With artificial intelligence in need of large amounts of energy, Scotland’s is ideally placed to supply it

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Bitter feud is alleged to have begun while filming the box office hit ‘It Ends With Us’

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As February approached, the coming months will be the decider on whether we all manage to stick to those new year resolutions we jotted down at the start of January. If you're struggling to stay motivated with your fitness goals during the dark winter months, it might be an idea to invest in a fitness tracker to help you along, and Amazon shoppers reckon they've found a hidden gem.

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Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala

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The acclaimed director has pitched his remake idea

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Juan Joseph, 42, is accused of using his position to access security documents and then leaking them, according to counter-terrorism detectives.

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UK will be first country to bring in tough new laws to tackle the technology behind the creation of abusive material Britain is to become the first country to introduce laws tackling the use of AI tools to produce child sexual abuse images, amid warnings from law enforcement agencies of an ­alarming proliferation in such use of the technology.In an attempt to close a legal ­loophole that has been a major ­concern for police and online safety campaigners, it will become illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate child sexual abuse material. Continue reading...

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Harry Cook, 29, denied a sporty Seat car containing the coke was his - but he had been caught on CCTV driving the vehicle into a hotel car park where officers found it

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The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.

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UK officials in the Cabinet Office dubbed 'The Surrender Unit' are also discussing entering the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area, in what Rachel Reeves' hopes will stimulate the economy.

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Tensions have risen in the fallout from the Southport murders, with No 10 understood to be frustrated the Home Office has shied away from focusing on Islamist violence.

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Exclusive: Lord Arbuthnot, who campaigned for wrongly convicted sub postmasters, said it sent the message the country ‘doesn’t care about the unethical behaviour shown by Fujitsu’

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As crews work to clean up from the Los Angeles wildfires, city officials and residents are opposing the designation of a federally owned park to process hazardous waste

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The 27-year-old’s 2011 death was first ruled a suicide, then changed to homicide, and then back to suicide

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United are expected to be busy in the summer transfer window and one Palace star could be central to their plans

Economics

An 81-year-old man opened fire at a band event at Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday evening, shooting one person, according to a Pasadena ISD official

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Logan Jugler and Boone Hogg run the sensational Instagram account that takes submissions from around the globe

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James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim’s information to guide chatbots in impersonationA man from Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to a seven-year cyberstalking campaign that included using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to impersonate a university professor and invite men online to her home address for sex.James Florence, 36, used platforms such as Crushon.ai and JanitorAI, which allow users to design their own chatbots and direct them how to respond to other users during chats, including in sexually suggestive and explicit ways, according to court documents seen by the Guardian. The victim’s identity has been kept confidential by law enforcement officials. Continue reading...

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Meant to lend credibility to his nomination to head HHS, the letter is signed by some doctors disciplined for not following Covid guidelinesA letter submitted to the US Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination as secretary of health and human services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked or suspended, or who have faced other disciplinary actions, the Associated Press has found.The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from medical experts due to his two decades of anti-vaccine activism. Republican senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a medical doctor who boasts on his official website of an effort he created to vaccinate 36,000 children against hepatitis B, expressed hesitancy about Kennedy’s nomination and is seen as a key vote. Continue reading...

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The official White House account released a video attacking Selena Gomez after she posted a video of herself crying over the deportation of Mexican immigrants

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The Deputy Prime Minister reportedly fought to get the Duke of York removed from the official list of 'counsellors of state' who deputise for Charles if he is abroad or incapacitated.

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Warnings against travelling to certain countries have been announced by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to British nationals.

Society

New advice has been issued from the Foreign Office for two Greek islands

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New arrivals are set to push the population to 72.5 million but the numbers matter less than how well people fit in once hereLast week some startling numbers hit the headlines. If the Office for National Statistics is correct, net migration will add five million people to these islands in the span of a decade. That will account for almost all population growth in that time, driving us up to 72.5 million by 2032.Is it good news or bad? Many commentators reacted with alarm: there is already a great deal of strain on housing, education and health services. But others like the idea. They point out that birthrates are falling across the world, and that Britain, like other countries, is due to get increasingly decrepit with time. We will eventually have to live off the life force of skilled young people from overseas, over whom everyone else will be competing. Continue reading...

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Sam found himself getting sucked deeper and deeper in to betting, sometimes risking £11,000 in a day. Now a judge has ruled he was unlawfully targetedAt 1.17pm on 15 August 2018, Sam* logged in to his online betting account and gambled five days’ worth of wages. Already deep in debt – having taken out 13 loans over three years, and with his marriage under strain – he had been desperate to quit.But Sky Betting & Gaming, operator of Sky Bet, Casino, and Vegas, had other ideas. Having labelled him a “high value” customer, and not realising he was at risk, it had sent him an email promising a £100 bonus if he spent £400 on a casino game. “Well done on making it past level 2. Can you make it even further this week?” it said. Soon after receiving it, Sam deposited £400. Continue reading...

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The pop star, 51, is father to Junior, 18, and Princess with his ex-wife Katie Price, who he was married to from 2005 until 2009.

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Aviation experts say piloting Black Hawk helicopters is a complex challenge but army defends training operationsIn March 2023, two US army Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed into a Kentucky farmer’s field after a nighttime evacuation training mission, killing nine service members.That crash was among a dozen fatal crashes during army Black Hawk training missions since 2014 that claimed the lives of 47 service members and in April 2023 helped prompt Pentagon officials to temporarily ground and provide more training to all army aviators not involved in critical missions. Continue reading...

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One America News, Breitbart and the New York Post will take desks from NBC, NPR and the New York TimesThe Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers.The conservative-leaning One America News Network is set to replace NBC News, Breitbart will be given space held by National Public Radio, the New York Post has been offered the New York Times’ workspace and HuffPost will replace Politico. Continue reading...

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Metropolitan Police officers pursued a stolen vehicle in Wimbledon after an alert by Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The vehicle was chased briefly before crashing in the south London borough.

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Magnificent, irreplaceable 20th-century architecture made with craft and imagination was destroyed in the Palisades wildfiresPacific Palisades and its surrounding neighbourhoods, which have burned so ferociously over the past three weeks, happen to be the location of some beautiful and magnificent 20th-century architecture. Or were, as the fire has taken a terrible toll.Houses by the émigré Austrian modernist Richard Neutra have gone, as have most of the Park Planned Homes of 1948, an idealistic experiment in affordable modern living by the architect Gregory Ain. Stone chimney stacks are all that remain of the scaled-up cabin that was Will Rogers’ ranch house. His 30-horse stables, in their centre a rotonda like an equine chapter house, are ashes. Continue reading...

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Essex Police have issued an appeal after officers were called to Magdalen Street in Colchester following reports of a crash on Saturday morning that killed four people

Events

Official data from the Food Standards Agency show the number of young people taking dangerous measures to cope with rising energy costs - which campaigners say is "beyond messed up"

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London man: 911 officials tampered with package containing records tied to police shooting  Lexington Herald Leader

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Donald Trump's 12th day back in office saw him take his biggest gamble yet with the economy and empty a couple of reservoirs for no reason, as well as oversee some deeply troubling - likely illegal - actions

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Yarden Bibas and French Israeli Ofer Kalderon were handed to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Younis, while American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel was released later on Saturday.

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The road to WrestleMania officially begins this weekend

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Two of the officers were taken to hospital to receive treatment but have both since been discharged.

Events

Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riotThe Trump administration’s evisceration of US overseas aid has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly having been present at the January 6 insurrection when rioters stormed the Capitol.Peter Marocco has accumulated power in the office of foreign assistance, informally called “F”, that traditionally has helped coordinate US foreign aid programs. But under Marocco, it has enforced a full-scale freeze on overseas aid and a stop-work order that has in effect halted operations and already led to hundreds of layoffs in the United States and overseas. Continue reading...

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Secretary of defense gave information about the military aircraft that collided with the passenger plane, killing 67Top US officials have said the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Wednesday was on a training mission for evacuating members of government in the event of a catastrophe or attack.The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, told Fox News that the helicopter was performing a “continuity of government” drill designed to help pilots “rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario”. Hegseth declined to go further, saying he didn’t want to get “into anything that’s classified”. Continue reading...

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The reality star turned documentary maker on being a shy child, growing up with dyslexia and ADHD, and how TV has given her confidenceBorn in London in 1991, Olivia Attwood shot to fame as a contestant on the third series of Love Island. The reality TV universe beckoned – Attwood joined the cast of The Only Way Is Essex and Celebs Go Dating. She then stepped into TV presenting, making documentaries about trolls, cosmetic surgery, and in the third season of her ITV show Getting Filthy Rich, young entrepreneurs selling sex. She lives between London and Cheshire with her husband, the footballer Bradley Dack.The eyes are giving Princess Diana, as if there’s some pending, awful news on the horizon. I loved doing ballet but I was a shy and anxious child, always pondering. My parents are staggered by the shift that’s happened in me over the last decade, because for that kid in the photo, the idea of being the centre of attention was horrifying. There was one t...

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Secretary of defense says mission was for evacuating government officials in the event of a catastrophe or attackTop US officials have said the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Wednesday was on a training mission for evacuating members of government in the event of a catastrophe or attack.The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, told Fox News that the helicopter was performing a “continuity of government” drill designed to help pilots “rehearse in ways that would reflect a real-world scenario”. Hegseth declined to elaborate, saying he didn’t want to get “into anything that’s classified”. Continue reading...

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Yet more evidence shows that we will only rely on it more as time goes on. It’s time to debate it without toxic rhetoricBritain needs immigrants. According to the Office for National Statistics this week, Britain’s “indigenous” population in the 2030s will be static and ageing. Growth in population will be buoyed only by immigrants, their number predicted to rise by 5 million over the next seven years. Thank goodness, surely, for them.As this debate lurches back into public discourse, it is cursed by the ease with which xenophobia delivers political gain. The fact is that Britons have turned massively in favour of immigration over the past half century. In the 1950s and 1960s, roughly 80%-90% wanted it to stop. Then the inflow was under 250,000 a year and Enoch Powell could forecast “rivers of blood”. Net migration was below zero.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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A 27-year-old local man was arrested on suspicion of assault, arson and criminal damage following the incident, South Wales Police said.

Events

I’m Alan Partridge may have laid the groundwork for the likes of The Office’s David Brent and Michael Scott but he was certainly more of a prototype than the finished product.

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Ellen DeGeneres' new life in the UK is said to have hit a blip with concerned locals reportedly contacting local planning enforcement officers over her proposed property work

Events

The road to WrestleMania officially begins this weekend

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Proposed customs reform would allow officials to better inspect and control packages from China

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EXCLUSIVE: Former Love Island star Hannah Elizabeth has opened up about her controversial career and how she plans to tell her son Reggie about what she does for a living

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The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office that his administration was actively talking to Moscow.

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Nicola Sturgeon’s comments on her predecessors didn’t impress reader

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Scotland needs whistleblowing office so that concerns about possible child abuse, sexual and physical, can be reported and investigated more quickly

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