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Scottish actor Alexander 'Sandy' Morton, who is best known for playing Golly Mackenzie in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen, has died aged 81.

On day three of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Australian tour, the couple spoke to students in Melbourne about the dangers of social media and its impact on mental health.

IPv6 usage briefly reached 50% across Google services for the first time, marking a major milestone for a protocol created in 1998 to solve IPv4's address shortage. Tom's Hardware reports: [...] IPv6 was dismissed early on as a headache-inducing, hard-to-implement complication that would hardly ever gain any traction -- despite offering 2^128 possible numbers, solving all network number assignments in one fell swoop. That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28, 50% of worldwide users accessed the service over an IPv6 connection, marking a historic first. APNIC's stats show that the protocol is in use by 43% of the world, with Asia and the Americas inching ever close to those 50%. Cloudflare, meanwhile, shows that 40% of traffic is done in IPv6, an actually impressive figure if you consider it's measuring actual transferred packets rather than just counting addresses. The tried-and-true IPv4 and its well-known 123.456.789.123 format from 1980 offers ~4.3 billion addresses in theory, and around 3.7 billion in practice. That always sounded like a lot, but nobody could have predicted just how rapid the explosion of the Internet would be. IANA, the entity controlling the North-American IPv4 space, ran out of IPv4 addresses around 2011, while its European equivalent RIPE NCC could spare no more four-octet addresses nearly seven years ago in 2019. Asian, African, and Latin-American IP registries equally ran out during that timeframe.

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Milkies says its 'passionate' about crafting 'unforgettable' dining experiences

Ellie Bamber's transformation into iconic supermodel Kate Moss was displayed in full in the first trailer for the Moss & Freud biopic.

Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit

Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.…

This breakfast superfood topped with berries and walnuts, lowers LDL cholesterol and plaque buildup in the arteries, directly reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke as people age.

Pope Leo XIV made the unusually forceful remarks during a trip to Cameroon on Thursday after the US President launched a tirade against him over his repeated criticism of the war in Iran .

Emergency services rushed to the scene

Katie Price's husband Lee Andrews has addressed rumours of marital strife in his latest slew of social media ramblings. 

The 58-year-old actor established himself as a sitcom icon playing the charmingly dimwitted lothario Joey Tribbiani on 10 seasons of Friends from 1994 to 2004.

Victoria Beckham kickstarted her birthday celebrations as she enjoyed a lavish dinner with her daughter Harper at Casadonna in Miami on Wednesday.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is "less broadly capable" than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, "which Anthropic rolled out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing earlier this month," reports CNBC. From the report: The launch of Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday comes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 in February. Anthropic said the new model outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 across many use cases, including industry benchmarks for agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use and agentic computer use, according to a release. Anthropic said it experimented with efforts to "differentially reduce" Claude Opus 4.7's cyber capabilities during training. The company encouraged security professionals who are interested in using the model for "legitimate cybersecurity purposes" to apply through a formal verification program. Claude Opus 4.7 is available across all of Anthropic's Claude products, its application programming interface and through cloud providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The new model is the same price as Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic said.

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Locals are calling for the pathway to be re-opened as soon as possible

Vladimir Putin is planning a Pearl Harbor-style attack against satellites in space that could cause pandemonium across the world, a US military chief has warned. 

Firefighters arrived to a number of outbuildings alight

In the 1980s she was on the hit series Dynasty with Joan Collins and he was a big star thanks to the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest that featured Jane Wyman.

Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery

Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?…

An investigation is being led by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit

The 69-year-old actor told how he fell into a deep depression after suffering 'short-term memory loss' and difficulties with hand-eye co-ordination after the crash.