Aggregator

Tom Holland looked unrecognizable as he transformed into multiple different characters in a new short film for LEGO . 

Bank teller Kathryn Sullivan, 63, said she had no idea she was helping a chatbot take over her role before she was made redundant.

As I opened the email, I was transported back more than 40 years. Back to a stark hospital room and a cold stainless-steel trolley where I lay, naked, bleeding, terrified and alone.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order renaming the Department of Defense on Friday to its former namesake.

A flight departed from Manchester airport to the Turkish city of Antalya, but was forced to make an emergency landing after a Brit, 35, allegedly punched Turkish passenger, 45, repeatedly.

Amazon's Project Kuiper has landed its first airline deal with JetBlue and plans to offer satellite-powered in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2027. The Verge reports: Yesterday, Amazon's Panos Panay showed off a speed test using an "enterprise-grade customer terminal" (aka, dish) to achieve a download speed of just over a gigabit. Fine, but we'll have to wait to see how it performs once individuals using consumer dishes at scale. Amazon says the first customers will start using the service this year, ahead of a broader rollout in 2026. Project Kuiper-powered Wi-Fi will be available on "select" aircraft initially. Amazon says its satellites will provide lower latency and "more reliable service" for passengers, as they orbit between 367 and 391 miles above Earth -- far closer than the geostationary satellites that orbit around 22,369 miles above the planet. Amazon has also struck a deal with Airbus to build Project Kuiper's satellite internet service into its aircraft.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

There will also be a parade and an afterparty

The wife of a headteacher who killed herself because of homophobic abuse had said: 'I don't want her to have left for nothing.'

Buyers of its latest plush electric model can benefit from one of the most convenient new features to be added to the EV ownership experience yet.

Sales volumes were up 0.6 per cent in July, a stronger performance than most analysts had expected.

The road is going to remain closed for some time

Five years ago, as the nation reeled from the toll of Covid, vascular surgeon Dr Neil Hopper was proud guest of honour at a virtual awards ceremony for bravery.

An American and two Canadians are feared to be among at least 17 dead in a horror tram crash in Portugal's capital city of Lisbon on Wednesday.

A MID Essex road has been closed by emergency services due to a “serious collision”.

A MID Essex road has been closed by emergency services due to a “serious collision”.

MATT BARLOW: News of Levy stepping down as executive chairman after nearly a quarter of a century would have had some sections of the fanbase reaching for champagne.

In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.

Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st. "As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"

 

Bob Loblaw highlighted that lawtech is typically SNAFU for reasons too complex to explore in this column, explaining: "It's unclear to me if Firefox 136.0 is later than Firefox undefined. Apparently not. This probably isn't as bad as the fact that the site listed in the logo for this technology organization leads to a misconfigured web server."

 

"It looks like I'm going to have to stay up all night to get best use of our solar panels," writes Stewart from the land of the midnight sun, which would appear to be... Australia? I guess it makes sense that since Oz has summer during winter, they must have high noon at 7 AM. Perfect sense.

 

Michael R. delivers from the near future. "Update on my parcel! I was not home and DHL will have dropped it off in 1h with the DHeLorean."

 

Finally, Some Guy wrote in with an ambiguous entry, wondering if it was suitable for inclusion. "I'm not sure if this is Error'd material, since it is definitely working as intended." It is indeed working as intended, but it is a matter of principle that some intentions are so egregious in and of themselves that we must consider them Error'doneous and absolutely WTF-worthy. Is this an example? I think not, but let's let youse decide.
Mr. Guy explains: "They chose a "toggle is active" color closely resembling the "toggle is inactive" color on this commonly used component for following cookie laws. Now that's a dark pattern if I ever saw one." Perhaps this is an accessibility fail, but the distinction between light and dark grey is clearly visible to my comparatively unimpaired colour vision. Which way does Hanlon's Razor cut here?

 

[Advertisement] ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds. Learn more.

Fixes typos, creates timebombs

AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.…

Friday is the first of three days of music at Hylands Park in Chelmsford

A VEHICLE fire caused for a lane to close on the A120 and there are delays in the area.