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Victoria Beckham celebrated her niece Tallulah Isted's 24th birthday as she shared a sweet childhood snap on Instagram on Saturday.

The arrest took place at Westminster Magistrates' Court this morning, and was announced by prosecutor Emma Harraway during the hearing.

Andrew, 66, who is currently living in exile at Wood Farm in Sandringham, was paid a visit by his younger brother Edward, 62, this week.

I have been married for 52 years. My husband had an affair more than 30 years ago. He ended it when I found out. I was heartbroken.

A new military service scheme has been introduced by the German government, which means all men born after 2008 will have to undergo a medical exam.

The Bible records that Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion, a moment that became the foundation of Christianity and has remained fiercely debated for centuries.

The most consequential diplomatic vacancy in the world sits empty - and President Donald Trump is in no hurry to fill it.

The Light Blues produced a commanding performance on a choppy River Thames to thrash their eternal rivals in the 171st men's Boat Race.

Since 2022 Corgis, a breed beloved by Queen Elizabeth II, have raced in a 70-metre dash held in Musselburgh, Scotland.

Lily Allen looked nothing short of sensational in a black leather bullet-bra bustier dress as she kicked off her sold-out US tour, following the release of her explosive new album West End Girl.

Rollerworld bosses have revealed plans to repurpose a vacant Colchester building into a new roller-skating rink.

The pair, both in their 20s, were arrested today on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, driving over the prescribed limit and driving above the specified limit of a controlled drug.

Former RAF pilot John Peters who was captured during the Gulf War in 1991 after his plane was shot down says it is 'a game of cat and mouse'.

Pixie Geldof was all smiles as she enjoyed lunch with friends in Primrose Hill, London on the 12th anniversary of her late sister Peaches' death on Friday.

Along with her sexual harassment claims, Judge Lewis Liman additionally dismissed fat-shaming allegations that she made against her It Ends With Us co-star and director.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said: 'William is our future king. Thank goodness he has a ruthless streak, as this is needed in today's world.'

Both clubs are yet to comment after a footballer was alleged to have 'punched' a spectator

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine. Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in "cognitive surrender" to AI's seemingly authoritative answers. That research also provides some experimental examination of when and why people are willing to outsource their critical thinking to AI, and how factors like time pressure and external incentives can affect that decision. Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time. The researchers say this "demonstrate[s] that people readily incorporate AI-generated outputs into their decision-making processes, often with minimal friction or skepticism." In general, "fluent, confident outputs [are treated] as epistemically authoritative, lowering the threshold for scrutiny and attenuating the meta-cognitive signals that would ordinarily route a response to deliberation," they write. These kinds of effects weren't uniform across all test subjects, though. Those who scored highly on separate measures of so-called fluid IQ were less likely to rely on the AI for help and were more likely to overrule a faulty AI when it was consulted. Those predisposed to see AI as authoritative in a survey, on the other hand, were much more likely to be led astray by faulty AI-provided answers. Despite the results, though, the researchers point out that "cognitive surrender is not inherently irrational." While relying on an LLM that's wrong half the time (as in these experiments) has obvious downsides, a "statistically superior system" could plausibly give better-than-human results in domains such as "probabilistic settings, risk assessment, or extensive data," the researchers suggest. "As reliance increases, performance tracks AI quality," the researchers write, "rising when accurate and falling when faulty, illustrating the promises of superintelligence and exposing a structural vulnerability of cognitive surrender." In other words, letting an AI do your reasoning means your reasoning is only ever going to be as good as that AI system. As always, let the prompter beware.

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Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans has revealed his wife Kerry-Lucy has given birth to their second child.

A singer from Essex is hoping to wow the judges in tonight's Britain's Got talent auditions.