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Hay fever season in the UK is now lasting about two weeks longer than it used to due to climate change. Have you noticed yours getting worse? Have your say in the Morning Mail poll.

Labour should set a 'clear and costed' path to spending 5 per cent of GDP on defence in order to end the 'dependency culture' on Donald Trump's United States, according to a new report.

Patient groups expressed fears that 'out of sight' could become 'out of mind', with elderly people in single rooms left to weaken in their beds with no opportunity to walk or socialise.

Fetch is a firm favourite with dogs - but if you really want to build a strong bond with your pet, it's best to avoid this game.

An article on December 16 about Huw Edwards forming a 'close bond' with Meinir Loader, a retired teacher, said that she had been 'counselling' him and that they had been seen in a car together...

Vet fees rose by nearly two thirds between 2016 and 2023, according to veterinary charity PDSA, forcing pet owners to make difficult decisions.

Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University last year used ChatGPT to help plan the attack. OpenAI says the chatbot is "not responsible for this terrible crime" and only provided factual information available from public sources. NPR reports: The Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, said at a press conference in Tampa on Tuesday that accused gunman Phoenix Ikner consulted ChatGPT for advice before the shooting, including what type of gun to use, what ammunition went with it, and what time to go to campus to encounter more people, according to an initial review of Ikner's chat logs. "My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me, if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder," Uthmeier said. "We cannot have AI bots that are advising people on how to kill others." Uthmeier's office is issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials related to user threats of harm and how it cooperates with and reports crimes to law enforcement, dating back to March 2024. At the press conference, Uthmeier acknowledged the investigation is entering into uncharted territory and is uncertain about whether OpenAI has criminal liability. "We are going to look at who knew what, designed what, or should have done what," he said. "And if it is clear that individuals knew that this type of dangerous behavior might take place, that these types of unfortunate, tragic events might take place, and nevertheless still turned to profit, still allowed this business to operate, then people need to be held accountable." [...] Ikner, 21, is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time. His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19. According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.

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Zoe Kravitz and Harry Styles have sparked engagement rumours as she was seen wearing a diamond on her ring finger this week during her trip to see him in London.

Vogue Williams beamed as she was seen for the first time on Tuesday since announcing she is expecting her fourth child.

Entrepeneur Howard Spooner - one-time co-owner of Prince Harry's favourite nightclub, Public - is enjoying a sizzling romance.

Rachel Reeves was branded 'totally deluded' as she insisted her plan is working despite grim figures showing a quarter of a million under-35s have lost work since Labour took power.

The congresswoman at the heart of disclosing classified secrets about UFOs has sent a cryptic message suggesting a biblical text may carry evidence of alien life.

The 55-year-old Electronic Arts executive VP is survived by his three children - Quentin, 26, Kyle, 22, and Courtney, 19

John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been

OPINION  Apple's pending leadership transition affords the company a rare opportunity to return to its roots and once again serve as a source of inspiration instead of frustration.…

In police video interviews played to a jury, the 15-year-old told how she felt 'gross' while performing a sex act on the alleged child traffickers.

A member of the crew on How To Train Your Dragon 2 has been seriously injured in a gory accident during production.

Damian Lewis and his girlfriend Alison Mosshart looked loved-up as they led the stars at the David Bowie: You're Not Alone exhibition premiere in London on Tuesday night.

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla says it used an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to comb through Firefox's code, and the results were hard to ignore. In Firefox 150, the team fixed 271 vulnerabilities identified during this effort, a number that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Instead of relying only on fuzzing tools or human review, the AI was able to reason through code and surface issues that typically require highly specialized expertise. The bigger implication is less about one release and more about where this is heading. Security has long favored attackers, since they only need to find a single flaw while defenders have to protect everything. If AI can scale vulnerability discovery for defenders, that dynamic could start to shift. It does not mean zero days disappear overnight, but it suggests a future where bugs are found and fixed faster than attackers can weaponize them. "Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it," says Mozilla in a blog post. "We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't." The company concluded: "The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all."

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Cheryl has joined the campaign for the government to raise the minimum age of children accessing social media to 16 years old.

It's that time of year again... the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming - and your eyes are red, itchy and you can't stop sneezing.