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Australian influencer Androgenic shared strange insight into the death of American 'looksmaxxer' Connor Murphy, who drowned in a lake in Thailand on July 7.

The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups." Their cause is now riding a surge of anti-AI backlash. Many Americans are souring on the technology amid mass layoffs, data center sprawl, reports of chatbot-fueled attacks by unstable users and hacking tools that have panicked cybersecurity professionals. Seventy percent of U.S. adults believe AI will cost jobs, and 55% believe it will do more harm than good in their daily lives, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll. But for activists on the front lines, the driving fear is often more dramatic: human extinction. They cling to dire predictions, like Geoffrey Hinton's. The Nobel laureate, dubbed the "godfather of AI" for his work on artificial neural networks, warns of a 10% to 20% chance AI will wipe out humans. At its most extreme and troubling end, some believe they must stop an AI apocalypse by any means necessary. In April, an unknown assailant fired 13 shots at the home of an Indianapolis councilman, leaving a note: "no data centers." That same month, authorities arrested a 20-year-old Texas college student for an attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in San Francisco, and charged him with attempted murder and arson. The student was carrying an anti-AI document with a section on "our impending extinction," according to a federal criminal complaint. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have said his actions appear to have been driven by an "acute mental-health crisis, not a desire to harm."

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Andy Burnham is being urged to support independent shops through a root-and-branch overhaul of hated business rates.

I took the train from Colchester to Clacton on a bright morning, a journey that barely stretches to 25 minutes.

London Marathon runners have raised a record-breaking £162,833 for Farleigh Hospice in Essex

I took the train from Colchester to Clacton on a bright morning, a journey that barely stretches to 25 minutes.

It has some stand-out features as well as a quirky bathroom

Sam Jackson, 43, said that too many people from his generation had 'hang-ups' about classical music and presumed that it was 'not for them'.

In a quest to smooth over his back fat and side flubber, Simon Mills puts shapewear for men to the test

Testosterone is a word that seems to be on every woman's lips right now. 'Five minutes after rubbing it on my thighs, I dragged my husband upstairs,' said one of my friends.

The Love Island star-turned-West End performer is currently touring the UK and Ireland with her production of Legally Blonde, in which she plays the lead.

McCullum will continue as white-ball coach, having just led the T20 side to No1 in the world with a 4-0 series victory over India.

This is the terrifying moment Ukrainians were forced to hurl themselves to the ground as a Russian strike blew out the windows of a coffee shop. 

A record number of Britons are now taking the daily pills, which were once offered only to a small number of children but are increasingly being given to adults.

"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers: Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces of Nautilus (the GNOME file manager), and then there's now a COSMIC-native system monitor to replace the GNOME System Monitor, so you have even fewer chances of being afflicted by C-related problems. [The article calls COSMIC's system monitor "much better at showing detailed information about everything from processes to network and disk usage compared to the GNOME and KDE alternatives."] Stacking Windows As someone who used to love following Windows news, one of the most disheartening announcements was when Microsoft gave up on Sets, a feature that essentially turned every app window into a tab you could combine with other apps in the same window. I never thought I'd see that feature again, until COSMIC came along. Simply called "stacking", COSMIC has a feature that is exactly what Sets was supposed to be, though this time, you have more control. By default, apps still open in their proper, typical windows, with a title bar as you'd expect. But if you do want to combine multiple apps into one, you can right-click the title bar (or press Super + S) to enable stacking for that window. Then, simply drag another window over that one to start stacking them as tabs. This essentially gives you a whole new way to create "workspaces", as you can have a single window with all the tools you need, so you don't need to jump between different windows all the time, and you can keep a given window focused on a specific workload, but have multiple apps within it. It's a great reminder of what Microsoft took from us, too. Tiling, But On Demand Tiling windows is one of those features some power users simply love, and yes, there are ways to make it happen on KDE and GNOME with third-party apps or extensions, but those aren't ideal. It's an extra step to set them up, and very often they don't play nice with all the features those desktops offer, especially as new updates come out and those tools may have a hard time keeping up with the development of the desktops themselves. COSMIC is fantastic because not only does it have built-in window tiling, it's entirely controllable by the user. You can set any workspace to use tiling or floating windows depending on your preference, all completely independent of each other, and you can also choose the new default behavior for new workspaces so things are always tuned to your preferences. You can turn tiling on or off for a given workspace easily, and of course, even while tiling is on, you can allow certain apps to ignore it and still float above others. Not all these capabilities are exclusive to COSMIC, but to have this kind of feature built in with this level of control is still leagues better than anything KDE or GNOME offer in this regard. The article argues COSMIC also makes customization extremely simple without stifling your options (like tweaking color options for your desktop). "This desktop environment just keeps getting better, and it's quickly establishing itself as a major competitor to long-standing alternatives."

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Strictly professional dancer Neil Jones and Chyna Mills tied the knot in an extravagant wedding ceremony in Florence, Italy over the weekend. 

Independent candidate, Ollie Granger has dropped out of the Clacton by-election.

Independent candidate, Ollie Granger has dropped out of the Clacton by-election.

Jude Bellingham scored twice as the Three Lions came from behind to see off Norway, leveling the game just before halftime and popping up with the all-important winner three minutes into extra-time.

As a keen swimmer myself, I often recommend it as a form of exercise. But I have been shocked at the number of patients - typically younger adults - who say they never learned to swim.