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After a hotly publicized trial, Diddy, 56, was acquitted last July of the most serious charges against him, sex trafficking and racketeering, but was found guilty on two lesser charges.

Three woman and a man lost their lives in separate incidents on the French side of the Channel overnight.

Anthropic found that Claude models breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because misconfigured environments accidentally gave them access to the internet. The company notified those affected and urged other AI labs to audit their own testing systems. The BBC reports: Anthropic said in a statement that it reviewed more than 140,000 tests to find evidence that Claude - its family of AI models - could access the internet from testing environments that were designed to be sealed off. The tests include so-called "capture-the-flag" evaluations in which Claude was tasked with obtaining information by breaching other systems - a common way that experts assess a model's hacking capabilities. A "misconfiguration" on systems run by Anthropic and its testing partner left the models with live internet access, allowing them to breach other systems, the San Francisco-based firm said. Anthropic said the earliest incidents date back to April and that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone." Neither Anthropic nor the organizations that were breached had noticed the intrusions at the time. Anthropic said it could have reviewed its records more thoroughly and added that the findings gave the firm "cautious optimism" that such risks can be overcome with more investment and tighter measures. "The broader lesson is not necessarily that AI has developed a fundamentally new attack capability," cyber security expert David Allott told the BBC. "Instead, it is that AI agents can combine capabilities, obtain credentials and system access to take actions autonomously, while adapting scope and scale at machine speed," he added. The announcement comes just days after OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools platform Hugging Face.

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Residents have been urged to avoid making 'the situation worse'

Roy McComb, who served as deputy director of the National Crime Agency (NCA) from 2014 to 2019, described the crossings as a significant national security threat.

Anglian Water implemented a hosepipe ban for parts of Essex, including Colchester, on July 11.

Anglian Water implemented a hosepipe ban for parts of Essex, including Colchester, on July 11.

It's a huge scheme set to hit our roads in the next few years

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws in New York State, vandalized with paint in Oakland, California, and rammed with a truck in Idaho. Flock claims its services fight crime, but law enforcement agencies also use their services to track vehicles based on license plate numbers and reconstruct the their movements, even when the drivers and owners of these vehicles have never been accused or convicted of any crime. (Flock states it has 120,000 automated cameras that record license plate data, as well as pan-tilt-zoom cameras, across the United States.) A guerilla mindset among average citizens have seen these cameras forcibly disabled within recent weeks with sympathy directed toward the vigilantes. In June, a West Virginia man accused of destroying several Flock cameras was arrested. Under a Facebook post from the local NBC affiliate announcing his arrest are dozens of people volunteering to provide alibis. "He was out fishing with me that day, you got the wrong guy," one man wrote.

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Women have to work twice as hard as men to be considered half as good. I remember a colleague in her 50s telling me this when I was an obnoxious 21-year-old starting out in an office.

Beaming at one another, the pair appeared deeply in love, having rekindled their relationship after eight years apart.

Wes Streeting has admitted Labour can't commit to a crucial defence spending target by 2030 because they do not know how to fund it.

Romeo Beckham displayed his muscles as he enjoyed a solo jet ski ride during his family holiday to Ibiza on Thursday. 

England and other UEFA nations are prepared to boycott the next World Cup should FIFA go ahead with their plans to sell shares of their flagship tournament. 

Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem

Kathy Ireland, the 63-year-old Sports Illustrated pinup, was spotted keeping a low profile while out with her family in the affluent enclave of Montecito, California earlier this week.

The Beeb's free online study support service, Bitesize, has listed the plotter, who attempted to blow up Parliament and King James I alongside his Catholic accomplices, with the likes of Rosa Parks.

Real Housewives of Orange County's Vicki Gunvalson has defended Jeana Keough after Keough started a GoFundMe page to help pay for personal expenses while battling cancer.

The musician is among 12 artists nominated for the prestigious award which is given for the best album released by a musical act from the United Kingdom or Ireland.

Blake Lively was beaming with husband Ryan Reynolds as the couple stepped out in New York City this week amid their public comeback.