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Just as Monaco has its Grand Prix and Milan its Fashion Week, so the Cotswolds are limbering up for the social highlight of the year.

For Trump, freedom and democracy - the core values of the country he leads and the Atlantic Alliance which has united the US and Europe for 80 years - mean nothing.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned at SXSW that agentic AI poses significant privacy and security risks, as these AI agents require extensive access to users' personal data, likely processing it unencrypted in the cloud. TechCrunch reports: "So we can just put our brain in a jar because the thing is doing that and we don't have to touch it, right?," Whittaker mused. Then she explained the type of access the AI agent would need to perform these tasks, including access to our web browser and a way to drive it as well as access to our credit card information to pay for tickets, our calendar, and messaging app to send the text to your friends. "It would need to be able to drive that [process] across our entire system with something that looks like root permission, accessing every single one of those databases -- probably in the clear, because there's no model to do that encrypted," Whittaker warned. "And if we're talking about a sufficiently powerful ... AI model that's powering that, there's no way that's happening on device," she continued. "That's almost certainly being sent to a cloud server where it's being processed and sent back. So there's a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents, and that is ultimately threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer by conjoining all of these separate services [and] muddying their data," Whittaker concluded. If a messaging app like Signal were to integrate with AI agents, it would undermine the privacy of your messages, she said. The agent has to access the app to text your friends and also pull data back to summarize those texts. Her comments followed remarks she made earlier during the panel on how the AI industry had been built on a surveillance model with mass data collection. She said that the "bigger is better AI paradigm" -- meaning the more data, the better -- had potential consequences that she didn't think were good. With agentic AI, Whittaker warned we'd further undermine privacy and security in the name of a "magic genie bot that's going to take care of the exigencies of life," she concluded. You can watch the full speech on YouTube.

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The fashion designer, 50, was supported by her husband David, 49, and kids Romeo, 22, Cruz, 20, and Harper, 13, as they all proudly watched from the front row.

The fashion designer and footballer David's eldest son, 26, was the only member of the family not present in the French capital due to his own business commitments.

I don't feel I've done anything wrong and need some reassurance from you that I can step back without any guilt and get on with my own life.

Al-Nassr are pushing to finish in the AFC Champions League spots for next season, but are in danger of missing out after they dropped points at home to Al-Shabab - despite Ronaldo scoring.

Aged just seventeen, Chloe Chong is still at school and studying for her A-levels all whilst traveling the world solo to pursue her dream of becoming the best female F1 driver in the world.

Friends icon David Schwimmer has slammed Hollywood stars refusing to speak out against antisemitism.

Analysis revealed that on 17 per cent of days, participants in the study ended up drinking without having any prior intention to, leading to a risk of embarrassment, hangovers and blackouts.

Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it

The Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on Thursday and promptly fell over, has been declared dead by its operators.…

Diddy and Luigi Mangione are being warned they could be next and used to make an example out of after a brutal gang stabbing at the Brooklyn prison where they are being held.

The Corporation is offering the salary for a Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging who will be in charge of creating 'an inclusive workplace culture where everyone feels they can belong'.

At least 18 people, including four children, were wounded in Russian airstrikes yesterday, with at least one fatality in a strike on Kostiantynivka in the east amid the withdrawal of US military aid.

Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa died of the extremely rare lung infection hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, officials revealed this week. The disease spreads from rodents.

The fall comes at a worrying time for a fragile housing market that faces stamp duty hikes being introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves next month.

The cost of disability and incapacity handouts has risen by 40 per cent in real terms since 2013 and is forecast to reach £100billion by 2029/30.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The epidemic of welfare dependency is perhaps the biggest anchor on economic growth in Britain, and it is getting heavier by the day.

New submitter grandrollerz writes: Despite streaming online since the RealAudio days of the late 1990s, the BBC has announced that most of its radio stations will become unavailable to international users later this year. Starting in Spring 2025, only talk news stations BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 will remain accessible outside the UK. This change is due to rights issues and the launch of a new BBC audio website and app that will replace BBC Sounds for international users. The BBC Sounds app will be available exclusively to UK audiences, although UK users traveling abroad for short periods will still be able to use it. This move has disappointed many long-time international listeners who will lose access to their favorite BBC radio stations. It follows a similar move to further commercialize its services where in 2024 the BBC and Amazon Music struck a global deal to make BBC podcasts available on Amazon Music outside the UK, but only for subscribers to Amazon's Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited services.

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The French model, 30, showcased her toned physique as she slipped into an eye-catching white bodysuit.