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More than 1,000 new homes need to be built each day to meet the party's manifesto pledge.

She rocketed to stardom in the 1990s on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Cordelia Chase, a high school classmate of Sarah Michelle Gellar's title character.

Kate Lawler suffered a nasty fall as she went flying off her chair at her brother's wedding earlier this week. 

Is your area prepared for the risk of wildfires in the prolonged heatwave?

Paedophile Paul Hopkins, 50, is starting a 22-year jail sentence after being caught in a police sting.

Roundhay Park in Leeds has been enjoyed by generations since it become a public space in the Victorian era.

Boy George has pulled out of his role in Jesus Christ Superstar just days before he was set to take to the stage. 

Ellie Goulding has appeared to reveal she fell for criminal boyfriend Beau Minniear despite knowing he was not the sort of man she would 'usually trust.'

Many affluent residents of once thriving seaside towns moved away as they became increasingly rundown.

Photos from the attack released by regional authorities showed the house in a state of total destruction.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP's protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has the potential to address long-standing barriers to scalability. The blog post announcing the specification, written by lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky (who both work at Anthropic), says: "The highlight of this release is a stateless protocol core -- MCP is transforming from a bidirectional stateful protocol into a request/response stateless protocol. It was one of the most highly-requested features from developers who were eager to get better reliability and scalability for their MCP servers." [...] There is also a new deprecation policy that ensures at least 12 months between when a feature's formal deprecation is enacted and when the feature may actually be removed -- with a narrow exception for critical security updates. This is again in keeping with the general "let's make this work better at enterprise scale" theme of the new specification. This update is "MCP's most important since remote MCP first launched over a year ago," Soria Parra wrote. Other additions include "Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs." A full list of changes can be found here.

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Jude Bellingham shares rare loved-up snap with his girlfriend Ashlyn Castro as they enjoy romantic trip to Hawaii after the World Cup

For the widely revered Spider-Man there's more than enough wickedness in New York City to keep a crime-busting superhero busy.

Olivia Attwood joked 'no one knows what I'm going to do next' as she posed in sexy snaps from filming Bad Boyfriends in Ibiza this month. 

TOM LEONARD: The bones of these celebrated denizens of the Mesozoic Era have become the latest must-have accessory for the ridiculously rich.

Benidorm's back! The high-rise hotels, the tourists in crop tops with lobster-and-cream sunburns, the OAP racers on mobility scooters....go on, admit you've missed it.

joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology. By taking advantage of this flaw, which concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them instructions, the researchers were able to make popular LLMs spit out information they had been trained not to provide, such as how to synthesize cocaine and how to sabotage a commercial aircraft's navigation system. "There's a real probability that this is going to be a problem that's fundamentally unsolvable," says Charles Ye, an independent researcher and coauthor of the ICML paper. [...] The ICML paper describes attacks against several of OpenAI's models, but Cui and Ye say that they have since seen similar results with models made by Anthropic, Alibaba, and DeepSeek. Cui and her colleagues wanted to find out why an attack like chain-of-thought forgery was so effective. They suspected it had something to do with the mechanism that LLMs use to keep track of where their instructions are coming from. But what Cui and her colleagues discovered is that LLMs are in fact very bad at keeping track of different roles. In a series of experiments that looked at what was going on inside a handful of different models, the researchers found that LLMs seem to identify the role of a specific chunk of text not by the tags around it but by the style of that text and the words it contains. The upshot, the researchers claim, is that all an attacker needs to do to hack an LLM is write text that spoofs a certain role. And because roles are a fundamental part of how LLMs work, no amount of training will fully solve the problem. "There's going to be a huge economic incentive for people to do jailbreaks and prompt injections," says Cui. The best defense could be to expect the worst. Organizations shouldn't trust LLMs, and they should expect that anything done by agents could be unsafe, he says: "That's not a great solution, but it just might be what we have to do." "It's really incredible that these things are being deployed everywhere to control super-critical systems. There's been no study of the fundamental science here. We're all doing it ad hoc."

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CHRIS WHEELER: UEFA will boycott FIFA competitions - including the World Cup itself - unless these preposterous plans are consigned to the dustbin where they belong.

Blackpool Zoo is celebrating the first African lion cubs born in a decade - with three making their arrival this week at the wildlife venue to first-time parents Hira and Khari.