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Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun

OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.…

Dunalastair House in the Perthshire town of Pitlochry, Scotland was built in 1859 by a local architect - but nearly 100 years later the once-majestic building fell into disuse.

Crashes the multibillion-dollar DoD party alongside Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon

There are no official criteria for what constitutes membership in the upper echelon of the US military industrial complex, but a $10 billion deal that consolidates dozens of contracts under a single blanket purchase agreement sure makes it seem like Palantir has earned entry.…

Police say the teen massacred his family at their $1.5million lakefront home in Fall City, Washington, on October 2024.

Jeffrey Epstein's associate was serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking in a Tallahassee prison.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple CEO Tim Cook appears unfazed by concerns that advancements in AI could topple the iPhone's dominance. During Thursday's earnings call, Wamsi Moen, an analyst with Bank of America, asked Cook directly how Apple is preparing for a world where dependence on screen-based devices "significantly diminishes," thanks to advances in AI. Cook didn't seem to see an imminent threat to Apple's hero product. "When you when you think about all the things an iPhone can do, from connecting people to bringing app and game experiences to life, to taking photos and videos, to helping users explore the world and conduct their financial lives and pay for things and so much more, you know, it's difficult to see a world where iPhone's not living in it," Cook said. "And that doesn't mean that we are not thinking about other things as well," Cook added, "but I think that the devices are likely to be complementary devices, not substitution." Apple said yesterday it had sold 3 billion iPhones since the product's launch in 2007

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Maxwell, 63, who was in Tallahassee Federal prison before being transferred to a low security prison in Texas on Thursday, was in an 'open unit' where she was housed in close proximity to other crooks.

An Afghan hero who carried the body of a British special forces soldier with the now-Veterans Minister Al Carns has been tortured while fleeing from the Taliban amid more executions

Josue David Mendez-Sales, 26, and Pablo Neftaly Cobon-Mendez, 23, were arrested in West Palm Beach for the sexual battery of a child, prompting Florida's AG to call for the death penalty.

Paramount Penguin Linus Torvalds still uses a 2017 graphics card

As work picks up on the forthcoming Linux 6.17, many joystick-wigglers are shocked by its millionaire dev's positively ancient AMD graphics card.…

It's a 'simple but powerful' change coming to stores

The model, 45, and her husband, 40, have jetted off to Ponza, Italy , for a sun-soaked holiday. And Kelly gave followers an insight into their trip on Friday.

A Brussels court has issued an unusually broad site-blocking order targeting Internet Archive's Open Library alongside shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, and Z-Library. The order, requested by publishing and author organizations, directs an unprecedented range of intermediaries to take action beyond traditional ISP blocks. Search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs, hosting companies, and payment processors -- including Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, PayPal, and Starlink -- must restrict access to the targeted sites. The court found "clear and significant infringement" in the ex parte proceeding.

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Roger Waters, 81, launched a civil case after his brother John died in 2022 and long-term tenant Lokuliyanage Cabral produced a latter claiming he was a beneficiary in a mystery will.

Our tests have shown there are ways to get around the promised security improvements

exclusive  Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves.…

Starmer's statement seemed entirely designed to put pressure on Israel. He didn't even mention the 50 remaining hostages being kept in Gaza, of whom 21 are reckoned to be alive.

The toughest series of the year so far was filmed in Wales last summer and sees them, along with 12 other contestants, have orders barked at them by ex-Special Forces officers.

The frontman behind a whites-only community in remote Arkansas who touts its residents' conservative values has a history of performing in sex-for-tips porn videos, Daily Mail can reveal. 

Myleene Klass has defiantly insisted she 'doesn't care if people don't like her anymore' in a powerful admission on her Instagram on Friday.

Spy vs. spy

China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year.…