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"California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 'California Opt Me Out Act', which will require web browsers to include an easy, universal way for users to opt out of data collection and sales," reports the blog 9to5Mac: [The law] requires browsers to provide a clear, one-click mechanism for Californians to opt out of data sharing across websites. The bill reads: "A business shall not develop or maintain a browser that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser...." Californians will need patience, though, as the law doesn't take effect until January 1, 2027. Americans in some states — including California, Texas, Colorado, New Jersey and Maryland — "have the option to make those opt-out demands automatic whenever they surf the web," reports the Washington Post. "But they can only do so if they use small browsers that voluntarily offer that option, such as DuckDuckGo, Firefox and Brave. What's new in California's law is that all browsers must give people the same option." That means soon in California, just using Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Edge can command companies not to sell your data or pass it along for ad targeting... It's an imperfect but potent and simple way to flex privacy rights — and becomes even more powerful with another simple privacy measure in California. Starting on January 1, California residents can fill out an online form once to completely and repeatedly wipe their data from hundreds of data brokers that package your personal information for sale. But their article also suggests other ways readers can "try a one-click privacy option now." "[S]ome national companies respect one-click privacy opt-out requests from everyone... This happens automatically if you use DuckDuckGo and Brave. You need to change a setting with Firefox." "Download Privacy Badger: The software from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer privacy advocacy group, works in the background to order websites not to sell information they're collecting about you." "Use Permission Slip from Consumer Reports. Give the app basic information, and it will help you do much of the legwork to tell companies not to sell your information or to delete it, if you have the right to do so."

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Leland Mayor John Lee said the shooting happened at around midnight on the city's main street. People had come to town for a homecoming game against Charleston High School.

Leonardo DiCaprio enjoyed a game of pickleball while in Ibiza, Spain this week. And the 50-year-old actor was spotted sporting a concerning black knee brace.

Kate Cassidy is opening up about her grieving processing following boyfriend Liam Payne's sudden death nearly one year ago. 

Motsi Mabuse debuted a glamorous new hairdo for Strictly Come Dancing's Movie Week on Saturday evening.

In a since edited post on Facebook, Basildon Labour Party described the political standing of a headteacher as a 'serious and legitimate safeguarding concern'.

Strictly Come Dancing viewers were left in stitches on Saturday evening as Ross King took to the ballroom dressed as a Thunderbird. 

Maria Corina Machado praised Donald Trump insisted that he deserved the award in an interview about her win which aired on Saturday morning.

Tracey Connelly, now 44, will give her first ever public account of how her 17-month son Peter suffered more than 50 wounds over an eight-month period.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Bitcoin and Ethereum both saw record liquidations as investors reacted to fears over a trade war, which saw many crypto investors move their money to stablecoins or safer assets... Bitcoin fell by more than 10 per cent to below $110,000, before recovering to $113,096 on Saturday morning. The value of Ethereum slumped by 11.2 per cent to $3,878. Other cryptocurrencies, including XRP, Doge and Ada, fell around 19 per cent, 27 per cent, and 25 per cent in the last 24 hours, respectively. LiveMint shares some statistics from Bloomberg: Citing 24-hour data from Coinglass, the report noted that more than $19 billion has been wiped out in the "largest liquidation event in crypto history", which impacted more than 1.6 million traders. It added that more than $7 billion of those positions were sold in less than one hour of trading on October 10. According to data on CoinMarketCap, the cryptocurrency market cap has dived to $3.74 trillion from the record-high $4.30 trillion level, the previous day. Trading volumes as of the market close were recorded at $490.23 billion. Bitcoin retreated on Friday, as US-China trade tensions reignited, after racing to record highs earlier in the week as persistent rate-cut bets and signs of some cooling in geopolitical tensions helped boost risk. Bitcoin was trading at $105,505.4 on Friday, down 13.15% on the day.

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More than 500 migrants crossed the Channel in just one day, taking this year's total to over 36,000 in a humiliating blow to Labour's 'one in, one out' policy.

Chris Robshaw has revealed that Strictly Come Dancing has given him a new sense of purpose after he 'lost himself' following his retirement from professional rugby.

Donald Trump turned from President to doting grandfather in a new video filmed by his teenage granddaughter Kai, where they played a round of golf together.

Leonardo DiCaprio's mom is reportedly the driving force behind the actor breaking his 'under 25' rule for girlfriends. He is currently in a relationship with 27-year-old model Vittoria Ceretti.

The S Club 7 singer, 46, has revealed the terrifying moment she had to rush to the emergency ward after making some kitchen soup went horribly wrong. 

Most prisoners spend just a few weeks in this hideous Argentinian holding facility. Braian Paiz has been here more than eight months after being charged with supplying Liam Payne with drugs.

"Nvidia is investing billions in and selling chips to OpenAI, which is also buying chips from and earning stock in AMD," writes SFGate. "AMD sells processors to Oracle, which is building data centers with OpenAI — which also gets data center work from CoreWeave. And that company is partially owned by, yes, Nvidia. "Taken together, it's a doozy." There are other collaborations and rivalries and many other factors at play, but OpenAI is the many-tentacled octopus in the middle, spinning its achievement of ChatGPT into a blitz of speculative investments. "We are in a phase of the build-out where the entire industry's got to come together and everybody's going to do super well," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Wall Street Journal on Monday. "You'll see this on chips. You'll see this on data centers. You'll see this lower down the supply chain...." Some worry that the more closely companies intertwine, the more susceptible they are to creating a bubble, or a market not actually supported by real consumer demand. "You don't have to be a skeptic about AI technology's promise in general to see this announcement as a troubling signal about how self-referential the entire space has become," Bespoke Investment Group wrote in a note to clients, per CNBC. "If NVDA has to provide the capital that becomes its revenues in order to maintain growth, the whole ecosystem may be unsustainable..." Also, even with Nvidia's investment, AMD's shares and OpenAI's repeated fundraises, the ChatGPT-maker doesn't have the cash to meet all of these vast commitments. And if OpenAI's soaring projections about demand for AI computing don't bear out, there will be a lot of committed money — and a large share of the stock market — that would see its foundations topple. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader mspohr for sharing the news.

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The English actress and model, 35, split from her footballer ex, 36, in 2022 after 13 years together and they share daughters Matilda, 10, Delilah, 7, and son Charlie, four.

Benjamin, now an actor starring in the new films Him and Adopted 2, was eliminated in episode 10 of his particular season, and even returned for cycle 22 for a subsequent challenge.

Amelia, 29, and Lydia Miller, 27, founded a recruitment business helping mothers get back into the workplace after a career break.