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The council unanimously voted on a motion to call on the government to close two hotels accommodating asylum seekers

Apple has released the first public betas of its upcoming operating systems with its new design language called Liquid Glass. The list of new betas includes iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. The Verge's Jay Peters reports: The design language is inspired by visionOS and, as the name implies, features a lot of transparency. I felt it was a wild change to my iPhone when I tried the first developer beta, and Apple has already tweaked some of the translucency and changed how Control Center looks in subsequent betas. The new operating systems also have an updated numbering scheme: they now all end with 26, taking cues from how the car industry names its cars after the following year. It's a simpler and better system, if you ask me, and it should make it easier to know if you're on the newest software.

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Component origin isn't tracked, says GAO, meaning the circuits in equipment could be from anywhere

The Pentagon doesn't know where components of its critical systems come from, and it's doing a poor job of finding out, say government auditors. …

Video released by Essex Police showed officers telling the man in his 20s in Harlow to put his hands up before handcuffing him during the arrest on suspicion of violent disorder in Epping.

Police Scotland are to take 'no further action' over a historic sexual assault allegation levelled at Alex Salmond after his death.

Speaking on the ITV panel show, the pair candidly revealed the terrifying ordeals they had been subjected to by fraudsters trying to extort money from them.

Longtime Slashdot reader gbkersey shares a report from The Mirror: Elon Musk's satellite internet Starlink has been hit with a global outage preventing thousands of users from accessing the internet. According to DownDetector, reports of issues began to surge around 8pm GMT, with nearly 60,000 global users affected at the peak of the outage. "Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution," the company said in a post on X. "We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is resolved." Outages are being reported across the U.S., as well as along the Ukrainian frontline. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 people in the UK have logged issues with Starlink since 8pm this evening. "The majority of the reports (64%) are concerning a total blackout, while the rest point to internet problems," the report says. Developing...

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The chilling audio of the 911 call as emergency services rushed to Hulk Hogan's Florida home has emerged following his death.

It's been a while since Harry Styles' fans have heard from the popstar.

We Are Blighty has collected tens of thousands of pounds from members of the public across busy streets including Oxford Street, Tower Hill and Waterloo since September 2022.

They can only enforce consistency based on their training

The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…

Tributes from the sports world are pouring in after hearing the news that Hulk Hogan, arguably the most iconic and popular performer in the history of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Beyond AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google is working on "Web Guide" to better organize Search results into categories with additional context and insights. Simply, "Web Guide groups web links in helpful ways." There are headers and summaries before you see two or so links, with the ability to load "More." The goal is to make it "easier to find information and web pages," with this AI organization better surfacing pages "that you may not have previously discovered." It leverages a "custom version of Gemini to better understand both a search query and content on the web." It uses a query fan-out technique, like AI Mode, to perform "multiple related searches to identify the most relevant results." Google says Web Guide is ideal for both open-ended searches ("how to solo travel in Japan"), and detailed queries in multiple sentences: "My family is spread across multiple time zones. What are the best tools for staying connected and maintaining close relationships despite the distance?" In the latter example, grouping will see "pages related to specific aspects of your query." This is available in Search Labs (Web Guide) by going to the "Web" tab/filter. As such, you can switch to "All" for the usual experience. However, Google will experiment with showing AI-organized results in the All tab and other parts of Search over time. Further reading: Google Users Are Less Likely To Click on Links When an AI Summary Appears in the Results, Pew Research Finds

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Pamela Anderson Liam Neeson put on a cosy display at the premiere of their new film The Naked Gun in Berlin, Germany on Thursday.

Erling Haaland has treated his girlfriend to an ultra-rare £330,000 handbag that can only be purchased via auction. His partner took to Instagram to upload pictures of her holding the item.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, you could save yourself a lot of typing

hands on  It happens every day. There's something interesting on your screen that you want to share with others. Perhaps it's an error message you want to send to support. Or maybe you're writing instructions for colleagues and you need to outline how to use software. Whatever the reason, you need a screenshot.…

Jay Slater, from Lancashire, had been to the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas when he went missing in June last year.

EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE: When Newcastle reneged on what Isak thought was the promise of a contract, it was always likely to be a case of when and not if he would tell the club he wanted to leave

Shocking footage shows four officers gathered around the entrance to Stanley's of Streatham, in south London , before they produce the heavy tool and start heaving it at the doors.

Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be careful

Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…