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Upcoming closures from February 28 to March 2 on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

BLUR’s Graham Coxon has spoken exclusively to The Gazette ahead of a big gig in Colchester this summer and has revealed he has “no idea” if the band will perform live “anywhere again”.

Upcoming closures from February 28 to March 2 on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some drivers across Essex this weekend.

The LINAC, which joins three other machines in use at Southend Hospital, works by using beams of high-energy X-rays or electrons.

A new planning application, proposing to modernise an existing energy centre in Braintree, has been submitted to the council.

RAIL enthusiasts in Essex have two exciting steam train day-trips from the county to choose from this year - with one taking passengers all the way to Cardiff

The fines have all been given for attendance-related issues

Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa reportedly had him on a 'strict diet' in the years before their mysterious deaths this week.

Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim

Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…

FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime

The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…

Charlotte Peet, 32, was reported missing on February 17, but CCTV footage appears to show the journalist in a hostel in Botafogo, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, on Monday.

The man from Shanghai, named Mr Liu, transferred nearly roughly £21,778 in the space of two months to what he thought was his new girlfriend named Mrs Jiao, according to China Central Television (CCTV).

A poll of 1000 parents and 500 secondary school teachers by research agency Public First has found that both groups see classroom behaviour as the main cause of classroom disorder.

Ali Bozoğlan, 55, had his house destroyed in the devastating earthquakes of February 2023 which killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria and left cities in ruins.

Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up to occupy different roles; one acting as a receptionist of a hotel, another acting on behalf of a customer attempting to book a room. "Thanks for calling Leonardo Hotel. How can I help you today?" the first asks. "Hi there, I'm an AI agent calling on behalf of Boris Starkov," the other replies. "He's looking for a hotel for his wedding. Is your hotel available for weddings?" "Oh hello there! I'm actually an AI assistant too," the first reveals. "What a pleasant surprise. Before we continue, would you like to switch to Gibberlink mode for more efficient communication?" After the second AI confirmed it would via a data-over-sound protocol called GGWave, both AIs switched over from spoken English to the protocol, communicating in a series of quick beeped tones. Accompanying on-screen text continued to display the meaning in human words. According to the team who came up with the idea and demonstrated it at the ElevenLabs 2025 London Hackathon event, the goal is to create more efficient communication between AIs where possible.

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The range is on sale now in all Primark stores

It would be 'nonsensical' to deploy a prison early-release scheme based on a programme in Texas in Britain because the US state has a much tougher justice system, ministers have been warned.

Motorists in the West Country were stuck in gridlock for hours after the motorway was closed following the crash - which involved a pedestrian, a car and a lorry.

The bodies of 95-year-old Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, a 63-year-old classical pianist, were 'partially mummified' -revealing the extent to which the couple had isolated themselves.

The UK and the US will begin work on a 'new economic deal with advanced technology at its core', Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday.