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A new report has revealed the shocking number of close encounters taking place over US military bases that Department of Defense officials don't have an answer for.

Starting with Word for Windows version 2509, Microsoft is making cloud saving the default behavior. New documents will automatically save to OneDrive (or another cloud destination), with dated filenames, unless users manually revert to local saving in the settings. From the report: "Anything new you create will be saved automatically to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination", writes Raul Munoz, product manager at Microsoft on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team. Munoz backs up the decision with half a dozen advantages for saving documents to the cloud. From never losing progress and access anywhere to easy collaboration and increased security and compliance. While cloud saving is without doubt beneficial in some cases, Munoz fails to address the elephant in the room. Some users may not want that their documents are stored in the cloud. There are good reasons for that, including privacy. Summed up: - If you do not mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud, you do not need to become active. - If you mind that Word documents are stored in the cloud by default, you need to modify the default setting.

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A former lumberjack who carried out a 'horrific' attack which left an 80-year-old man's fingers hanging off has been jailed for six years.

Warren Tierney, 37, from Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, used OpenAI's ChatGPT to seek medical advice after he began suffering from a sore throat that eventually left him unable to swallow fluids.

The American pop icon announced via Instagram last night that she is set to wed the NFL star, both 35, after two years of dating.

The unredacted names and email addresses of almost 200 people who registered for the Church's new abuse compensation scheme were shared in a mass email on Tuesday evening.

After a string of famous male suitors, the Love Story hitmaker shared the news on Instagram, sending Swifties, and celebrity pals, into meltdown.

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Hot Chips  Back in 2023, Nvidia's superchip architecture introduced a new programming model for accelerated workloads by coupling the CPU to the GPU via a high-speed NVLink fabric that makes PCIe feel positively glacial.…

Travis Kelce's dad Ed is spilling the beans on his son's upcoming wedding to Taylor Swift after the couple broke the internet Tuesday by sharing their engagement announcement.

American tourists never seem to change - and they seem quite oblivious to just how much they stick out.

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. From a report: "Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports" than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. "So a lot of fast progress there." At the meeting, employees asked Welle and other executives about job security, "internal barriers" and Google's culture after several recent rounds of layoffs, buyouts and reorganizations. Welle said the idea is to reduce bureaucracy and run the company more efficiently. "When we look across our entire leadership population, that['s mangers, directors and VPs, we want them to be a smaller percentage of our overall workforce over time," he said.

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Distraught parents condemned a horror shooting in Minneapolis at a parish school church holding its start-of-year mass.

Enjoying a stylish mother-daughter outing in the fashion capital, Kim, 44, put on a leggy display in a black dress which featured a high slit.

Muscleman Akinwale Arobieke, also known as 'Purple Aki', was found dead at home on Tuesday at the age of 64.

There's also a rogue Russian on the list

The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.…

Two doctors at the cutting edge of Parkinson's disease have made the bombshell claim that the condition may be preventable, giving hope to millions of sufferers and their families.

Newlyweds Beyzanur Beyazıt and Ali Karaca were being escorted home after the ceremony when Karaca was wounded by gunfire, allegedly at the hands of his sister-in-law.

After losing his job in 2024, Eric Thompson spearheaded a working group to push for federal legislation banning "ghost jobs" -- openings posted with no intent to hire. The proposed Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act would require transparency around job postings, set limits on how long ads can remain up, and fine companies that violate the rules. CNBC reports: "There's nothing illegal about posting a job, currently, and never filling it," says Thompson, a network engineering leader in Warrenton, Virginia. Not to mention, it's "really hard to prove, and so that's one of the reasons that legally, it's been kind of this gray area." As Thompson researched more into the phenomenon, he connected with former colleagues and professional connections across the country experiencing the same thing. Together, the eight of them decided to form the TJAAA working group to spearhead efforts for federal legislation to officially ban businesses from posting ghost jobs. In May, the group drafted its first proposal: The TJAAA aims to require that all public job listings include information such as: - The intended hire and start dates - Whether it's a new role or backfill - If it's being offered internally with preference to current employees - The number of times the position has been posted in the last two years, and other factors, according to the draft language. It also sets guidelines for how long a post is required to be up (no more than 90 calendar days) and how long the submission period can be (at least four calendar days) before applications can be reviewed. The proposed legislation applies to businesses with more than 50 employees, and violators can be fined a minimum of $2,500 for each infraction. The proposal provides a framework at the federal level, Thompson says, because state-level policies won't apply to employers who post listings across multiple states, or who use third-party platforms that operate beyond state borders.

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Hamza Sharif, 35, and Sudak Ali, 27, both accused of the offences, had hearings scheduled for today at Birmingham Crown Court.