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Former Olympic athlete Geoff Capes, who died in hospital aged 75 last October, had an illustrious career as a sportsman and TV personality.

Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men

Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have left the org “more vulnerable to hacking” according to federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York City.…

Intermittent fasting may be the key to slowing or even reversing the signs of Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.

Amazon has reversed its decision and relisted the controversial book 'When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement' after backlisting it in February 2021.

Ozzy Osbourne has given a health update on Monday after announcing his final Black Sabbath gig will take place later this year. 

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine, according to three sources. The move by the U.S. tech giant comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office. In 2023, German rival alfaview filed a similar grievance to the EU watchdog. Teams, which was added to Office 365 in 2017 for free and eventually replaced Skype for Business, became popular during the pandemic due in part to its video conferencing.

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'Intense year' ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump's bad books

Meta has confirmed to The Register that today marks the start of a mass redundancy process with thousands of workers getting the chop.…

It was a big night out for the 70-year-old former Yellowstone actor, who also delighted fans across the country after he was seen with Pete Davidson.

It is set to redefine social spaces in the city

An anonymous reader shares a report: For a man who's spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe's prospects on AI are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. "We are not in the race today," French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN's Richard Quest in an exclusive interview at the Elysee Palace on Thursday. "We are lagging behind." "We need an AI agenda," he said, "because we have to bridge the gap with the United States and China on AI." The French leader added that he fears Europe becoming merely an AI consumer, losing control over the future direction and development of the technology. That's part of the impetus behind this week's AI summit in Paris -- the latest effort by Macron to put France at the heart of the debate and decision-making on international questions of the day. Earlier today, Macron announced investment pledges to bolster France's AI sector totalling $112 billion over the coming years.

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The phone-box in North London stank of stale sweat and fag-ash mixed with the smell of my own fear as I dialled 999 and asked to talk to Superintendent Tommy Butler at Scotland Yard.

Oliver Ryan, the 29-year-old Burnley MP, has lost the Labour whip in Parliament and will now sit as an independent in the House of Commons.

Baldoni speaks about his 'intense year' while wiping away tears during the Gent's Podcast airing Monday at 2pm ET

IT hiring ticks up in January, but unemployment climbs to 5.7%

The latest job numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics make IT hiring look like it's in freefall, but that's not the case at all, says consultancy firm Janco. …

Zül-Qarnain Nantambu says he unfurled the banner for 'Sudan' and 'Gaza' in New Orleans on Sunday evening as a message of solidarity to the victims of those conflicts.

Customers of an iconic bagel shop in London have mocked its £145 jacket, and say only tourists would blow their money on it.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A new paper [PDF] from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can "result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved." "[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise," the researchers wrote.

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Ricky Sawyer has been banned from performing procedures across various areas across Essex

The father-of-two was convicted of trying to get three 'barely pubescent' girls to engage in sex. A judge later said to deport him would be 'unduly harsh' on his children - sparking a legal row.

Ms Kerr, 31, is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment of a police officer in south-west London in the early hours of January 30.