The government is launching a drive to recruit thousands of new volunteers to serve as magistrates in England and Wales, as it seeks to get a grip of the courts backlog. More than 2,000 magistrates have been trained since 2022, and ministers want to recruit the same number again over the next financial year, the…
Elon Musk’s Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged “lapses in safeguards” on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors. The admission comes after multiple users alleged on social media that people are using Grok to generate suggestive images of minors, in some cases stripping them…
Tight end Tyler Higbee is on track to return on Sunday for the season finale against the Arizona Cardinals. Safety Quentin Lake will be back for the playoffs. Star receiver Davante Adams also could be held out till then. The Rams, coming off consecutive losses to the Seattle Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons, might appear…
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Muskβs artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user requests. Users used prompts such as βput her in a bikiniβ under pictures of real people on X to get Grok to generate nonconsensual images of…
Next, the FTSE-100 retail behemoth, is among a pack of suitors considering a new year swoop to buy LK Bennett, the struggling fashion retailer. Sky News has learnt that Next is weighing a cut-price offer to buy LK Bennett’s brand and other intellectual property assets as it prepares to call in administrators. Retail industry sources…
Will Smith and his company Treyball Studios Management Inc. are being sued by an electric violinist who is claiming wrongful termination, retaliation and sexual harassment β allegations denied by the actor-rapper-producer in a statement from his attorney. Brian King Joseph alleges in a lawsuit filed earlier this week that Smith hired him to perform on…
Nigel Farage has said he is giving “serious thought” to scrapping the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) if his party wins the next general election and he becomes prime minister. The Reform UK leader said the budget watchdog leaves chancellors “beholden to it rather than doing their own thinking”, and said it is “effectively dictating…
Will Bryson III of St. Paul stuck it out for his senior basketball season even though the team lost pretty much everybody to graduation except for him. All he can do is his best, and thatβs what he has been doing, including a 68-point performance two weeks ago in Las Vegas in a triple overtime…
Passing the 10,000-point barrier is a largely symbolic milestone for the FTSE 100, but it underlines an upward trend for the index of the UK’s largest companies and offers some cautious optimism for the year ahead. Founded in 1984 with an index value of 1,000, last year was the FTSE’s best since 2009, rising 21.5%…
John Mayer calls it βadult day careβ: the historic recording studio behind the arched gates on La Brea Avenue where famous musicians have been keeping themselves β and one another β creatively occupied since the mid-1960s. Known for decades as Henson Studios β and as A&M Studios before that β the three-acre complex in the…