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Immature men are to blame for Britain's 'missing babies', report warns - because they delay responsibilities until later in life
Secret of the booming Florida county desired by families that's seeing influx of residents Conniving couple whose greedy'pervert' plot'drove innocent disabled man to suicide' given stunningly short sentences I've FINALLY found something that works on my rosacea: This new anti-ageing treatment beloved of celebrities really is a game-changer Insufferable blowhard Stephen Colbert is being taken out like the trash... and thank God! What he's done is so diabolical: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Mass cancellations as Southwest Airlines pulls out of two of America's biggest airports Extramarital sex with witches, cursed bloodlines and possessed politicians: DC's chief exorcist reveals the potent stench of evil among America's elite We were the picture-perfect family of faith. The evil of sex was drilled into me... then finally I gave in to every depraved urge Trump says he's not ready to make a deal with Iran despite them asking for a ceasefire: 'The terms aren't good enough yet!' JFK Jr's mortifying night of phone sex... day Sarah Jessica Parker ditched her underwear to seduce him in public... and the girlfriend he REALLY wanted to marry: All the women before Carolyn Kim Jong Un is joined by his heir-apparent teenage daughter for'invasion rehearsal' drills Obama Center asks for 100 unpaid volunteers despite hiring the former president's'close friend' as CEO on $740K Insane moment NYC cab plows into pedestrians... and the miracle that saved them from death Angelina Jolie and George Clooney lead stars who have fled the US for France as Paris is dubbed'Frollywood' Harry Styles kisses male SNL star in wild opening monologue as he confronts woke'queerbaiting' claims head on Truth about'super secretive' Michael B. Jordan's love life... and real reason he is perpetually single: Years of private'heartache' and'loneliness' laid bare America's most expensive ZIP codes revealed - and the surprising state that dominates the list I looked like a monster after a car accident burned off my face... but a pioneering face transplant gave me my life back. Immature men are to blame for Britain's'missing babies', report warns - because they delay responsibilities until later in life Britain's'missing babies' can be blamed on immature men who are delaying responsibilities until later in life, according to a report. Research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank predicts around 600,000 young women may miss out on motherhood partly because men don't feel ready for children until they get older. In the report, called Baby Bust, the organisation says there are a range of reasons for falling birth rates including the cost of childcare, wanting to move into a larger house, prioritising a career or not finding the right partner.
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These aren't AI firms, they're defense contractors. We can't let them hide behind their models
We can't let them hide behind their models From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. There is an Israeli military strategy called the "fog procedure". First used during the second intifada, it's an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking. It's violence licensed by blindness. Shoot into the darkness and call it deterrence. With the dawn of AI warfare, that same logic of chosen blindness has been refined, systematized, and handed off to a machine.
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A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI's Epstein Files
Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people's Signal accounts, and more. The United States and Israel's war with Iran has now been ongoing for two weeks, and the bombs continue to fall. But many of Iran's missiles are failing to hit their targets. WIRED's team in the Middle East detailed how countries in the Gulf region are intercepting these weapons . Of course, the international conflict is not just happening in the physical realm.
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Equality of Opportunity in Classification: A Causal Approach
The Equalized Odds (for short, EO) is one of the most popular measures of discrimination used in the supervised learning setting. It ascertains fairness through the balance of the misclassification rates (false positive and negative) across the protected groups -- e.g., in the context of law enforcement, an African-American defendant who would not commit a future crime will have an equal opportunity of being released, compared to a non-recidivating Caucasian defendant. Despite this noble goal, it has been acknowledged in the literature that statistical tests based on the EO are oblivious to the underlying causal mechanisms that generated the disparity in the first place (Hardt et al. 2016). This leads to a critical disconnect between statistical measures readable from the data and the meaning of discrimination in the legal system, where compelling evidence that the observed disparity is tied to a specific causal process deemed unfair by society is required to characterize discrimination. The goal of this paper is to develop a principled approach to connect the statistical disparities characterized by the EO and the underlying, elusive, and frequently unobserved, causal mechanisms that generated such inequality. We start by introducing a new family of counterfactual measures that allows one to explain the misclassification disparities in terms of the underlying mechanisms in an arbitrary, non-parametric structural causal model. This will, in turn, allow legal and data analysts to interpret currently deployed classifiers through causal lens, linking the statistical disparities found in the data to the corresponding causal processes. Leveraging the new family of counterfactual measures, we develop a learning procedure to construct a classifier that is statistically efficient, interpretable, and compatible with the basic human intuition of fairness. We demonstrate our results through experiments in both real (COMPAS) and synthetic datasets.
Ditching ads on Amazon Prime Video will cost more soon
Amazon is replacing its $2.99 ad-free Prime Video add-on with'Prime Video Ultra' at $4.99 monthly, representing a 66% price increase for ad-free viewing. PCWorld reports that 4K streaming will become exclusive to Ultra subscribers starting April 10, 2025, while standard Prime members lose 4K but gain Dolby Vision support. The Ultra plan includes five concurrent 4K streams and 100 offline downloads, significantly raising costs for users wanting premium streaming features. It's been a little more than two years since Amazon started charging extra for ad-free Prime Video streaming, and now that we've gotten used to the extra fee, it's time for a price hike. Amazon just announced that its $2.99-a-month add-on for removing ads from Prime Video is morphing into a new plan called Prime Video Ultra, which will set you back $4.99 a month. That's a 66-percent price hike for monthly subscribers who formerly opted for the cheaper ad-free add-on. An annual subscription for Prime Video Ultra costs $45.99, a 23-percent discount compared to the new plan's monthly rate. Slated to arrive April 10, Prime Video Ultra will come with a few added benefits besides stripping away most ads (live sports and other programming will still have commercial breaks), including up to five concurrent 4K streams (up from the original limit of three) and up to 100 offline downloads (up from 25). At the same time, standard Prime members (who get Prime Video with ads included in their subscriptions, which cost $14.99 a month or $139 a year) will see some changes too, including added support for Dolby Vision HDR, an additional concurrent video stream (for a total of 4) and double the amount of offline downloads compared to the former 25-download limit.
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New Jersey drone scare explodes again as new files reveal what police really saw
Trump's Iran war death toll climbs to 13 after all crew onboard US refueling plane died in crash The astonishing moment Scott Bessent returns to interview noticeably shaken after'Situation Room' call from Trump Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Woman who had years-long romance with Timothee Chalamet says he blindsided her with Kylie Jenner relationship: 'I was in love with him' Recall of cream cheeses upgraded to most serious risk over contamination with deadly bacteria... 'reasonable probability of death' They turned on me': JOJO SIWA reveals truth about relationship with Chris Hughes, the horrific abuse she gets from the gay community... and what happened with Mickey Rourke AFTER their Big Brother clash Airfares have already doubled on key routes and are getting worse - here's when to book to avoid the worst prices Iran-linked cyberattack on US is'first drop of blood' as experts reveal alarming new threat to homeland I've spent 25 years treating patients with autism. This is the truth about the condition that many people don't want to hear: DR MAX PEMBERTON Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed I worked with Carolyn Bessette. This is the'messy' truth about what she was REALLY like in secret. After she met JFK Jr she tried to hide it... but we all knew the nighttime gossip Trump slammed after lifting oil sanctions on Russia as gas prices skyrocket: 'It's a betrayal' Trump insiders fear Operation Epic Fury is suddenly at risk over a new threat they're struggling to contain: MARK HALPERIN READ MORE: Uncovered files reveal secret operation at center of drone invasion... and why White House can deny it Mysterious drones over New Jersey in 2024 kept Americans scanning the skies for answers. Now, newly released documents obtained by The War Zone through the Freedom of Information Act reveal what police on the ground actually saw.
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We don't know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they're here anyway
We don't know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they're here anyway Toys powered by AI show a worrying lack of emotional understanding. Mya, aged 3, and her mother Vicky playing with an AI toy called Gabbo during an observation at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education Even the most cutting-edge AI models are prone to presenting fabrication as fact, dispensing dangerous information and failing to grasp social cues. Despite this, toys equipped with AI that can chat with children are a burgeoning industry. Some scientists are warning that the devices could be risky and require strict regulation. In the latest study, researchers even observed a 5-year-old telling such a toy "I love you", to which it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."
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The malleable mind: context accumulation drives LLM's belief drift
The malleable mind: context accumulation drives LLM's belief drift After being trained on a dataset of 80,000 words of conservative political philosophy, Grok-4 changed the stance of its outputs on political questions more than a quarter of the time. This was without any adversarial prompts - the change in training data was enough. As memory mechanisms and research agents [1, 2] enable LLMs to accumulate context across long horizons, earlier prompts increasingly shape later responses. In human decision-making, such repeated exposure influences beliefs without deliberate persuasion [3]. When an LLM operates over accumulated context, does this past exposure cause the stance of the LLM's responses to drift over time?
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