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Beginning on Tuesday, the area was struck by its worst windstorms in over a decade, fueling fires in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties that have claimed five lives.

The Weather Channel has rubbished claims it aired footage of a dead body following the California wildfires.

Candy Spelling has lost her Malibu beach house in the California wildfires that have swept through Los Angeles. The 79-year-old icon's 7-bedroom oceanside retreat is now reduced to rubble and ash.

The comedian, 43, was due to take off on Thursday morning for a trip with 15 friends but their plans were delayed.

DAILYMAIL.COM BLOG: Follow live coverage of the state funeral of the 39th US president Jimmy Carter in Washington following his death at the age of 100.

Images taken from space reveal how the deadly LA wildfires spread to engulf more than 27,000 hectares of the city in just three days.

The ushers at Jimmy Carter's funeral couldn't have squeezed more awkward tension into three rows of pews if they had tried.

He hopes his profile as a "famous or infamous" MP can help the area

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a users' web and app activities. A jury trial is scheduled for August 2025 in US District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit concerns Google's Web & App Activity (WAA) settings, with the lead plaintiff representing two subclasses of people with Android and non-Android phones who opted out of tracking. "The WAA button is a Google account setting that purports to give users privacy control of Google's data logging of the user's web app and activity, such as a user's searches and activity from other Google services, information associated with the user's activity, and information about the user's location and device," wrote (PDF) US District Judge Richard Seeborg, the chief judge in the Northern District Of California. Google says that Web & App Activity "saves your activity on Google sites and apps, including associated info like location, to give you faster searches, better recommendations, and more personalized experiences in Maps, Search, and other Google services." Google also has a supplemental Web App and Activity setting that the judge's ruling refers to as "(s)WAA." "The (s)WAA button, which can only be switched on if WAA is also switched on, governs information regarding a user's '[Google] Chrome history and activity from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services.' Disabling WAA also disables the (s)WAA button," Seeborg wrote. But data is still sent to third-party app developers through the Google Analytics for Firebase (GA4F), "a free analytical tool that takes user data from the Firebase kit and provides app developers with insight on app usage and user engagement," the ruling said. GA4F "is integrated in 60 percent of the top apps" and "works by automatically sending to Google a user's ad interactions and certain identifiers regardless of a user's (s)WAA settings, and Google will, in turn, provide analysis of that data back to the app developer." Plaintiffs have brought claims of privacy invasion under California law. Plaintiffs "present evidence that their data has economic value," and "a reasonable juror could find that Plaintiffs suffered damage or loss because Google profited from the misappropriation of their data," Seeborg wrote. The lawsuit was filed in July 2020. The judge notes that summary judgment can be granted when "there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law." Google hasn't met that standard, he ruled. In a statement provided to Ars, Google said that "privacy controls have long been built into our service and the allegations here are a deliberate attempt to mischaracterize the way our products work. We will continue to make our case in court against these patently false claims."

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Love Island: All Stars ' Curtis Pritchard has revealed he's 'excited' to reunite with ex-girlfriend Amy Hart once he leaves the villa.

The presenter, who is paired with professional skater Mark Hanretty, said in an exclusive interview with MailOnline: 'I think it's great when you're a bit older and you are able to push yourself.'

Orlin Roussev, 46, boasted to his controller that he was becoming like the 007 character as he prepared his spying 'toys' for kidnap and surveillance operations across Europe.

GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst

Bets on the future demand for AI drove a 48 percent jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure last year, as cloud providers and enterprises both rushed to invest in servers and GPUs to support generative AI workloads.…

Researchers at the University of Colorado developed a vaccine that left mice immune to weight gain, despite eating a diet high in fat, sugar, and carbs. These mice also had less visceral fat.

Anthony Hopkins , Miles Teller and Anna Faris are just a few of the many celebrities whose stunning mansions have been reduced to ash and rubble.

The Place In The Sun, 36, host posted a video on social media showing her braving the frigid conditions after stripping down to a red bikini.

Delays in appointing specialist doctors to look into deaths not investigated by a coroner in NHS hospitals meant the 'dots' were not joined up, the Hunt told the public inquiry into her crimes.

She has said she will be “leaning into nervousness” on the ITV skating show

Sue Cleaver lifted the lid on her character's exit from Coronation Street on Thursday's episode of Loose Women. 

Dr Karen Zaghiyan, who is based out of Los Angeles, says the first item on her list are dairy products with this including whole milk, reduced fat milk, lactose free milk, yogurt, and cheese.