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Jennifer Lawrence and her husband Cooke Maroney were spotted taking a stroll. Notably absent from Jennifer was her baby bump, all but confirming that the couple have welcomed their new baby.

More than £55million has already been paid out under the aid programme that aims to improve the environment by persuading countries to move from polluting firewood and charcoal.

An Australian sexologist has lifted the lid on the surprising cultural differences she's noticed while working in China.

Henry County Police rushed to a home in Hampton, Georgia around noon on Wednesday to reports of a shot fired, according to Fox5 .

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) predicts cold snaps this winter and the recent dry spell across the UK will have limited the slug population across the board, leaving gardens a little safer.

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The continuing vogue for minimal classics is a big part of the reason statement coats are piquing the interest of women who normally play it safe.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Wall Street Journal K-12 education reporter Matt Barnum has a heads-up for parents: There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat. Barnum writes: "A high-school senior from New Jersey doesn't want the world to know that she cheated her way through English, math and history classes last year. Yet her experience, which the 17-year-old told The Wall Street Journal with her parent's permission, shows how generative AI has rooted in America's education system, allowing a generation of students to outsource their schoolwork to software with access to the world's knowledge. [...] The New Jersey student told the Journal why she used AI for dozens of assignments last year: Work was boring or difficult. She wanted a better grade. A few times, she procrastinated and ran out of time to complete assignments. The student turned to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, to help spawn ideas and review concepts, which many teachers allow. More often, though, AI completed her work. Gemini solved math homework problems, she said, and aced a take-home test. ChatGPT did calculations for a science lab. It produced a tricky section of a history term paper, which she rewrote to avoid detection. The student was caught only once." Not surprisingly, AI companies play up the idea that AI will radically improve learning, while educators are more skeptical. "This is a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for," said Marc Watkins, assistant director of academic innovation at the University of Mississippi.

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Scott Bessent dismissed concerns about a looming recession - and revealed his plans to ease the current economic tensions and halt what appears to be an inevitable financial crash.

The Vatican has released the first image of Pope Francis since he was admitted to hospital more than a month ago for bronchitis and a fever.

The president claims to be a regular winner of the club championship in Palm Beach, Florida, and 2025 is no different after he was pictured arriving for his round on Sunday morning.

William Shakespeare's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the 'greatest' playwright 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.

Detectives are carrying out house-to-house inquiries and asking businesses near the scene in the town of Totton, Hampshire if they have any CCTV footage from Friday evening.

The NYPD is hunting for an arsonist after a 45-year-old man was brutally set on fire just before 4am Sunday in Times Square. The unnamed victim was left with horrific burns on his face and arms.

Alli was initially given a yellow card for his stoppage-time foul on Ruben Loftus-Cheek , but it was upgraded to a red card after a controversial VAR check.

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Hands on  How much can reinforcement learning - and a bit of extra verification - improve large language models, aka LLMs? Alibaba's Qwen team aims to find out with its latest release, QwQ.…

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz fired back after being asked by Fox News if President Trump is being played by Russian President Vladimir Putin

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America's Vice President "expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline," reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said "There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise.") The article adds that TikTok owner ByteDance "has not publicly confirmed negotiations with any potential U.S. buyer, nor has it confirmed its willingness to sell TikTok to a U.S. bidder." But ByteDance "favors" a deal with Oracle, according to an X.com post on Thursday from tech-publication The Information. And today Politico adds that Oracle "is accelerating talks with the White House on a deal to run TikTok, though significant concerns remain about what role the app's Chinese founders will play in its ongoing U.S. operation, according to three people familiar with the discussions." [Oracle's discussions are happening] amid ongoing warnings from congressional Republicans and other China hawks that any new ownership deal — if it keeps TikTok's underlying technology in Chinese hands — could be only a surface-level fix to the security concerns that led to last year's sweeping bipartisan ban of the app. Key lawmakers, including concerned Republicans, are bringing in Oracle this week to discuss the possible deal and rising national security concerns, according to four people familiar with the meetings. One of the three people familiar with the discussions with Oracle said the deal would essentially require the U.S. government to depend on Oracle to oversee the data of American users and ensure the Chinese government doesn't have a backdoor to it — a promise the person warned would be impossible to keep. "If the Oracle deal moves forward, you still have this [algorithm] controlled by the Chinese...." The data security company HaystackID, which serves as independent security inspectors for TikTok U.S., said in February that it has found no indications of internal or external malicious activity — nor has it identified any protected U.S. user data that has been shared with China.

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The terror group said, without offering evidence, that they attacked the Truman and its warships with ballistic missiles and drones in response to the U.S. attacks.