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David Brown, 39, was indicted on Wednesday by federal prosecutors on 21 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft.

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats

FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…

Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.  …

A twisted sheriff's deputy was captured smiling for the camera after grabbing the tiny animal from a fellow officer who was worried he would kill it.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the Department of Commerce will begin publishing GDP statistics on the blockchain, touting it as part of President Trump's push to make America a "crypto government." CoinTelegraph reports: Lutnick made the announcement during a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, describing the effort as a move to expand blockchain-based data distribution across government agencies. Speaking to US President Donald Trump and other government officials, he said: "The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president, and we are going to put our GDP on the blockchain so people can use it for data and distribution." Lutnick said the initiative will begin with GDP figures and could expand across federal departments after the Commerce Department finishes "ironing out all of the details" for the implementation.

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The rarely seen star lives in a Miami mansion which boasts a 16ft wall to keep out any unwanted eyes with her husband and their three children, twins Lucy and Nicholas, seven, and their daughter Mary, five.

Neil Amin-Smith is often spotted with an open collar by the Chancellor's side - and has been known to 'turn treasury heads like hungry owls' according to London's Standard, who compiled the list.

According to body language expert Judi James, Taylor's quest for a 'perfect love match' only ended when she 'stopped dating her visual twin and tried a contrast' male instead.'

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…

Anglian Water have advised people across the East of England to be "water wise" after the region experienced its driest spring and summer period since 1976.

Anglian Water have advised people across the East of England to be "water wise" after the region experienced its driest spring and summer period since 1976.

The supermodel was joined by her daughter, whom she shares with husband Edward Burns at the star-studded event, held at the historic Teatro Goldoni theatre.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. In a filing with Maine's attorney general's office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers' personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed "no credit information was accessed," but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not specify what specific types of personal data were stolen. In a separate data breach disclosure filed later on Thursday with Texas' attorney general's office, TransUnion confirmed that the stolen personal information includes customers' names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. [...] It's not clear who is behind the breach at TransUnion, or if the hackers made any demands to the company.

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It was an emotional Molly-Mae Hague who addressed her two million YouTube followers from her car in her weekly vlog last month.

$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.…

I've spent the summer watching women shield perfectly good limbs from others as if they were deranged. What is it about arms that so many find hard to bare, pun intended?

Relive Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest news and updates of the draw for the 2025/26 league phase, with six Premier League sides in the fold.

Emilie Kiser broke her silence Thursday in a lengthy social media post detailing her family's experience since her son Trigg, 3, drowned in their backyard pool in Chandler, Arizona back in May.

A woman from Boston in the US discovered by chance that she had a tumour growing on her brain while on a plane.