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Scots unionist voters are being urged by Kemi Badenoch to unite to help stop the SNP 'tearing our country apart'.

Sara Cox is said to be next in line for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show gig after Scott Mills was sacked from the BBC.

Melania Trump made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Wednesday - breaking her silence for the first time since her Epstein comments.

After years of trying to hide his shame, the 32-year-old bravely spoke out about the harrowing ordeal in an Instagram video, posted on Wednesday night.

1960s screen icon Joy Harmon, who wowed fans in Cool Hand Luke, has died aged 87.

In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized auto industry has enough excess capacity to supply the entire U.S. market, while also raising serious cybersecurity concerns given how much data modern connected cars collect. Ars Technica reports: "First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their auto companies," Farley said, while noting that China has the ability to build an additional 21 million vehicles a year on top of the 29 million that are expected to roll off Chinese production lines in 2026. "They have enough capacity in China to cover all the manufacturing, all the vehicle sales in the United States," Farley said. "Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose those exports would be devastating for our country," he continued, before pointing out the cybersecurity worries about Chinese cars. "All the vehicles have 10 cameras. They can collect a lot of data," he said. Farley has praised Chinese EVs like the Xiaomi SU7, even going on podcasts to sing its praises. But he believes Ford's forthcoming affordable Kentucky-built EVs, due to start hitting dealerships next year, have what it takes to be competitive. When asked about new car prices rising an average of 2 percent last year, Farley repeatedly said that Ford had "worked with the administration" so that there's "essentially no big impact" of the Trump tariffs. The CEO justified the rising costs by pointing to the F-150's sales as proof of its value.

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OLIVER HOLT: Arsenal did not play like the heroes of yesteryear. They were tentative again as they squeezed through to the Champions League semi-finals.

The Greens want to spend 2.5 per cent of national income on supporting developing nations by 2030 - more than the UK's current defence budget.

Roxy Horner displayed her bloodied toes after she attempted to shave them for the first time ahead of her wedding to Jack Whitehall.

The TOWIE star broke down in tears after enduring a difficult day in camp.

'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise

People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…

There has been no fiscal statement since Chancellor Rachel Reeves arrived at the Treasury which has failed to mention Liz Truss.

The Chief Inspector of Constabulary has issued a dire warning that the Sentencing Act could even 'create opportunities for further reoffending' by paedophiles who will no longer be locked up.

Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to scan public codebases for vulnerabilities. "Open source security always relied on people to find and fix any problems," said Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal. "Now AI attackers are flaunting that transparency." CEO Bailey Pumfleet added: "Open-source code is basically like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault. And now there are 100x more hackers studying the blueprint." The company says it still supports open source and is releasing a separate Cal.diy version for hobbyists, but doesn't want to risk customer booking data in its commercial product. ZDNet reports: When Cal was founded in 2022, Bailey Pumfleet, the CEO and co-founder, wrote, "Cal.com would be an open-source project [because] limitations of existing scheduling products could only be solved by open source." Since Cal was successful and now claims to be the largest Next.js project, he was on to something. Today, however, Pumfleet tells me that AI programs such as "Claude Opus can scour the code to find vulnerabilities," so the company is moving the project from the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) to a proprietary license to defend the program's security. [...] Cal also quoted Huzaifa Ahmad, CEO of Hex Security, "Open-source applications are 5-10x easier to exploit than closed-source ones. The result, where Cal sits, is a fundamental shift in the software economy. Companies with open code will be forced to risk customer data or close public access to their code." "We are committed to protecting sensitive data," Pumfleet said. "We want to be a scheduling company, not a cybersecurity company." He added, "Cal.com handles sensitive booking data for our users. We won't risk that for our love of open source." While its commercial program is no longer open source, Cal has released Cal.diy. This is a fully open-source version of its platform for hobbyists. The open project will enable experimentation outside the closed application that handles high-stakes data. Pumfleet concluded, "This decision is entirely around the vulnerability that open source introduces. We still firmly love open source, and if the situation were to change, we'd open source again. It's just that right now, we can't risk the customer data."

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Coronation Street and Emmerdale viewers are reportedly bracing for a bleak summer as the 2026 World Cup threatens to wreak havoc on soap schedules.

Shortly before dumping the trash back onto the California home, one of the two people handling the truck appeared to say in Spanish that the homeowners 'haven't paid' for the service.

The actress joined AJ Odudu and Katherine Jenkins at the  M&S Sparks Launch at 180 The Strand in London on Wednesday night.

Dame Joan Collins displayed her age-defying looks as she enjoyed a night out with her husband Percy Gibson at the M&S Sparks loyalty launch on Wednesday. 

Conor McGregor has settled his long-running multi-million-pound legal case with former friend and sparring partner Artem Lobov. 

Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance

Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.…