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Gavin White, 46, was away with family in July 2023 when he suffered a seizure on the beach and was given six to 14 months to live.

Harry Judd was left panicking after forgetting his bib on the morning of the London Marathon on Sunday.

Washington's biggest night made headlines for all the wrong reasons after a gunman opened fire sending panic rippling through the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.

Keir Starmer has sent a message of 'solidarity' to the US President after the disturbing scenes.

Terror unfolded at the annual media event after a crazed gunman stormed through a security checkpoint and opened fire.

Worshippers from across the world are anticipated to attend the three-day 'Ijtema', or gathering, which is being organised by the Markazi Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

She died six days after a car hit her and other pedestrians outside a nightclub in London

Reactor number four at Chernobyl, a then-Soviet nuclear facility near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded on April 26, 1986, and emitted more than 100 radioactive elements into the atmosphere.

While there are many who have managed to take on the challenge, there are some celebrities who have regretted signing up for the race.

Relationship expert at real-life dating app happn Claire Renier has revealed five steps those in the uncomfortable position should follow.

Mel C has shared the secrets behind her incredibly chiselled and muscular physique and she declared that 'fitness is a huge part of who I am'.

For the past three years, the only resident of this gargantuan Knightsbridge property has been a very cheerful and heavily-bearded Swede called Anders Fernstedt.

It wasn't until Christopher Trybus's manslaughter trial that it emerged he had a second wife, as she accompanied him to court, never doubting the IT consultant's innocence.

A former CIA director of a secret government program has revealed that every person has the hidden ability to tap into the infinite consciousness of the universe.

Four police officers turned up at Lucy and Rob Davies' home and hauled them off to a police station where they were held for 22 hours before officers accepted they had done nothing wrong.

The site currently looks 'absolutely awful' after multiple fires

Hannah Spencer, who embarrassed Labour in the Gorton & Denton by-election in February, hit out at the 'unprofessional' culture in Parliament.

The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

opinion  You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old armed man from California, has been charged with firearm offenses and assaulting a federal officer after storming the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase Americans' sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, domestically and abroad, as advances in AI take surveillance to unprecedented levels... " Congressional funding is supercharging huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI, which automates analysis of very large amounts of data. The massive 2025 tax-and-spending law netted the Department of Homeland Security an unprecedented US$165 billion in yearly funding. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS, got about $86 billion. Disclosure of documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a massive surveillance web that has all Americans in its scope. DHS is expanding its AI surveillance capabilities with a surge in contracts to private companies. It is reportedly funding companies that provide more AI-automated surveillance in airports; adapters to convert agents' phones into biometric scanners; and an AI platform that acquires all 911 call center data to build geospatial heat maps to predict incident trends. Predicting incident trends can be a form of predictive policing, which uses data to anticipate where, when and how crime may occur... Meanwhile, the Trump administration's national policy framework for artificial intelligence, released on March 20, 2026, urges Congress to use grants and tax incentives to fund "wider deployment of AI tools across American industry" and to allow industry and academia to use federal datasets to train AI. Using federal datasets this way raises privacy law concerns because they contain a lifetime of sensitive details about you, including biographical, employment and tax information.... The author argues that it's now critical for Americans to know "why the laws you might think are protecting your data do not apply or are ignored." On March 18, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed to Congress that the FBI is buying Americans' data from data brokers, including location histories, to track American citizens.... But in buying your data in bulk on the commercial market, the government is circumventing the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions and federal laws designed to protect your privacy from unwarranted government overreach... Supreme Court cases require police to get a warrant to search a phone or use cellular or GPS location information to track someone. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act's Wiretap Act prohibits unauthorized interception of wire, oral and electronic communications. Despite some efforts, Congress has failed to enact legislation to protect data privacy, the use of sensitive data by AI systems or to restore the intent of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent. In my opinion, the way to begin to address these problems is to restore the Wiretap Act and related laws to their intended purposes of protecting Americans' privacy in communications, and for Congress to follow through on its promises and efforts by passing legislation that secures Americans' data privacy and protects them from AI harms. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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