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It's a great family day out, with a gorgeous, quiet beach, an old fort, and a nearby nature reserve

Iran's Red Crescent society has warned that Tehran may soon be inundated by toxic rain that can cause chemical burns and damage lungs after Israel struck oil facilities in the capital. 

Rocket fire struck buildings in both Oslo and Baghdad last night - as the war in the Middle East entered its second week.

The county council said the kit would be rolled out to 55 school crossing patrols after a spate of abuse across the country.

A devilish-looking equation has left the internet divided. Can you remember the golden rule to solve the grade school sum?

The double child killer died aged 52 on Saturday following an attack by fellow prisoners at around 9.30am on February 26 during a waste management workshop at HMP Frankland.

The I'm A Celebrity star, 72, has long spoken candidly about her struggles with bipolar disorder and depression .

EXCLUSIVE BY DOMINIC KING: What a hook she was: there were 18 Festival victories as she galloped through the history books but, quietly, last May, she retired.

After 30 years on screen LEONARDO DICAPRIO remains an enigma. Our LA correspondent recalls what he learned about the elusive star during a rare evening with him

The historic Essex pub serves a 'fabulous' Sunday lunch

Beloved Vera star Brenda Blethyn steps into the lead role as the indomitable founder of a retail empire who faces a crisis as she prepares to hand over her business.

Israeli tanks are massing at the Lebanese border as Israel continues to flex its military power to its enemies in the region and Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to produce 'many surprises'

Palantir's CEO was blunt. "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job... and you're going to screw the military — if you don't think that's going to lead to the nationalization of our technology, you're retarded..." And OpenAI's Sam Altman is thinking about the same thing, writes long-time Slashdot reader destinyland: "It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project," Sam Altman publicly mused last week... Altman speculated on the possibility of the government "nationalizing" private AI companies into a public project, admitting more than once he's wondered what would happen next. "I obviously don't know," Altman said — but he added that "I have thought about it, of course" Altman's speculation hedged that "It doesn't seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important." Could powerful AI tools one day slip from the hands of private companies to be controlled by the U.S. government? Fortune magazine's AI editor points out that "many other breakthroughs with big strategic implications — from the Manhattan Project to the space race to early efforts to develop AI — were government-funded and largely government-directed." And Fortune added that last week the Defense Department threatened Anthropic with the Defense Production Act, which allows the president to designate "critical and strategic" goods for which businesses must accept the government's contracts. Fortune speculates this would've been "a sort of soft nationalization of Anthropic's production pipeline". Altman acknowledged Saturday that he'd felt the threat of attempted nationalization "behind a lot of the questions" he'd received when answering questions on X.com. How exactly will this AI build-out be handled — and how should AI companies be working with the government? In a sprawling ask-me-anything session on X that included other members of OpenAI leadership, one Missouri-based developer even broached an AGI-government scenario directly with OpenAI's Head of National Security Partnerships, Katherine Mulligan. If OpenAI built an AGI — something that even passed its own Turing test for AGI — would that be a case where its government contracts compelled them to grant access to the Defense Department? "No," Mulligan answered. At our current moment in time, "We control which models we deploy" The article notes 100 OpenAI employees joined with 856 Google employees in an online letter titled "We Will Not Be Divided" urging their bosses to refuse their models' use in domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing without human oversight. But Adafruit's managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone ) sees analogies to America's atomic bomb-building Manhattan Project, and "what happened when the scientists who built the thing tried to set conditions on how the thing would be used." (The government pressured them to back down, which he compares to the Pentagon's designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" before offering OpenAI a contract "with the same red lines, just worded differently".) Ironically, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei frequently recommends the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1986 book The Making of the Atomic Bomb...

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Nobody messes with the Peaky Blinders , as the gang members like to say. And there was no way Cillian Murphy was going to abandon their leader, Tommy Shelby.

Vladimir Putin has been romantically linked to a carousel of glamorous young women - none of whom were his wife.

Police are now hunting for three people in connection to the incident

The Shark FlexStyle 5-in-1 Air Styler & Hair Dryer tool started appearing on my social media feeds. People loved the fact that it can curl, straighten, volumise, smooth, and define, all in one tool.

Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg

interview  AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.…

Half of first place applications were rejected from Essex's hardest to get into state school this year

The British billionaire, 75, gave the eerie warning to crowds at Space-Comm Expo Europe in London this week.