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As another 388 migrants arrived here illegally over the weekend, a Russian lorry driver was starting a prison sentence for helping foreign nationals leave Britain. Yes, you did read that correctly.

The list has been drawn up by Booking.com, with entries identified based on the number of Traveller Review Awards that each one has.

Cheltenham Birth Centre, a midwife-led birthing unit, has been accused of serious failings which may have contributed to the deaths of two newborns.

Officers were called to Kay's Supermarket on Hamilton Road following reports that an alleged knifeman was making threats to customers and shop assistants and shouting anti-Jewish slurs.

Academics have ranked 120 popular songs from the Elizabethan and Stuart eras - and they're somewhat more risqué than the likes of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.

Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features

CockroachDB has released its 23.2 iteration containing new features designed to tempt mainframe and other legacy database users to shift workloads to its distributed cloud-based system.…

Spying used to be all about secrets. Increasingly, it's about what's hiding in plain sight [non-paywalled link] . From a report: A staggering amount of data, from Facebook posts and YouTube clips to location pings from mobile phones and car apps, sits in the open internet, available to anyone who looks. US intelligence agencies have struggled for years to tap into such data, which they refer to as open-source intelligence, or OSINT. But that's starting to change. In October the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees all the nation's intelligence agencies, brought in longtime analyst and cyber expert Jason Barrett to help with the US intelligence community's approach to OSINT. His immediate task will be to help develop the intelligence community's national OSINT strategy, which will focus on coordination, data acquisition and the development of tools to improve its approach to this type of intelligence work. ODNI expects to implement the plan in the coming months, according to a spokesperson. Barrett's appointment, which hasn't previously been reported publicly, comes after more than a year of work on the strategy led by the Central Intelligence Agency, which has for years headed up the government's efforts on OSINT. The challenge with other forms of intelligence-gathering, such as electronic surveillance or human intelligence, can be secretly collecting enough information in the first place. With OSINT, the issue is sifting useful insights out of the unthinkable amount of information available digitally. "Our greatest weakness in OSINT has been the vast scale of how much we collect," says Randy Nixon, director of the CIA's Open Source Enterprise division. Nixon's office has developed a tool similar to ChatGPT that uses AI to sift the ever-growing flood of data. Now available to thousands of users within the federal government, the tool points analysts to the most important information and auto-summarizes content. Government task forces have warned since the 1990s that the US was at risk of falling behind on OSINT. But the federal intelligence community has generally prioritized information it gathers itself, stymying progress.

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Labour's Kate Osamor provoked anger from Jewish groups after she made a post about Holocaust Memorial Day in which she said that Gaza should be remembered as a genocide.

Dr Manuela Marcheggiani, a dermatologist in Toronto, took to TikTok to warn viewers of the common mistakes people make on their retinol skin journey, which leave them looking sore, red & older.

This optical illusion can reveal whether you spend your time overthinking situations or if you daydream about what could have been. The picture was shared by TikTok creator Mia Yilin.

Unions have claimed that working less would make staff more productive, but also healthier and happier, which participants in the pilot hope the trial will prove.

A luxury home which featured in the 'saddest ever' episode of TV's Grand Designs has gone up for sale this week through debt collectors.

Fascinating historic letters documenting Victorian writer Charles Dickens' purchase of his 'dream home' and how he was a convivial landlord have been discovered.

Fabulous yet chilling, the six-part limited series follows Griselda Blanco, played by Sofia Vergara , 51, on her journey from Medellin to becoming the 'Godmother' of Miami's raging drug scene.

Thirty-four years. That's how long I spent going back and forth to see various doctors, during which time my symptoms were regularly trivialised or dismissed.

As part of Rishi Sunak 's crusade against smoking, the Government now plans to ban disposable vapes. It is not the job of Conservatives to tell people how to live their lives.

Apple's iOS 18 update will reportedly be released in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will include five AI-related updates including large language models.

Blackstone is betting big on AI, plowing billions into data centers after its $10 billion takeover of QTS last year. The private equity giant is bankrolling the development of massive computing bunkers on hundreds of acres in Phoenix and other key markets to meet exploding demand from tech titans like Microsoft. With AI taking hold, QTS has become North America's top provider of leased data center capacity. But the data crunch has strained power grids. QTS estimates its data centers will tap 6 gigawatts of electricity, equal to the needs of 5 million homes.

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Joshua Pembrocke, 24, had the fake emergency lights on inside the windscreen of his vehicle as he overtook traffic at up to 50mph in a built-up area.

Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh?

Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media platform now claims it's ready to hire 100 full-time content moderators at a new office in Austin, Texas.…