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Matthew Reyland, 38, had been driving through a parked motorhome before attempting to force his way past stationary cop cars.

The Entertainment Software Association is launching a new gaming event to replace E3, which was permanently canceled in 2023. According to Engadget, the new event is called iicon (short for "interactive innovation conference") and will feature many of the same major gaming companies that once participated in E3. "Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Disney, EA, Epic Games, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Take Two Interactive, Amazon Games and Warner Bros. Games are all named as participants." From the report: [T]he announcements on social media promote iicon as being for "visionaries," "changemakers" and "innovators," so our best guess is that this event will swing more toward the corporate side of gaming where people might use that language unironically. If that's the case, this won't really be a replacement for the heyday of E3, when studios big and small would showcase their upcoming projects and drop internet-breaking surprises. Instead, the inaugural event in April 2026 sounds like it will focus more on moving the needle, brand alignments and synergy.

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Dr Guy Sandelowsky, a practising UK veterinarian for over a decade, and co-founder Shiv Sivakumar secured a £75,000 investment from Dragons Steven Bartlett and Deborah Meaden.

Jacqueline Ma, 35, has been in custody since she was first arrested at Lincoln Acres Elementary, San Diego, in 2023.

As we have been saying for quite some time, when it comes to datacenter CPUs, we think that homegrown Arm processors (as well as those made by independents Ampere Computing and Huawei Technologies) will eventually represent at least half of the computing capacity that the hyperscalers and major cloud builders install. …

How Much Money Does Arm Make In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A neighbour in the hamlet of Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, found the two bodies early on Thursday afternoon.

In a sublime moment of British comedy Basil Fawlty wonders whether the latest calamity in his Torquay hotel is all in his imagination.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 43, allegedly murdered his son Kaleo, 2, and daughter Roxy, 10-months, in 2021 after believing they had 'serpent DNA' and becoming obsessed with wild QAnon theories.

A portrait of Margaret Thatcher by the Scottish artist Anne Mackintosh has sold for £42,000 at auction.

A rattled John Swinney yesterday tried to defend spending £1billion on a 'five-star prison' as he was accused of building a 'luxury resort' for rapists and murderers.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called "Open Deep Research," created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI's Deep Research feature, which can autonomously browse the web and create research reports. The project seeks to match Deep Research's performance while making the technology freely available to developers. "While powerful LLMs are now freely available in open-source, OpenAI didn't disclose much about the agentic framework underlying Deep Research," writes Hugging Face on its announcement page. "So we decided to embark on a 24-hour mission to reproduce their results and open-source the needed framework along the way!" Similar to both OpenAI's Deep Research and Google's implementation of its own "Deep Research" using Gemini (first introduced in December -- before OpenAI), Hugging Face's solution adds an "agent" framework to an existing AI model to allow it to perform multi-step tasks, such as collecting information and building the report as it goes along that it presents to the user at the end. The open source clone is already racking up comparable benchmark results. After only a day's work, Hugging Face's Open Deep Research has reached 55.15 percent accuracy on the General AI Assistants (GAIA) benchmark, which tests an AI model's ability to gather and synthesize information from multiple sources. OpenAI's Deep Research scored 67.36 percent accuracy on the same benchmark with a single-pass response (OpenAI's score went up to 72.57 percent when 64 responses were combined using a consensus mechanism). As Hugging Face points out in its post, GAIA includes complex multi-step questions such as this one: "Which of the fruits shown in the 2008 painting 'Embroidery from Uzbekistan' were served as part of the October 1949 breakfast menu for the ocean liner that was later used as a floating prop for the film 'The Last Voyage'? Give the items as a comma-separated list, ordering them in clockwise order based on their arrangement in the painting starting from the 12 o'clock position. Use the plural form of each fruit." To correctly answer that type of question, the AI agent must seek out multiple disparate sources and assemble them into a coherent answer. Many of the questions in GAIA represent no easy task, even for a human, so they test agentic AI's mettle quite well. Open Deep Research "builds on OpenAI's large language models (such as GPT-4o) or simulated reasoning models (such as o1 and o3-mini) through an API," notes Ars. "But it can also be adapted to open-weights AI models. The novel part here is the agentic structure that holds it all together and allows an AI language model to autonomously complete a research task." The code has been made public on GitHub.

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Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above?

Registration of new Tesla cars slumped across Europe in January, as Chinese electric-vehicle makers racked up enormous growth.…

US president Donald Trump will reportedly try to force Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire with Russia by Easter, according to a report. 

It could impact thousands of cars

Scottish farmers have been told to become more 'woke' in a bid to make the sector more welcoming.

The CIA's decision to hand over an unclassified list of employees to the Trump Administration's Office of Personnel Management has sparked fears it could compromise the identities of employees.

I saw fear in Bianca Censori's eyes as she shrugged out of her fur coat, revealing her nude body to the world at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.

Dr Beth Upton, who was born a man but now identifies as female, said she was asked about what chromosomes she had by A&E nurse Sandie Peggie and told she should not be allowed to use the facility.

'She's going to have good arms!' I was ten years old and standing in my parents' bathroom when I heard my mother say this.

Democrats are defying President Donald Trump's executive order axing federal funding to clinics that provide gender-affirming care to trans children.