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I'm told they were making a documentary about his amazing life story - he was nominated for an Oscar for his first film role, in Billy Budd; and went on to be synonymous with Swinging London.

Oh, how heartily I agree with the 52 per cent who say one of the best parts of going away on holiday is returning to the comforts of home. My only quibble is that it's the best part, bar none.

The glamour model, 47, has been locked in a row with the Mysterious Girl singer after he released a bombshell statement accusing her of 'peddling baseless lies.'

Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?

Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…

The actress, 49, has played Mandy Dingle on the legendary soap for 30 years, making a bombshell return to the village six years ago.

Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications. From a report: The study, which is yet to be peer reviewed, was posted online as a preprint earlier this month. The study was inspired by anecdotes from authors who cited articles only because reviewers asked them to, says study author Adrian Barnett, who researches peer review and meta-research at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Sometimes, these requests are fine, he says. But if reviewers ask for too many citations or the reason to cite their work is not justified, the peer-review process can become transactional, says Barnett. Citations increase a researcher's h-index, a metric reflecting the impact of their publications.

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Judge Joseph Lipner scolded Katy Perry's lawyers for their 'outrageous' stunt on the first day of her $15million trial.

Stephanie Cross reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

Adele Parks answers our burning questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold?

The investing platform is making its stocks and shares Isa available to customers on its free Basic plan in a shake-up of its service.

They're erotic, physical and far better in bed than other men, says the woman who calls herself the Slutty Cheff.

Google's Android 16 QPR2 beta 1 is rolling out with new customization features, including the ability to force dark mode and icon themes on apps that don't support them. The update also adds enhanced parental controls, better data migration, PDF editing, and Bluetooth audio sharing, with a full release expected in December. The Verge reports: The beta includes a new dark theme option that will "intelligently invert the UI of apps that appear light despite users having selected the dark theme" when enabled, according to Google's announcement, forcibly making apps that don't natively support the feature to appear darker. Google says this is "largely intended as an accessibility feature" for users with low vision or photosensitivity, and will also automatically darken app splash screens and adjust status bar colors to match the darker theming. Another feature will allow users to forcibly apply themed icon colors to apps that don't natively support them. Android's icon theming currently only works if app developers have provided a monochrome version of their app icon that can be adjusted, which is annoying for users who want to apply a consistent aesthetic across their entire home page. Auto-themed app icons spare developers from adding this capability manually, removing the hassle for users to customize their phone's theme. The full list of features in the QPR2 beta 1 update can be found on the Android developers' blog.

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Better late than never after SharePoint assault?

Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program.…

A family assumed their elderly father died of natural causes, until his son found disturbing video evidence showing otherwise.

Connolly was jailed for 31 months for a tweet hastily written in the aftermath of the murders of children in Southport, Merseyside at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last July.

A family struggling with noisy upstairs neighbours have revealed the surprising way they chose to deal with the problem.

Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection

Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.…

Jade Thirlwall isn't holding back when it comes to speaking up about her beliefs and has called out Matty Healy for not being 'political'.

The Disney hit Rivals was full of swanky parties where the champagne was ever flowing, and last night its writer Dame Jilly Cooper hosted her own drink-fuelled soiree.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Jay Blahnik was a fitness superstar with a book and nearly two decades of work with Nike before he was hired in 2013 to work on the Apple Watch. He became known inside Apple as the creator of the watch's signature fitness feature: three circular bands that people could complete through the day by exercising, standing and burning calories. Marketed with the tagline "Close Your Rings," the concept helped galvanize sales of Apple's first breakout product after Steve Jobs's death. But along the way, Mr. Blahnik created a toxic work environment (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), said nine current and former employees who worked with or for Mr. Blahnik and spoke about personnel issues on the condition of anonymity. They said Mr. Blahnik, 57, who leads a roughly 100-person division as vice president for fitness technologies, could be verbally abusive, manipulative and inappropriate. His behavior contributed to decisions by more than 10 workers to seek extended mental health or medical leaves of absence since 2022, about 10 percent of the team, these people said. When confronted with Mr. Blahnik's behavior, Apple moved to protect him after an internal investigation. The company settled one complaint alleging sexual harassment by Mr. Blahnik and is fighting a lawsuit by an employee, Mandana Mofidi, who said he had bullied her. Mr. Blahnik stayed in his job after company officials said their investigation had found no evidence of wrongdoing, according to interviews and Ms. Mofidi's lawsuit, which she filed against Mr. Blahnik and Apple last year in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The tension inside Mr. Blahnik's division speaks to workplace dysfunction at the heart of one of Apple's signature health initiatives. These employees said the company was more willing to protect a star executive than address the concerns of rank-and-file workers.

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