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More horrific still, this catastrophe is currently unavoidable. 'The Big One,' he says, 'is not optional.'

On Friday, the bodies of the social media star and her teenage daughter, Miana Sophya Santos, were found in separate rooms in their home.

An anonymous reader shares a report: An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month. New York Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen wrote in a decision granting the plaintiff's attorneys' request for sanctions that the defendant's counsel, Michael Fourte's law offices, not only submitted AI-hallucinated citations and quotations in the summary judgment brief that led to the filing of the plaintiff's motion for sanctions, but also included "multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations" in the process of opposing the motion. "In other words," the judge wrote, "counsel relied upon unvetted AI -- in his telling, via inadequately supervised colleagues -- to defend his use of unvetted AI." The case itself centers on a dispute between family members and a defaulted loan. The details of the case involve a fairly run-of-the-mill domestic money beef, but Fourte's office allegedly using AI that generated fake citations, and then inserting nonexistent citations into the opposition brief, has become the bigger story.

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Simply Red icon Mick Hucknall launched into an extraordinary rant at a fan at his own gig at the OVO Arena Wembley on Saturday during their 40th anniversary tour.

The Daily Mail has confirmed that the Grammy-winning star, best known for hits including Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel), passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The group informed mediators it will begin the handover at 10pm local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, an official involved in the operation told Reuters.

Jennifer Cahill, 34, chose to deliver Agnes Lily at home after feeling 'unsupported' in hospital when she had her son three years earlier.

Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?

OpenAI has mitigated ChatGPT behavior that might exacerbate users' mental health issues, claims CEO Sam Altman, so the natural next step is to make ChatGPT act more human again - complete with the ability to generate "erotica for verified adults."…

Donald Trump unleashed fire and then death upon a boat carrying drugs off the shores of Venezuela.

Indonesia's film industry has started using generative AI tools to produce films at a fraction of Hollywood budgets. The country's filmmakers are deploying ChatGPT for scriptwriting, Midjourney for image generation, and Runway for video storyboarding. VFX artist Amilio Garcia Leonard told Rest of World that AI has reduced his draft editing time by 70%. The Indonesian Film Producer Association supports the technology. Indonesian films typically cost 10 billion rupiah ($602,500), less than 1% of major Hollywood productions. The sector employed about 40,000 people in 2020 and generated over $400 million in box office sales in 2023. Jobs for storyboarders, VFX artists, and voice actors are disappearing.

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The court heard that the girl was burnt, beaten and locked up by three generations of her own family during her horrific ordeal.

Codrin Dura, 27, Leonard Paun, 23, Stefan Ciuraru, 22, Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, and Klaudio Aleksiu, 28, have all been found guilty of committing serious sex offences against a total of six teenagers.

It's brought 7 new jobs to the area

Keir Starmer insisted he was 'proud' of the 'contribution' Britain had made as he made a statement to MPs.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization projects record production of global cereal crops in the 2025-26 farming season. The forecast covers wheat, corn and rice, and comes as the global stocks-to-use ratio stands around 30.6% -- the world is producing nearly a third more of these foundational crops than it currently uses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported in August that American farmers would harvest a record corn crop at record yield per acre. The FAO Food Price Index has risen slightly this year but remains nearly 20% below its peak during the early months of the war in Ukraine. Average calories available per person worldwide have climbed from roughly 2,100 to 2,200 kilocalories daily in the early nineteen-sixties to just under 3,000 kilocalories daily by 2022. Cereal yields have roughly tripled since 1961. Yet the World Bank estimates around 2.6 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet, and current famines in Gaza and Sudan stem from political failures rather than crop failures.

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You can't always get what you want

Most corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there’s always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT’s need for simplicity, finance’s requirement to keep costs under control, and users’ desire to work with their preferred tools.…

Holly Willoughby reached out to her old friend Fearne Cotton on Tuesday - after her paedophile ex-boyfriend Ian Watkins was killed in jail. 

The EastEnders star, 42, shares her eldest daughter Eliza with Adam who pled guilty to assault and criminal damage for attacking Natalie in 2011.

Labour was accused of clearing a legal path for Gerry Adams and hundreds of IRA prisoners to sue for wrongful imprisonment on Tuesday.

The woman, who has not been identified, appeared to be taken from the front door of a Wichita home on Sunday at about 2am. Police have appealed for any information.