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In 1996, during the shoot of the Oscars-sweeping classic, a still unidentified culprit slipped PCP into the seafood chowder being served to the cast and crew.

Last month, Katie sparked concern when it was revealed she'd purchased the male pomsky with Lee, despite coming under fire for her treatment of animals in the past.

Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China's World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation," he said. Bloomberg reports: His presence at the gathering, attended by scores of tech and government leaders, conveys a potent signal of China's ambitions to dominate a technological sphere with the potential to revolutionize industry and economies -- an effort that's shot to the top of the nation's agenda. Chinese models are winning over companies worldwide, with their share of US firms' AI usage nearing a record 60% on the popular marketplace OpenRouter. Behind the rhetoric, Beijing is grappling with the balance between openness and national security as models grow more capable. Chinese officials recently discussed with companies including Alibaba -- developer of the popular Qwen models -- how to mitigate the security risks posed by their increasingly powerful models, people familiar with the matter said. The talks are early, with no enforcement planned, but restricting foreign access to top models was among the options raised, the people said. Reuters previously reported that Beijing was weighing curbs on overseas access. Earlier today, the Beijing-based AI company "Moonshot" released a massive new model that reset the AI race overnight, immediately vaulting into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests.

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FIFA revealed on Friday that it has manufactured 'bespoke championship rings', 30 of which will be presented to either the Spanish or Argentinian squads on Sunday night.

Nice guys finish last, but ugly guys? According to Gen Z, they finish first.

Paul Heyfron, 53, died on Sunday after being punched in a Sunshine shop on Brook Walk on June 30.

AWS says a billing software bug caused some customers to see wildly inflated estimated charges, including reports of accounts showing bills in the billions or even trillions of dollars. The Register reports: An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was "reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data." As of writing, the issue is still unresolved despite AWS trying several different things to get it fixed. The company apparently identified the root cause within an hour and a half of beginning its investigation, only describing it as "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem." AWS followed up by pausing estimated bill updates, saying customers would continue to see the inflated figures already displayed, but that those estimates would not increase further. "The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges," AWS explained, noting that customers don't need to take any action, like, we imagine, flooding the help portal with tickets telling them what they already know, for instance. "Once the issue has been mitigated, we expect full resolution to take multiple hours as we work through recomputing the estimated billing data," AWS added. After we first published this article, Amazon updated the issue page to indicate that it had identified the root cause and mitigated the underlying issue. The company says that it's begun backfilling data in the Cost Management Console to correct billing numbers, and that all customers should see corrected amounts by Saturday, July 18 at noon pacific time.

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The Home Office carried out three operations at different warehouses as part of an effort to crack down on illegal working in the delivery sector.

Todd Blanche met Ms Giuffre's brother and sister-in-law - Sky and Amanda Roberts - as well as other survivors of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday.

Catherine Pégard said the tapestry looked to be in a 'wonderful state', adding: 'We can see that all the precautions have been taken… I believe that it will reassure all the sceptics'.

The team and manager Thomas Tuchel have received backlash for their approach after going ahead against Argentina, with some defensive moves resulting in them conceding twice.

Brandon Booth, 42, who is employed by contractor GEO Group, was detained in Aurora, just east of Denver, at about 7.30pm on Thursday.

Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke that is choking US cities.

A major 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexico coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami threat for around one million people.

England fans are still recovering from the gut-wrenching defeat by Argentina on Thursday, which saw Thomas Tuchel's side take the lead before collapsing and ultimately losing 2-1.

An attorney for the family of missing nuclear lab worker Melissa Casias said shocking new evidence has been found that calls the entire police investigation into question.

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody alum also clarified he 'never tackled the guy, but everybody thinks I did and I'm not correcting them. I want people to think I did, because it's cool.'

Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, and if anti-AI absolutists have a problem with that, they can "fork it" or "walk away." An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." The statement came amid a lengthy thread arguing about the use of Sashiko, an "agentic Linux kernel code review system" that its creators claim can, in tests, independently find 53.6 percent of the bugs that would end up being fixed by human coders in later commits. But the tool can also waste maintainers' time by sending "false positive" reports of bugs that don't exist, at a rate Sashiko's maintainers estimate is "well within [the] 20% range." In discussing whether maintainers should be subjected to a flood of these kinds of automated, AI-powered bug report emails (true or false), one poster cited the Software Freedom Conservancy's recent statement that the open source community "should support, not just tolerate, those who outright reject LLM-gen-AI systems" and that "every FOSS contributor deserves self-determination regarding LLM-gen-AI." In the face of that statement, Torvalds said that he rejects those who demand that their open source projects not accept any LLM-generated code or revisions. "We're not forcing anybody to use [LLM tools], but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it," Torvalds said. Torvalds said his position on this is a pragmatic one that's "based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools." And when it comes to utility, Torvalds said that "AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that 'clearly' even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it." [...] While Torvalds acknowledged that "AI isn't perfect," he urged detractors to compare the output of these tools to the performance of human code maintainers. "Anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time," Torvalds wrote. "Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either."

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A health emergency has erupted in the northern US as multiple cities see their air quality become the worst in the world due to the Canadian wildfires raging out of control.

The 1975 singer, 37, and the model, 28, announced their engagement in 2024 after a whirlwind nine-month romance.