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George Osbourne is mourning his uncle Antony Little, the artist who co-founded home decor company Osborne & Little with the former chancellor's father Sir Peter. 

Celebrities to opt for a suave look include Daniel Craig and Jake Gyllenhaal, who have worn colourful velvet ensembles on the red carpet in recent weeks.

On Instagram, the Princess of Wales's younger sibling, 37, spoke about past struggles and reflected on being 'excited for the future' as well as seeing his son Inigo, one, grow up.

A new photo of Ariana Grande looking 'dangerously thin' has sparked concerns among fans and doctors.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 when they attacked Payton Leutner, also 12, in a sickening attack that shocked America in 2014.

Class act: Cloud biz only serves 60M-plus folks globally, no biggie

A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info – stolen.…

Plaintiffs in Kadrey v. Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg authorized the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated ebooks and articles for training. They further accuse the company of concealing its actions by stripping copyright information and torrenting the data. TechCrunch reports: In newly unredacted documents filed (PDF) with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California late Wednesday, plaintiffs in Kadrey v. Meta, who include bestselling authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, recount Meta's testimony from late last year, during which it was revealed that Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of a data set called LibGen for Llama-related training. LibGen, which describes itself as a "links aggregator," provides access to copyrighted works from publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education. LibGen has been sued a number of times, ordered to shut down, and fined tens of millions of dollars for copyright infringement. According to Meta's testimony, as relayed by plaintiffs' counsel, Zuckerberg cleared the use of LibGen to train at least one of Meta's Llama models despite concerns within Meta's AI exec team and others at the company. The filing quotes Meta employees as referring to LibGen as a "data set we know to be pirated," and flagging that its use "may undermine [Meta's] negotiating position with regulators." The filing also cites a memo to Meta AI decision-makers noting that after "escalation to MZ," Meta's AI team "[was] approved to use LibGen." (MZ, here, is rather obvious shorthand for "Mark Zuckerberg.") The details seemingly line up with reporting from The New York Times last April, which suggested that Meta cut corners to gather data for its AI. At one point, Meta was hiring contractors in Africa to aggregate summaries of books and considering buying the publisher Simon & Schuster, according to the Times. But the company's execs determined that it would take too long to negotiate licenses and reasoned that fair use was a solid defense. The filing Wednesday contains new accusations, like that Meta might've tried to conceal its alleged infringement by stripping the LibGen data of attribution.

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Prince Harry 's ex-girlfriend is pregnant with her second child. Cressida Bonas, 35, who is married to property investor Harry Wentworth-Stanley, says she used an embryo that she had frozen.

A group of scientists from the Consortium for Children's Environmental Health urged increased regulations surrounding synthetic chemicals that have been linked to childhood cancers.

Trump cryptically suggested they look for a 'quiet place' where they could discuss the mystery matter after the service, a lipreader told DailyMail.com.

The Chiefs tight end and the pop star, who recently wrapped up her mammoth Eras Tour after 21 months, have been together since the summer of 2023.

On Thursday, the Top Gear star, 55, shared that he and his spouse have split after 22 years of marriage, writing in a statement they will 'always be in each other's lives.'

On Wednesday, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams joined fellow astronauts Nick Hague and Don Pettit at the ISS to share more details about their lives in space.

Lebanon's lawmakers on Thursday elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy in the position, in a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial crisis.

Beware the IoT that doesn’t get a security tag

The White House this week introduced a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for technology products so that consumers can have some assurance their smart devices aren't spying on them.…

A pair of thugs have been jailed for beating up a homeless man with a crutches before robbing him in an attacked suspected to be 'fuelled by drink and or drugs.'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says IT departments will evolve into human resources managers for AI agents, as companies adopt AI tools across their operations. "In a lot of ways, the IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future," Huang told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. From a report: He believes that in the not so near future IT teams will be tasked with onboarding these agents and ensuring they're kept in line, similarly to how HR teams manage employees. They may need to be trained to use certain vocabulary that's unique to the company, or be given examples of the kind of product the team is looking to develop, or briefed on company culture policies. Instead of just fixing servers and resetting passwords, IT professionals will soon be supervising fleets of digital workers.

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In the 15 years since the King Of Pop's passing, Prince, 27, Paris, 26, and Bigi, 22, have all faced the scrutiny of growing up in the public eye.

A group of seven lurcher pups were taken from Shroton in Dorset after callous raiders broke into a building between 10.50pm and 11.10pm on December 28

Sterling tumbled to its lowest level against the US dollar for over a year this morning as investors continued to push up risk premium on UK gilts - the way the state finances its activities.