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The days of crowded drawers and scratched pots are a thing of the past, thanks to Cuisinart's new pan range.

Paul Edwards, 52, ordered a copy of Mother & Baby in 2007 when his daughter was 18 months old and his son was due to be born three months later.

A growing number of adverts pose as impartial advice without clearly saying they are promoting a business, and fail to make clear you can claim for free, says FCA

She famously sang 'it's me, I'm Cathy' in her hit song Wuthering Heights. But passers-by could be forgiven for wondering which one was the real Kate Bush

The SNP embezzlement scandal has thus far trained its spotlight on Peter Murrell and his penchant for pilfery, and on his estranged spouse Nicola Sturgeon, a strategic mastermind with the observational skills of Mr Magoo.

"Can a company take away something you've already paid for?" asks the BBC. "In the world of online video games, some already do." Publishers can decide to switch off a game's servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging that practice. In January, the group submitted a petition featuring nearly 1.3 million signatures to the European Commission, triggering a public hearing in the European Parliament in April. What began as an online campaign is now awaiting a decision from one of the EU's most powerful institutions... Scott's campaign began following an announcement from the major studio Ubisoft, saying it would shut down the online-only racing game The Crew in 2024... Ubisoft has already defended its position in court. Responding to a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by two The Crew players in California, the studio argued that customers had purchased a licence to use the game, not unlimited ownership rights, and that players had been warned online services would not be available forever. The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice in June 2025, after the plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew the case. The wider games industry has also pushed back against the campaign. Video Games Europe, which represents many of the industry's largest publishers, said shutting down online services "must be an option" when games are no longer commercially viable. It also warned that some of the campaign's proposals could make online-only games significantly more expensive to develop. "In no way are we asking companies to keep servers running or services going, they can end it any time they want," said Scott. Instead, he and his fellow campaigners argue that when a game is shut down it should be done "responsibly", with publishers considering "end-of-life plans" such as updating the game to work offline or releasing software that allows players to continue running it. Two key points from the article: "In March, French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir launched legal action against Ubisoft over the shutdown of The Crew, arguing that players were misled about the permanence of their purchase and that some of the company's contract terms were unfair." "The European Commission must respond to the European Citizens' Initiative — the petition brought by the group — by 27 July." Thanks to Alain Williams — Slashdot reader #2,972 — for sharing the article.

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Naisha Ruzensky and her then-girlfriend Jayden Johnson were watching TV in 2014 when Johnson suddenly turned to Ruzensky and blurted out: 'I am transgender.' It was a shock, to say the least.

Long waits at the border in Europe and fears over the jet fuel crisis are causing more people to consider holidaying in the UK - and for those wanting to travel north of the country, Yorkshire is a hotspot.

If you want to watch the games from within the UK, the usual pair of networks are where you will go. The big two, BBC and ITV , will show their own particular games before both broadcasting the final.

At the age of 54, I was trying to find a job in one of the toughest markets I've ever known.

Filling out the Power of Attorney forms is possible without expert guidance. But these are some of the most common pitfalls.

My wife is losing her voice. Her GP says that it's silent reflux but the prescription medicines aren't helping. Could there be another cause? Dr Ellie replies to a reader's concerns.

The Great British Bake Off judge has unveiled freshly-baked plans for his 18th-century countryside retreat after falling foul of town hall planners last October.

DI Ben Coogan, 49, was sacked for gross misconduct following a hearing in April after he was found to have saved five sexual pictures of a female colleague he was romantically involved with.

The actress, 70, has said she feels 'really glad' she had children in her late forties as she reflected on ageing and her turbulent love life in a new interview.

Iran's team has spent nearly three weeks at a training camp in Antalya, using their time in Turkey to apply for visas to travel to Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Yesterday 2026's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded, with 22 new winners announced in a special three-hour livestreamed ceremony! Started 42 years ago, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest, with entrants concocting convoluted programs glorying in the C programming language's subtleties, all while having some fun. And "For IOCCC29, the volume and quality of submissions were at near-historic heights," explains its home page. There's a "Tetris-optimized" GameBoy emulator with source code that looks like a GameBoy, as well as a quasi-Rogue-like game voted "most likely to teleport." Awards were also given for the best imaginary emulator (a virtual machine in 366 bytes of C) and the best fractional emulator (a maze generator for the Commodore 64). But every one of the 22 winning programs seems wildly creative... Quine Pong. "Running the program produces the source code to generate the next frame, formatted to display the current frame. By repeatedly compiling and running each successive frame, you can play the game. To move, pass either "w" (up) or "e" (down) as an argument..." A winning Taiwanese programmer formatted their source code in the shape of a Tardis from Doctor Who — code that displays an intricate ASCII animation of Doctor Who's 1963 opening title sequence. One winning entry emulates an IBM 7040 mainframe, first converting a program (encoded in whitespace) into ASCII-character drawings of punchcards for a FORTRAN program — and then executing that program to calculate the light visible to an observer looking at black hole, ultimately creating an image. It's all recreating what astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet had to do in 1978 to generate the first-ever simulated photograph of a black hole (on an IBM 7040 mainframe). "The entry can also run other FORTRAN programs — but "they must be provided as a deck of punch cards... Tools have been provided to convert to/from decks and to interpret..." "We have added fun challenges to this year's winning entries competition..." the web site notes. "After you figure out what a given winning entry does, we encourage you to attempt the fun challenge!" Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader achowe for bringing the news (who has submitted winning entries in four different decades, starting in 1991 and continuing through 2025) — and who won again this year for a program simulating the Space Invaders-like game from Casio's 1980 MG-880 calculator. Follow the IOCCC on Mastodon.

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Newlyweds Dua Lipa and Callum Turner emerged on their hotel balcony after partying until 6am at their £1.5m Sicily wedding.

Beaming newlyweds Bettina and Don Trump Jr step out at the Monaco Grand Prix as their honeymoon period kicks off to a sunny start.