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They are hailed as 'magic powders' and used by millions to help banish fatigue, migraines, hangovers and more - but are they all that they're cracked up to be?

Angel Martinez, 18, and his fiancée Karla have faced immense scrutiny over their relationship, with haters on the internet accusing her of cheating or alleging that his parents 'pay' her to be with him.

Archaeologists have unearthed a long-lost Egyptian city that dates back 2,500 years.

A council resident lost her home and was arrested after repeated incidents of fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour

TorrentFreak spotlights VP.net, a brand-new service from Private Internet Access founder Andrew Lee (the guy who gifted Linux Journal to Slashdot) that eliminates the classic "just trust your VPN" problem by locking identity-mapping and traffic-handling inside Intel SGX enclaves. The company promises 'cryptographically verifiable privacy' by using special hardware 'safes' (Intel SGX), so even the provider can't track what its users are up to. The design goal is that no one, not even the VPN company, can link "User X" to "Website Y." Lee frames it as enabling agency over one's privacy: "Our zero trust solution does not require you to trust us - and that's how it should be. Your privacy should be up to your choice - not up to some random VPN provider in some random foreign country." The team behind VP.net includes CEO Matt Kim as well as arguably the first Bitcoin veterans Roger Ver and Mark Karpeles. Ask Slashdot: Now that there's a VPN where you don't have to "just trust the provider" - arguably the first real zero-trust VPN - are trust based VPNs obsolete?

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AI will make 'significant changes' to economy, labor market

ai-pocalypse  It may not happen today or even tomorrow, but US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is confident that someday soon AI is going to seriously change the US economy and labor market. …

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said he regrets telling the media that "WordPress.org just belongs to me personally" during a new interview about his company's legal dispute with hosting provider WP Engine. The comment has been "taken out of context so many times" and represents "the worst thing ever," Mullenweg said in a new podcast interview with The Verge. The dispute began when Mullenweg accused WP Engine of "free-riding" on WordPress's open-source ecosystem without contributing adequate resources back to the project. Mullenweg filed a lawsuit against WP Engine while cutting off the company's access to core WordPress technologies. WP Engine countersued, and Automattic was forced to reverse some retaliatory measures. The controversy triggered significant internal upheaval at Automattic. The company offered "alignment" buyouts to employees who disagreed with the direction, reducing headcount from a peak of 2,100 to approximately 1,500 people. Mullenweg said this was "probably the fourth big time" WordPress has faced such community controversy, though the first in the current media landscape. WordPress powers 43% of websites globally. Mullenweg said he wants to return to "the most collaborative version of WordPress possible" but noted the legal proceedings continue with both sides spending "millions of dollars a month on lawyers."

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During his visit to St George's Park, William, 43, met with Weigman and enior personnel at the FA to find out how the team is preparing for the tournament.

The mother-daughter duo were seen beaming as they arrived to take their seats in the Royal Box at the renowned tennis competition in south west London .

Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a controversial move of 'playing God.'

Hariana Veras is a veteran reporter for the continent of Africa, but it wasn't her journalism that Donald Trump commended her for during her visit to the Oval Office last week.

The former footballer, 50, continued sporting his hand in a bandage as he took his seat in the Royal Box after recently undergoing surgery on his injured wrist.

China's transition to digital payments has reached the point where physical cash has nearly vanished from daily commerce, with WeChat and Alipay now handling transactions from supermarkets to public transportation across the world's second-largest economy. Many businesses no longer maintain traditional cash registers and instead scan QR codes presented by customers, while numerous taxis refuse cash payments entirely. The widespread adoption has given tech giants Tencent and Alibaba immense power over routine financial transactions, prompting China's central bank to develop a competing digital yuan currency.

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The actor, 48, danced the night away following his recent split from former fiancée Katy Perry as a guest on the swanky superyacht alongside 450 other VIPs.

Oh, you have to divide by 100?

Thousands of Norwegians mistakenly thought they'd won life-changing sums in last week's Eurojackpot after a manual coding slip at state-owned operator Norsk Tipping.…

It is set to be dog friendly and family friendly

There has been widespread condemnation of the comments made by the group Bob Vylan whose frontman led chants of 'Free Palestine ' and 'Death to the IDF'.

In what is thought to be the UK's longest-running cold case ever solved, Ryland Headley has now been found guilty of murdering and raping Louisa Dunne in 1967.

The youngest son of David and Victoria, 20, and his girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 30, spent the festival at Camp Kerala, where a five-night stay begins at an eye-watering £8,225 per-person.

The unconfirmed theory has been floated on social media, after sleuths realized the dates of the incidents matched up.