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The new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus, was emphatically made by humans, not AI, reports TechCrunch: If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show "Pluribus," you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: "This show was made by humans." That terse message — placed right below a note that "animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety" — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI. In fact, yesterday the former X-Files writer told Variety "I hate AI. AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine...." He goes on, about how AI-generated content is "like a cow chewing its cud — an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense," and how the U.S. will fail to regulate the technology because of an arms race with China. He works himself up until he's laughing again, proclaiming: "Thank you, Silicon Valley! Yet again, you've fucked up the world." He also says "there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit," according to the article. "It's basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world's first trillionaires. I think they're selling a bag of vapor." And earlier this week he told Polygon that he hasn't used ChatGPT "because, as of yet, no one has held a shotgun to my head and made me do it." (Adding "I will never use it.") Time magazine called Thursday's two-episode premiere "bonkers." Though ironically, that premiere hit its own dystopian glitch. "After months of buildup and an omnipresent advertising campaign, Apple's much-anticipated new show Pluribus made its debut..." reports Macworld. "And the service promptly suffered a major outage across the U.S. and Canada." As reported by Bloomberg and others, users started to report that the service had crashed at around 10:30 p.m. ET, shortly after Apple made the first two episodes of the show available to stream. There were almost 13,000 reports on Downdetector before Apple acknowledged the problem on its System Status page. Reports say the outage was brief, lasting less than an hour... [T]here remains a Resolved Outage note on Apple TV (simply saying "Some users were affected; users experienced a problem with Apple TV" between 10:29 and 11.38 p.m.), as well as on Apple Music and Apple Arcade, which also went down at the same time. Social media reports indicated that the outage was widespread.

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Mr Lammy, whose other main job is Justice Secretary, allegedly orders Ministry of Justice (MoJ) staff to use his 'DPM' title first. Sources close to Mr Lammy denied the claim.

The row over BBC bias deepened tonight after two of its leading presenters claimed that airing concerns about its coverage was part of a political campaign to 'destroy' the Corporation.

After two failed marriages, Jennifer Aniston said she was happy being single at the age of 56.

Senior BBC journalists are said to be furious over the censuring of Martine Croxall amid claims that the Corporation has been 'captured by trans ideologists'.

At last year's general election , Labour promised not to increase national insurance, income tax or VAT on those 'working people'.

Before the infamous Panorama interview in which he lured Princess Diana onto primetime TV through a series of lies, Martin Bashir was more or less a nobody in media circles.

Yutong vehicles have been purchased by transport networks across the country since 2018, with the overall number operating in Britain believed to stand at more than 2,500.

Christian Bruckner, 48, was released from a prison near Hanover in September after serving seven years for the rape of a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.

Jennifer Lawrence called out 'annoying' Kourtney Kardashian as she briefly opened up about her love for reality TV.

Ministers have already drawn fire from veterans after scrapping the Legacy Act, a Tory law which gave soldiers immunity from prosecutions.

James Black, principal of Mount Blue Middle School in Farmington, came under intense scrutiny after a viral photo showed him dressed as an ICE agent.

New details about Mangione's bizarre encounter in Bangkok are laid bare in Last Known Contact, by an anonymous author who claims to have been traveling with the accused killer.

The 40-year-old billionaire tech tycoon was speaking inside the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on Monday when a lawyer stormed the stage.

Sean Middleborough, 32, who was being held on remand at HMP Wandsworth in south-west London, was granted bail for a weekend to attend his brother's wedding. But he did not return to prison.

"The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look," says a new web page at Firefox.com. "Kit's our new mascot and your new companion through an internet that's private, open and actually yours." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli believes the new mascot "is meant to communicate that message in a warmer, more relatable way." And Firefox is already selling shirts with Kit over the pocket (as well as stickers)...

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LORD ASHCROFT: The word 'legend' is overused. But on Remembrance Sunday, it is worth telling the story of a truly remarkable officer.

I'm told Noel, 58, has splashed out on the mega-mansion from his multi-million pound earnings in the sell-out Oasis tour.

MICHAEL GOVE: This Tuesday, for two precious minutes, the country will be united. The memory of our war dead, and the sacrifices they made, will compel solemnity and silence.

Until last year, Karim Khan (pictured) was little known outside a charmed circle of international lawyers and globe-trotting diplomats.