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Thousands are feared dead after a churning wall of mud, rock and freezing water bulldozed down the Rasuwa valley, crumpling concrete and washing away entire villages in disaster-movie scenes.

Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse

The charging conference marks a pivotal moment for Clancy, whose defense argues that medication used to treat her postpartum psychosis should give jurors a path to a lesser conviction.

In one part of the country, some almost £860,000 is needed for renting in later life in a cruel postcode lottery.

He will spend several years behind bars

Lindsay Cullen, 45, repeatedly threatened to 'expose' the star by forwarding sexual pictures and private messages to friends, colleagues and even a newspaper, a court heard.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. "AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice," he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical." [...] "Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history," he said, adding that "I don't see evidence that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. There is no plan to ease the entry into the AI era." AI can provide great benefits in field like agriculture and medicine, he argued, such as breakthroughs in preventing and treating diseases. But he also noted that the transition carries big risks, like widespread unemployment, harming the educational and social development of children, or making it easier for criminals and bad actors -- or AI itself -- to cause deliberate harm. "As the models become more powerful, they could begin to act against our interests and we could lose control," he warned. These significant risks must be controlled quickly, Gates said. "If someone had a credible plan for slowing down AI advances globally, I would likely support it," he wrote. "However, I don't think that's going to happen. The geopolitical and economic incentives are pushing too hard to go full speed ahead." In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that will air on Wednesday evening, Gates said AI models have gotten dramatically more powerful at a rate faster than he expected. "They're now capable of causing cyberattack risk, bioterrorism risk, psychosocial risk," he said. "I have to say I'm kind of shocked that the exact criteria that we review these models with, and the actions we take to minimize the harms, are really completely missing." In his essay, Gates proposed taxing AI or robots the way you would pay a human employee's payroll tax in order to slow the shift away from using human labor. He also wants to set aside some work to be done by humans only. "My message to leaders is: You have a chance to act now, before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting, and public trust has eroded," he said. "You can make sure AI benefits everyone. And you can work with other governments to meet this national and global challenge."

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The TV presenter, 35, 'hard launched' her relationship with the former TOWIE star, 37, weeks after he first shared photographs of her on his own social media.

Though she has maintained an active career over the years, the star is best known for her work in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A judge in New York ruled Lively will get just five percent of the amount she was seeking for defending herself against Baldoni's $400 million defamation lawsuit.

Fans have roasted Nicole Kidman over her appearance with Sandra Bullock at the Practical Magic 2 premiere in London on Wednesday night.

The actor, who relocated to LA in 1988, never forgot his British roots. And in what turned out to be one of his last public outings, he enjoyed a trip to a local store specializing in food beloved by the Brits.

Jacob Elordi and Kendall Jenner have been spotted out and about again as their new romance continues to heat up. 

The inferno broke out at an industrial site at around 4.30pm and emergency services were still fighting the flames in the hours that followed.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed at Birmingham Airport at lunchtime on Wednesday after flying on a private plane from California to start their new life in the country.

The Conservatives who took back control of Wandsworth Council from Labour earlier this year could go directly to ministers over the 40 per cent cut to its funding.

In figures set to enrage hardworking Britons, the new PM has spent just under £49,000 of taxpayer money setting up his No10 North office in Manchester.

Students - many with huge debts - face 'unacceptable barriers' to finding work, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

Young people in this country have got a raw deal. They were locked up at the worst possible moment in their lives because of a virus that offered them no threat.