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The Metropolitan Police were made aware of the video posted online and blocked off public access to Kensington Gardens as they investigated the incident while wearing protective hazmat suits.

The US Navy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have forcefully denied reports that food is running low on the USS Tripoli and the USS Abraham Lincoln, two ships deployed to the Middle East.

The 54-year-old The Leftovers star and the 32-year-old The Gilded Age actress quietly married in March of last year at on the beach in Tulum, Mexico .

"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian: Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with the film-makers on the visual deepfake of the actor. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer, was also assisted by technology for his cameo in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick... Writer-director Coerte Voorhees confirmed that Kilmer is seen for around an hour of the film's running time... Voorhees has said that the production followed Sag-Aftra [union] guidelines, and that Kilmer's estate — which provided archival material for them to use — was compensated financially. "Kilmer's likeness can be seen portraying Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist," adds The Hollywood Reporter. But the AV Club calls it "ghoulish puppet show time." "Having your AI Val Kilmer puppet whisper 'Don't fear the dead, and don't fear me' in a movie trailer is a bold choice..." He is accompanied (per Variety) by a whole host of disclaimers, caveats, and explanations offered by writer-director Coerte Voorhees and his associates: Kilmer deeply wanted to be in the movie, but was too sick to do so. His family endorses and supports his inclusion. He was a big fan of technology, including, presumably, its use in turning his own image into a digital avatar to then shove into movies... The fact is, of course, that nobody would be paying a fraction of this attention to As Deep As The Grave — about early female archeologist Ann Axtell Morris — if it weren't now being used as the stage on which Voorhees was very publicly accepting the dare to go full-on ghoulish with AI tech. "The filmmakers said they hoped they were showing Hollywood how to use the technology in a positive way..." notes Australia's ABC News. But their articles add that "Some have called the trailer 'terrifying' and 'disgusting' on social media." Mashable writes: "Very fitting that this trailer includes a scene where a corpse is unceremoniously yanked out of the ground," read one of the top comments on As Deep as the Grave's trailer at time of writing... [O]nline commenters have labelled it disgusting and disrespectful, not only for digitally reanimating Kilmer but also for the damaging precedent As Deep as the Grave's use of AI could set for the film industry as a whole.

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Lena Dunham, one of New York City's worst exports, is back with a new memoir - and the media is treating her like a returning hero.

Sir Keir Starmer is a man unfit to run the country who has lost the moral right to govern after the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said.

Thousands of fans at Lane Stadium watched in shock as the parachutist appeared to be blown off-course by a sudden gust of wind during a routine landing attempt.

The composer, 78, is famous for writing for writing hit musicals such as Cats, Evita, The Phantom Of The Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar.

LIVE: The latest updates on the Middle East as Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz is closed less than 24 hours after opening it.

Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews: Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including system configuration data and more importantly, logs that revealed the vehicle's GPS positions over time. None of that information was encrypted, Marchand told iTnews, which made it possible to collect and retrieve sensitive data of interest. What's more, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) logs with GPS positions covered the BYD's full journey from the factory in China to its operational life in the United Kingdom, and to its final wrecking in Poland, Marchand explained in an analysis... The issue is not restricted to BYD, and Marchand added that the hardware architecture of the Chinese car maker's TCU is broadly similar to what can be found in other brands.

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Katie Price's son Harvey has called her new husband Lee Andrews 'daddy' in a sweet drawing, days after the star confirmed her husband does have a travel ban. 

Two of those arrested were counter-protestors and one was not known to be part of either group, according to Greater Manchester Police.

Donald Trump revealed the news at a speaking event with Turning Point USA in Arizona on Friday.

Insiders are urging Matt Brittin, a former Google executive who takes over next month, to resist the temptation to 'salami slice' BBC departments and channels to achieve the drastic cuts.

The Defence Secretary has ordered an investigation into the British Army's use of Chinese 3D printers to build weapons. 

Police said that a man was seen approaching a row of shops with a plastic bag containing what was later found to be three bottles containing fluid.

The whole point of being PM is to be in charge. No other job is so powerful. The person who holds it can summon whoever he likes to his presence and demand the facts.

British banks are set to be given early access to stress-test their cyber defences against Claude Mythos, a state-of-the-art AI bot.

Why does Sir Keir Starmer want to be Prime Minister? It's very hard to know. But what's certain is that Britain is paying the price of having a PM with no interest in doing the job.

"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities. The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead? Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not. The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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