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The 70-year-old leading man took to Instagram to honor the talented actor as he posted a scene from the 1990 classic.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Tuesday it will acquire Statsig in an all-stock deal valuing the product testing startup at about $1.1 billion based on OpenAI's current valuation of $300 billion. The ChatGPT maker will also appoint Statsig's chief executive officer, Vijaye Raji, as OpenAI's tech chief of applications, in a push to build on its artificial intelligence products amid strong competition from rivals. [...] In his role, Vijaye will head product engineering for ChatGPT and the company's coding agent, Codex, with responsibilities that span core systems and product lines including infrastructure, the company said. Statsig builds tools to help software developers test and flag new features. It raised $100 million in funding earlier this year. Once the acquisition is finalized, Statsig employees will work for OpenAI but will continue operating independently out of its Seattle office, OpenAI said. The move follows the acquisition of iPhone designer Jony Ive's startup, io Products, in a $6.5 billion deal to usher in "a new family of products" for the age of artificial general intelligence.

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President Donald Trump reacted to social media rumors suggesting he was 'dead' during a White House event on Tuesday.

Idris Elba , who stars in the film, was supported by his wife Sabrina on the red carpet, and they shared a passionate kiss ahead of the main event.

Coleen Rooney was spotted leaving an Indian restaurant with unbuttoned blue jeans with her husband Wayne in Manchester on Tuesday.

Residents of a St Louis community are speaking out decades after a secret program exposed them to potentially cancer-causing chemicals they claim shattered their families.

New evidence photos have revealed the inside of Bryan Kohberger's apartment, soulless and abandoned after he upped sticks and left Washington after murdering four Idaho students.

A federal judge spared Google from the harshest penalties in its antitrust case. The search giant can keep Chrome and avoid breaking up Android, but it has been barred from exclusive contracts and ordered to limit data sharing with rivals. CNBC reports: U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the most severe consequences that were proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including selling off its Chrome browser, which provides data that helps its advertising business deliver targeted ads. "Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment," the decision stated. "Plaintiffs overreached in seeking forced divesture of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints." The company can make payments to preload products, but it cannot have exclusive contracts, the decision stated. The DOJ asked Google to stop the practice of "compelled syndication," which refers to the practice of making certain deals with companies to ensure its search engine remains the default choice in browsers and smartphones. [...] The judge ordered the parties to meet by September 10th for the final judgement. "Google will not be barred from making payments or offering other consideration to distribution partners for preloading or placement of Google Search, Chrome, or its GenAI products. Cutting off payments from Google almost certainly will impose substantial -- in some cases, crippling -- downstream harms to distribution partners, related markets, and consumers, which counsels against a broad payment ban." [...] Google said it will appeal the ruling, which would delay any potential penalties. Mehta ruled Tuesday that Google will have to make available certain search index data and user interaction data though "not ads data." The court narrowed the datasets Google will be required to share and said they must occur on "ordinary commercial terms that are consistent with Google's current syndication services."

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National Guard troops will be heading to Chicago - but President Donald Trump won't say when they will deploy.

There has been a boom in demand for self-storage units - with the number of sites offering the service up 16% to 2,200 since 2020.

The former Prime Minister said his old political foe had set back the independence cause with her record in office and leading the SNP through a financial scandal.

In Britain as a whole, the average tip is £3.76, a figure which has increased 9% in the past year. Among the least generous cities are Cardiff, and Hull.

California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's agricultural equity advisers are reportedly set to finalize plans to redistribute farmland minorities to 'help rebuild stolen wealth.'

Glamorous drug dealer Grace Mort, 25, from Barry, South Wales, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and ecstasy tablets with a street value of £8,000.

The 'female employee', as she was usually referred to in media reports, made accusations of inappropriate and coercive behaviour of a sexual nature against then Red Bull team principal Horner.

Helen Flanagan transformed into the evil stepmother ahead of her pantomime debut in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in Liverpool this Christmas.

Kim Jong Un's daughter made a shock appearance alongside her father in Beijing, sparking rumors that she is being groomed to take over the regime.

Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?

The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.…

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it'll be added to LLM datasets. 404 Media reports: Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. "We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data," the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. "If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets." LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site's owner paid a $50,000 ransom. "Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero," the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site's owners several days to cough up the cash. "If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws."

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It appears that the Duchess of Sussex, 44, has quietly shut down her ShopMy website, which sold items such as £20 grey t-shirts to £1,600 silk gowns.