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Lulu, whose marriage to Gibb officially ended in 1975 without the couple conceiving a child, told Theroux she had 'just found out' and had irrefutable proof that the musician fathered a son.

The Marty Supreme actor, 30, was 'chopped up and fried' at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood during Sunday's 98th Academy Awards.

Rather than a figure like Dr. Strangelove out of the 1964 black comedy film, Thiel has said the Antichrist was 'far more likely' to resemble Greta Thunberg.

A new mortgage now costs almost £800 a year more than before the outbreak of the Iran war two weeks ago.

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'

GTC  HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…

Officers ordered immigration authorities to detain the woman at Denpasar Airport, where she was due to depart Indonesia for Thailand.

Kyle Orland writes via Ars Technica: Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launched on 2018's RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine-learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates in games. With yesterday's tease of the upcoming DLSS 5, though, Nvidia has crossed a line from mere upscaling into complete lighting and texture overhauls influenced by "generative AI." The result is a bland, uncanny gloss that has received an instant and overwhelmingly negative reaction from large swaths of gamers and the industry at large. While previous DLSS releases rendered upscaled frames or created entirely new ones to smooth out gaps, Nvidia calls DLSS 5 -- which it plans to launch in Autumn -- "a real-time neural rendering model" that can "deliver a new level of photoreal computer graphics previously only achieved in Hollywood visual effects." Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said explicitly that the technology melds "generative AI" with "handcrafted rendering" for "a dramatic leap in visual realism while preserving the control artists need for creative expression." Unlike existing generative video models, which Nvidia notes are "difficult to precisely control and often lack predictability," DLSS 5 uses a game's internal color and motion vectors "to infuse the scene with photoreal lighting and materials that are anchored to source 3D content and consistent from frame to frame." That underlying game data helps the system "understand complex scene semantics such as characters, hair, fabric and translucent skin, along with environmental lighting conditions like front-lit, back-lit or overcast," the company says. Nvidia's announcement video and detailed Digital Foundry breakdown can be found at their respective links. "Reactions have compared the effect to air-brushed pornography, 'yassified, looks-maxed freaks,' or those uncanny, unavoidable Evony ads," writes Orland. "Others have noted how DLSS 5 seems to mangle the intended art direction by dampening shadows in favor of a homogenized look." Thomas Was Alone developer Mike Bithell said the technology seems designed "for when you absolutely, positively, don't want any art direction in your gaming experience." Gunfire Games Senior Concept Artist Jeff Talbot added that "in every shot the art direction was taken away for the senseless addition of 'details.' Each DLSS 5 shot looked worse and had less character than the original. This is just a garbage AI Filter." DLSS 5's "AI dogshit is actually depressing," said New Blood Interactive founder and CEO Dave Oshry, adding that future generations "won't even know this looks 'bad' or 'wrong' because to them it'll be normal."

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US troops are firing back at explosive claims that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blew millions on luxury 'personal' meals, providing exclusive evidence to the Daily Mail.

Footage showed the culprits caught red-handed stealing the vehicles and even staring at a security camera as they made their escape.

Wallace was dismissed by the broadcasting giant last July following an investigation into 83 historical allegations of workplace misconduct.

The Israeli prime minister appeared on camera to quash rumours he was dead or seriously wounded.

The Radio 1 Breakfast DJ, 40, is cycling 1000km in eight days on a tandem bicycle, and was surprised by the Prince Of Wales on Tuesday.

Well-educated mother and respected professional Judith* said she found herself trapped by the man selling her body with no control over her finances or her living situation.

Sell your soul to the orb

Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…

Donald Trump branded Keir Starmer 'disappointing' in his latest free-form press conference in the Oval Office.

Police searching for missing woman in Brightlingsea have secured new CCTV footage from the harbour as investigations continue.

Police searching for missing woman in Brightlingsea have secured new CCTV footage from the harbour as investigations continue.

A strange pyramid-shaped formation on Mars has fueled speculation that an advanced, Earth-like civilization may have once existed on the Red Planet.

Former This Morning presenter Willoughby was among the first to share a message after meeting friends for a boozy pub lunch at  legendary London watering hole the Devonshire Arms.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: A battle of insults and threats has broken out between the tech world and Wall Street. What's got everyone so worked up? The same thing that starts most fights: business software. A series of social-media posts went viral in recent days with claims that AI has created a worthy -- and way cheaper -- alternative to the Bloomberg terminal, a computer system that is like oxygen to professional investors. Now "Bloomberg is cooked," some posters argued as they heralded the arrival of a newly released AI tool from startup Perplexity. [...] The finance bros who worship at the altar of Bloomberg have declared war on the tech evangelists who have put all their faith in AI. To suggest that the terminal is replaceable is "laughable," said Jason Lemire, who jumped into the conversation on LinkedIn. (Ironically or not, his post also included an AI-generated image of churchgoers praying to the Bloomberg terminal). "It seems quite obvious to me that those propagating that post are either just looking for easy engagement and/or have never worked in a serious financial institution," he wrote. [...] Morgan Linton, the co-founder and CTO of AI startup Bold Metrics and an avid Perplexity Computer user, said it's rare for a single AI prompt to generate anything close to what Bloomberg does. That said, he added that tools like this can lay "a really good foundation for a financial application. And that really has not been possible before." Others aren't so sure. Michael Terry, an institutional investment manager who used the terminal for more than 30 years, said he used a prompt circulating online to try to vibe code a Bloomberg replica on Anthropic's Claude. "It was laughable at best, horrific at worst," he said. Shevelenko acknowledged there are some aspects of the terminal that can't be replicated with vibe coding, including some of Bloomberg's proprietary data inputs. The live chat network, which includes 350,000 financial professionals in 184 countries, would also be hard to re-create, as well as the terminal's data security, reliability and robust support system. "I love Bloomberg. And I know most people that use Bloomberg are very, very loyal and extremely happy," said Lemire. His message to the techies? "There's nothing that you can vibe code in a weekend or even like over the course of a year that's going to come anywhere close."

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