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In a surprise move, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has abruptly summoned hundreds of America's highest-ranking military officers to a closed-door meeting.

The actor, 29, who is currently preparing to play John Lennon in Sam Mendes' hotly anticipated Beatles biopic series, said he struggled with the fallout from the erotic film.

Amelia Gray Hamlin and Romeo Beckham poured fuel on the rumours that they're dating, as they both arrived at Milan Fashion Week. 

Meghan Markle caused quite a stir when she took to the stage at a recent Kevin Costner charity event dripping in nearly $300,000 worth of diamonds. 

FDA investigators tested various items of cookware sold at retail locations in the US and identified four products that contain lead that could make food unsafe for consumption.

Ruby Central, a non-profit organization committed to "driving innovation and building community within the Ruby programming ecosystem since 2001," removed all RubyGems maintainers from the project's GitHub repository on September 18, granting administrative access exclusively to its employees and contractors following alleged pressure from Shopify, one of its biggest backers, according to Ruby developer Joel Drapper. The nonprofit organization, which operates RubyConf and RailsConf, cited fiduciary responsibility and supply chain security concerns following a recent audit. The controversy began September 9 when HSBT (Hiroshi Shibata), a Ruby infrastructure maintainer, renamed the RubyGems GitHub enterprise to "Ruby Central" and added Director of Open Source Marty Haught as owner while demoting other maintainers. The action allegedly followed Shopify's threat to cut funding unless Ruby Central assumed full ownership of RubyGems and Bundler. Ruby Central had reportedly become financially dependent on Shopify after Sidekiq withdrew $250,000 annual sponsorship over the organization platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025. Andre Arko, a veteran contributor on-call for RubyGems.org at the time, was among those removed. Maintainer Ellen Dash has characterized the action as a "hostile takeover" and also resigned. Executive Director Shan Cureton acknowledged poor communication in a YouTube video Monday, stating removals were temporary while finalizing operator agreements. Arko and others are launching Spinel, an alternative Ruby tooling project, though Shopify's Rafael Franca commented that Spinel admins shouldn't be trusted to avoid "sabotaging rubygems or bundler."

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'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, when she died, the hearing has been told.

Kirsty Innes, adviser to Liz Kendall, said that Big Tech firms will not have to compensate creatives for using their work to train systems. Her appointment will alarm musicians, artists and writers.

The violent incident happened on Acre Lane in Brixton early on Thursday evening and was posted on social media platform TikTok.

Brody Shain was born with a severe bilateral cleft lip and palate. His upper lip and the roof of his mouth did not fully form before he was born prematurely.

Sally Mann's photos were ripped from the walls of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as part of a police investigation into child pornography.

'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff, 16, had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, where she was on a 'watch list'.

How would a digital identity card scheme operate, if Labour introduces a requirement for every adult worker in Britain to have one?

Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians'

The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.…

The former Made In Chelsea stars - who are expecting their first child - finally unveiled their stunning London property on Thursday after an extensive 14-month-long renovation.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With AI chatbots growing in popular usage, it was only a matter of time before large numbers of people began applying them to the stock market. In fact, at least 1 in 10 retail investors now consult ChatGPT or other AI chatbots for stock-picking advice, according to a Reuters report published Thursday. Data from a survey by trading platform eToro of 11,000 retail investors worldwide suggests that 13 percent of individual investors already use AI tools like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini for stock selection, while about half say they would consider using these tools for portfolio decisions. Unlike algorithmic trading, where computers automatically execute thousands of trades per second, investors are using ChatGPT as an advisory tool in place of human experts. They type questions, read the AI model's analysis, and then manually decide whether to place trades through their brokers. Reuters spoke with Jeremy Leung, who analyzed companies for investment bank UBS for almost two decades. Leung now relies on ChatGPT for his multi-asset portfolio. "I no longer have the luxury of a Bloomberg terminal, or those kinds of market-data services which are very, very expensive," Leung told Reuters. "Even the simple ChatGPT tool can do a lot and replicate a lot of the workflows that I used to do." Reuters reports that financial products comparison website Finder asked ChatGPT in March 2023 to select stocks from high-quality businesses based on criteria like debt levels and sustained growth. Since then, the resulting 38-stock portfolio has reportedly grown in value nearly 55 percent. That performance beat the average of the UK's 10 most popular funds by almost 19 percentage points. But there's a huge caveat to that kind of AI success story: US stocks sit near record highs, Reuters notes, with the S&P 500 index up 13 percent this year after surging 23 percent last year. Those are conditions that can make almost any stock-picking strategy look smart. Reuters frames the AI trading advice trend as a case of new technology tools "democratizing," or opening up, investment analysis once reserved for institutional investors with expensive data terminals. But experts warn that AI models can confabulate financial data and lack access to real-time market information, making them risky substitutes for professional advice. "AI models can be brilliant," Dan Moczulski, UK managing director at eToro, told Reuters. "The risk comes when people treat generic models like ChatGPT or Gemini as crystal balls." He noted that general AI models "can misquote figures and dates, lean too hard on a pre-established narrative, and overly rely on past price action to attempt to predict the future."

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Shaun Alexander retired from the NFL in 2008 and only played for nine seasons in the league, a low total for someone to be seriously considered for Pro Football Hall of Fame designation.

Keira, 40, dazzled in a vintage-inspired olive green gown, covered in  embroidered flowers, intricate beading and sparkling diamond details.

Police are investigating the violent incident between a 15-year-old pupil and the male teacher. It is understood the boy was caught trying to scale a fence and was ordered down.

Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5

Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten out of its Arm-based M-series silicon to the Windows market.…