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Moviegoers have been left outraged after a popular horror film was edited using AI to alter a same-sex wedding.

In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with pop-ups requesting consent to cookies. From a report: It's the kind of simplification ordinary Europeans can get behind. European rulemakers in 2009 revised a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are "strictly necessary" to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice. "Too much consent basically kills consent. People are used to giving consent for everything, so they might stop reading things in as much detail, and if consent is the default for everything, it's no longer perceived in the same way by users," said Peter Craddock, data lawyer with Keller and Heckman. Cookie technology is now a focal point of the EU executive's plans to simplify technology regulation. Officials want to present an "omnibus" text in December, scrapping burdensome requirements on digital companies. On Monday, it held a meeting with the tech industry to discuss the handling of cookies and consent banners.

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The actor, who stars in the upcoming film, was joined by his co-star Emily Blunt for the glamorous event.

Tasked with presenting his first collection for Gucci at Milan Fashion Week, the former creative director of Balenciaga invited guests including Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Lila Moss to watch a film.

The body of the missing teenager was found in Queensland 's Good Night Scrub National Park on June 6, 22 days after she vanished on her way to Bundaberg Airport.

Keir Starmer was last night facing the threat of a sleaze inquiry into claims he broke Commons rules over his relationship with Morgan McSweeney.

ISABEL BALDWIN AT BETHPAGE BLACK: The significance of the occasion appeared to get too much for Keegan Bradley during the Ryder Cup opening ceremony.

The European captain landed a haymaker early when addressed the hometown-heavy crowd in New York at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony on Wednesday.

Police say they have yet to formally establish the identity of the man found dead near the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar on Tuesday.

The former Love Island star has deleted all photos of Sam from her socials, and this is apparently a recent move. As a couple, Zara and Sam used to post a lot of social media content together.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he had 'serious concerns' about Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's stance on Russia.

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

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Britain's biggest carmaker was still finalising cover when hackers broke into its computer systems at the end of August and forced it to pause manufacturing at its factories.

People who bounce too high on their trampoline and catch glimpses over their neighbour's fence risk breaching privacy laws and their neighbours' human rights.

Established by William in 2020 'to find, support and celebrate those who turn bold ideas into real solutions to repair our planet', the Earthshot has just notched up another record.

The star-studded event showcased the designer brand's Spring/Summer 2026 collection, drawing an array of high-profile guests.

The pressure is mounting on business leaders to harness AI to make work faster, cheaper, and more efficient. That may thrill investors, but for employees, it could mean fewer jobs around the world. From a report: At the $320 billion software giant SAP, there will likely be a need for fewer engineers to deliver the same -- or even greater -- output, according to the company's CFO Dominik Asam. "There's more automation, simply," Asam told Business Insider. "There are certain tasks which are automated and for the same volume of output we can afford to have less people." As a C-suite exec at Europe's most valuable software company, Asam cautioned that this reality will only come true if the corporate world implements the technology properly. After all, a recent MIT study found that 95% of generative AI pilots have not met the mark. "I will be brutal. And I also say this internally. For SAP and any other software company, AI is a great catalyst. It can be either great or catastrophe," Asam warned. "It will be great if you do it well, if you are able to implement it and do it faster than others. If you are left behind, you will have a problem for sure. We work day and night to not fall behind."

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Cloudflare blocked the largest-ever DDoS attack against a European network infrastructure company, which peaked at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 Bpps. The hyper-volumetric attack has been linked to the Aisuru botnet and lasted just 40 seconds, but was double the size of the previous record. SecurityWeek reports: Cloudflare told SecurityWeek that the attack was aimed at a single IP address of an unnamed European network infrastructure company. Cloudflare has yet to determine who was behind the attack, but believes it may have been powered by the Aisuru botnet, which was also linked earlier this year to a massive 6.3 Tbps attack on the website of cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs. Aisuru has been around for more than a year. The botnet is powered by hacked IoT devices such as routers and DVRs that have been compromised through the exploitation of known and zero-day vulnerabilities. According to Cloudflare, the 22 Tbps attack was traced to over 404,000 unique source IPs across over 14 ASNs worldwide. "Based on internal analysis using a proprietary system, the source IPs were not spoofed," the company explained. The security firm described it as a UDP carpet bomb attack targeting an average of 31,000 destination ports per second, with a peak of 47k ports, all of a single IP address. Cloudflare revealed in July that the number of DDoS attacks it blocked in the first half of 2025 had already exceeded all the attacks mitigated in 2024.

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The US Marine veteran worked at the same Playboy Club in Manhattan where feminist Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Bunny to write an expose