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The World at One presenter, 59, attended Guernsey's independent Blanchelande College and is married to a baronet. But she said that class is still an issue that needs to be addressed.

Tracy Brabin took to X on Monday to share a snap of herself in Belem, where the UN climate conference will take place from November 6 to November 25.

Would you trust a robot to do the babysitting? That's how half-baked multi-billionaire Elon Musk is trying to sell us Optimus, his 'autonomous assistant, humanoid friend'.

In its largest rollout yet, Waymo said it will launch its driverless robotaxi service to Las Vegas, San Diego, and Detroit in 2026. The Alphabet unit will also debut new Zeekr-built vehicles developed with Geely to complement its existing Jaguar I-PACE fleet. Reuters reports: The new Zeekr model, developed with Chinese automaker Geely, are designed specifically for robotaxi use cases and will be rolled out gradually as the company expands its service. [...] Waymo plans to launch the service in Las Vegas next summer, while in San Diego, it is working with local officials and first responders to secure deployment permits. In Detroit, the company said its winter-weather testing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has strengthened its ability to operate year-round, where it has long maintained engineering operations.

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Kim Kardashian shocked fans as she stripped off for her latest sizzling shoot this week.

Katie Price shared a photograph of her son Harvey in hospital as she kept fans updated after he lost 1.5 stone with weight loss injections.

Andrew Johnson was driving the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train from Doncaster to King's Cross when a knifeman went on a rampage and injured 10 people.

The English supermodel, 38, took to her Instagram page on Monday with a carousel of special recent moments with her young family.

Coca-Cola has doubled down on AI-generated holiday ads despite widespread criticism of last year's uncanny results. This year the beverage company is replacing human actors with oddly animated animals in a visually inconsistent campaign. The Verge reports: There's no consistent style, switching between attempted realism and a bug-eyed toony look, and the polar bears, panda, and sloth move unnaturally, like flat images that have been sloppily animated rather than rigged 3D models in CG. Compared to the convincing deepfake videos being generated by tools like OpenAI's Sora 2 or Google's Veo 3, the videos produced for this Coke ad feel extremely dated. The only notable improvement to my eyes is that the wheels on the iconic Coke trucks are actually consistently turning this year, rather than gliding statically over snow-covered roads. The Wall Street Journal reports that Coca-Cola teamed up with Silverside and Secret Level on its latest holiday campaign, two of the AI studios that previously worked on the 2024 Coke Christmas ads. Coca-Cola declined to comment on the cost of the new holiday campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal, but said that around 100 people were involved in the project -- a figure comparable to the company's older AI-free productions. That includes five "AI specialists" from Silverside who contributed by prompting and refining more than 70,000 AI video clips.

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James Maddison has announced that he and 'superwomen' girlfriend Kennedy Alexa have welcomed twins, a boy and a girl, on Instagram on Monday evening.

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'

Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.…

Mysterious drones were spotted soaring over a military base that stores US nuclear weapons, prompting fears of a potential espionage operation.

Daily Mail's Luke Kenton takes an in-depth look at the disappearance of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whose body was discovered in D4vd's Tesla.

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms

A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

Tish Hyman was banned from her Los Angeles gym after she confronted a trans person who she said called her 'a b***h in a deep angry voice,' and she has been sharing her outrage on social media.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google's open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today. Google announced late on Friday that it was pulling Gemma from the platform, but it was vague about the reasoning. The abrupt change appears to be tied to a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who claims the Gemma model generated false accusations of sexual misconduct against her. Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just hours before the company announced the change to Gemma availability. She demanded Google explain how the model could fail in this way, tying the situation to ongoing hearings that accuse Google and others of creating bots that defame conservatives. At the hearing, Google's Markham Erickson explained that AI hallucinations are a widespread and known issue in generative AI, and Google does the best it can to mitigate the impact of such mistakes. Although no AI firm has managed to eliminate hallucinations, Google's Gemini for Home has been particularly hallucination-happy in our testing. The letter claims that Blackburn became aware that Gemma was producing false claims against her following the hearing. When asked, "Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?" Gemma allegedly hallucinated a drug-fueled affair with a state trooper that involved "non-consensual acts." Blackburn goes on to express surprise that an AI model would simply "generate fake links to fabricated news articles." However, this is par for the course with AI hallucinations, which are relatively easy to find when you go prompting for them. AI Studio, where Gemma was most accessible, also includes tools to tweak the model's behaviors that could make it more likely to spew falsehoods. Someone asked a leading question of Gemma, and it took the bait.

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Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation

Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…

The TV presenter, who is also a regular on ITV News, was joined by Oti Mabuse, Judi Love and Kelle Bryan for the show last week when she appeared without the poppy.

The gunman allegedly fired shots near the Shannon Library, police said. The ordeal has now been confirmed as a hoax and police have given the all clear.

Stevie Steel, 24, had bought three bottles of wine during a day out at the beach with a friend when she collided with another vehicle.