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Every week, FEMAIL asks two singletons to report back from their blind date. This week, it was Karen and Jason's turn to wine and dine.

It's been one lawsuit after another as A-lister Kevin Spacey has battled to save his name, liberty and fortune since the sex scandal which engulfed him in 2017.

Bianca Mirica, 20, stole goods from some of the most expensive brands at the store as a member of a female organised crime gang. Now shocking footage of one of the raids has been posted on X.

Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default

Ever get that sinking feeling when Word crashes before you've made your first save? An application update is set to save the day by automatically enabling autosave to the cloud for new documents, before you've even given them a filename.…

As part of Reform's plans to tackle the small boats crisis, Nigel Farage has said he will negotiate deals with third countries - such as Rwanda - to send migrants abroad.

Tommy Robinson will not be charged over an alleged assault at St Pancras railway stations last month. 

TikTok creator Natasha Allen has tragically died at the age of 28 following a years-long fight with stage 4 synovial sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple. You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar and is one massive run-on sentence like this one which includes all the information before any full stop which would give the guardrails a chance to kick in before the jailbreak can take effect and guide the model into providing a "toxic" or otherwise verboten response the developers had hoped would be filtered out. The paper also offers a "logit-gap" analysis approach as a potential benchmark for protecting models against such attacks. "Our research introduces a critical concept: the refusal-affirmation logit gap," researchers Tung-Ling "Tony" Li and Hongliang Liu explained in a Unit 42 blog post. "This refers to the idea that the training process isn't actually eliminating the potential for a harmful response -- it's just making it less likely. There remains potential for an attacker to 'close the gap,' and uncover a harmful response after all."

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As we talked about a decade ago in the wake of launching The Next Platform, quantum computers – at least the fault tolerant ones being built by IBM, Google, Rigetti, and a few others – need a massive amount of traditional Von Neumann compute to help maintain their state, assist with qubit error correction, and assist with their computations. …

IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A CHARISTMATIC pop star made a short notice appearance in Colchester and residents have praised him for not forgetting his roots.

A CHARISTMATIC pop star made a short notice appearance in Colchester and residents have praised him for not forgetting his roots.

The Labour council leader said more families in Essex were at risk after the Bell Hotel in Epping was blocked from housing asylum seekers

Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit?

The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers for MySQL and SQLite, a YAML parser, and a secrets manager for tools and local development.…

Two elementary school students, aged eight and 10, were murdered as they were sat in their pews during the Wednesday morning service at Annunciation Catholic Church.

Ryan Forey, 35, paid himself £300 a month and his wife £500 a month while he oversaw Citizen Church in Cardiff.

Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon

Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday evening.…

Over a coffee in a cafe, my husband Stephen suggested we give serious thought to swinging. At first I thought he was joking...

Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. The Guardian: Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire, the authors of the paper found. Deforestation is responsible for more than a third of the warming experienced by people living in the affected regions, which is on top of the effect of global climate disruption. About 345 million people across the tropics suffered from this localised, deforestation-caused warming between 2001 and 2020. For 2.6 million of them, the additional heating added 3C to their heat exposure. In many cases, this was deadly. The researchers estimated that warming due to deforestation accounted for 28,330 annual deaths over that 20-year period.

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In a BBC documentary, the Made in Chelsea star, 37, admitted that being off-grid as the FBI attempted to track down Inigo Philbrick , 38, 'wasn't so bad after all'.

The tax panic season has started in earnest. Summer is far from over, yet speculation is rife as to what damage Rachel Reeves will inflict on our finances in the autumn Budget .