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Universal Music Group has settled its copyright lawsuit with AI music startup Udio and struck a licensing deal to launch a new AI-powered music platform next year. The Verge reports: The deal includes some form of compensation and "will provide further revenue opportunities for UMG artists and songwriters," Universal says. Udio, the company behind "BBL Drizzy," will launch the platform as a subscription service next year. Universal, alongside other industry giants Sony and Warner, sued Udio and another startup Suno for "en masse" copyright infringement last year. Universal -- whose roster includes some of the world's biggest performers like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and Ariana Grande -- says the new tool will "transform the user engagement experience" and let creators customize, stream, and share music. There's no indication of how much it will cost yet. Udio's existing music maker, which lets you create new songs with a few words, will remain available during the transition, though content will be held "within a walled garden" and security measures like fingerprinting will be added.

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The Cod Fellas catering truck set up shop on Tuesday in front of the monument (pictured) in Portsmouth, Hampshire, commemorating those who died in the 1982 conflict.

She's been a prominent figure on British television since she was in her early twenties, but some three decades later, 53-year-old Claudia Winkleman has barely aged.

Campaign group Republic says it has instructed lawyers to investigate the Duke of York and, if appropriate, press ahead with legal proceedings.

Amber Davies cut a glamorous figure in a sparkly silver gown as she arrived at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on Thursday.

In April 2022, Rachel Reeves, then Labour shadow chancellor, called on her opposite number Rishi Sunak to resign.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is facing legal action over its decision to ban those born male from competing in the women's game, according to a report.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a massive IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion. It follows a recent corporate restructuring that loosened its dependence on Microsoft and aligned its nonprofit foundation with financial success. Reuters reports: OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some of the people said. In preliminary discussions, the company has looked at raising $60 billion at the low end and likely more, the people said. They cautioned that talks are early and plans -- including the figures and timing - could change depending on business growth and market conditions. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told some associates the company is aiming for a 2027 listing, the people said. But some advisers predict it could come even sooner, around late 2026. [...] An IPO would open the door to more efficient capital raising and enable larger acquisitions using public stock, helping to finance CEO Sam Altman's plans to pour trillions of dollars into AI infrastructure, according to people familiar with the company's thinking. With an annualized revenue run rate expected to reach about $20 billion by year-end, losses are also mounting inside the $500 billion company, the people said. During a livestream on Tuesday, Altman addressed the possibility of going public. "I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," he said.

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In a bombshell statement released tonight, Buckingham Palace said he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

Billionaire James Packer is recovering from a serious cardiac episode in an incident eerily reminiscent of a heart attack suffered by his late father on the polo field.

No costume idea? We've got you covered

Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours.…

Here is a funny number to chew on. Sometime in the early part of 2026, if current trends persist, Google will have a spending rate on servers that is in excess of the inflation adjusted spending levels set by the entire world in the wake of the Dot Com bust. …

Google Spends More On Servers Than The Whole World Used To was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time

Updated  IBM has one-upped AWS and Microsoft by reporting an outage in one of its cloudy quantum computers.…

A critical security flaw in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can crash billions of browsers within seconds. Security researcher Jose Pino discovered the vulnerability and created a proof-of-concept exploit called Brash to demonstrate the bug affecting Chrome, Edge, OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, Dia, Opera and Perplexity Comet. The flaw, reports The Register, exploits the absence of rate limiting on document.title API updates in Chromium versions 143.0.7483.0 and later. The attack injects millions of DOM mutations per second and saturates the main thread. When The Register tested the code on Edge, the browser crashed and the Windows machine locked up after about 30 seconds while consuming 18GB of RAM in one tab. Pino disclosed the bug to the Chromium security team on August 28 and followed up on August 30 but received no response. Google said it is looking into the issue.

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Condensation on windows is a common problem in homes, but it can be easily prevented with a few simple hacks - and it's important to tackle the issue as soon as possible

Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to 'stop it if you see it'

A researcher has found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker's account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic says it has already documented the risk, and its foolproof solution is: keep an eye on your screen.…

Wicks Manor has come out on top in a national sausage competition

Darren Clayton took to Instagram to voice his anger over the attack, slamming London's authorities and Mayor Sadiq Khan , and urging them to take a 'long hard look at themselves.'

AI "cheating" app Cluely's CEO and cofounder, Chungin "Roy" Lee, said most startups flop because their products don't get seen. From a report: "Engineers just cannot make good content," Lee said during a Wednesday interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 "There's a bunch of shallow replicas, but I challenge you to find one video you think is like, 'Yo, this is as tough as Cluely,'" he told TechCrunch. Every startup needs to focus more on distribution. And most startups flop because they fail to get seen, even if they have product-market fit, Lee said. Cluely launched earlier this year as a tool to help software engineers cheat on their job interviews, among other use cases. The startup earlier this year posted a tongue-in-cheek video of Lee trying to use Cluely to impress a woman on a date, which went viral.

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A neighbour of Rachel Reeves 's family home has said the Chancellor should have known better after it emerged she unlawfully rented out the property.