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Gavin and Stacey's on-screen lovers James Corden and Ruth Jones enjoyed lunch together near Primrose Hill on Wednesday.

Hackpocalypse deferred

Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.…

Around 80 retirees staged a protest at the middle-class Solent George park, in Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, on Wednesday in a bid to stop plans hatched by Regency Living.

The television personality, 35, who won the sixteenth series back in 2016, picked a disposable camera as her luxury item so she could document her time in South Africa .

Jess Glynne and Alex Scott looked more loved-up than ever as they posed on the red carpet at the Devil Wears Prada 2 premiere in London on Wednesday. 

Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport, one that requires rapid decisions and precision execution, the project's leader said. Ace did so by employing high-speed perception, AI-based control and a state-of-the-art robotic system. There have been various ping-pong-playing robots since 1983, but until now they were unable to rival highly skilled human competitors. Ace changed that with its performances against human elite-level and professional players in matches following the rules of the International Table Tennis Federation, the sport's governing body, and officiated by licensed umpires. The project's goal was not only to compete at table tennis but to develop insights into how robots can perceive, plan and act with human-like speed and precision in dynamic environments. In matches detailed in the study, Ace in April 2025 won three out of five versus elite players and lost two matches against professional players, the top skill level in the sport. Sony AI said that since then Ace beat professional players in December 2025 and last month. "The success of Ace, with its perception system and learning-based control algorithm, suggests that similar techniques could be applied to other areas requiring fast, real-time control and human interaction -- such as manufacturing and service robotics, as well as applications across sports, entertainment and safety-critical physical domains," said Peter Durr, director of Sony AI Zurich and leader for Sony AI's project Ace. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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Jo Bowen-Jones, from Anglesey, lost her dog when it was bitten by an adder (pictured), three weeks ago, she said.

Karyna Lohvynenko, 21, claims she has been 'ghosted' by AI and made invisible to employers after applying for more than 400 jobs - but only receiving five interviews.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez was stabbed to death before her body was dismembered, the Los Angeles coroner has revealed.

The bollards were put in place after travellers frequently entered Huly Hill in the past and after Edinburgh City Council reportedly refused to secure the site.

The toddler, whose nationality has not been disclosed but has been described locally as a 'foreign national', was stabilised at the scene before being rushed to hospital.

A three-in-one daily blood pressure pill could reduce the risk of stroke patients suffering another brain bleed by nearly 40 per cent, a major trial has found.

Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as a worker at a third-party contractor for Anthropic and trying commonly used internet sleuthing tools often employed by cybersecurity researchers, the person said. The users are part of a private Discord channel that focuses on hunting for information about unreleased models, including by using bots to scour for details that Anthropic and others have posted on unsecured websites such as GitHub. [...] To access Mythos, the group of users made an educated guess about the model's online location based on knowledge about the format Anthropic has used for other models, the person said, adding that such details were revealed in a recent data breach from Mercor, an AI training startup that works with a number of top developers. Crucially, the person also has permission to access Anthropic models and software related to evaluating the technology for the startup. They gained this access from a company for which they have performed contract work evaluating Anthropic's AI models. Bloomberg is not naming the company for security reasons. The group is interested in playing around with new models, not wreaking havoc with them, the person said. The group has not run cybersecurity-related prompts on the Mythos model, the person said, preferring instead to try tasks like building simple websites in an attempt to avoid detection by Anthropic. The person said the group also has access to a slew of other unreleased Anthropic AI models.

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Announcing the plans ahead of St George's Day, Nigel Farage's party said every school in England would be required to honour the patron saint's day if it took power.

New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028

SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD.…

Ajith Kumar Mupparapu, 46, was living in Berkshire with oncologist Dr Sirisha Muttavarapu but she filed for divorce after five years of marriage in 2022.

Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media," writes the Atlantic's Daniel Engber. "To call it a conspiracy theory would be far too kind, because no comprehensive theory has been floated to explain the pattern of events. But then, even the phrase pattern of events is imprecise, because there is no pattern here at all. Given all the people who could have been roped into this narrative but weren't, any hope of finding meaning falls away. Barring any dramatic new disclosures, the mystery of the missing scientists has the dubious honor of being a sham in every way at once."

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Make your model smarter through self-surveillance

Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. …

The new Michael Jackson biopic might be dominating the box office, but it's certainly not impressing critics. The film, titled Michael, is currently one of the worst-rated biopics in recent years.

A drive to encourage police officers to report misogyny in the ranks 'flopped' after it led to only seven online submissions.