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How everyone became rich online but broke in person

How everyone became rich online but broke in person

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Designer handbag, fourth holiday of the year, new house, lavish wedding: these unsubtle wealth flexes are foisted on the average social media user the moment they thumb their timelines. From TikTok to Instagram, both big influencers and everyman profiles are using their digital footprint to create an illusion of wealth that looks wildly out of place given the current economic chaos. Thanks to the rising cost of literally everything from food to fuel, almost half of Britons have less than £25 in spare cash at the end of each week, research has found, with two-thirds cutting back on essentials like food and heating. Yet, on the internet, life is lived lavishly – and studies have shown this delusion could be making our financial reality …

Parents Say Grandparents Broke Trust By Taking Their 8-Month-Old On Road Trip Without Telling Them

Parents Say Grandparents Broke Trust By Taking Their 8-Month-Old On Road Trip Without Telling Them

Published by Jenni Sidey

Where in the world would some of us parents be without our children’s grandparents? They step in and step up to create a village — a support system for your child or children the leaves them feeling secure and loved. But there are times when grandparents make decisions about their grandkids without consulting their children, and, for some, that’s a huge boundary to cross. One man took to an online forum to share his dismay over his parents’ actions. They apparently told him and his wife a lie about what they would be doing with their 8-month-old baby one day and set in motion actions that would fracture the relationship for the foreseeable future. The grandparents took the 8-month-old on a road trip — without asking for permission first Getty Images / Unsplash+ His parents had been watching the baby while he and his wife worked during the week. One day, they notified their son and his wife that they would be an hour late dropping their grandchild off. The devoted dad was working from home, so …

I set 10 honesty traps for Claude Opus 4.8 – and a legal test broke it

I set 10 honesty traps for Claude Opus 4.8 – and a legal test broke it

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David Gewirtz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Claude Opus 4.8 handled uncertainty better than 4.7. Multiple AIs helped cross-check the test results. Even honest AIs can still rationalize bad assumptions. Last week, Anthropic released its latest frontier large language model, Claude Opus 4.8. One of the signature features of this new release is that it is more honest and “has noticeably better judgment” than previous releases. Also: Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature But is that true? In this article, we put this claim to the test.  Before I take you through the whole testing process and some detailed results, let me bottom-line it for you. In some ways, Opus 4.8 is better than the previous Opus 4.7 model. Opus 4.7 itself is quite capable. However, I found a whopping judgment error in Opus 4.8, proving that Anthropic still has a way to go before we can completely trust Claude’s judgment. Creating the tests I used OpenAI’s ChatGPT Codex to help construct the …

I asked Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to debug the same Python error, and only two explained what actually broke

I asked Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to debug the same Python error, and only two explained what actually broke

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It feels like it has gotten so common to ask an AI to fix your mistakes since it’s easier than debugging. That’s okay in most cases, but you need to go to the right AIs. I tested a few of them to see which gave a good output instead of just making a mistake or not helping at all. It turns out you should be very careful about what you get back. After this test, it’s easy to see why vibe coding is pulling people in, but not teaching them. Related ChatGPT’s decline is real — I tested it against Claude on 3 routine tasks, and it lost every time What happened, ChatGPT? We used to be cool. You need to debug the root cause If you don’t learn, you’ll never get better I tested Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude on a tricky Python bug to see which one could actually explain what went wrong and not just hand back fixed code. The bug was a classic Python mistake. Basically, when you set a dictionary or …

6 Hollywood couples who broke up but still had to play on-screen lovers

6 Hollywood couples who broke up but still had to play on-screen lovers

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s a tale as old as time… while playing on-screen lovers, stars translate their movie-magic chemistry into a real-life relationship. However, before long, the demands of the job and public attention prove too much for a couple to bear, and they end up splitting – but not before they’ve finished shooting their final scene as lovers.  From Riverdale‘s Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart to Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder, who took their feisty love story in Vampire Diaries off-screen, plenty of famous couples have been forced to work together despite navigating heartbreak.  Whether it be a reunion of the exes or the continuation of a fake relationship for the sake of a series’ plot, once they step on set, Hollywood couples must be ready for lights, camera, action, no matter what.  Here are some of the worst real-life breakups between co-stars who still had to work together after they broke up… © Getty Images Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart famously met on the set of the Netflix show Riverdale and confirmed …

A Swimmer Broke a World Record at the Enhanced Games

A Swimmer Broke a World Record at the Enhanced Games

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“Now I’m being taught how to do it the right way,” Ryan says. “And I’m being paid to do it.” Ryan hopes Enhanced can pave the way for a separation of truly “clean” events and transparently juiced competitions. He even calls on events like the Olympics to increase testing strictness. “What we’re doing is completely separate,” Ryan said during Friday’s media availability. “It’s marketing, it’s show business. And it should be separate.” The financial argument and the idea of helping aging athletes prolong their careers make up the most compelling case I hear for Enhanced on its face—at least in terms of athletes’ motivations. But it’s the business side of the organization where some conflicts of interest become tougher to ignore. Photograph: Etienne Laurent/Getty Images Head to the products page of the Enhanced website and you’ll find what appears to be the organization’s spinoff of telehealth company Hims, but for PEDs. Products like copper peptides, sermorelin and testosterone injections are available alongside GLP-1s, semaglutide, and tadalafil. Martin is open about the mission: To bring these …

Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm’s last trust signal

Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm’s last trust signal

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On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account. Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified the package was built in a CI environment, confirmed a valid certificate was issued, and recorded everything in the transparency log. What it cannot do is determine whether the person holding the credentials authorized the publish — and that gap turned the last automated trust signal in npm into camouflage. One day earlier, StepSecurity documented an attack on the Nx Console VS Code extension, a widely used developer tool with more than 2.2 million lifetime installs. Version 18.95.0 was published using stolen credentials on May 18 and stayed live for under 40 minutes — but Nx internal telemetry showed approximately 6,000 activations during that window, most through auto-update, compared to just 28 official downloads. The payload harvested Claude Code configuration files, AWS keys, GitHub tokens, npm tokens, 1Password vault contents, and Kubernetes service account tokens. The Mini …

How King Charles broke the late Queen’s golden rule – and risked a ‘serious reaction’

How King Charles broke the late Queen’s golden rule – and risked a ‘serious reaction’

Published by Daniella Wilson

The royal family are used to enjoying a banquet or sampling the odd offering while out on official duties, but there are some foods that they’re often warned off of, whether this is to due with the risk to their breath, or perhaps more adverse reactions. However, King Charles has famously brushed off some of these concerns in the past… Royals are famously advised to avoid eating foods like shellfish and raw meat whilst on official royal engagements in order to limit the risk of food poisoning, which could be particularly disastrous if they’re abroad on a royal tour. Former royal butler Grant Harold previously told Woman & Home magazine: “It is a very sensible move to abandon having seafood when out and about on public duties. We don’t want a member of the Royal family having a serious reaction to food poisoning, especially if they’re on an overseas tour.” They’re also not the most elegant food to eat – so it’s no wonder the late Queen avoided them at all costs! However, Charles has …

I revoked Google Play Services’ permissions, and here’s what actually broke on my Android phone

I revoked Google Play Services’ permissions, and here’s what actually broke on my Android phone

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When you install any app on your Android phone, you decide what permissions to grant during the initial setup. However, when it comes to Google’s own apps, they have all the permissions enabled by default, and you have to dig through settings to revoke any of them later. Case in point: Google Play Services, which has every permission turned on by default, but you can revoke them one by one if you want. That made me wonder, what if I revoked all the permissions for Google Play Services? Would the phone still work? The short answer is yes, the phone still works, but some vital features break along the way. If you rely on any Google apps, you’d want to be careful about which permissions you actually need to leave on for privacy and which ones you can safely turn off. What actually broke when I cut Play Services off Location, sign-in, and sharing took the biggest hit The fact that you can revoke every permission for Google Play Services tells you that not all …

Millennials Were Taught To ‘Just Push Through’ And Now They’re Burnt Out & Realizing That’s Exactly What Broke Them

Millennials Were Taught To ‘Just Push Through’ And Now They’re Burnt Out & Realizing That’s Exactly What Broke Them

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I was a kid, maybe eight or nine, I wiped out on my bike. And it wasn’t just a scrape-and-get-back-up moment. It was brutal. I took a chunk of skin out of my knee, blood everywhere, tears, the whole mess.  I remember looking up at my mom, thinking, Okay, I’m done here, let’s call it a day. But nope. She said, “Get back on and ride home.” I did it because I had to, even though I was hurting.  Millennials were taught to just push through, and now they’re totally burnt out Getty Images / Unsplash+ The ‘pick yourself up and just push through’ mentality was a staple of millennial childhood According to a recent Aflac report, about 66% of millennials report moderate or high levels of burnout, which is significantly higher than Baby Boomers, who clock in at just 39%.  Burnout recovery coach Bethany Sadler-Jasmin agrees, stating that millennials are “burnt out, disengaged, stressed, and treading water daily.” She argues that this is because they bought into a belief system that tied their …