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Are you a bit of a daredevil? A thrill seeker? A fan of ghosts and all things paranormal? If so, you might be on the hunt for a spooky adventure - especially now, in the run up to Halloween.

A British traveller visiting his American fiancé in Chicago has been left stunned after stopping at Walmart - where he stumbled across aisles teaming with 'bin bag'-sized products.

Candy Ventures Sarl (CVS) insists it has been the victim of a 'clear case of fraud', the High Court heard yesterday.

The Rev Richard Cole's Murder Before Evensong is essentially a 1980s-set remake of ITV 's Grantchester, with a dash of Midsomer Murders thrown in.

Brooklyn Beckham looked downcast as he stepped out in LA on Tuesday, just days after skipping his mother Victoria's Paris Fashion Week show amid the Beckhams' ongoing family feud. 

Police say 58-year-old Stephan Marcum hung fake body bags labeled with local officials' titles, sparking outrage and a terroristic threatening charge.

Dolly Parton's family is asking fans to send love and prayers as the country music legend deals with a mysterious health issue.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Sora 2, Open AI's new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little cartoon-eyed cloud logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes. A simple search for "sora watermark" on any social media site will return links to places where a user can upload a Sora 2 video and remove the watermark. 404 Media tested three of these websites, and they all seamlessly removed the watermark from the video in a matter of seconds. Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and an expert on digitally manipulated images, said he's not shocked at how fast people were able to remove watermarks from Sora 2 videos. "It was predictable," he said. "Sora isn't the first AI model to add visible watermarks and this isn't the first time that within hours of these models being released, someone released code or a service to remove these watermarks." [...] According to Farid, Open AI is decent at employing strategies like watermarks, content credentials, and semantic guardrails to manage malicious use. But it doesn't matter. "It is just a matter of time before someone else releases a model without these safeguards," he said. Both [Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security] and Farid said that the ease at which people can remove watermarks from AI-generated content wasn't a reason to stop using watermarks. "Using a watermark is the bare minimum for an organization attempting to minimize the harm that their AI video and audio tools create," Tobac said, but she thinks the companies need to go further. "We will need to see a broad partnership between AI and Social Media companies to build in detection for scams/harmful content and AI labeling not only on the AI generation side, but also on the upload side for social media platforms. Social Media companies will also need to build large teams to manage the likely influx of AI generated social media video and audio content to detect and limit the reach for scammy and harmful content." "I'd like to know what OpenAI is doing to respond to how people are finding ways around their safeguards," Farid said. "Will they adapt and strengthen their guardrails? Will they ban users from their platforms? If they are not aggressive here, then this is going to end badly for us all."

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Nicole Kidman has shared major career news after announcing her separation from husband of 19 years Keith Urban.

Sophie Habboo has revealed why she won't let anyone kiss her baby as she prepares to welcome her first child. 

Celebrity Traitors begins on Wednesday night and fans are gearing up for the new series which is the first to star famous faces.

One person in a mental health crisis waited more than 100 hours for a mental health bed

The professional dancer, 65, took to Instagram to pay her respects to Michael Wentwick who worked as a judge on the South African version of the show.

Frustrated detectives are unable to return the devices because tech giants Apple won't display identification numbers on iPhones.

Connor Wilson viciously attacked the owner of the bike and snatched it to go on a joyride around a peaceful suburb in South Tyneside.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Tuesday it has banned several ChatGPT accounts with suspected links to the Chinese government entities after the users asked for proposals to monitor social media conversations. In its latest public threat report (PDF), OpenAI said some individuals had asked its chatbot to outline social media 'listening' tools and other monitoring concepts, violating the startup's national security policy. The San Francisco-based firm's report raises safety concerns over potential misuse of generative AI amid growing competition between the U.S. and China to shape the technology's development and rules. OpenAI said it also banned several Chinese-language accounts that used ChatGPT to assist phishing and malware campaigns and asked the model to research additional automation that could be achieved through China's DeepSeek. It also banned accounts tied to suspected Russian-speaking criminal groups that used the chatbot to help develop certain malware, OpenAI said.

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Jailbreaks, direct prompt injection not allowed

Google on Monday rolled out a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program to encourage researchers to find and report flaws in its AI systems, with rewards of up to $30,000 for a single qualifying report.…

In the new post on Instagram, Gomez shared some kind words for Swift in honor of her new album. She included a clip that Swift had filmed of her sitting on a chair in front of a mirror.

Longtime Slashdot reader kamesh shares a report from TechCrunch: Tech behemoth IBM is teaming up with AI research lab Anthropic to bring AI into its software. Armonk, New York-based IBM announced it will be adding Anthropic's Claude large language model family into some of its software products on Tuesday. The first product to tap Claude will be IBM's integrated development environment, which is already available to a select group of customers. IBM also announced it created a guide in partnership with Anthropic on how enterprises can build, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AI agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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British doctors who assessed PET-CT scans, which help diagnose and stage cancers, discovered the jabs detrimentally affected how tissue appeared on scans.