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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.

Rosa Taylor, who dressed up as different princesses to perform for young children was tragically killed in Wiltshire when a lorry smashed into the car she was in.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The letter refrains from going into further details. But I understand that Massimo Galli and another senior member of the Garrick's staff recently had a heated confrontation.

The musician, 53, who is still based in Manchester, lost his place in the band forever when an argument in 1995 ended in him telling Noel to f*** off.

Somehow, after a gruelling tournament with an awful lot of extra time, two days of solid partying, a couple of 4am finishes and almost no sleep, the Lionesses are still at peak bounce.

ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares his list of "what's new and improved" in the latest Linux 6.16 kernel. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI device subsystem. This approach will make it easier to add new Rust-based hardware drivers to Linux. Additionally, new Rust abstractions have been integrated into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), particularly for ioctl handling, file/GEM memory management, and driver/device infrastructure for major GPU vendors, such as AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. These changes should reduce vulnerabilities and optimize graphics performance. This will make gamers and AI/ML developers happier. Linux 6.16 also brings general improvements to Rust crate support. Crate is Rust's packaging format. This will make it easier to build, maintain, and integrate Rust kernel modules into the kernel. For those of you who still love C, don't worry. The vast majority of kernel code remains in C, and Rust is unlikely to replace C soon. In a decade, we may be telling another story. Beyond Rust, this latest release also comes with several major file system improvements. For starters, the XFS filesystem now supports large atomic writes. This capability means that large multi-block write operations are 'atomic,' meaning all blocks are updated or none. This enhances data integrity and prevents data write errors. This move is significant for companies that use XFS for databases and large-scale storage. Perhaps the most popular Linux file system, Ext4, is also getting many improvements. These boosts include faster commit paths, large folio support, and atomic multi-fsblock writes for bigalloc filesystems. What these improvements mean, if you're not a file-system nerd, is that we should see speedups of up to 37% for sequential I/O workloads. If your Linux laptop doubles as a music player, another nice new feature is that you can now stream your audio over USB even while the rest of your system is asleep. That capability's been available in Android for a while, but now it's part of mainline Linux. If security is a top priority for you, the 6.16 kernel now supports Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX). This addition, along with Linux's improved support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization and Secure Memory Encryption (SEV-SNP), enables you to encrypt your software's memory in what's known as confidential computing. This feature improves cloud security by encrypting a user's virtual machine memory, meaning someone who cracks a cloud can't access your data. Linux 6.16 also delivers several chip-related upgrades. It introduces support for Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), doubling x86 general-purpose registers from 16 to 32 and boosting performance on next-gen CPUs like Lunar Lake and Granite Rapids Xeon. Additionally, the new CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option allows users to build processor-optimized kernels for greater efficiency. Support for Nvidia's AI-focused Blackwell GPUs has also been improved, and updates to TCP/IP with DMABUF help offload networking tasks to GPUs and accelerators. While these changes may go unnoticed by everyday users, high-performance systems will see gains and OpenVPN users may finally experience speeds that challenge WireGuard.

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Evan LePatner looked devastated as he arrived home Tuesday afternoon. His wife Wesley was one of four killed at a Midtown skyscraper on Monday.

When Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty returned to Blighty from Los Angeles , they had such high hopes for the future that they splashed out £5million on their 'forever home' in London 's Hampstead.

In a report on Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it expects rates to drop from the current 4.25 per cent to 3.75 per cent by Christmas.

The pair, who joined the programme in February 2022, shared the news on TikTok, which left viewers absolutely heartbroken.

Animated scenes, apparently created with computer generated images, superimposed ghostly Roman figures against the ancient backdrop.

Generous and fun-loving, baby-faced Craig France was the life and soul of the party - a party he was happy to continue at home once the clubs had shut.

The website now allows home hunters to filter properties that have home charging, as well as searching for local on-street chargers.

Celebrities and fans will pay their final respects to Ozzy Osbourne on Wednesday as the rock icon returns to his home city for a procession ahead of his private funeral. 

Jack Dorsey's new app Bitchat is now available on the iOS App Store. The decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app uses Bluetooth mesh networks for encrypted, ephemeral chats without requiring accounts, servers, or internet access. Dorsey said he built it over a weekend and cautioned that it "has not received external security review and may contain vulnerabilities..." TechCrunch reports: The app's UX is very minimal. There is no log-in system, and you're immediately brought to an instant messaging box, where you can see what nearby users are saying (if anyone is actually around you and using the app) and set your display name, which can be changed at any time. [...] Dorsey has not directly addressed the fake Bitchat apps on the Google Play store, but he did repost another user's X post that said that Bitchat is not yet on Google Play, and to "beware of fakes."

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James Robert Reynolds, 25, died after the Toyota Hilux Utility he was driving collided  with a Volkswagen T-Cross on a single carriageway in Lyndon, western Australia , on Sunday morning.

The 28-year-old bride-to-be and the 29-year-old groom originally met while playing love interests in Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016

The Love Island presenter, 30, and the Manchester City footballer, 28, have been dating for several months and have enjoyed several romantic holidays together.

The two have been in a romance 'for a while' said a source; they started having 'sparks' when they began filming their Naked Gun movie in May 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, a source has confirmed.