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Scarlett Dargan imagines this week's generational debate

Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: "The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an 'agile' makeup -- comprising smaller, siloed squads -- and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects." OMG, as they say: "Sudden outbreak of common sense." According to the Boston Globe, Fidelity is cutting about 1,000 jobs even as it plans to hire roughly 5,300 new workers, many of them early-career engineers. Half of the 3,300 new workers hired this year "will be in tech or product-related roles," the report says, noting that "about 2,000 of those jobs are currently open, and 400 of them are in tech/product-delivery." "The company also plans to add almost 2,000 new early-career workers, with the goal of making the tech and product-delivery teams more hands-on. In all, that means roughly 5,300 new jobs in the pipeline for Fidelity." The company says AI isn't driving the shift; as cellocgw noted, it's about moving toward larger teams that Fidelity says can move faster on priority projects. The financial services firm also reported a strong 2025 under CEO Abigail Johnson, with managed assets rising 19% from 2024 to $7.1 trillion and revenue climbing 15% to $37.7 billion. "Throughout the company's history, our investments in technology have fueled our growth and customer service capabilities," Johnson wrote in a letter (PDF) included in the company's annual report. "We will continue to prioritize technology initiatives that help us advance digital capabilities, simplify our technology ecosystem, and protect the firm and our customers."

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A projection by polling firm Rallings & Thrasher suggested Nigel Farage is set to win around 284 seats based on yesterday's vote shares, shy of the 326 required to govern alone.

Taking to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for a televised event to mark the legendary naturalist and broadcaster's centenary, the heir to the throne said: 'It is a rare privilege to celebrate a century of life.

King Charles and Queen Camilla teamed up with the BBC to secretly film an extraordinary tribute, aired during tonight's televised special 'David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth'.

Elizabeth Hurley showed off her youthful physique in a black and white striped bikini as she posed for poolside Instagram snaps on Friday.

Essex is full of hardworking people, entrepreneurial people. They’ve had enough. They want real change and that’s what they voted for

BrianFagioli writes: Micron says it is now shipping the world's highest-capacity commercially available SSD, and the numbers are honestly hard to wrap your head around. The new Micron 6600 ION packs 245TB into a single drive and is aimed squarely at AI infrastructure, hyperscalers, and cloud providers dealing with exploding data growth. According to the company, the SSD can reduce rack counts by 82 percent compared to HDD deployments offering similar raw capacity, while also cutting power usage and cooling requirements. Micron says the drive tops out at roughly 30W, which it claims is about half the power draw of comparable hard drive setups. The announcement also feels like another warning sign for spinning disks in the enterprise. Hard drives still dominate bulk storage because of lower cost per terabyte, but SSD capacities keep climbing into territory that used to belong exclusively to HDDs. Micron is also touting major performance gains, claiming up to 84 times better energy efficiency for AI workloads and dramatically lower latency versus HDD-based systems. While nobody is dropping one of these into a home NAS anytime soon, the idea of a quarter petabyte on a single SSD no longer sounds like science fiction.

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Essex is full of hardworking people, entrepreneurial people. They’ve had enough. They want real change and that’s what they voted for

The 65-year-old actor said his relationship with Felicity, 45, the older sister of Emily Blunt, 'just sort of made sense' despite the 21-year difference in their ages. They have been married since 2012.

The Prince of Wales admitted he had 'bags under the eyes' as he hosted a Buckingham Palace garden party the day after watching his beloved Aston Villa reach the Europa League final.

Reform UK has taken control of Essex County Council in dramatic political earthquake which ended 25 years of Conservative rule at County Hall.

Reform UK has taken control of Essex County Council in dramatic political earthquake which ended 25 years of Conservative rule at County Hall.

The 38-year-old mogul - who responded to rumors she was fighting partner A$AP Rocky at the Met Gala - recently got a new tattoo designed by her young children.

Labour lost its majority on Tameside council, the authority which includes the former deputy prime minister's Greater Manchester constituency.

Zoë Garbett was able to take the Hackney mayoralty for the Greens with 35,720 votes, leaving Labour incumbent Caroline Woodley with just 26,865.

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

The 35-year-old suffered head wounds after allegedly turning aggressive and trying to harm himself during a party at a £200-a-night Majorcan villa he was renting.

The Trump administration released the first batch of the long-awaited UFO files on Friday, publishing several hundred previously unseen photographs and videos.

mrspoonsi shares a report: Dirty Frag is a vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), that can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write vulnerability. Dirty Frag extends the bug class to which Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail belong. Because it is a deterministic logic bug that does not depend on a timing window, no race condition is required, the kernel does not panic when the exploit fails, and the success rate is very high. Because the embargo has been broken, no patch or CVE currently exists. "As with the previous Copy Fail vulnerability, Dirty Frag likewise allows immediate root privilege escalation on all major distributions, and it chains two separate vulnerabilities," Kim said. Detailed technical information can be found here. BleepingComputer notes that the two vulnerabilities chained by Dirty Frag are "now tracked under the following CVE IDs: the xfrm-ESP one was assigned CVE-2026-43284, and the RxRPC isye is now CVE-2026-43500."

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