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A Las Vegas man who was raped by his mother as a child and suspects he is his brother's father will now serve as his sibling's legal guardian, a court ruled.

Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net

Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the largest settlements in FTC history to make the matter go away. …

A woman onboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Nashville, Tennessee to Denver, Colorado was seen playing tug-of-war with a cop after she claimed there was a bomb on the plane on Tuesday.

Microsoft has disabled the Israeli Defense Ministry's access to certain services and subscriptions, after finding evidence that the ministry used the tech company's cloud services to surveil Gaza citizens. WSJ adds: The software company made the move after an internal investigation indicated Israel's Defense Ministry used Microsoft's Azure cloud services for surveillance, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company probe is ongoing. "As employees, we all have a shared interest in privacy protection, given the business value it creates by ensuring our customers can rely on our services with rock solid trust," Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post Thursday on Microsoft's company website. Smith said Microsoft's investigation was guided by the company's "longstanding protection of privacy as a fundamental right." Microsoft opened the probe after the Guardian, the British news organization, reported in August that Israel used Azure to store data on Gaza civilians and surveil them. The issue has been the source of protests at the company.

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Fans are convinced Meghan Markle, 44, was sporting a birthday present from Prince Harry, opting to show it off on her right hand, during a surprise joint appearance at Kevin Costner 's starry gathering.

In his first comments on the US President's latest attack on London's mayor, Sir Keir Starmer labelled Donald Trump's remarks as 'ridiculous'.

Earlier this month a female Philadelphia supporter sparked outrage when she was seen bullying a dad into handing over a home run ball he claimed for his son, earning her the 'Phillies Karen' nickname.

The award is so deserved for the Essex hero

The widening rift that has seen Brooklyn Beckham increasingly isolated from his immediate family appeared to be the least of his worries on Wednesday afternoon.

I met him at a Michelin-starred restaurant in West London - a swanky, darkly-lit bistro - where we drank a bottle of extremely expensive wine. I left alone - with a purse stuffed full of crisp £50 notes.

The star, 80, was a vision as she arrived for an conversation about her memoir at The 92NY Center for Culture & Arts in the Big Apple on Wednesday.

Hakeem Walters, 29, Rokibul Islam, 31, and Muhammed Ahmed, 27, made their fortune while employed as administrators in Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford.

Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors

Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government agencies for mere pennies.…

Cloudflare announced plans Thursday to launch NET Dollar, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin designed to enable autonomous AI agents to conduct instant financial transactions. The company says the stablecoin will support microtransactions and pay-per-use models as AI agents take over tasks like booking flights and ordering groceries. BrianFagioli comments: A U.S. dollar-backed cryptocurrency from Cloudflare feels unusual to me, and I'm still surprised by it. The decision shows just how much the Internet is shifting in response to artificial intelligence. CEO Matthew Prince said, "For decades, the business model of the Internet ran on ad platforms and bank transfers. The Internet's next business model will be powered by pay-per-use, fractional payments, and microtransactions -- "tools that shift incentives toward original, creative content that actually adds value." He added that by using its global network, Cloudflare aims to "help modernize the financial rails needed to move money at the speed of the Internet."

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The sister of one of four captives has revealed the horrifying conditions in which police found her disabled brother living in the basement of Donnie Birchfield Jr where both his pastor dad and mom lived.

The reissue features the same LP sleeve as the 1973 original, despite Nicks's unhappiness with being photographed alongside Buckingham in the nude.

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at understanding how close OpenAI's systems are to outperforming humans at economically valuable work -- a key part of the company's founding mission to develop artificial general intelligence or AGI. OpenAI says its found that its GPT-5 model and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 "are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts." That's not to say that OpenAI's models are going to start replacing humans in their jobs immediately. Despite some CEOs' predictions that AI will take the jobs of humans in just a few years, OpenAI admits that GDPval today covers a very limited number of tasks people do in their real jobs. However, it is one of the latest ways the company is measuring AI's progress towards this milestone. GDPval is based on nine industries that contribute the most to America's gross domestic product, including domains such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and government. The benchmark tests an AI model's performance in 44 occupations among those industries, ranging from software engineers to nurses to journalists.

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It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. In a new paper, experts claim Homo sapiens began to emerge over one million years ago.

She says 'pets get more dignity than humans' when it comes to death

Sir Keir Starmer made the move on Sunday 21 on the same day as Canada , Australia and Portugal, prompting a furious response from Israel which accused the countries of 'rewarding' Hamas terror.