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Ed Sheeran attempted to showcase his strength by challenging Chris Hemsworth to an arm wrestle in a clip shared to Instagram on Thursday.

Daffodils - the main national symbol of Wales - were very much the theme on this late Winter day with Kate handed bouquets by excited punters queueing up for a chance to see the royals.

The 37-year-old Oscar winner courted 'several stars' to portray her leading man, but Chris Pine 'landed it after multiple meetings'

The haul had a potential street value of up to £3m

Video footage showed the moment the tour guide, who has since been suspended, was caught scribing with chalk near the Pyramid of Unas in Saqqara, close to Cairo.

Kate and Prince William are carrying out a series of engagements in Wales today ahead of St David's Day.

It means they are more likely to switch suddenly into a limited 'safety mode', which can be fatal for some people who are fully reliant on the gadget to regulate their heart rhythm.

The talks are seen as the administration's last-ditch effort to peacefully defuse military tensions with Iran.

Melania Trump, 55, seems to march to the beat of her own drum as First Lady - and it is something that appears to apply to her wardrobe too.

Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS and Linux, bringing a new AI Settings section that lets users disable all of the browser's AI-powered features in one click and then selectively re-enable the ones they actually want, such as the local translation tool that works locally rather than in the cloud. The update also patches more than 50 security vulnerabilities -- none known to be under active exploitation -- over half of which Mozilla classifies as high risk, including five sandbox escape flaws and eight use-after-free bugs in the JavaScript engine that could allow code execution.

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A prison inmate formerly housed with Ghislaine Maxwell revealed that the convicted sex trafficker's body odor and personal hygiene irritated other lags in their lockup.

A new pill could help patients lose more weight and gain better control of their blood sugar levels than current weight loss medications, a promising new study has found.

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. (Image is AI-generated).

Residents claim the van will 'encourage' unhealthy eating habits to children

EU fraud investigators have been asked to investigate Peter Mandelson's friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, it was revealed today.

Corey Feldman has officially finalized his divorce, with a Los Angeles judge signing off on a financial settlement that includes a six-figure lump-sum payment.

Speaking of the Citrini's blog post, which imagines a near-future AI-driven economic collapse, and which ended up help triggering the S&P 500's worst single-day drop in nearly two weeks on Monday, FT Alphaville decided to track how US stock markets have moved on the release days of notable dystopian speculative fiction throughout history. The story adds: You may contend that this is facile. We would agree. You might contend that the comparisons make no sense because it's possible to read a blog post during a single work shift, but it's tricker to complete a whole novel (or sneak out to watch a movie). We would contend: do you really think traders read? Let's begin. The methodology -- tracking S&P 500 daily moves for post-1986 releases and DJIA moves for pre-1986 ones -- crowned The Matrix as the all-time leader, its March 1999 US debut coinciding with a 1.11% drop in the index. Citrini's "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" came in a close second at -1.04%. On the positive end, the 2013 release of Her, a film about a man falling in love with an AI agent, coincided with the largest gain in the set at +1.66%.

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Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

A crumbling 'James Bond-style' World War Two power station hidden deep in woodland for 80 years has hit the market for £2million.

'The dentist says I've got this awful thing called pockets,' my friend told me. This dreaded dental condition affects around 54 per cent of the adult population.