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The White House Press Secretary, 28, announced on Monday that she will be holding a briefing despite previously pausing her duties to prepare to give birth.

The tycoon has thrown down the gauntlet to prosecutors: charge conman Robert Bonnier with a crime - or he will launch a criminal case himself and shame them.

Mark Jones, 55, replaced his garage with a two-bedroom, one bathroom, 'granny flat', fit with electricity, water and Wi-Fi, in March 2019.

The songstress, 44, has long been rumoured to be releasing a rock-inspired album as Act III of her trilogy, following Renaissance (dance) and Cowboy Carter (country).

A photo of President Donald Trump and some of the most important men in his administration has gone viral online in the aftermath of the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Secret Service agents fired five shots at the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump but failed to stop him and may have accidentally struck one of their own, the attorney general revealed.

Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…

Come rain or shine, Bianca Censori, the long-suffering wife of Kanye West, can always be relied upon to serve up 'looks'. Who these looks are actually serving, however, is a matter of debate...

In a report that will fuel fears over the impact of the conflict on the UK economy, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said retail sales volumes have fallen by the most on record.

Britain's healthy life expectancy has fallen sharply in recent years, meaning people spend more of their lives in poor health. What do you think could be driving the trend most?

A straw poll of 284 headteachers of mainstream schools found 20 per cent had special needs classrooms, outdoor spaces or sensory rooms which were either inadequate or closed.

alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers -- which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive -- published their findings online in a paper titled "The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet." The research also found that all this AI-generated text is making the web more cheery and less verbose."The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments," the researchers write in the paper. "We find that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT's launch in late 2022." "I find the sheer speed of the AI takeover of the web quite staggering," Jonas Dolezal, an AI researcher at Stanford and co-author of the paper, told 404 Media. "After decades of humans shaping it, a significant portion of the internet has become defined by AI in just three years. We're witnessing, in my opinion, a major transformation of the digital landscape in a fraction of the time it took to build in the first place." Maty Bohacek, a student researcher at Stanford and one of the co-authors of the paper, added: "As AI-generated content spreads, the challenge is finding a role for these models that doesn't just result in a sanitized, repetitive web," he said. "Rather than forcing models to be perfectly compliant and agreeable, allowing them to have a more distinct personality or 'friction' might help them act as a creative partner rather than a replacement for human voice."

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In this webinar, you can learn about why your immutable backups might not be as safe as you think, what absolute immutability actually means

The controversial artificial intelligence tool was supplied by the US tech company Palantir, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump's ICE operation.

Thousands of locals have rallied against plans to build on 14 rural sites near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, as part of Labour's target to build 13,000 homes by 2045.

The singer, 40, has nearly completed first leg of her West End Girl tour, performing the songs from her smash hit comeback album inspired by her turbulent split from husband David Harbour .

The embattled Prime Minister has been rocked after Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, granted a debate on whether Sir Keir should face a parliamentary probe.

The comedy legend was seen in the affluent California enclave of Montecito while joined by her husband of 25 years Brian Miller, 85.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google has implemented AI in the Android operating system. The results are in, and the EU says Android needs to be more open, which is not surprising. Meanwhile, Google says this amounts to "unwarranted intervention," which is equally unsurprising. Regardless of Google's characterization of the investigation, the commission may force Google to make Android AI changes this summer. This action stems from the continent's Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping law that designates seven dominant technology companies as "gatekeepers" that are subject to greater regulation to ensure fair competition. Google has consistently spoken against the regulations imposed under the DMA, but it and the other gatekeepers have been subject to the law for several years now, and there's little chance the commission backs away from it. The issue before the commission currently is the built-in advantage for Gemini on Android. When you turn on any Google-powered Android phone, Gemini is already there and gets special treatment at the system level. The European Commission is taking aim at the lack of features available to third-party AI services. The commission believes that there are too many experiences on Android that only work with Google's Gemini AI, and as a gatekeeper, Google must change that. "As we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, it is clear that interoperability is key to unlocking the full potential of these technologies," said Commission VP for Tech Sovereignty Henna Virkkunen in a statement. "These measures will open up Android devices to a wider range of AI services, so that users will have the freedom to choose the AI services that best meet their needs and values, without sacrificing functionality." The commission does have a solid track record pushing for openness so far. Since the DMA came into force, Google has been required to make numerous changes to its business in Europe, like implementing search choice screens on Android, allowing alternative payment methods in the Play Store, and limiting data sharing across services. Now, the EU wants Google to make the Android platform more hospitable to third-party AI services. Google's objection focuses on preserving the autonomy for device makers (including Google) to customize AI services. "This unwarranted intervention would strip away that autonomy, mandate access to sensitive hardware and device permissions; unnecessarily driving up costs while undermining critical privacy and security protections for European users," said Google senior competition counsel Claire Kelly. The problem isn't that you can't install ChatGPT or Grok; it's that these chatbots don't have the same access to data and features as Gemini. To address that imbalance, the EU is considering several requirements that would force Google to give third-party AI assistants deeper access to Android, closer to what Gemini currently enjoys. The proposed requirements include: - Letting alternative AI tools be launched system-wide through hot words, gestures, or button presses. - Allowing third-party assistants to see screen context when users invoke them. - Giving non-Gemini AI tools access to local device data, with user permission, so they can generate proactive suggestions, summaries, and contextual help. - Allowing other AI services to control installed apps and Android system features on the user's behalf. - Ensuring third-party developers can access the necessary device hardware to run local AI models with strong performance, availability, and responsiveness. - Requiring Google to create APIs that let outside AI providers plug into Android more deeply. - Requiring Google to provide technical assistance to those AI providers. - Making those APIs and support available free of charge.

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Moya Montgomerie, 72, says her 'arch-manipulator' son Jason Minns has spent his adult life 'exploiting her guilt' for divorcing his father and leaving him as a child.