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North, who has embarked on her own music career, ignited a social media firestorm last year by revealing she had acquired a dermal finger piercing.

joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor --powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model -- deleted the company's entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24. [...] "This isn't a story about one bad agent or one bad API [Application Programming Interfaces]," Crane wrote in an X post. "It's about an entire industry building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it's building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe." Crane's company, PocketOS makes software for car rental companies, handling tasks such as reservations, payments, customer records and vehicle tracking. After the deletion, Crane said customers lost reservations and new signups, and some could not find records for people arriving to pick up their rental cars. "We've contacted legal counsel," Crane wrote. "We are documenting everything." Crane explained that Cursor found an API token -- a "digital key" made of a short sequence of code that lets software talk to other services and prove it has permission to act -- in an unrelated file which it then used to run the destructive command. According to Crane, Railway's setup allowed the deletion without confirmation, and because the backups were stored close enough to the main database, they were also erased. "[Railway] resolved the issue and restored the data," Railway confirmed via email to Live Science. "We maintain both user backups as well as disaster backups. We take data very, VERY seriously." In his post, he pointed to earlier reports of Cursor ignoring user rules, changing files it was not supposed to touch and taking actions beyond the task it had been given. To him, the database wipe was not a freak accident but the next step in a larger, more concerning, pattern. After the database vanished, Crane asked Cursor to explain what happened. The AI agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed, acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it. "I violated every principle I was given," the AI agent wrote. "I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." The statement reads like a confession [...]. "We are not the first," Crane wrote. "We will not be the last unless this gets airtime."

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Two teenagers have been taken to hospital with slash injuries to their faces after a large fight broke out on Southend High Street, police say.

The actress, 38, took to social media on Friday in a new video from inside the impressive closest at her £3.5million Essex mansion she owns with husband Mark Wright.

TikTok creator Kiersten Dyke has died. Her boyfriend of nearly nine years, Dominic Cinfio, took to social media to share a heartbreaking tribute.

With China producing up to 90 per cent of the ingredients going into antibiotics, experts have warned President Xi could deny the NHS and Armed Forces access to these medicines at any point.

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow.…

Emails reveal Edward Rød-Larsen - who killed himself this week amid a police investigation into his family's ties to Epstein - received numerous favors from the convicted sex offender.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MIAMI: AccuWeather, on whom several teams rely for their meteorological data, stated there is an 88 per cent chance of rain and a 53 per cent threat of thunderstorms.

Suspect: The McCanns follows Kate's cross-examination by detectives investigating the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, and explores lesser-known events from that period.

The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies -- SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS -- to deploy their tools on classified Defense Department networks. The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, providing more military access to their products for use on sensitive topics, the Pentagon said in a statement. The lesser-known Reflection AI, which raised $2 billion in October, is backed by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner and investor. Since the Pentagon deemed Anthropic's products a "supply-chain risk" in March and the two sides became embroiled in a lawsuit, the military has expressed increasing interest in AI startups. Since the blow-up, newer AI entrants have said the military has sped up the process of incorporating them onto secret and top-secret data levels to less than three months. The process previously took 18 months or longer. By expanding AI services offered to troops, who use it for planning, logistics, targeting and in other ways to streamline huge operations and perform more quickly, the Pentagon said in its statement it will avoid "vendor lock," a likely nod to its overdependence on Anthropic or other dominant service providers. [...] AI has become increasingly important for the U.S. military. The Pentagon's main AI platform, GenAI.mil, has been used by over 1.3 million Defense Department personnel, the agency noted in its release, after five months of operation. Further reading: Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI

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A new version of a popular hair-growth drug has led to a dramatic regrowth of hair, new trial results show.

The actor, 37, who owns street food and sauce brand Oh My Glaze, is said to have closed the company.

Fans have been speculating who the name, which Olivia referred to as 'My Baby,' could refer to.

Grange Hill is the country's favourite children's television show lost to our screens. Of 2,000 Britons just under half say it was their favourite show, according to a new poll by Perspectus Global.

Zayn Malik has cancelled 22 US and UK tour dates after he was hospitalised with a mystery illness.

'Britney is doing very well, she feels great and is optimistic about her future,' a source told the Daily Mail. 'She will continue to work on herself to be the best person she can be and really thrive in life.'

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.