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The singer, 37,  who announced her diagnosis in an emotional Instagram video last week, took to her Stories with her latest health update.

A neighbour in Eye, Suffolk was left terrified when he saw the feline just five miles from the pop singer's swish home, but still found time to take a few snaps, showing a black creature lurking by the trees.

The pregnant TV personality, 36, confirmed the sex of her first child with her husband Matt after a gruelling nine-year fertility battle, involving 'so many tears and so much heartache'.

Freddy Brazier has insisted he is 'not' going to rehab - just days after revealing he was going to 'get clean' in Marbella.

On October 27, 1942, the beheading of 17-year-old boy Helmuth Hübener, who was a Mormon, took place. He had committed the 'crime' of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

A review published by the Office of Rail and Road means passengers could be prosecuted if their appeals against a penalty fare are rejected.

Litterbug Naiffisa Abba was snapped leaving the bed and other trash at a notorious fly-tipping spot in Queensbury Park, north-west London .

A couple who were severely injured in the Alton Towers crash of 2015 marked a decade since the accident by throwing a ball to raise money for charities.

Prospect union threatens to up campaign, raise dispute with CEO

Emotions are running high at BT over the Brit telco's refusal to "improve their derisory and insulting" pay offer to manager grade staff, according to John Ferrett, national secretary at union Prospect.…

Andrew Nicoll, now 84, was driving home to Whitley Bay after a walk when his Mazda drifted into oncoming traffic on the A69 - slamming head-on into a Skoda Fabia in a horrifying collision.

1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?

The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 with an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at chess.…

From over-the-top feathers and nearly naked looks to bright colors and clashing patterns, the 2025 Tony Awards has been filled with a slew of sartorial nightmares and fashion faux pas.

A British bride was left red-faced after her bridesmaids surprised her with messages of wellwishes from her exes at her hen do. But, the internet responded with very mixed reactions.

Head to Denmark and you'll find their fellow-wingers aren't just outspoken about the need to tackle the issue - they've put their words into action, to dramatic effect.

Commuters are caught in severe delays

The council was on track to have an even worse year but managed to get an £8.1 million deficit down to £3.4 million at the end of the year

The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines." [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, argued last year that the next generation of artificial intelligence will be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner." Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google's DeepMind, said the goal is to create "models that are able to understand the world around us." These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not "understand" anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another. A sociologist and linguist even teamed up for a new book called The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, the article points out: The authors observe that large language models take advantage of the brain's tendency to associate language with thinking: "We encounter text that looks just like something a person might have said and reflexively interpret it, through our usual process of imagining a mind behind the text. But there is no mind there, and we need to be conscientious to let go of that imaginary mind we have constructed." Several other AI-related social problems, also springing from human misunderstanding of the technology, are looming. The uses of AI that Silicon Valley seems most eager to promote center on replacing human relationships with digital proxies. Consider the ever-expanding universe of AI therapists and AI-therapy adherents, who declare that "ChatGPT is my therapist — it's more qualified than any human could be." Witness, too, how seamlessly Mark Zuckerberg went from selling the idea that Facebook would lead to a flourishing of human friendship to, now, selling the notion that Meta will provide you with AI friends to replace the human pals you have lost in our alienated social-media age.... The good news is that nothing about this is inevitable: According to a study released in April by the Pew Research Center, although 56 percent of "AI experts" think artificial intelligence will make the United States better, only 17 percent of American adults think so. If many Americans don't quite understand how artificial "intelligence" works, they also certainly don't trust it. This suspicion, no doubt provoked by recent examples of Silicon Valley con artistry, is something to build on.... If people understand what large language models are and are not; what they can and cannot do; what work, interactions, and parts of life they should — and should not — replace, they may be spared its worst consequences.

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If you like it to keep working, don’t put a ring on it

Who, Me?  Reg readers are so dedicated it seems some of you are married to the job, although you also admit that no relationship is perfect when you send stories to Who, Me? It's the column in which we share your tales of making massive mistakes and somehow staying together with your employer afterwords.…

After the birth of her first child Chelsea Connell, then 28, weighed 16 stone and was a size 20 but wanted to lose weight so in 2021 went under the knife at a private clinic in Manchester.

The Maggie May hitmaker, 80, was supported by daughter Kimberely, 45, and lookalike son Sean, 44, as they headed for dinner at swanky restaurant Matsuhisa.