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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A judge in Nevada has ruled that "tower dumps" -- the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers -- is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the evidence they obtained through this unconstitutional search. Cell towers record the location of phones near them about every seven seconds. When the cops request a tower dump, they ask a telecom for the numbers and personal information of every single phone connected to a tower during a set time period. Depending on the area, these tower dumps can return tens of thousands of numbers. Cops have been able to sift through this data to solve crimes. But tower dumps are also a massive privacy violation that flies in the face of the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unlawful search and seizure. When the cops get a tower dump they're not just searching and seizing the data of a suspected criminal, they're sifting through the information of everyone who was in the location. The ruling stems from a court case involving Cory Spurlock, a Nevada man charged with drug offenses and a murder-for-hire plot. He was implicated through a cellphone tower dump that law enforcement used to place his device near the scenes of the alleged crimes. A federal judge ruled that the tower dump constituted an unconstitutional general search under the Fourth Amendment but declined to suppress the evidence, citing officers' good faith in obtaining a warrant. It marks the first time a court in the Ninth Circuit has ruled on the constitutionality of tower dumps, which in Spurlock's case captured location data from over 1,600 users -- many of whom had no way to opt out.

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Jane, 62, rebuilt her career after a tumultuous marriage to manager Hendrik Brixen came to an end in 2002, and rebuilt it again after leaving Loose Women more than a decade later.

Lawyers representing three alleged British victims of Andrew Tate say a failure to prosecute him sends the message to young men that they can 'rape with impunity'.

Drivers have to pay different amounts for petrol depending on where they are and by supermarket too

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos pushed back on director James Cameron's recent assertion that AI could slash film production costs by half, arguing instead for quality improvements over cost reduction during Netflix's first-quarter earnings call Thursday. "I read the article too about what Jim Cameron said about making movies 50% cheaper," Sarandos said. "I remain convinced that there's an even bigger opportunity to make movies 10% better." Sarandos pointed to Netflix's current AI implementations in set references, pre-visualization, VFX sequence preparation, and shot planning. He said AI-powered tools have democratized high-end visual effects that were once exclusive to big-budget productions. The executive cited 2019's "The Irishman" as a benchmark, noting its "very cutting-edge, very expensive de-aging technology that still had massive limitations." In contrast, he referenced cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto's directorial debut "Pedro Paramo," which employed AI-powered de-aging at "a fraction" of The Irishman's cost. "The entire budget of the film was about what the VFX cost on The Irishman," Sarandos explained. "Same creator using new tools, better tools, to do what was impossible five years ago."

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At least six vehicles including trucks, motorhomes and a caravan set up an 'unauthorised encampment' at Ludgvan Lions Junior Football Club in Cornwall.

They say it'll be the first time the third arch has been open to the public in decades

A mom-of-three suffering from back pain was told her agony was caused by a common condition, but doctors later diagnosed her with stage 4 breast cancer .

A new Seagate report reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental sustainability metrics, particularly when accounting for manufacturing processes. According to the storage-maker's ""Decarbonizing Data">Decarbonizing Data" [PDF] study, the embodied carbon from manufacturing a 30TB SSD reaches 4,915 kg of CO2 -- approximately 160 times higher than the 29.7 kg produced in creating a comparable hard drive. The analysis measures the full manufacturing footprint, including "upstream extraction, production, transport, bill of material, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution stages" of each technology's lifecycle. When calculated per terabyte annually, the difference remains stark: less than 0.2 kg CO2/TB/year for hard drives versus 32 kg for SSDs. Operational efficiency follows similar patterns, with hard drives consuming 9.6 watts during use versus 20 watts for SSDs, translating to 0.32 and 0.5 watts per terabyte respectively.

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The Harry Potter author described news reader India Willoughby as 'the gift that keeps on giving' in an online spat in which she told broadcaster that she 'remains a man'.

OnlyFans sensations Lily Phillips and Bonnie Blue have been locked in a bitter feud for months.

The actor previously explained how son James was heartbreakingly misdiagnosed with cerebral palsy before doctors confirmed he was suffering from Angelman syndrome.

Nicola Sturgeon's continued failure to respond to the landmark legal ruling that trans women are not women is 'becoming insulting', it's been claimed.

He must also engage in drug and alcohol support

The 83-year-old lifestyle guru posted a throwback Thursday reminding her fans of the time she experienced weightlessness on a Zero-G flight in Florida back in 2006

Frank Lampard blew a sweet kiss to his wife Christine and their children as they cheered him on from the stands following Coventry City's thrilling 2-0 victory over West Bromwich on Friday. 

 Olly Murs is set to become a dad for the second time as he revealed he and his wife Amelia are expecting their second child. 

Bruce66423 shares a report: Toothpaste can be widely contaminated with lead and other dangerous heavy metals, new research shows. Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children or those marketed as green. The testing, conducted by Lead Safe Mama, also found concerning levels of highly toxic arsenic, mercury and cadmium in many brands. About 90% of toothpastes contained lead, 65% contained arsenic, just under half contained mercury, and one-third had cadmium. Many brands contain a number of the toxins. The highest levels detected violated the state of Washington's limits, but not federal limits. The thresholds have been roundly criticized by public health advocates for not being protective -- no level of exposure to lead is safe, the federal government has found. Bruce66423 asks: "As ever the question that should be asked is: 'What level is worth worrying about and why?'"

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Love Island star Sam Taylor has been on hand to support his girlfriend after she suffered a terrifying cardiac arrest this week. 

Shelby Tribble has welcomed her second son with her partner Sam Mucklow.