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I'm told the top-secret trip's location is a picturesque, remote spot in Europe and friends say it will be a 'family affair' for the couple, their sons and partners and, of course, youngest daughter Harper.

This Easter weekend, as Christians reflect on the death and resurrection of Christ, the Mail asked eight leading thinkers from science, the arts and theology for their views on this eternal conundrum.

The precious metal has been in high demand among investors trying to protect their savings from the impact of Donald Trump's trade war.

Jeremy Clarkson could lay claim to being King of the Cotswolds. However, it seems that there could soon be a new queen in that increasingly gilded neck of the woods.

Bluesky is testing a new verification system featuring blue checks issued by "Trusted Verifiers" like news organizations, rather than a centralized authority or pay-to-play model like X (formerly Twitter). "Looking at the comments on the pull request, it's clear this idea has sparked a lot of discussion and a lot of concern among the community who follow the platform's development closely," reports Neowin. "Many users voiced strong opposition to the change, arguing that the existing domain name verification is sufficient and more aligned with the decentralized ethos that Bluesky aims for." From the report: There's a general worry that adding a visual badge, especially one controlled in part by Bluesky, feels too much like the centralized systems they were trying to escape from by joining Bluesky: "Do not want. BSky is not Twitter 2.0. Do not become like Elon Musk. We came here to get AWAY from that bs." Several commenters also expressed that the current domain name system, while not perfect, is an elegant and decentralized way to build trust, and that adding this new layer feels redundant and gives too much power to centralized entities, including Bluesky itself: "Let's please not do this. Domain names as user IDs is an elegant solution as a system of trust that builds off the infrastructure of an open web." While the majority of the initial reaction seems negative, focusing on concerns about centralization and the value of the existing domain verification, there was some support for the idea of a visual badge, making it easier to quickly identify genuine accounts. One user commented: "I support this change. I like someone to verify that the account is indeed genuine and the username field showing the domain isn't helpful that much... A badge makes it easier to just tick it off that it's genuine." The PR author, estrattonbailey, later added a description to the pull request explaining that the goal is a "stronger visual signal" for notable accounts and clarifying it's not a paid service.

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Chanelle Hayes turned heads as she enjoyed a sun-soaked day at a beach bar in Tenerife with her pals on Sunday. 

The DJ and TV star, 50, is thought to have enjoyed ' a string of dates with Adam Butler' before the businessman joined her in the tropical location while on a work trip, The Sun reports.

If you think ice cream is a bit, well, vanilla, and finding a delicious dessert is proving to be a rocky road, the latest online trend will tickle your tastebuds.

The One Direction singer, 33, and Love Island star, 28, finally went public with their new relationship on Tuesday having been spotted on a lunch date.

When Andrew Roussos was renovating this house - part of the impossible process of rebuilding his family's life - he took a sledgehammer to some internal walls.

The drones, produced by DJI Technology, help with surveillance and support investigations.

The actor, 86 - who played Harold Bishop in the Australian soap on/off between 1987 and 2025 - shared that he was diagnosed with terminal and rare lung cancer in December last year.

Celebrity Big Brother took a bizarre turn during Friday night's episode as two housemates took the cat themed challenge a step too far. 

SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time

A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists previously realized.…

Netflix's Q1 revenue rose to $10.5 billion, a 13% increase from last year, while net income grew to $2.9 billion. The company says it expects more growth in the coming months when it sees "the full quarter benefit from recent price changes and continued growth in membership and advertising revenue." The Verge reports: Netflix raised the prices across most of its plans in January, with its premium plan hitting $24.99 per month. It also increased the price of its Extra Member option -- its solution to password sharing -- to $8.99 per month. Though Netflix already rolled out the increase in the US, UK, and Argentina, the streamer now plans to do the same in France. This is the first quarter that Netflix didn't reveal how many subscribers it gained or lost. It decided to only report "major subscriber milestones" last year, as other streams of revenue continue to grow, like advertising, continue to grow. Netflix last reported having 300 million global subscribers in January. During an earnings call on Thursday, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said the company expects to "roughly double" advertising revenue in 2025. The company launched its own advertising technology platform earlier this month. There are some changes coming to Netflix, too, as Peters confirmed that its homepage redesign for its TV app will roll out "later this year." He also hinted at adding an "interactive" search feature using "generative technologies," which sounds a lot like the AI feature Bloomberg reported on last week. Further reading: Netflix CEO Counters Cameron's AI Cost-Cutting Vision: 'Make Movies 10% Better'

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New Kamala Harris campaign disclosures reveal that the extent of payments made to entities connected with celebrities who endorsed the vice president was prevalent.

In her most personal interview yet, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells The Daily Mail about the loss of her younger cousin, 'who went down an online "rabbit hole" and killed himself'.

Harry Moss' devastated father described him as 'the best thing in the world' in a touching tribute after a horrific agricultural accident on a farm in Malvern, Worcestershire,

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: An October 2024 study by Software AG suggests that half of all employees are Shadow AI users, and most of them wouldn't stop even if it was banned. The problem is the ease of access to AI tools, and a work environment that increasingly advocates the use of AI to improve corporate efficiency. It is little wonder that employees seek their own AI tools to improve their personal efficiency and maximize the potential for promotion. It is frictionless, says Michael Marriott, VP of marketing at Harmonic Security. 'Using AI at work feels like second nature for many knowledge workers now. Whether it's summarizing meeting notes, drafting customer emails, exploring code, or creating content, employees are moving fast.' If the official tools aren't easy to access or if they feel too locked down, they'll use whatever's available which is often via an open tab on their browser. There is almost also never any malicious intent (absent, perhaps, the mistaken employment of rogue North Korean IT workers); merely a desire to do and be better. If this involves using unsanctioned AI tools, employees will likely not disclose their actions. The reasons may be complex but combine elements of a reluctance to admit that their efficiency is AI assisted rather than natural, and knowledge that use of personal shadow AI might be discouraged. The result is that enterprises often have little knowledge of the extent of Shadow IT, nor the risks it may present. According to an analysis from Harmonic, ChatGPT is the dominant gen-AI model used by employees, with 45% of data prompts originating from personal accounts (such as Gmail). Image files accounted for 68.3%. The report also notes that 7% of empmloyees were using Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, Baidu Chat and Qwen. "Overall, there has been a slight reduction in sensitive prompt frequency from Q4 2024 (down from 8.5% to 6.7% in Q1 2025)," reports SecurityWeek. "However, there has been a shift in the risk categories that are potentially exposed. Customer data (down from 45.8% to 27.8%), employee data (from 26.8% to 14.3%) and security (6.9% to 2.1%) have all reduced. Conversely, legal and financial data (up from 14.9% to 30.8%) and sensitive code (5.6% to 10.1%) have both increased. PII is a new category introduced in Q1 2025 and was tracked at 14.9%."

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Ben Affleck had a thing or two to say about the flight of film and television productions from Los Angeles.