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Meta's CTO, Palantir's CTO, and OpenAI's chief product officer are being appointed as lieutenant colonels in America's Army Reserve, reports The Register. (Along with OpenAI's former chief revenue officer). They've all signed up for Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps, "an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors," according to the official statement. "In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems..." "Our primary role will be to serve as technical experts advising the Army's modernization efforts," [Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth] said on X... As for Open AI's involvement, the company has been building its ties with the military-technology complex for some years now. Like Meta, OpenAI is working with Anduril on military ideas and last year scandalized some by watering down its past commitment to developing non-military products only. The Army wasn't answering questions on Friday but an article referenced by [OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin] Weil indicated that the four will have to serve a minimum of 120 hours a year, can work remotely, and won't have to pass basic training... "America wins when we unite the dynamism of American innovation with the military's vital missions," [Palantir CTO Shyam] Sankar said on X. "This was the key to our triumphs in the 20th century. It can help us win again. I'm humbled by this new opportunity to serve my country, my home, America."

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Paris Jackson has hit back at critics who are angry she's scheduled to perform on her late father Michael Jackson's upcoming death anniversary.

Stu Mundel, a reporter with FOX 11 Los Angeles, covered the 'No Kings Day' protests in LA, but not without talking about struggles in his personal life and his love for various types of booze.

An unsuspecting photo of a flower-filled backyard features a white cat hiding in plain sight - and only keen observers can spot the feline within 30 seconds.

The man who foresaw the iPhone and WiFi says the death may soon be optional, predicting tech will outpace aging in the near future.

The 35-year-old actress made the confession on the heels of ending her engagement to her longtime on-off boyfriend-turned-fiancé and now-ex.

Kevin Costner revealed whether he has plans to retire following a successful and decades-long career in the industry.

Claimants who do not inform the DWP of certain changes may risk losing their PIP payments

Primark customers are desperate to get their hands on the retailer's new bow bedding sets, which start at just £10

The Boys actress Erin Moriarty gave a health update to her fans and revealed that she is currently battling an autoimmune disorder called Graves' disease.

Kim Kardashian tantalized her 356 million Instagram followers on Saturday as she shared bits of sexy new content.

In 1989 a computer scientist argued that more functionality in software actually lowers usability and practicality — leading to the counterintuitive proposition that "worse is better". But is that still true? Python's original creator Guido van Rossum addressed the question last month in a lightning talk at the annual Python Language Summit 2025. Guido started by recounting earlier periods of Python development from 35 years ago, where he used UNIX "almost exclusively" and thus "Python was greatly influenced by UNIX's 'worse is better' philosophy"... "The fact that [Python] wasn't perfect encouraged many people to start contributing. All of the code was straightforward, there were no thoughts of optimization... These early contributors also now had a stake in the language; [Python] was also their baby"... Guido contrasted early development to how Python is developed now: "features that take years to produce from teams of software developers paid by big tech companies. The static type system requires an academic-level understanding of esoteric type system features." And this isn't just Python the language, "third-party projects like numpy are maintained by folks who are paid full-time to do so.... Now we have a huge community, but very few people, relatively speaking, are contributing meaningfully." Guido asked whether the expectation for Python contributors going forward would be that "you had to write a perfect PEP or create a perfect prototype that can be turned into production-ready code?" Guido pined for the "old days" where feature development could skip performance or feature-completion to get something into the hands of the community to "start kicking the tires". "Do we have to abandon 'worse is better' as a philosophy and try to make everything as perfect as possible?" Guido thought doing so "would be a shame", but that he "wasn't sure how to change it", acknowledging that core developers wouldn't want to create features and then break users with future releases. Guido referenced David Hewitt's PyO3 talk about Rust and Python, and that development "was using worse is better," where there is a core feature set that works, and plenty of work to be done and open questions. "That sounds a lot more fun than working on core CPython", Guido paused, "...not that I'd ever personally learn Rust. Maybe I should give it a try after," which garnered laughter from core developers. "Maybe we should do more of that: allowing contributors in the community to have a stake and care".

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Married Linda de Sousa Abreu, 31, was sentenced to 15 months for having sex with  serial burglar Linton Weirich in his prison cell at HMP Wandsworth last June.

Posh Spice, 51 - who became Lady Beckham as her husband led the King's Birthday Honours list - attended the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ballet in London with her daughter, 13, on Friday.

Synagogues have stepped up security while communities were warned to 'avoid displaying Jewish or Israeli symbols in public spaces'.

Marina Pinnacle - a residential building home to 3,820 people in the affluent area of the Dubai Marina - went up in flames at around 9.30pm on Friday night.

The bizarre outburst by Dr Dewi Evans, 75, the prosecution's chief expert witness, comes amid mounting doubts about the reliability of the evidence used to convict Letby (pictured).

Robin Moira White, a trans barrister who is a biological male, was directed to use the ladies' loos in Portcullis House last week. Pictured: File photo

Investors of Thames Water are begging Keir Starmer for a bail out as Britain's biggest supplier crumbles under crippling fines and could be facing collapse.

Medics at Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals said the victims were approaching the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) yesterday when they were shot.