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Emails reveal Edward Rød-Larsen - who killed himself this week amid a police investigation into his family's ties to Epstein - received numerous favors from the convicted sex offender.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN MIAMI: AccuWeather, on whom several teams rely for their meteorological data, stated there is an 88 per cent chance of rain and a 53 per cent threat of thunderstorms.

Suspect: The McCanns follows Kate's cross-examination by detectives investigating the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, and explores lesser-known events from that period.

The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies -- SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS -- to deploy their tools on classified Defense Department networks. The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, providing more military access to their products for use on sensitive topics, the Pentagon said in a statement. The lesser-known Reflection AI, which raised $2 billion in October, is backed by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner and investor. Since the Pentagon deemed Anthropic's products a "supply-chain risk" in March and the two sides became embroiled in a lawsuit, the military has expressed increasing interest in AI startups. Since the blow-up, newer AI entrants have said the military has sped up the process of incorporating them onto secret and top-secret data levels to less than three months. The process previously took 18 months or longer. By expanding AI services offered to troops, who use it for planning, logistics, targeting and in other ways to streamline huge operations and perform more quickly, the Pentagon said in its statement it will avoid "vendor lock," a likely nod to its overdependence on Anthropic or other dominant service providers. [...] AI has become increasingly important for the U.S. military. The Pentagon's main AI platform, GenAI.mil, has been used by over 1.3 million Defense Department personnel, the agency noted in its release, after five months of operation. Further reading: Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI

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A new version of a popular hair-growth drug has led to a dramatic regrowth of hair, new trial results show.

The actor, 37, who owns street food and sauce brand Oh My Glaze, is said to have closed the company.

Fans have been speculating who the name, which Olivia referred to as 'My Baby,' could refer to.

Grange Hill is the country's favourite children's television show lost to our screens. Of 2,000 Britons just under half say it was their favourite show, according to a new poll by Perspectus Global.

Zayn Malik has cancelled 22 US and UK tour dates after he was hospitalised with a mystery illness.

'Britney is doing very well, she feels great and is optimistic about her future,' a source told the Daily Mail. 'She will continue to work on herself to be the best person she can be and really thrive in life.'

This seldom-seen actress looked unrecognizable when she was pictured out in Los Angeles this week in photos obtained by the Daily Mail.

ICANN has opened applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012. The Register reports: ICANN hasn't offered new gTLDs since 2012, but on Thursday opened applications for new domains in 27 scripts. A 439-page Applicant Guidebook explains the process. The Register suggests paying attention to the string evaluation FAQ, which explains which gTLDs are valid, and those ICANN will likely frown upon. An FAQ describes this round of applications as giving "businesses, communities, and others the opportunity to apply for new top-level domains tailored to their community, culture, language, business, and customers." "A TLD can be a branding opportunity for a business, but the commercial opportunities are endless, allowing businesses in countries, entire sectors, or niche markets to develop a unique label on the Internet." ICANN also sees this round as a chance to "create a more multilingual Internet for the billions of people who speak and write in different languages and scripts and are yet to come online." If you fancy a gTLD, you'll need to pay a $227,000 application fee by August 12th ... and then wait, possibly until 2030 when this process ends.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals why now was the best time to announce he's handing over the reins to his successor, John Ternus.

A Texas resident said the light is 'shining even brighter than the entire city,' adding that it is 'polluting the sky so badly you cannot even see the stars we sing about shining big and bright.'

The legal battle stretches back to 2021, when Brown was sued by Maria's sister Patricia Avila, who worked with Maria as his cleaning lady.

The Dune actress sparked rumours she had said 'I do' to the Spider-Man actor, 29, by flashing a big sparkly engagement ring alongside a gold wedding band this week.

ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Given the dour headlines as of late concerning the diminishing amounts of entry-level software development jobs, coupled with predictions of applications entirely AI-generated, one could be forgiven for assuming that software developers may soon be an endangered species. However, the data tells a different story. James Bessen, professor at Boston University, has been pushing back for some time against the talk of AI and automation displacing jobs on a mass scale, and lately has been arguing that the roles of software developers are nowhere near extinction. AI is certainly not killing the software developer, Bessen said in a recent analysis (PDF). AI is taking over software development tasks and boosting productivity and output, but that is not translating into lost jobs, he argued. Instead, the types of software skills sought by companies are changing. "Surprisingly, however, after three years of AI use, software developer jobs have continued to grow robustly, reaching record levels of employment -- 2.5 million in February," Bessen said in the report, citing data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of software developers in the US has grown by over 400,000, or 19%, since ChatGPT was introduced in 2022. At that time, the employed software developer population was just under 2.1 million. [...] The productivity uptick developers are seeing may ultimately be a boost to their professional opportunities, however. "An important and possibly disruptive change is happening, but the common view misunderstands what is going on," Bessen pointed out in his report. "Careful case studies find that AI improves the productivity of software developers -- that is, the software produced per developer -- by 30%, 50%, or more. And the rate of productivity improvement in software development is improving." Tellingly, since 2022, when ChatGPT was introduced, developer productivity has increased noticeably, Bessen continued. "From 2003 to 2022, developer productivity grew at 3.9% per year; but from 2022 through 2025, it grew at 6% per year." [...] A coming flood of new software products, now more likely to be enhanced by AI, will continue to create jobs for developers, Bessen predicted. "Thus, mass unemployment of software developers seems unlikely to happen soon." This doesn't mean the job descriptions of developers or other computer occupations will remain static. AI is shifting and re-inventing these roles, Bessen added.

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Richard Simmons' live-in housekeeper Teresa Reveles, who had worked for him for 35 years and was among the last people to see him alive, discovered his body in 2024.

Mr Polanski has been under pressure for more than 24 hours for sharing a social media post accusing officers of heavy-handedness during the incident on Wednesday.

Kane Farragher had taken a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and ketamine when he got behind the wheel of a high-powered BMW which was flagged as a 'vehicle of interest' by police.