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The singer, 28, announced on Instagram on Friday she gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday evening.

Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specific case numbers, and accept a shorter seven-day default retention period. Critics, including the ACLU, argue the changes still leave too much surveillance power in police hands. The Associated Press reports: In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said many of the product changes will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory for its users to implement by Jan. 1. Among them: All law enforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool that's intended to flag abnormal search behavior. When the system detects abnormal behavior, the user would be locked out pending an internal review, the company said in a description of the changes provided ahead of Thursday's announcement. Flock, which says its customers own the data that the cameras record, is also shortening the standard data retention window from 30 days to seven. It said it will allow data to be preserved for longer when it is evidence tied to a case number. Law enforcement users will now also be required to enter a code from their records management system tying each search to a specific case before it is run, something Langley said civil liberties advocates have long been calling for. Overrides for emergencies would be automatically flagged for review, the company said. Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types -- such as homicide or arson -- outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to immigration enforcement, the company said. Langley said that change will give individual cities and departments control to use the system in a manner "consistent with community values." Critics say Flock's changes don't address the core problem: police can still decide for themselves when and whom to search without judicial oversight. The ACLU called the shorter data-retention period "a step in the right direction," but dismissed the other safeguards as "retreads" of inadequate protections, while Institute for Justice attorney Robert Frommer called the reforms "window dressing" from a company in "panic mode." He argued that searches should instead be approved "by judges with real warrants."

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The Lincoln and its more than 5,000 sailors and Marines have spent over 250 days at sea since leaving San Diego last November, diverted to support the war with Iran.

Gwyneth Paltrow and lookalike daughter Apple Martin twinned in swimsuits as they enjoyed a relaxing afternoon together recently.

France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "The Council holds that the contested provisions, on the one hand, disproportionately infringe upon the freedom of expression and communication and, on the other, fail to provide the legal safeguards necessary to ensure the right to respect for private life," it said. French lawmakers had approved the bill in July, becoming the first in Europe to follow Australia, whose world-first ban barred access to platforms including Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for under-16s in December. Lawmakers there are considering stricter penalties after data showed mixed success. Countries around the globe, including China, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, have either instituted measures intended to curtail or bar access to social media for young people, or have said they were planning them. The European Union has said it was planning to seek stronger protections for children from harmful social media features.

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As the first McLaren of its kind, the McL 6GT will celebrate 'tactile, analogue and deeply mechanical' driving, and connect 'McLaren's heritage to the present'.

Cami Clark, 47, has been vital to the success of her billionaire husband, Dario Amodei - but has now sought to make herself as private as possible.

A powerful boat carrying 15 passengers dodged the French navy and the UK Border Force in a brand-new white inflatable with a 20hp £2,000 Suzuki outboard motor.

In a hearing on Friday, the 58-year-old cut a much calmer figure than his last court appearance, and was allowed to appear unshackled and change out of an orange prison issued jumpsuit.

By now, folk are aware enough of Hunt's remarkable talents, both for the winning of races over short distances and her willingness to accompany the golds with spoken nuggets.

A 16-year-old passenger has described a chaotic wait to board in Malta, with travellers allegedly becoming increasingly distressed as temperatures rose.

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

Out and about in the Shropshire town of Bridgnorth, Louise Elkes cuts a somewhat unassuming figure.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez got married at their new £30million mansion near Lisbon in front of just four witnesses and their children, it emerged today.

Helen Flanagan has branded herself 'the wicked witch' as she candidly shared her struggles of being a single mum.

LEWIS STEELE: It is a mega-money deal that sees the Boston-based FSG, who also own baseball behemoths the Red Sox, set for a £1.65billion payout.

The latest incident has occurred at Wickford in Essex and appears to involve a Greater Anglia service.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS says that its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), used one of Iron Mountain's Denver data centers to store the channel's data. However, OSS is being unresponsive, and Nine PBS says Iron Mountain has refused to release its data. The data in question includes the station's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, East St. Louis' history, The Great Flood of 1993, and over 11,000 files, The Denver Post reported in July. The lawsuit claims that "most" of the data is "unique and irreplaceable," according to the Post. Last month, a judge blocked Iron Mountain from deleting or modifying the data. In a hearing on Wednesday, a judge ruled that Iron Mountain must hand over any physical devices holding the data, Current reported today. The judge also said that Nine PBS must find a third party, such as a former OSS worker, who can help retrieve the data within 30 days and without sharing or corrupting data belonging to other OSS clients. Nine PBS is already communicating with a former OSS employee "who is willing to help," the report said. If complications arise, such as from the data being encrypted, another hearing will be scheduled. Nine PBS and Iron Mountain must provide updates by September 14. Iron Mountain's spokesperson said the company only provides physical infrastructure, such as the building, network connectivity, power, and environmental controls. "Our customers rent space for their servers and other hardware. These are the client's assets. We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers because they belong to our customers," the company said. If it granted "unauthorized access to third-party hardware without a court order," Iron Mountain said the company would violate basic data privacy protocols, breach its contract with OSS, and "potentially [expose] confidential data belonging to other clients of OSS."

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Despite fans branding the lineup the 'worst ever' in the show's 22-year run, the contestants still looked in great spirits as they arrived at the studio in London.

Tyler Muehl, 18, of La Jolla, took a plea agreement on Thursday as he appeared in federal court for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which prohibits harassing wildlife.