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A Primark security guard who posted Islamic State propaganda videos and shared images of himself masked and wielding a large knife has been jailed.

An Iranian singer who performed in a YouTube concert without a hijab will receive 74 lashes after losing an appeal. 

A crash involving a motorbike in Chelmsford is causing chaos across the city.

Dominating the unofficial dress code of risk-taking at this year's awards was a distinctive trend of exposed hip bones - as low-rise and backless outfits took hold.

The man identified as Yaw Boahene, 57, was exiting a northbound A-train when the closing doors caught on to his bag.

Essex Police appeal for information to find missing 81-year-old Richard Hewitt, last seen at The Range on Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, on September 29, in Essex. He has now been found.

Essex Police appeal for information to find missing 81-year-old Richard Hewitt, last seen at The Range on Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, on September 29, in Essex. He has now been found.

PC Stephen Smith walked into the room of widower Donald Burgess and told him he would be 'sprayed or tasered' if he failed to drop a knife he was holding, a court heard.

High-end property in London's swankiest postcodes such as Mayfair, Marylebone and Little Venice has plummeted amid Labour's tax changes and mortgage rises.

Former Manchester City youth star Courtney Meppen-Walter has died, his former club Bury have announced.

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how much I hate Instagram asking us to like and share in order to have millions drop in our bank account within minutes, which never comes to pass.

Eight-figure entrepreneur Gary Ashworth became super wealthy in his 30s. Now 67, he reveals why he sold his yacht - and the symbols of wealth that are worth buying.

Flying at 30,000ft shouldn't have to mean a decline in your food quality - and certainly not when you're travelling with the world's very best airline...

After spending more than 300,000 years hidden in the ground beneath Morocco, an ancient ancestor has been brought back to life thanks to a stunning digital reconstruction.

Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself

New volcanic activity from Mount Etna has led to the alert level increasing and flights cancelled at a local airport.

The BBC recently suggested the unpolished nail fad is rooted in 'white supremacy' in an article that has been removed from the site after it sparked fierce backlash.

The thief, wearing all black and covering his face, ran into Crest Mini Market this summer in Bestwood before pulling a huge blade from his clothing.

Ken, like many men, had been nagged into coming to see me by his wife. She was exhausted. Every time he got up in the night to go to the loo, he woke her too.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails." The new legal motion (PDF), filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, arguing that ChatGPT represented "a threat to the public safety of Floridians," specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and violent or delusional adults. [...] In arguing for this injunction, the state points to the Hugging Face incident as well as recent high-profile misalignment cases involving unintended and unauthorized attempts to access Australian and US government servers. Florida also cites AI industry leaders, including many from OpenAI, in arguing that the AI industry is literally asking for this kind of outside regulation. The motion points to statements from Paul Christiano, who said on joining the company's board this month that he believes "there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term." The motion also points to OpenAI's own "An Alien Mind" essay and an open letter from 1,300 AI industry employees, both of which call for enforced slowdowns on frontier AI development, if necessary. Citing laws that allow the state to exercise control over companies that are a "public nuisance," Florida argues that OpenAI is "the greatest public nuisance ever created by the hand of man, capable of laying waste to global civilization." "It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants' AI agents hasn't compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid -- yet," the state writes in the motion.

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