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The Reform UK leader said that 'instinctively' it is not something he would want to do but he is 'now thoughtful' about if the UK should consider bringing back Shamima Begum.

King Charles in set to mark Italy's jubilee celebrations by visiting Pope Francis in Rome this Spring in what will be their first meeting since Charles became the monarch.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, enormous site. "We have over 65,000 products, each product has a page," Tomchuk told TechCrunch. "Each page has at least three photos." OpenAI was sending "tens of thousands" of server requests trying to download all of it, hundreds of thousands of photos, along with their detailed descriptions. "OpenAI used 600 IPs to scrape data, and we are still analyzing logs from last week, perhaps it's way more," he said of the IP addresses the bot used to attempt to consume his site. "Their crawlers were crushing our site," he said "It was basically a DDoS attack." Triplegangers' website is its business. The seven-employee company has spent over a decade assembling what it calls the largest database of "human digital doubles" on the web, meaning 3D image files scanned from actual human models. It sells the 3D object files, as well as photos -- everything from hands to hair, skin, and full bodies -- to 3D artists, video game makers, anyone who needs to digitally recreate authentic human characteristics. [...] To add insult to injury, not only was Triplegangers knocked offline by OpenAI's bot during U.S. business hours, but Tomchuk expects a jacked-up AWS bill thanks to all of the CPU and downloading activity from the bot. Triplegangers initially lacked a properly configured robots.txt file, which allowed the bot to freely scrape its site since the system interprets the absence of such a file as permission. It's not an opt-in system. Once the file was updated with specific tags to block OpenAI's bot, along with additional defenses like Cloudflare, the scraping stopped. However, robots.txt is not foolproof since compliance by AI companies is voluntary, leaving the burden on website owners to monitor and block unauthorized access proactively. "[Tomchuk] wants other small online business to know that the only way to discover if an AI bot is taking a website's copyrighted belongings is to actively look," reports TechCrunch.

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It might look lovely now but it has a very dark past

A recently discovered 'hook-headed' creature is brutally killing a nearly endangered species on a picturesque island.

The idea sounds like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, but anthropologist Professor Gregory Forth has spoken to dozens of local people who believe they have seen the tiny 'ape-man' in the flesh.

A billionaire investor has claimed Americans are in for a 'rude awakening' if they follow one of Warren Buffett's most popular pieces of advice. 

In his closely-watched annual forecast, Ian Bremmer predicted a 'uniquely dangerous' period for the planet.

In just a few weeks a £4.25million Grade II-listed Queen Anne mansion could be yours if you enter the latest Omaze property prize sweepstake. The Mail visited to see if it's as idyllic as it appears.

Rather than stopping the bullies, blonde teacher Olivia Grace Bennett, 26, was allegedly 'complicit,' pointing at the abused student as her classmates jeered.

Remote villages can get takeaways too

The disaster has already claimed the lives of at least 11 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures.

'What did I do last night?' Heidi Anderson thought to herself as she squinted her eyes to adjust to the late-morning sunshine now flooding in through the unclosed curtains.

The stormclouds forming over the UK are more dangerous than anything we've seen in our lifetime. And if bombs, drones, missiles or rockets begin to fall out of the sky, we have very little to protect us.

It may be gone, but will never be forgotten

Feral instincts remain present in a number of these caged beasts, where even the glass screening and metal fencing can not contain their primal urges.

Not a shot fired, not a snowball thrown... if President Donald Trump is genuine in his blustering threats to seize Greenland for the United States, military experts believe it could be easily done.

Cressida was seen on Saturday for the first time since announcing she is pregnant with her second child, after Cressida, 35, headed to the Notting Hill-based Fara Kids for a spot of shopping.

Dear Bel,, I feel like I am grieving for my marriage, nearly nine years after it ended. I cannot understand why I am now feeling like this.

The full extent of the UK's paedophile Asian grooming gangs shame is laid bare by a shocking MailOnline investigation looking at cases spanning over the last two decades.