Princess Beatrice shares a rare public kiss with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi as temperatures soar at Royal Ascot
Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi packed on the PDA at Royal Ascot today, sharing a passionate kiss as they watched the races unfold from the stands.
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols
FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default'
Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn't made preparations already could be in for a busy summer.…
Inside Essex restaurant's kitchen nightmare with 'bad' rat infestation
Rat droppings were found in a number of rooms at the restaurant
'Horrendous' infestation found in Maldon restaurant with 'rats licking honey'
Inspectors found rat droppings in the kitchen and within the condiments
Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator
Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC reported Thursday. From the report: The tech company is turning to its catalog of 20 billion YouTube videos to train these new-age AI tools, according to a person who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Google confirmed to CNBC that it relies on its vault of YouTube videos to train its AI models, but the company said it only uses a subset of its videos for the training and that it honors specific agreements with creators and media companies.
[...] YouTube didn't say how many of the 20 billion videos on its platform or which ones are used for AI training. But given the platform's scale, training on just 1% of the catalog would amount to 2.3 billion minutes of content, which experts say is more than 40 times the training data used by competing AI models.
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'Mother of all data breaches' sees 16b Apple and Google passwords exposed: Change yours NOW
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered what they are calling the 'mother of all breaches.'
Billionaires' Row 'tramp', 57, banned from Hyde Park over his 'swan whispering' after he rammed a woman with his bicycle who filmed him 'stroking, cuddling and kissing' the birds
An eccentric homeless bird lover known as the 'Swan Whisperer' who lives in a doorway on London's Billionaire's Row has been banned from Hyde Park after a fight over a swan.
Ryanair jet from UK crashes into barrier on runway at Greek airport wrecking the Boeing 737's wing
A Ryanair flight from London crashed into a barrier today after landing at a Greek airport. The
Kylian Mbappe hospitalised at Club World Cup with Real Madrid star's tournament under threat
Kylian Mbappe's participation at the Club World Cup is at risk after his club Real Madrid confirmed the superstar forward has been hospitalised with illness.
Nepo baby, 21, is spitting image of '90s TV star mother as she cuddles lion in Africa - but can you guess who her famous parent is?
A nepo baby looked the spitting image of her 90s TV star mother as she cuddled a lion in Africa.
Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn't Matter
Simon Willison, commenting on the recent paper from Apple researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted -- the title "The Illusion of Thinking" captured the attention of the "LLMs are over-hyped junk" crowd. I saw enough well-reasoned rebuttals that I didn't feel it worth digging into.
And now, notable LLM skeptic Gary Marcus has saved me some time by aggregating the best of those rebuttals together in one place!
[...] And therein lies my disagreement. I'm not interested in whether or not LLMs are the "road to AGI". I continue to care only about whether they have useful applications today, once you've understood their limitations.
Reasoning LLMs are a relatively new and interesting twist on the genre. They are demonstrably able to solve a whole bunch of problems that previous LLMs were unable to handle, hence why we've seen a rush of new models from OpenAI and Anthropic and Gemini and DeepSeek and Qwen and Mistral.
They get even more interesting when you combine them with tools.
They're already useful to me today, whether or not they can reliably solve the Tower of Hanoi or River Crossing puzzles.
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Justin Bieber's Father's Day ended in 'bitter' showdown with his wife Hailey who branded him a 'f***ing child' after 'broken' star shared erratic posts online where he called her a 'lil ho'
Justin Bieber's Father's Day reportedly ended in a bitter showdown with his wife Hailey after he spent the day posting bizarre messages on Instagram.
Call police if you see woman missing from Waltham Abbey
Police want to make sure that she is okay
Now militant doctors demand the right to walkout on 'heat strike' as temperatures soar
Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are calling on the union to demand that the NHS adopts a 'national maximum workplace temperature'.
The 'magical' Essex music festival where everyone dresses up
The festival really has something for everyone, from rock to classical music and everyone dresses up
Labubu fans left 'terrified' after discovering what's behind popular toy's fluffy exterior
A social media user discovered something about the beloved doll after they took it apart that has left people all across the web 'terrified.'
Woman breaks down in tears after begging her boyfriend for an open relationship seriously backfires at sex-filled party
Friday's (20 June 2025) instalment of the racy Channel 4 show welcomes a new married couple into the mix - Sharmayne, 26, and Jamie, 29, from Essex.
Wayne Lineker 'reveals victim hit by Conor McGregor in Ibiza nightclub and praises him for 'taking punches like a champion' while slamming the MMA fighter'
Former MMA fighter Conor McGregor, 36, was carousing at the Pacha nightclub on the Spanish island of Ibiza on Tuesday morning when he was said to have struck the man
EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine
Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue
A European court has advised [PDF] that Google's appeal against a ruling that found it had abused its market dominance should be dismissed.…
Emma Willis details her 'scary' surgery after doctors found 'bizarre' hole in her heart during check-up
The much-loved presenter, 49, took a trip to the doctors in January after experiencing an increasing number of heart palpitations.