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When Ozzy Osbourne asked his beloved wife and children to bury him under a crabapple tree in the garden of the family's sprawling Buckinghamshire estate, they immediately agreed.

The professional dancer, 35, was training in north London when she injured her back so badly that crew members were forced to call an ambulance.

The Reform UK leader, 61, took to the stage at the sold-out event in a pastel blue suit to match the political party's logo and was mid-way though a speech when a ruckus broke out in the crowd.

Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney developed an AI-powered bug-hunting agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery, validating flaws with proof-of-concept exploits. The Register reports: Ziyue Wang (Nanjing) and Liyi Zhou (Sydney) have expanded upon prior work dubbed A1, an AI agent that can develop exploits for cryptocurrency smart contracts, with A2, an AI agent capable of vulnerability discovery and validation in Android apps. They describe A2 in a preprint paper titled "Agentic Discovery and Validation of Android App Vulnerabilities." The authors claim that the A2 system achieves 78.3 percent coverage on the Ghera benchmark, surpassing static analyzers like APKHunt (30.0 percent). And they say that, when they used A2 on 169 production APKs, they found "104 true-positive zero-day vulnerabilities," 57 of which were self-validated via automatically generated proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits. One of these included a medium-severity flaw in an Android app with over 10 million installs.

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It follows more anti-social behaviour in the town on Friday night (September 5)

More than 15 million Americans have used weight loss drugs. And in turn, there has been a boom in people seeking out surgery for loose skin.

Amanda Barrie has branded Gordon Ramsay 'a vicious bully' in her new memoir, more than two decades after she 'slapped' him on Hell's Kitchen.

The 55-year-old Spaniard suffered a fractured collarbone in the incident and required treatment from emergency services at the scene before being transferred to hospital for an operation.

Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options

Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors. The sum, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, "will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment," the attorneys for the authors wrote. The settlement also includes a provision that releases Anthropic only for its conduct up the August 25, meaning that new claims could be filed over future conduct, according to the filing. Anthropic also has agreed to destroy the datasets used in its models. The settlement figure amounts to about $3,000 per class work, according to the filing. You can read the terms of Anthropic's copyright settlement here (PDF). A hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 8.

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The co-founder of an iconic 1960s rock band has died aged 78.

Barron Trump (pictured at his father's inauguration in January) reportedly failed to show up for the first week of class at New York University.

Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?

Analysis  OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…

Berkeley Group called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rule out further tax hikes on the housing industry in her upcoming Budget.

At least 55,000 people will need further tests after errors were found in machines used to diagnose the condition.

Plato's writings describe an advanced civilization that built grand temples and massive harbor walls before being swallowed by the sea more than 11,000 years ago.

In an age of ballooning borrowing and debt, collecting due taxes has never been more important. That is the most significant reason why Rayner's carelessness proved so toxic.

July's figures were delayed for two weeks after an error in compiling them was identified, prompting revisions to mistakes in previous months' figures.

British investors looking to diversify are starting to notice that shares in such familiar Japanese businesses as electronics giant Sony have soared by as much as 40 per cent since January.

The four-time Tour de France winner was airlifted to hospital in France on Thursday after the incident, which saw him clip a kerb, hit a road sign at 30mph and resulted in a heart injury.