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A prison inmate formerly housed with Ghislaine Maxwell revealed that the convicted sex trafficker's body odor and personal hygiene irritated other lags in their lockup.

A new pill could help patients lose more weight and gain better control of their blood sugar levels than current weight loss medications, a promising new study has found.

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. (Image is AI-generated).

Residents claim the van will 'encourage' unhealthy eating habits to children

EU fraud investigators have been asked to investigate Peter Mandelson's friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, it was revealed today.

Corey Feldman has officially finalized his divorce, with a Los Angeles judge signing off on a financial settlement that includes a six-figure lump-sum payment.

Speaking of the Citrini's blog post, which imagines a near-future AI-driven economic collapse, and which ended up help triggering the S&P 500's worst single-day drop in nearly two weeks on Monday, FT Alphaville decided to track how US stock markets have moved on the release days of notable dystopian speculative fiction throughout history. The story adds: You may contend that this is facile. We would agree. You might contend that the comparisons make no sense because it's possible to read a blog post during a single work shift, but it's tricker to complete a whole novel (or sneak out to watch a movie). We would contend: do you really think traders read? Let's begin. The methodology -- tracking S&P 500 daily moves for post-1986 releases and DJIA moves for pre-1986 ones -- crowned The Matrix as the all-time leader, its March 1999 US debut coinciding with a 1.11% drop in the index. Citrini's "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" came in a close second at -1.04%. On the positive end, the 2013 release of Her, a film about a man falling in love with an AI agent, coincided with the largest gain in the set at +1.66%.

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Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

A crumbling 'James Bond-style' World War Two power station hidden deep in woodland for 80 years has hit the market for £2million.

'The dentist says I've got this awful thing called pockets,' my friend told me. This dreaded dental condition affects around 54 per cent of the adult population.

In November of last year, a Palestinian boy named Jad Jallah was shot by IDF soldiers at the al-Far'a refugee camp in the West Bank.

This is the luxury Spanish villa that Benidorm creator Derren Litten says he's being forced to sell thanks to a 'shameless, career gold digger'.

The luxury supermarket says sourcing of fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel will be suspended by April 29 with tinned mackerel following suit when the current stock is sold.

As the youngest son of celebrity royalty, David and Victoria Beckham , it will come as no surprise that he has been dogged by the 'nepo baby' label like his siblings for his entire life.

Fans will watch keenly for the pricing of the streaming service due to the spiralling costs of subscribing to several networks.

The model, 30, who will hit the catwalk over the next few days, wore an elegant black midi dress and flashed a smiled as she took her seat.

An anonymous reader shares a report: It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rectangles nested inside rectangles, but FPDS.gov is one of the most important resources for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools U.S. government agencies are buying. It includes everything from phone hacking technology, to masses of location data, to more Palantir installations. Or rather, it was an incredible tool and the basis for countless of my own investigations and others. Because on Wednesday, the government shut it down. Its replacement, another site called SAM.gov with Uncle Sam branding, frankly sucks, and makes it demonstrably harder to reliably find out what agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are spending tax payers dollars on. "FPDS may have been a little clunky, but its simple, old-school interface made it extremely functional and robust. Every facet of government operations touches on contracting at one point, and this was the first tool that many investigative journalists and researchers would reach for to quickly find out what the government is buying and who is selling it, and how these contracts all fit together," Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told me.

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Plans are scaled back by developer to 'protect the privacy of residents'

The Home Office confirmed 605 migrants were brought ashore at Ramsgate port in Kent after being picked up mid-Channel by the UK Border Force.

Armstrong, 49, looked relaxed in a loose fitting sweater and cargo pants as she ventured out with Young, who relocated to the United States in 2001, and his husband, Michael Di Girolamo.