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Linx, 23, who did not want to reveal his full name, claims his face 'swelled up like a balloon' after years of bare-knuckle fighting.

Jazz Reid (pictured), 33, fired eleven shots as the two victims sat in a car in Ladbroke Grove, west London , on 24 November last year.

Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now

Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…

AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and up to $200,000 for full-time positions. Surge AI offers as much as $1,000 per hour for expertise from startup CEOs and venture capital partners. Mercor pays out over $1.5 million daily to professionals it hires for clients including OpenAI and Anthropic. Some contractors are former employees of Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. Others moonlight in this work while keeping their regular jobs. Brendan Foody, Mercor's 22-year-old CEO, acknowledged at a conference last week that trade secrets could potentially be compromised given the volume of work submitted. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on this week's earnings call that some AI training gigs on its platform require PhDs.

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With an ever-shifting line-up, and the children accompanying Paul and Linda on the tour bus, they re-wrote the rulebook for a travelling rock group.

The search began on Thursday night after the victim, a woman in her 30s, was raped off Maxwell Road in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Wednesday evening.

A watchdog said there were three 'material breaches' of the governance code in the appointment of David Kogan to the high-profile position.

Officers closed one lane of the Colchester-bound carriageway between Chelmsford and Hatfield Peverel shortly before 6pm.

Justice Secretary David Lammy floundered as he was grilled for the first time since his extraordinary dodging of questions in the Commons yesterday.

Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.

ai-pocalypse  A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …

Hut 363 sits on Mudeford Spit, a remote sandbank in Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, that can only be reached by a 20-minute walk, land train or short ferry ride.

Footage of the McDonald's spat began with the customer repeatedly accusing the manager of lying, as she sought a refund for two sandwiches.

Esteban Santillan, 19, confessed to stealing $40 from a lemonade stand run by two children in August 2024. The man admitted to the brazen crime during a traffic stop.

The university dropout's rise to stardom has seen him bag gigs on Michael McIntyre 's The Wheel, as well as co-hosting the MOBO Awards in 2020 with Maya Jama.

No injuries have so far been reported but, in a heartbreaking clip, a distraught Spoelstra can be seen pacing around the outside of the property with his hand on his head.

Hannah Allwood, 39, discovered her pet five-month-old horse, called King, barely alive at her livestock farm in Keighley, West Yorkshire on Monday.

The Prince of Wales, 43, embarked on a whirlwind of engagements while in Brazil.

American manufacturing's postwar boom from the 1940s through the 1970s resulted from conditions that cannot be recreated, a story on WSJ argues. Global competitors had been destroyed by war. Energy was cheap. Unions could demand concessions without fearing job losses to foreign rivals. Strikes were frequent in steel, auto, trucking, rubber and coal mining. That relentless pressure from an organized working class raised real wages and created fringe benefits including health insurance and retirement pay. Government support for unions kept executive salaries at just a few times median income. Stock buybacks were illegal or frowned upon. President Eisenhower declared at the 1956 dedication of the AFL-CIO national headquarters that "Labor is the United States." The system began unraveling by the mid-1960s. The Vietnam War drained federal coffers. Inflation accelerated as government deficits exploded. Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, unleashing currency volatility. The 1973 OPEC oil embargo quadrupled energy prices. Foreign competition returned from Japan, Korea and West Germany. American companies carried mounting legacy costs like pensions that discouraged investment in upgrades and research. Milton Friedman declared in a 1970 New York Times essay that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. Clinton signed NAFTA in 1993 and championed the World Trade Organization in 1995. Bethlehem Steel employed around 150,000 people in the mid-1950s. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Its former hometown plant in Bethlehem, Pa., is now a casino.

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Natalie Chadwick (pictured) struggled to confirm her name, age and address while in court accused of killing Luke Harden in Bacup, Lancashire, in the early hours of Saturday.

Her career began in Seattle when she scored commercial acting jobs. When she was 13 she talked her parents into moving to Los Angeles with her so her movie dreams could come true.