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Fewer than half of boys born in the US are now being circumcised, according to a report released by Johns Hopkins medical research.

Mike Graham returned to his car yesterday evening to discover the rear windscreen of his Maserati had been smashed while parked in a NCP car park with 24/7 security patrols.

When we try to predict the weather, we use ensembles of the initial conditions on the ground, in the oceans, and throughout the air to create a kind of probabilistic average forecast and then we take ensembles of models, which often have very different answers for extreme weather conditions like hurricanes and typhoons, to get a better sense of what might happen wherever and whenever we are concerned. …

Dicing, Slicing, And Augmenting Gartner’s AI Spending Forecast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dani Dyer was forced to pull out of the BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2025 series on Tuesday due to an injury

The idea of a mandatory identification system has long been advocated by Labour as a way to tackle illegal migration.

Despite AI models outperforming radiologists on benchmark tests since 2017, demand for human radiologists has reached record highs. American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered 1,208 positions this year, up 4% from 2024, while average salaries hit $520,000 -- 48% higher than 2015. Over 700 FDA-cleared radiology AI models exist, yet only 48% of radiologists use AI at all. Models trained on standardized datasets lose up to 20% points accuracy when deployed in different hospitals. Radiologists spend just 36% of their time interpreting images, with the majority devoted to patient communication, teaching, and administrative tasks that current AI cannot perform.

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Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack

A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…

Spencer Duarte, 29, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison following the theft in Ludgate Hill, London, on August 7 last year.

Armet Cortes and Willmer Guzman were part of a gang that operated in the North East and used 'silent' signs to communicate once they had identified a potential target.

Joshua Jahn, 29, the shooter who opened fire on an ICE van in Dallas and killed a migrant, repeatedly searched for footage of the Charlie Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed.

Iconic buildings dominate the skyline around Four Seasons' central London outpost; there's the Shard, the Tower of London, the imposing buildings of Bank and of course, Tower Bridge itself.

New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw

It's notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new "energy-aware" machine learning systems. …

It took home the award for the small market of the year

Shatner, 94, who is beloved by Trekkies as the show's lead character Captain Kirk,  was hospitalized for a medical emergency involving his blood sugar late Wednesday afternoon.

This is the moment plane passengers cheered as a man was 'dragged off' an easyJet plane after he forced the pilot to make an unscheduled landing on the way to Corfu.

Industry looks like it's going to come up short – by about $800B

The AI craze is fueling massive growth in infrastructure, but the industry will need to hit $2 trillion in revenue by 2030 to keep funding this habit. Consultants at Bain & Company think it is going to come up short.…

Richard Osman appears to have shared a subtle dig at the highly divisive Thursday Murder Club film - as the latest of the British author's true crime series has come out today, with glowing reviews.

Four years ago at the last Ryder Cup across the pond, the abuse hurled at Europe's most famous golfers 'went too far', according to legend of the sport Dame Laura Davies.

Productivity gains promised, but humans still expected to audit the bots

At its Unscripted event in London, DevOps company Harness presented its latest AI-driven modules, including an AI pipeline builder, AI test automation, autonomous code fixing when builds fail, AI AppSec (application security) and even AI-driven chaos testing, where resiliency is tested by introducing random failures.…

It's officially spooky season, and we're ready to plan a cute costume, fail at carving a pumpkin and succeed at eating heaps of sweets.