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The 32 acres of mixed ancient and semi-natural woodland fronts on to the the lake and estate agents have described the sale as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'.

Internet outages spiked during the second quarter of 2025, driven by government-mandated shutdowns, infrastructure failures, and technical glitches, according to Cloudflare's quarterly disruption report. Government restrictions returned after a quiet first quarter, with Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama imposing internet cutoffs for reasons ranging from protest suppression to exam security. A massive power outage on April 28 knocked Spain's internet traffic down 80% and Portugal's by 90%, with service restored around 1 a.m. the following day. Cable damage caused complete outages for Digicel in Haiti and a 90-minute disruption for Airtel in Malawi. Several major outages went unexplained, including an eight-hour blackout at SkyCable in the Philippines and a nationwide outage at Thai provider TrueMove H, with companies providing no official explanations for the service failures.

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AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior

ai-pocalypse  If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com.…

A police helicopter was seen circling over parts of Braintree and surrounding villages on Wednesday evening.

Huge models are error-prone and expensive

Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations, and spiraling bills.…

Police said they were 'worried' about the man after he went missing on Wednesday evening (July 23)

The migrant won an appeal at the immigration court after saying he can't return to Iraq because of a divorce he went through in his home country.

Donald Trump's visit to Scotland this weekend will 'undoubtedly stretch' police resources, a senior officer has warned.

ItsJustAPseudonym shares a Reuters story:The International Cycling Union (UCI) has intensified its fight against mechanical doping, employing intelligence-driven methods to combat increasingly sophisticated alleged cheating in professional cycling. ItsJustAPseudonym adds: They call the use of hidden motors "mechanical doping". In 2010 it led to the ban of a rider from Belgium who had a hidden motor in her seat-tube during a cyclocross event. "It's a bit of a technological arms race. Components are getting lighter, smaller. Easier to conceal, which is harder to detect", according to Nick Raudenski, the UCI Head of the Fight Against Technological Fraud.

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Bryan Kohberger stared coldly at the families of his victims and even appeared 'relaxed' as they shared their grief at his sentencing on Wednesday.

Little Evan, who lives in Maidstone in Kent, was only told he had the debilitating condition on February 8 this year after going to a laser tag birthday party with friends.

Women lose protection against bone fractures when they stop taking HRT and go on to have a temporarily heightened risk of cracks, a study suggests.

The largest great white shark ever tagged in the Atlantic has been tracked swimming dangerously close to one of America's top summer vacation spots.

Colorado pastor Eli Regalado and his wife Kaitlyn have been indicted on 40 felony charges of theft, securities fraud and racketeering in connection to an alleged cryptocurrency scam.

A local television reporter was visibly shaken after spotted something while filming a segment in a river in Bacabal, a city in the northeast Brazil state of Maranhão.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony is testing a Power Saver mode for the PlayStation 5, explaining in a new PlayStation Blog update that the option will permit games to run with lower power consumption. While the upcoming feature was revealed as part of the system update beta, the feature will not be available during the beta phase. However, when the feature does hit your console, players will gain access to a new option called Power Saver. With Power Saver enabled, "supported PS5 games will scale back performance and will allow your PS5 to reduce its power consumption," explained Shuzo Kikuchi, VP of product management at Sony Interactive Entertainment. "If not enabled, or if games do not support the feature, the performance will not be scaled back and power consumption will not be reduced." As for what scaled-back performance actually means, SIE indicates that VR mode will be unavailable and that "some gameplay features may be limited." So that's one very clear change, and one vague, game-specific change.

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Liverpool defender Kostas Tsimikas has revealed a new tattoo in honour of his late team-mate Diogo Jota, who died in a car crash earlier this month.

Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim

Researchers at Meta have come up with a wristband that picks up your muscle twitches and turns them into real-time computer commands - no cameras or implants required.…

A Labour MP I spoke to recently is in despair at the Prime Minister. 'He's insane', he told me. 'How can he say that? How can he honestly think there's huge amounts of spare housing? It's mad.'

Billy Joel's biggest revelation after filming his new documentary was uncovering the truth that his absentee father Howard Joel was a driving force behind his music and life.