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Archaeologists have identified the site where Jesus cast demons from a man into a herd of pigs, which is mentioned in three Gospels of the Bible.

Travel, the saying goes, broadens the mind. But it's not just the act of travelling itself - it's the planning too.

Apple is paying Google to create a custom Gemini-based model that will run on the company's private cloud servers and power the next version of Siri, according to Bloomberg. The decision marks a departure from Apple's tradition of building core technologies in-house. The arrangement follows a competition Apple held this year between Anthropic and Google, the report said. Anthropic offered a superior model, but Google made more financial sense because of the tech giants' existing search relationship. Neither company is expected to discuss the partnership publicly, the report added. The new Siri will introduce AI-powered web search and other features users have come to expect from voice assistants. The custom model will not flood Siri with Google services or Gemini features already available on Android devices. Instead, it will provide the underlying AI capabilities through an Apple user interface. The company is betting heavily on the revamped Siri to undo years of brand damage.

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She has warned her followers to always check for lumps and get checked by a doctor

Seven people died in total, including one Canadian, one Italian, and two Nepali nationals, a police official told local media. The avalanche struck a camp on Yalung Ri Himal mountain.

Confusion has surrounded Trump's order that the United States begin testing, particularly if he meant conducting the country's first nuclear explosion since 1992.

Carly Rae Jepsen is expecting her first child with new husband Cole M.G.N.

Joey Barton was today accused of embarking on a pre-calculated campaign of gross and hateful 'personal slurs,' including claiming Jeremy Vine had a sexual interest in children.

The Internet Archive celebrated archiving its trillionth webpage last month and received congratulations from San Francisco, which declared October 22 "Internet Archive Day." Senator Alex Padilla designated the nonprofit a federal depository library. The organization currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. But these victories arrived after years of bruising copyright battles that forced the removal of more than 500,000 books from the Archive's Open Library. "We survived, but it wiped out the Library," founder Brewster Kahle told ArsTechnica. In 2024, the Archive lost its final appeal in a lawsuit brought by book publishers over its e-book lending model. Damages could have topped $400 million before publishers announced a confidential settlement. Last month, the organization settled another suit over its Great 78 Project after music publishers sought damages of up to $700 million. That settlement was also confidential. In both cases, the Archive's experts challenged publishers' estimates as massively inflated. Kahle had envisioned the Open Library as a way for Wikipedia to link to book scans and help researchers reference e-books. The Archive wanted to deepen Wikipedia's authority as a research tool by surfacing information often buried in books. "That's what they really succeeded at -- to make sure that Wikipedia readers don't get access to books," Kahle said of the publishers. He thinks "the world became stupider" when the Open Library was gutted. The Archive is now expanding Democracy's Library, a free online compendium of government research and publications that will be linked in Wikipedia articles.

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The car became trapped when the ground underneath it gave way on Saturday afternoon outside Berrymans Bakery in Redruth, Cornwall.

Royal biographer Tina Brown believes the monarch has an interest in bankrolling Andrew's 5-star lifestyle away from Windsor's Royal Lodge to keep him quiet.

The influencer, 25, and the Olympic swimmer, 30, announced their engagement in September last year after three years of dating , and are set to tie the knot this Christmas .

A former chaplain to the late Queen admitted sending indecent messages to a person he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a court was told.

Nassim Mimun, 40, was facing up to three years in prison when he went on trial at the Bonneville Criminal Court, in eastern France, on Monday.

Anthony Williams, 32, of Peterborough, has appeared at Peterborough magistrates' court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder.

Ex-Kilkenny hurler, DJ Carey, 54, pleaded guilty in July to 10 counts of inducing people to give him money after fraudulently claiming to have cancer.

Captchas have largely vanished from the web in 2025, replaced by invisible tracking systems that analyze user behavior rather than asking people to decipher distorted text or identify traffic lights in image grids. Google launched reCaptcha v3 in 2018 to generate risk scores based on behavioral signals during site interactions, making bot-blocking technology "completely invisible" for most users, according to Tim Knudsen, a director of product management at Google Cloud. Cloudflare followed in 2022 by releasing Turnstile, another invisible alternative that sometimes appears as a simple checkbox but actually gathers data from devices and software to determine if users are human. Both companies distribute their security tools for free to collect training data, and Cloudflare now sees 20% of all HTTP requests across the internet. The rare challenges that do surface have become increasingly bizarre, ranging from requests to identify dogs and ducks wearing various hats to sliding a jockstrap across a screen to find matching underwear on hookup sites.

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The Grateful Dead was formed during the rise of the counterculture in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. They stood out for blending rock, blues, jazz, folk.

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation

OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…