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Kourtney Kardashian appeared downcast Thursday during a solo shopping trip in Los Angeles, amid a brewing feud with sister Khloe Kardashian.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the National Retail Federation challenging a New York state law that requires retailers to tell customers when their personal data are used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing. From a report: U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said the world's largest retail trade group did not plausibly allege that New York's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act violated its members' free speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment. The first-in-the-nation law required retailers to disclose in capital letters when prices were set by algorithms using personal data, or face possible civil fines of $1,000 per violation. Governor Kathy Hochul said charging different prices depending on what people were willing to pay was "opaque," and prevented comparison-shopping.

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Parks Board member Scott Jensen became emotional as he apologized for the 'harmful' event.

More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds

Today's students are using AI for everything from tutoring to therapy to romance. A new study warns the tech may be dulling kids' social skills quietly, like booze on the brain.…

Adrian Thrills reviews the deluxe 30th anniversary edition of (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, which contains five new 'unplugged' tracks, put together from the original studio tapes.

An insider exclusively tells the Daily Mail about Bella's grueling therapy and the huge cost it has come at.

The long-buried remains of a 'fiery preacher' have halted plans to revamp a historic church where the late Queen once worshipped.

Intel today announced its Panther Lake laptop processors, consolidating the confusing split between Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake chips that define its current generation. The new processors use a unified architecture across all models instead of mixing different technologies at different price points. Panther Lake comes in three configurations. An 8-core model targets mainstream ultrabooks. A 16-core version adds PCI Express lanes for gaming laptops and workstations with discrete GPUs. A third 16-core variant with 12 Xe3 graphics cores aims at high-end thin-and-light laptops without dedicated graphics cards. All three chips use the same Cougar Cove P-cores, Darkmont E-cores, and Xe3 GPU architecture. They share an NPU capable of 50 trillion operations per second and identical media encoding capabilities. The main differences are core counts and I/O options rather than fundamental architectural variations. The approach contrasts with Intel's current Core Ultra 200 series. Lunar Lake chips integrated RAM on-package and used the latest Battlemage GPU architecture but were mostly used in high-end thin laptops. Arrow Lake processors offered more flexibility but paired newer CPU cores with older graphics and an NPU that did not meet Microsoft Copilot+ requirements. Intel claims Panther Lake delivers up to 10% better single-threaded performance than Lunar Lake and up to 50% faster multi-threaded performance than both previous generations. The GPU is roughly 50% quicker. Power consumption drops 10% compared to Lunar Lake and 40% versus Arrow Lake. The chips use Intel's 18A manufacturing process for the compute tile. TSMC fabricates the platform controller tile. Intel said systems with Panther Lake processors should ship by the end of 2025.

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Houston, we have a custody battle

Exclusive  The war of words over the possible relocation of Space Shuttle Discovery has ratcheted up, with the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) telling The Register that the orbiter belongs in Houston "whether the woke Smithsonian and its cronies in Congress like it or not."…

The pub was on fire for nearly five hours on Boxing Day last year

Lucas Akins, 36, was jailed in April after causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving. He hit Adrian Daniel, 33, after he pulled out of a T-junction in his £200,000 Mercedes.

Long after hanging up his boots, England World Cup legend Wilson picked up his pens and pencils and started drawing with the same sense of adventure that had defined his football.

The system, based on house prices from 1991, has long been criticised because residents of some wealthy areas pay far less proportionally than those in more deprived ones.

The star, 76, apparently passed out while driving down Pacific Coast Highway on Tuesday, prompting him to collide with a parked car. He was taken to the hospital but has since been released.

The reality TV contestant, 23, was introduced on the popular show as a parish councillor, in Braintree, Essex, a role he admitted was unusual for people his age.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says Internet service providers shouldn't have to list every fee they charge. From a report: Responding to a request from cable and telecom lobby groups, he is proposing to eliminate a rule that requires ISPs to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers. The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs' complaints that listing every fee they created would be too difficult. The rule applies specifically to recurring monthly fees "that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government." ISPs could comply with the rule either by listing the fees or by dropping the fees altogether and, if they choose, raising their overall prices by a corresponding amount. But the latter option wouldn't fit with the strategy of enticing customers with a low advertised price and hitting them with the real price on their monthly bills. The broadband price label rules were created to stop ISPs from advertising misleadingly low prices. This week, Carr scheduled an October 28 vote on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes eliminating several of the broadband-label requirements. One of the rules in line for removal requires ISPs to "itemize state and local passthrough fees that vary by location." The FCC would seek public comment on the plan before finalizing it.

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AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown

GitHub's Copilot Chat, the chatbot meant to help developers code faster, could be helping attackers to steal code instead.…

Katie Price has emerged for the first time with her new dog - despite frequent calls from animal charities to ban the star from owning pets. 

Manchester United have announced the death of their former midfielder Jimmy Nicholson at the age of 82.

A FAMILY run business near Halstead has raised £800 for a charity close to their hearts with a well-attended car show.