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This seldom-seen actress looked unrecognizable when she was pictured out in Los Angeles this week in photos obtained by the Daily Mail.

ICANN has opened applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012. The Register reports: ICANN hasn't offered new gTLDs since 2012, but on Thursday opened applications for new domains in 27 scripts. A 439-page Applicant Guidebook explains the process. The Register suggests paying attention to the string evaluation FAQ, which explains which gTLDs are valid, and those ICANN will likely frown upon. An FAQ describes this round of applications as giving "businesses, communities, and others the opportunity to apply for new top-level domains tailored to their community, culture, language, business, and customers." "A TLD can be a branding opportunity for a business, but the commercial opportunities are endless, allowing businesses in countries, entire sectors, or niche markets to develop a unique label on the Internet." ICANN also sees this round as a chance to "create a more multilingual Internet for the billions of people who speak and write in different languages and scripts and are yet to come online." If you fancy a gTLD, you'll need to pay a $227,000 application fee by August 12th ... and then wait, possibly until 2030 when this process ends.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals why now was the best time to announce he's handing over the reins to his successor, John Ternus.

A Texas resident said the light is 'shining even brighter than the entire city,' adding that it is 'polluting the sky so badly you cannot even see the stars we sing about shining big and bright.'

The legal battle stretches back to 2021, when Brown was sued by Maria's sister Patricia Avila, who worked with Maria as his cleaning lady.

The Dune actress sparked rumours she had said 'I do' to the Spider-Man actor, 29, by flashing a big sparkly engagement ring alongside a gold wedding band this week.

ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Given the dour headlines as of late concerning the diminishing amounts of entry-level software development jobs, coupled with predictions of applications entirely AI-generated, one could be forgiven for assuming that software developers may soon be an endangered species. However, the data tells a different story. James Bessen, professor at Boston University, has been pushing back for some time against the talk of AI and automation displacing jobs on a mass scale, and lately has been arguing that the roles of software developers are nowhere near extinction. AI is certainly not killing the software developer, Bessen said in a recent analysis (PDF). AI is taking over software development tasks and boosting productivity and output, but that is not translating into lost jobs, he argued. Instead, the types of software skills sought by companies are changing. "Surprisingly, however, after three years of AI use, software developer jobs have continued to grow robustly, reaching record levels of employment -- 2.5 million in February," Bessen said in the report, citing data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of software developers in the US has grown by over 400,000, or 19%, since ChatGPT was introduced in 2022. At that time, the employed software developer population was just under 2.1 million. [...] The productivity uptick developers are seeing may ultimately be a boost to their professional opportunities, however. "An important and possibly disruptive change is happening, but the common view misunderstands what is going on," Bessen pointed out in his report. "Careful case studies find that AI improves the productivity of software developers -- that is, the software produced per developer -- by 30%, 50%, or more. And the rate of productivity improvement in software development is improving." Tellingly, since 2022, when ChatGPT was introduced, developer productivity has increased noticeably, Bessen continued. "From 2003 to 2022, developer productivity grew at 3.9% per year; but from 2022 through 2025, it grew at 6% per year." [...] A coming flood of new software products, now more likely to be enhanced by AI, will continue to create jobs for developers, Bessen predicted. "Thus, mass unemployment of software developers seems unlikely to happen soon." This doesn't mean the job descriptions of developers or other computer occupations will remain static. AI is shifting and re-inventing these roles, Bessen added.

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Richard Simmons' live-in housekeeper Teresa Reveles, who had worked for him for 35 years and was among the last people to see him alive, discovered his body in 2024.

Mr Polanski has been under pressure for more than 24 hours for sharing a social media post accusing officers of heavy-handedness during the incident on Wednesday.

Kane Farragher had taken a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and ketamine when he got behind the wheel of a high-powered BMW which was flagged as a 'vehicle of interest' by police.

Georgie Frost, Helen Crane and Simon Lambert dig into the Renters' Rights Act, plus what next for interest rates, the colossal 45p tax grab and where's still cheap for a holiday.

No one says 'I do' with the intention of breaking up - but unfortunately for many couples, the end comes far sooner than they anticipate.

The President told reporters on the White House lawn he is not sure 'we're going to get a deal' before adding: 'They [Iran] all want to make a deal but they're all messed up.'

Arsenal defender Gabriel should have received a red card for headbutting Erling Haaland, a Premier League panel has concluded.

The former glamour model and reality TV star, Sofia Hellqvist, 41, seemingly attempted to shun attention with a wide-brimmed blue hat, which guarded much of her face from the camera's view.

In the hilltop villages of Tuscany, where I was recently, the bells are tolling for far more funerals than weddings.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to "critical industry partners." But new research from the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) suggests that OpenAI's GPT-5.5, which launched publicly last week, reached "a similar level of performance on our cyber evaluations" as Mythos Preview, which the group evaluated last month. Since 2023, the AISI has run a variety of frontier AI models through 95 different Capture the Flag challenges designed to test capabilities on cybersecurity tasks, such as reverse engineering, web exploitation, and cryptography. On the highest-level "Expert" tasks, GPT-5.5 passed an average of 71.4 percent, slightly higher than the 68.6 percent achieved by Mythos Preview (though within the margin of error). In one particularly difficult task that involved building a disassembler to decode a Rust binary, AISI notes that "GPT-5.5 solved the challenge in 10 minutes and 22 seconds with no human assistance at a cost of $1.73" in API calls. GPT-5.5 also matched Mythos Preview in its progress on "The Last Ones" (TLO), an AISI test range set up to simulate a 32-step data extraction attack on a corporate network. GPT-5.5 succeeded in 3 of 10 attempts on TLO, compared to 2 of 10 for Mythos Preview -- no previous model had ever succeeded at the test even once. But GPT-5.5 still fails at AISI's more difficult "Cooling Tower" simulation of an attempted disruption of the control software for a power plant, as every previously tested AI model also has. The new results for GPT-5.5 suggest that, when it comes to cybersecurity risk, Mythos Preview was likely not "a breakthrough specific to one model" but rather "a byproduct of more general improvements in long-horizon autonomy, reasoning, and coding," AISI writes.

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The Patterdale Terrier mix had passed away at the age of 13, having cemented himself as a key part of BBC 's Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.

What was expected to be the latest hit from ITV's golden goose franchise, I'm A Celebrity, has instead turned into a multifaceted legal and reputational nightmare after clashes between contestants.

The Real Greek is to shut nine restaurants with 151 job losses after the hospitality chain fell into administration.