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‘I would have liked more flight time but happy with this’ says CEO of private rocket outfit

Australia’s attempt to return to space lasted just 14 seconds, after a Wednesday launch barely made it off the ground.…

Passengers have been spotted running across the tarmac at an airport after the 'landing gear' of their plane caught fire.

Kaspars Botters abused a girl under the age of 16 on five occasions from 2009 to 2014 in Latvia. A judge has now rejected claims extraditing him to the Balkan country would breach his human rights.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has asked colleagues to stay away from the league's Manhattan's offices in the aftermath of this week's mass shooting that left one staffer injured.

Fans have a huge problem with one part of the set...

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Insider: Apple's new spam text filtering feature could end up being a multimillion-dollar headache for political campaigns. iOS 26 includes a new feature that allows users to filter text messages from unrecognized numbers into an "Unknown Senders" folder without sending a notification. Users can then go to that filter and hit "Mark as Known" or delete the message. In a memo seen by BI and first reported by Punchbowl News, the official campaign committee in charge of electing GOP senators warned that the new feature could lead to a steep drop in revenue. "That change has profound implications for our ability to fundraise, mobilize voters, and run digital campaigns," reads a July 24 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, or NRSC. The memo estimated that the new feature could cost the group $25 million in lost revenue and lead to a $500 million loss for GOP campaigns as a whole, based on the estimate that 70% of small-dollar donations come from text messages and that iPhones make up 60% of mobile devices in the US. Apple's 'rules' for this new spam text filtering feature "aren't unclear at all," notes Daring Fireball's John Gruber. "If a sender is not in your saved contacts and you've never sent or responded to a text message from them, they're considered 'unknown.' That's it." "The feature isn't even really new -- you've been able to filter messages like this in Messages for years now, but what iOS 26 changes is that it now has a new more prominent -- better, IMO -- interface for switching between filter views." It's also worth noting that there's no filtering by message content, so all political parties will be affected by this feature. "[T]here's no reason to believe that Republican candidates and groups will be more affected by this than Democratic ones," writes Gruber.

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Private Harry Johnson, 19, was just three months into his military career when the tragedy occurred at Vimy Barracks in Catterick, North Yorkshire, last Thursday.

Benjamin Netanyahu reacted furiously to Sir Keir's ultimatum to make peace with the terror group which inflicted the October 7 atrocities.

Around one in three (31 per cent) ready-made products aimed at babies or toddlers were classified as ultra-processed (UPFs), according to University of Leeds researchers.

The abuse comes with the turf when you write about football. The fragile and the delusional, whipping themselves into a conviction that it's all a conspiracy. That you've got it in for their club.

YouTube is rolling out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience. TechCrunch reports: When YouTube identifies a user as a teen, it introduces new protections and experiences, which include disabling personalized advertising, safeguards that limit repetitive viewing of certain types of content, and enabling digital well-being tools such as screen time and bedtime reminders, among others. These protections already exist on YouTube, but have only been applied to those who verified themselves as teens, not those who may have withheld their real age. [...] If the new system incorrectly identifies a user as under 18 when they are not, YouTube says the user will be given the option to verify their age with a credit card, government ID, or selfie. Only users who have been directly verified through this method or whose age has been inferred to be over 18 will be able to view the age-restricted content on the platform. The machine learning-powered technology will begin to roll out over the next few weeks to a small set of U.S. users and will then be monitored before rolling out more widely, the company says. [...] YouTube isn't sharing specifics about the signals it's using to infer a user's age, but notes that it will look at some data like the YouTube activity and the longevity of a user's account to make a determination if the user is under 18. The new system will apply only to signed-in users, as signed-out users already cannot access age-restricted content, and will be available across platforms, including web, mobile, and connected TV.

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Keeley Knowles, 42, targeted upmarket stores in Birmingham every morning, raking in up to £8,000 a day as she sold the stolen items on WhatsApp.

A marriage proposal is one of the most magical moments of a person's life - and according to Simone Visconti, the moment isn't just about the settling, it's about creating something that outlives the proposal.

Valet Alf Edwards and kitchen maid Caroline Palmer married in 1916 after meeting when both were on the staff at the palatial Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire.

A woman who moved from the UK to Thailand has revealed how much her lifestyle has changed.

Bali - long glamourised as a tropical escape brimming with waterfalls, temples and self-discovery - is now facing a growing backlash from tourists who say the reality doesn't live up to the Instagram dream. 

Models wearing devil horns and displaying upside-down crosses paraded down the aisle-turned-catwalk of St Andrew Holborn church for a London Fashion Week event in 2017.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the National Guard to assist the City of Saint Paul after a cyberattack crippled the city's digital services on Friday. "The city is currently working with local, state, and federal partners to investigate the attack and restore full functionality, and says that emergency services have been unaffected," reports BleepingComputer. "However, online payments are currently unavailable, and some services in libraries and recreation centers are temporarily unavailable." From the report: The attack has persisted through the weekend, causing widespread disruptions across the city after affecting St. Paul's digital services and critical systems. "St. Paul officials have been working around the clock since discovering the cyberattack, closely coordinating with Minnesota Information Technology Services and an external cybersecurity vendor. Unfortunately, the scale and complexity of this incident exceeded both internal and commercial response capabilities," reads an emergency executive order (PDF) signed on Tuesday. "As a result, St. Paul has requested cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard to help address this incident and make sure that vital municipal services continue without interruption." "The decision to deploy cyber protection support from the Minnesota National Guard comes at the city's request, after the cyberattack's impact exceeded St. Paul's incident response capacity. This will ensure the continuity of vital services for Saint Paul residents, as well as their security and safety while ongoing disruptions are being mitigated. "We are committed to working alongside the City of Saint Paul to restore cybersecurity as quickly as possible," Governor Walz said on Tuesday. "The Minnesota National Guard's cyber forces will collaborate with city, state, and federal officials to resolve the situation and mitigate lasting impacts."

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Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers

The former CEO of Florida telco Q Link will spend up to five years in jail after attempting to steal more than $100 million from two US government programs.…

A Secret Service agent has triggered an investigation after he tried to smuggle his wife onto a support plane that was traveling to Scotland alongside President Donald Trump.