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Ronnie O'Sullivan has revealed his 'clean start' with a digital detox since moving to Dubai this summer with his wife, Laila Rouass.

A Russian woman has gone viral after an extraordinary fightback against two thieves who tried to swipe her phone before attempting to speed off on a motorbike.

The march in Crowborough, East Sussex, this morning followed an angry public meeting where local politicians were shouted at and chased out of the community centre hall.

Tech entrepreneur/blogger Anil Dash has been critical of AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. (He's written that Atlas "substitutes its own AI-generated content for the web, but it looks like it's showing you the web," while its prompt-based/command-line interface resembles a clunky text adventure, and it's true purpose seems to be ingesting more training data.) And at the Mozilla Festival in Spain, "Virtually everyone shared some version of what I'd articulated as the majority view on AI, which is approximately that LLMs can be interesting as a technology, but that Big Tech, and especially Big AI, are decidedly awful and people are very motivated to stop them from committing their worst harms upon the vulnerable." But... Another reality that people were a little more quiet in acknowledging, and sometimes reluctant to engage with out loud, is the reality that hundreds of millions of people are using the major AI tools every day... I don't know why today's Firefox users, even if they're the most rabid anti-AI zealots in the world, don't say, "well, even if I hate AI, I want to make sure Firefox is good at protecting the privacy of AI users so I can recommend it to my friends and family who use AI"... My personal wishlist would be pretty simple: * Just give people the "shut off all AI features" button. It's a tiny percentage of people who want it, but they're never going to shut up about it, and they're convinced they're the whole world and they can't distinguish between being mad at big companies and being mad at a technology so give them a toggle switch and write up a blog post explaining how extraordinarily expensive it is to maintain a configuration option over the lifespan of a global product. * Market Firefox as "The best AI browser for people who hate Big AI". Regular users have no idea how creepy the Big AI companies are — they've just heard their local news talk about how AI is the inevitable future. If Mozilla can warn me how to protect my privacy from ChatGPT, then it can also mention that ChatGPT tells children how to self-harm, and should be aggressive in engaging with the community on how to build tools that help mitigate those kinds of harms — how do we catalyze that innovation? * Remind people that there isn't "a Firefox" — everyone is Firefox. Whether it's Zen, or your custom build of Firefox with your favorite extensions and skins, it's all part of the same story. Got a local LLM that runs entirely as a Firefox extension? Great! That should be one of the many Firefoxes, too. Right now, so much of the drama and heightened emotions and tension are coming from people's (well... dudes') egos about there being One True Firefox, and wanting to be the one who controls what's in that version, as an expression of one set of values. This isn't some blood-feud fork, there can just be a lot of different choices for different situations. Make it all work.

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Ahead of I'm A Celebrity's launch on Sunday, a clip has gone viral online of AngryGinge revealing his real name to to Micah Richards, sending the football pundit into hysterical fits of laughter.

Experts today sounded an alarm over the death toll as millions more are in line to get the jabs to curb the nation's bulging waistline.

The results episode is pre-recorded at Elstree following Saturday's main show with strict security measures at Elstree studios in order to keep the dance-offs and eliminations secret.

Savanna Rae Trapp-Blanchfield, from Minnesota, admitted that there's a lot of drawbacks to being so big - ranging from constantly hitting her head to not being able to fit in clothes or in cars.

The YouTuber purchased the Ferrari to use in a 'durability test' series that would lead to it igniting and being destroyed. He has now been arrested for allegedly evading taxes when purchasing the car.

The attack came after Russia was again accused of breaking the rules of war as Vladimir Putin 's soldiers shot dead surrendering Ukrainian troops.

Packaging company Sadlers has analysed the government's local authority collected waste management annual results between 2023 and 2024.

A woman from Clacton who stole alcohol to fund her drugs habit has been handed a lifeline by magistrates.

We have put together some of the most notable road closures coming up across north and mid Essex in the coming weeks.

The airfield was small but mighty and there are few traces of the airfields still visible to this day

Packaging company Sadlers has analysed the government's local authority collected waste management annual results between 2023 and 2024.

The business is also applying to keep an extra two goods vehicles, with no trailers, at Silverton Aggregates in Haven Road in Colchester.

Jonathan Phillips, 44, targeted Tracey Smith at an accommodation block in Broadway, Silver End, on a regular basis and told her “she would be brown bread” if she came near his flat.

A woman from Clacton who stole alcohol to fund her drugs habit has been handed a lifeline by magistrates.

We have put together some of the most notable road closures coming up across north and mid Essex in the coming weeks.