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alternative_right writes: A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed "machines that can grow by consuming other machines." Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form into more complex shapes like triangles and tetrahedrons. With each piece consumed, the whole moves faster and with more elegance. "AI systems need bodies to move beyond current limitations. Physical embodiment brings the AI into the messy, constraint-rich real world -- and that's where true generalization has to happen," Phillipe Martin Wyder, lead researcher on the project, told 404 Media.

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Cadbury has sparked fury among shoppers after cutting the number of bars in a pack just less than a year after a previous bout of shrinkflation.

The Ark of the Covenant, a millennia-old biblical artifact shrouded in mystery, has once again captured global attention with new revelations that may lead to its hidden location.

Couples say they 'couldn't ask for anything better' from the award winning venue

Proton has begun relocating infrastructure outside Switzerland ahead of proposed surveillance legislation requiring VPNs and messaging services with over 5,000 users to identify customers and retain data for six months. The company's AI chatbot Lumo became the first product hosted on German servers rather than Swiss infrastructure. CEO Andy Yen confirmed the decision and a spokesperson told TechRadar that the company isn't fully exiting Switzerland. In a blog post about the launch of Lumo last month, Proton's Head of Anti-Abuse and Account Security, Eamonn Maguire, explained that the company had decided to invest outside Switzerland for fear of the looming legal changes. He wrote: "Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance -- proposals that have been outlawed in the EU -- Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move." The proposed amendments to Switzerland's Ordinance on the Surveillance of Correspondence by Post and Telecommunications would also mandate decryption capabilities for providers holding encryption keys. Proton is developing additional facilities in Norway.

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Vance's family holiday with his wife, Usha Chilukuri, 39. and their three children, has sparked controversy this week with locals claiming their lives were 'made hell' by police convoys and helicopters.

System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails

A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious agents to autonomously harvest users’ personal data, even by attackers with "minimal technical expertise”, thanks to "system prompt" customization tools from OpenAI and others.…

Appalled passengers onboard an EasyJet flight bound for Alicante from Luton on Friday night said that it was clear from the sounds coming from the toilets that the couple were fulfilling their X-rated vow.

Just a few minutes in the shower or pool is enough to turn your fingers into wrinkly prunes. But doctors are warning in some cases, those wrinkles could be a sign of serious health issues lurking.

Five vehicles were involved and the crash happened at around 4.55pm today.

Switchzilla's summer of perfect 10s

Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands on vulnerable systems.…

Meghan Reinertsen, 29, said she spent 90 minutes locked inside the lavatory during the July 2024 flight from Newark to Indianapolis after eating an undercooked burger.

On Thursday night, the infamous Sex and the City spinoff ended its run, and now showrunner Michael Patrick King has revealed why they couldn't 'keep going.'

The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, and the former glamour model, 47, split in 2009 after four years of marriage, but have remained devoted parents to their children Junior, 20, and Princess, 18.

Rei Hajdaraj, 20, was found by police with twelve snap-bags of cocaine in his car on St Alphonsus Road in Lambeth on 8 June 2025.

Naomi Saatchi, now 43, was a 21-year-old healthcare assistant living in St, Paul's, Bristol, when she was raped by David Watson-Williams 22 years ago in her own home.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that AI investments have entered bubble territory. His remarks: "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes." "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth. If you look at most of the bubbles in history, like the tech bubble, there was a real thing. Tech was really important. The internet was a really big deal. People got overexcited." He added that he thinks it's "insane" that some AI startups with "three people and an idea" are receiving funding at such high valuations. "That's not rational behavior," Altman said. "Someone's gonna get burned there, I think. Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money."

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Boasting a staggering 1,065 horsepower, it is officially the most potent model with numberplates that Lamborghini has ever sold to the public

It's not immediately obvious that it was filmed in Essex

It should have been one of the happiest days of Skye Stout's life when she signed for Scottish side Kilmarnock on Thursday, with the club announcing the news on their official social media pages.