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  • New AI supply chain standard brings together Ant, Tencent, Baidu and Microsoft, Google, Meta

    China's Ant Group, Tencent Holdings, and Baidu have teamed up with US tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Meta Platforms to develop the world's first international standard for large language model (LLM) security for supply chains, as the need for artificial intelligence (AI) governance grows more urgent. The companies unveiled their "Large Language Model Security Requirements for Supply Chain" on Friday with the World Digital Technology Academy (WDTA), during a side event at the Inclusion Confer

  • US calls on Big Tech to help evade online censors in Russia, Iran

    The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools. The tools, supported by the U.S.-backed Open Technology Fund (OTF), have seen a surge of usage in Russia, Iran, Myanmar and authoritarian states that heavily censor the internet.

  • Durov says Telegram will tackle criticism of how it moderates content

    Telegram boss Pavel Durov said on Friday that the messaging app would tackle criticism of its content moderation and remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity. Durov, who was last week placed under formal investigation in France in connection with the use of Telegram for crimes including fraud, money laundering and sharing images of child sex abuse, announced the move in a message to his 12.2 million subscribers on the platform. "While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk," the Russian-born tech entrepreneur wrote.

  • Trump assails women who accused him of misconduct, days before his debate with Harris

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after appearing in court for an appeal of a decision that found him liable for sexual abuse, Donald Trump stepped in front of television cameras Friday and brought up a string of past allegations of other acts of sexual misconduct, potentially reminding voters of incidents that were little-known or forgotten.

  • Taylor Swift Literally Distances Self From Trump-Supporting Bestie Brittany Mahomes

    Taylor Swift was spotted seated separately from bestie Brittany Mahomes at Thursday’s Kansas City Chiefs game after the wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes came out in support of ex-President Donald Trump.Brittany Mahomes had been a frequent companion of Swift’s since she began dating Chiefs tight-end Travis Kelce, and the two typically sat together in the same suite at games—but Mahomes found herself in hot water with some Swift fans (and potentially Swift herself) after she liked a post from D

  • Father of girl stabbed to death in Alberta classroom tells killer to 'rot in hell'

    WETASKIWIN, Alta. — Family of a 17-year-old girl stabbed to death as she sat in her desk in an Alberta high school had angry words for her killer at a sentencing hearing Thursday.

  • Ilona Maher posed in a bikini for Sports Illustrated. It matters more than you think.

    Ilona Maher posed on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition. It's an important step in the right direction.

  • Trump Skewers His Legal Team as They Awkwardly Stand Beside Him

    Donald Trump gave a rambling news conference Friday that was unhinged even by his standards, with him blasting his own legal team despite their recent victories for him in other trials.Trump also skewered E. Jean Carroll, his sexual abuse and defamation accuser, and claimed that he was again being treated unfairly by courts in New York City.As Trump aired his grievances at everyone including his own legal team, his defense attorneys, including Alina Habba, were photographed standing awkwardly be

  • Jail put ‘violent’ inmate in man’s cell and he was killed within 45 minutes, suit says

    He was “subjected to not only a deadly but lengthy attack without it ever being heard or observed,” the lawsuit filed in California says.

  • Fox News Host Hits Colleagues With A 'Dare' To Decode Trump's Rambling Answer

    Jessica Tarlov called the former president's response "one of the most incoherent things" she's ever heard.

  • Sir Ian McKellen Roasts the Royal Family: Queen Elizabeth Was ‘Quite Rude’

    Sir Ian McKellen described the late Queen Elizabeth II as “quite rude” and said the British royal family “can’t do anything normal,” declaring in a recent interview that he was siding with Prince Harry in his rift with the crown. In a lengthy interview with The Times in which the legendary actor held little back, McKellen said that whenever he met the late queen, she would shake his hand like she was pushing him away. “It meant, ‘Go! Go!’” McKellen said. “The Queen, I’m sure she was quite mad at

  • Presidential Election Nostradamus Reveals His 2024 Prediction

    The Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections has predicted a winner when the country goes to the polls in November.Pollsters will no doubt swing back and forth between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as the race comes down to the wire, but Allan Lichtman has history on his side.The American University history professor and former quiz champion has forecast the White House winner in almost every election since 1984. The exception was in 2000, when he picked Al Gore over George W. Bush, although

  • Italy luxury yacht victims died of ‘dry drowning,’ first autopsies show

    Initial autopsies of four of the seven victims who died when a superyacht sank in a storm in Italy last month show they died of “dry drowning,” according to authorities.

  • Meet Brad Pitt's two younger siblings who keep away from the spotlight

    Brad Pitt is one of Hollywood's most recognisable faces, however the same can't be said for his two siblings who often stay out of the spotlight – here's all you need to know about Interview with the Vampire's family

  • Father of Georgia high school shooting suspect charged with murder, child cruelty

    Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, was charged on Thursday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree murder.

  • JD Vance’s Staggering Comments After Georgia School Shooting

    JD Vance told a crowd in Arizona that better security in classrooms, not gun control, is the solution to school shootings, with the Republican nominee for vice president calling massacres like the one in Georgia this week an unfortunate “fact of life.”Speaking at a rally at Phoenix, Vance said, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re—if you are a psycho, you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools…

  • People Are Literally Sobbing Over Will Ferrell's Documentary About Discovering His Good Friend Is Trans

    Ohhh, this one might kill me.

  • Princess Diana's Shocking Words After Her 1985 'Uptown Girl' Dance Revealed (Exclusive)

    The late Princess of Wales' former ballet teacher remembers what she said when the curtains closed

  • Meghan McCain Refuses to Feud With Brother Like ‘Trashy’ Kennedys or Walzs

    Meghan McCain claimed Friday that “everyone is asking” her about her relationship with brother Jimmy McCain, after he came out in support of Kamala Harris for president while his conservative sister denounces the Democratic Party. But she insisted in a new episode of her podcast Citizen McCain that she won’t be turning on her brother like a “trashy,” “gross” Kennedy or Walz would.“A—I don’t come from a trashy family, B—we are very ride or die, and support and love each other,” McCain said on the

  • A surge of Black women and young people registering to vote in Pennsylvania spells trouble for Trump

    ‘This data is suggesting that women, younger voters, voters of color, and then especially younger women of color are going to vote at a much higher rate than they did in 2020,’ one strategist says, predicting that it could have ‘a significant potential impact on the outcome of this election’