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It's now obvious to all of us with half a brain that this Labour government is rotten to the core. And in a Cabinet of hypocrites, there is no more brazen exponent of the art than Angela Rayner.

Lauryn and her ex were 13-year-old school students in Michigan when they became the targets of harassment, according to Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

He's the clean-cut Spanish heartthrob whose eight years of skillfully steering female celebrities around the dance floor have made him a Strictly Come Dancing stalwart.

From interview styles to appearance, these TV presenters are desperate to be the best. But what do viewers really think of them?

Hundreds of victims are discovering that their partners have posted private and intimate photos of them on a voyeuristic Italian Facebook group.

Erihanna Sackor, 19, was caught red-handed at Heathrow Airport on June 2 with 14kg of the Class B drug which had been vacuum-sealed and stuffed in her suitcase.

It has fallen to Germany's new leader, Friedrich Merz, to say what every other European leader, including our own Keir Starmer, knows to be true but hasn't the guts to say.

Amal Clooney walked the red carpet at Venice Film festival last night to support her husband George Clooney.

'I wanted to write to you for years,' began the first of its 41 pages. 'I hesitated a long time because Freddie wanted his privacy and because he would have been furious with me.'

The Home Secretary may today be celebrating after the Court of Appeal ruling 140 male asylum seekers can remain at the Epping hotel at the centre of anti-immigrant protests (pictured).

Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has doubled down on his company's refusal to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedding AI in browsing dehumanizes the web, funnels traffic away from publishers, and primarily serves to harvest user data. "Every startup is doing AI, and there is a push for AI inside products and services continuously," he told The Register in a phone interview. "It's not really focusing on what people need." The Register reports: On Thursday, Von Tetzchner published a blog post articulating his company's rejection of generative AI in the browser, reiterating concerns raised last year by Vivaldi software developer Julien Picalausa. [...] Von Tetzchner argues that relying on generative AI for browsing dehumanizes and impoverishes the web by diverting traffic away from publishers and onto chatbots. "We're taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship," he stated in his post. "Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies." Von Tetzchner told The Register that almost all the users he hears from don't want AI in their browser. "I'm not so sure that applies to the general public, but I do think that actually most people are kind of wary of something that's always looking over your shoulder," he said. "And a lot of the systems as they're built today that's what they're doing. The reason why they're putting in the systems is to collect information." Von Tetzchner said that AI in browsers presents the same problem as social media algorithms that decide what people see based on collected data. Vivaldi, he said, wants users to control their own data and to make their own decisions about what they see. "We would like users to be in control," he said. "If people want to use AI as those services, it's easily accessible to them without building it into the browser. But I think the concept of building it into the browser is typically for the sake of collecting information. And that's not what we are about as a company, and we don't think that's what the web should be about." Vivaldi is not against all uses of AI, and in fact uses it for in-browser translation. But these are premade models that don't rely on user data, von Tetzchner said. "It's not like we're saying AI is wrong in all cases," he said. "I think AI can be used in particular for things like research and the like. I think it has significant value in recognizing patterns and the like. But I think the way it is being used on the internet and for browsing is net negative."

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The news came as Israel launched an offensive on the region. During the recovery of the bodies, Israeli troops retrieved the remains Ilan Weiss and those of an unnamed captive.

Despite bringing huge success on the pitch for the Tricky Trees, Marinakis and Espirito Santo certainly haven't always seen eye-to-eye.

The actor, 49, stars alongside Olivia, 51, in The Roses, which is a remake of the original 1989 movie The War of the Roses.

The attack saw two missiles land just 50 yards from the EU mission in the Ukrainian capital, shattering doors and windows.

Barnes has spoken to the All Things Business podcast to address what he claims are misleading reports about his financial affairs. He also said that he has repaid around £2.2m since 2017.

The former Prime Minister held talks on the Middle East process with the US President and his son-in-law Jared Kushner , with whom he has worked with for months, on August 27.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren't able to get the finicky low-level security setting working on their machines and others who were unwilling to allow EA's anti-cheat tools to once again have kernel-level access to their systems. Now, Battlefield 6 technical director Christian Buhl is defending that requirement as something of a necessary evil to combat cheaters, even as he apologizes to any potential players that it has kept away. "The fact is I wish we didn't have to do things like Secure Boot," Buhl said in an interview with Eurogamer. "It does prevent some players from playing the game. Some people's PCs can't handle it and they can't play: that really sucks. I wish everyone could play the game with low friction and not have to do these sorts of things." Throughout the interview, Buhl admits that even requiring Secure Boot won't completely eradicate cheating in Battlefield 6 long term. Even so, he offered that the Javelin anti-cheat tools enabled by Secure Boot's low-level system access were "some of the strongest tools in our toolbox to stop cheating. Again, nothing makes cheating impossible, but enabling Secure Boot and having kernel-level access makes it so much harder to cheat and so much easier for us to find and stop cheating." [...] Despite all these justifications for the Secure Boot requirement on EA's part, it hasn't been hard to find people complaining about what they see as an onerous barrier to playing an online shooter. A quick Reddit search turns up dozens of posts complaining about the difficulty of getting Secure Boot on certain PC configurations or expressing discomfort about installing what they consider a "malware rootkit" on their machine. "I want to play this beta but A) I'm worried about bricking my PC. B) I'm worried about giving EA complete access to my machine," one representative Redditor wrote.

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Rayner saved £40,000 of stamp duty by removing her name from the deeds of her constituency house in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Robin Westman, 23, had only recently broken up with a romantic partner before killing two children in the horrific attack, his father James has revealed.