How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent
Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app.…
Danny Dyer reveals his surprising reaction after learning footballer fiancé of daughter Dani Dyer slid into her DMs
Dani, 28, shot to fame in 2018 when she won the fourth season of Love Island alongside Jack Fincham , but the couple went their separate ways after the show.
Hertfordshire council spending £172,000 on renovating single golf hole
St Albans district council is in the process of changing the ninth hole at Batchwood Golf Course
Meghan Markle gets her Netflix ranking and it's behind sitcoms and the WWE - as she receives horrific 11% Rotten Tomatoes score and is panned by Hollywood Bible Variety
The delayed lifestyle series was slammed by critics yesterday after its premiere as 'gormless lifestyle filler' with a 'tangible desperation'.
See the new stores open at Braintree Village with a prize draw worth over £300
Braintree Shopping Village has seen two new luxury fashion brands open their doors, with a special prize on offer worth more than £300.
Tories push for answers after Labour minister claimed to be in the Middle East 'pushing for a Gaza peace deal'... was photographed on stage at London's iconic Ronnie Scott's jazz club
Hamish Falconer, the Middle East minister, was photographed attended a swanky lunch event at Ronnie Scott's in Soho yesterday.
Loose Women viewers rage 'why the hell is she on here?!' as convicted murderer Gypsy Rose Blanchard joins panel - blasting ITV for 'scraping the barrel'
The 33-year-old served eight years after being convicted of second-degree murder for the death of her mother Claudine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard.
I visited the poshest farm shop in the UK - my four snacks cost me an eye-watering amount
Isobel Lorna, from London, travelled to Daylesford organic farm shop to get some snacks with her friend but admitted that she was worried about what her final bill would come to.
You've been eating out in Greece all wrong! Food experts reveal how to spot a fake Greek salad and why you should avoid restaurants that serve olives with the stones removed
The tips come from chefs at Yamas restaurant in Looe, Cornwall, and the owners of Greek produce supplier Maltby&Greek. Read on to learn how to dine in Greece like a local - feta late than never!
I stayed in two stunning Zimbabwe safari retreats and witnessed 'the rarest thing local guide had ever seen'
Siobhan Grogan checks into Wilderness Linkwasha, in Hwange National Park, and Wilderness Ruckomechi, on the banks of Zambezi River in Mana Pools National Park.
Moment care workers shout at and belittle dementia patient by mockingly saying 'rest in peace' is caught on secret camera
Registered nurse Nicola Hughes hid a covert camera inside a radio in her 67-year-old mother's room at Barrogil House in Fife.
Trump reverses pledge to claim Greenland but announces major new move to take the Panama Canal
President Donald Trump is addressing Congress for a joint session for the first time since his 2020 State of the Union.
Why it's so dangerous for doctors to dismiss bloating, heavy periods or pelvic pain: They're signs of a serious condition which affects two in three women... but can be helped with simple medication
Caroline Mansi was on a woodland walk when she was overcome with dizziness and felt a huge rush of menstrual blood.
'I had to lie down on the forest floor,' she recalls.
Awkward moment a security guard steps on Victoria Beckham's £990 dress as she and David return to their hotel after night out in Paris
The former Spice Girl, 50, was walking arm in arm with her husband David, 49, after a very Posh date night in the French capital.
Top UK medic backs cousin marriages, claiming a ban would violate people's 'freedoms', despite risk of inbreeding
Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS
medic and ethics expert at the University of Oxford, said such couples should be offered taxpayer funded screening to help them decide on having children.
Olivia Attwood clarifies Pete Wicks 'cheating' joke as she reveals what REALLY happened between him and former flame Maura Higgins
Olivia Attwood has revealed the meaning behind the 'cheating' joke she made about her friend Pete Wicks on the Brits red carpet on Saturday night.
Denise Welch hits back with defiant three-word response for trolls who claim 'she has made Loose Women all about her'
The 66-year-old and co-star Jane Moore , 62, appeared on the ITV show on Wednesday to talk about their show's brand new podcast Loose Women: The Podcast.
'Cowardly and barbaric' Basildon father and son viciously attacked neighbour with machete after row over parking
The court heard a feud had developed about parking spaces and vandalism to cars
Turing Award Winners Sound Alarm on Hasty AI Deployment
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI systems [alternative source] after winning computing's prestigious $1 million Turing Award Wednesday. "Releasing software to millions of people without safeguards is not good engineering practice," said Barto, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, comparing it to testing a bridge by having people use it.
Barto and Sutton developed reinforcement learning in the 1980s, inspired by psychological studies of human learning. The technique, which rewards AI systems for desired behaviors, has become fundamental to advances at OpenAI and Google. Sutton, a University of Alberta professor and former DeepMind researcher, dismissed tech companies' artificial general intelligence narrative as "hype."
Both laureates also criticized President Trump's proposed cuts to federal research funding, with Barto calling it "wrong and a tragedy" that would eliminate opportunities for exploratory research like their early work.
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Superdry to permanently shut down in Basildon shopping centre
It will be closing for good in two weeks' time