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No parents want to choose sides when it comes to their children's sibling rivalry.

At least one person is dead, and 10 are injured after a gunman opened fire near a building in Texas.

More than 70 people supporting Palestine Action have been arrested outside Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London as a judge prepares to sentence four activists for a factory raid.

Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up

Amanda Holden has called for Sir Keir Starmer to be 'kicked out' over delays to the Prime Minister's plans to introduce a social media ban for under-16s.

A leaker with a strong Apple rumor track record says a touchscreen MacBook is "100% confirmed. If true, it would mark a major reversal for Apple, which has long argued that the Mac is built for indirect input rather than reaching up to touch a vertical screen. MacRumors reports: Instant Digital has a good track record for Apple rumors and has provided some strikingly accurate information in the past, so it's always worth noting what they have to say about Apple's plans. The claim is also backed by several recent reports. [...] Touchscreen support is expected to be one of several major upgrades coming to Apple's next-generation high-end MacBook Pro models. Other rumored features include M6 Pro and M6 Max chips, an OLED display, a Dynamic Island (i.e., no notch), and a thinner design. The new laptops could also adopt MacBook Ultra branding. Notably, macOS 27 Golden Gate also introduces a more touch-friendly interface, since Apple's Sidecar feature now allows users to tap and interact with macOS interface elements using a finger on their iPad. Apple apparently is not going to advertise the new MacBook Pro/Ultra as a touch-first device like the iPad -- it will be "touch-friendly, not touch-first," according to [Bloomberg's Mark Gurman]. In that sense, Apple will let customers use touch and mouse gestures interchangeably for all functions. Further reading: Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops (2012)

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Around 3,000 worried residents signed a petition against the plans for the historic farmland

Donald Trump is fuming over leadership in Tehran leaking a copy of his impending Iran peace deal, claiming that the country's leadership acted in a 'very dishonorable' fashion.

Two Essex neighbourhoods have been revealed among the latest winners in the Postcode Lottery.

Two Essex neighbourhoods have been revealed among the latest winners in the Postcode Lottery.

Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker

She also appeared in several TV series such as Home Improvement with Tim Allen and Frasier with Kelsey Grammer as well as JAG. The actress retired in 1999.

It isn't so much the size of the SpaceX flotation that boggles the mind, though the statistics are pretty staggering in themselves.

Longtime Slashdot reader Dotnaught shares a report from The Register: For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot. And the company's Copilot AI software inadvertently helped identify the faulty firmware. According to Jack Darcy, a security researcher based in Australia, his instance of Microsoft Copilot stumbled across the bug after being asked to adjust the screen backlighting on a Surface device. The Copilot-conjured Python script ended up rendering the researcher's laptop inoperable by overwriting the embedded controller firmware. "Copilot autonomously created and executed four progressively aggressive Python scripts during a probe for backlight control values that sent raw SSAM ioctl commands (SSAM_CDEV_REQUEST = 0xC028A501) directly to the SAM microcontroller through the SAM software path," Darcy explained to The Register. [...] "We appreciate the work of Jack Darcy and The Register for reporting this issue under a coordinated vulnerability disclosure," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "Our investigation found that a deprecated UEFI interface could trigger a boot loop on some devices. To trigger this loop, the user must have administrator privileges and have already disabled the Secure Boot security feature. We have released updates to address the issue for most impacted devices." That means managed devices are not at risk. But those using Linux, or Windows users who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot for gaming, or who use custom Windows drivers, or who have USB boot enabled, may still be vulnerable if their systems haven't received the update. We're uncertain about the range of Surface devices affected. Our source said it appears to be all of them (Surface Laptops 3-6, Surface Book 1-3) except for Surface Go models. ARM variants, however, have not been tested. The report notes that Microsoft is planning to move the Surface stack to a more secure architecture based on Rust code. "Our most recent Surface for Business hardware features a major architectural shift in terms of improved reliability and security that spans our embedded controller, UEFI, but also some of our drivers," said David Abzarian, chief architect for Microsoft Surface. "We're investing in the most secure foundation for a PC by building our embedded controller firmware from the ground up in Rust (as part of leveraging and contributing to the Open Device Partnership (ODP)) in addition to a rewrite of the UEFI DXE Core in Rust; these projects are known as Secure EC and Project Patina respectively." "We're also not only shipping some of our drivers written in Rust, but also helping co-develop the framework Windows Drivers in Rust (WDR) to help enable a broad set of partners in the Windows ecosystem to capitalize on these benefits. I will also note that all of these efforts are open-source promoting one of our key security principles around transparency."

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It will be giving out 1,000 free burgers on opening day

Researchers in New York found that those who performed best on the tests had a 37 percent lower risk of death.

Editor-at-large Richard Kay theorised that fears over an embarrassing photo of George with a girlfriend surfacing were likely the deciding factor in William and Kate's decision.

A major police operation has led to 29 arrests and the seizure of 36 vehicles in a major police operation.

A major police operation has led to 29 arrests and the seizure of 36 vehicles in a major police operation.