo reports: The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn't end there. Alaska warned passengers to brace for likely delays throughout the day. [...] The FAA's website listed the stop as applying to all Alaska Airlines aircraft. Gizmodo notes that the incident comes nearly a year after the massive 2024 CrowdStrike crash, which has become known as the largest IT outage in history. "The July 2024 outage brought down an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems running CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor software, disrupting everything from hospitals and airports to broadcast networks." "There's no word yet from Alaska on whether the outage ties into a broader software problem, but the timing, almost exactly a year after the CrowdStrike crash, isn't going unnoticed on social media, with users wondering if the events are related."

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Seann Walsh is reportedly gearing up to go back on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! All Stars version.

More than 400 business leaders have backed a Mail campaign to bring back the VAT refund scheme for foreign visitors, arguing it would encourage tourists to visit the UK.

Raided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumption

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of growing cannabis, often with disastrous results.…

This grotesque teddy bear made of 'skin' sparked a police investigation in California.

Kelly Osbourne has revealed that her famed mother Sharon will be planning her entire wedding as she confessed she 'wants nothing to do with it'. 

The banks of computer equipment needed to advance AI models require huge volumes of water to fuel cooling systems.

Resident doctors - previously known as junior doctors - will strike for five days from Friday in pursuit of a 29 per cent pay rise.