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Residents have demanded a stricter crackdown from school officials and city police in response to two fights in the last several weeks that have spilled out past school grounds.

The ex-wife of Charlie Sheen donned a skimpy leotard that had a plunging sweetheart neckline and came up high on the hips. Also worn by the 54-year-old former Bond girl were perky black bunny ears.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: It's time for Xbox to eat some humble pie and perform some real soul-searching. Microsoft released its latest quarterly earnings report and proved the worst of our fears about its gaming brand. Not only are Xbox hardware sales down significantly, but the brand itself is barely treading water. Gamers are voicing their displeasure with their wallets, but Microsoft's top brass is still only thinking about the margins. Microsoft was more keen to promote the scale of its cloud and AI services revenue -- which was up 28% year over year -- than talk about its beleaguered gaming brand. The company's overall gaming revenue fell by 2% compared to the same time last year. This was precipitated by a "decline in Xbox hardware," which was down by 22% following a steady decline quarter after quarter. Its first-party games and its Game Pass subscription were doing better, though the overall growth was only up by 1%, and even that was driven by the "better-than-expected performance" of third-party games. You can give credit to titles like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for why Xbox isn't in an even deeper hole than it is now. The tech giant has no expectation that its Xbox brand will start making more money anytime soon. In its earnings call with investors, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said the company expects Xbox will continue to decline "in the low to mid-single digits" for the following quarter. That's mostly due to the lack of landmark first-party titles. Just this month, Xbox released Ninja Gaiden 4, The Outer Worlds 2, and Double Fine's The Keeper. Xbox also made a huge marketing push for its first handheld, made in partnership with Asus, the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. In any other year, this would be a big month for any gaming company. The dour outlook comes after months of bad news. After two subsequent price hikes, Xbox Series S and Series X consoles now cost between $100 to $150 more than they did at launch five years ago. Microsoft also pushed prices of its Game Pass Ultimate subscription tier from $20 to $30 per month. A full-year's subscription would now demand $360. In a separate article, Gizmodo reviews Microsoft's new ROG Xbox Ally X handheld, which "offers a better experience overall" than the "other small-scale Windows PC gaming devices released this year." However, "it's still nowhere close to what you truly want from a console."

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Harris said she regretted not drawing a clearer distinction between herself and Biden during her unsuccessful run for the presidency, but insisted she was 'not talking about competence.'

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on December 15, 2021.

Kaleb Cooper is following in the footsteps of his boss Jeremy Clarkson and has launched his own meat business. 

KATIE HIND: Before Alan Carr set off to Ardross castle in the Scottish Highlands last spring to film Celebrity Traitors, he told his friends he was certain he'd be ousted after just one day.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson took over the care of Muick and Sandy after the Queen's death, housing them at Royal Lodge.

The host, 58, was widowed in January 2024 when her husband Derek passed away after a four-year battle against long Covid.

Back in the west London enclave where she grew up, and following the collapse of her marriage to David Harbour, Lily Allen found herself plotting her next move.

When push came to shove at the Palace this week, there was only one way things would go. His Majesty the King realised the Andrew problem was not going to disappear.

Was it monumental self-belief or inspirational genius that prompted Piers Daniell and his wife Emma to buy a castle - then replace it with another that threatens to ruin them?

Hours after Rachel Reeves broke down in tears in the Commons chamber in July she hosted a private drinks party at the Treasury.

Time, perhaps, for a last-minute addition to the final stages of Celebrity Traitors?

Nine stars, including Robert de Niro and Rod Stewart, all share something in common within their families aside from their legendary profiles.

Their seven bedroom, six bathroom mansion at Saddleworth in the rugged countryside outside Oldham, Greater Manchester, went on the market in September 2020 for £3.85m.

The study published in Nature found Bowhead whales have molecules that can help repair damaged DNA, a defence that helps fight cancer .

Officers used chainsaws to smash their way into the disused Aspers casino in Northampton town centre at around 9am yesterday.

OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous agent that scans, reasons about, and patches code like a human security researcher. "By embedding itself directly into the development pipeline, Aardvark aims to turn security from a post-development concern into a continuous safeguard that evolves with the software itself," reports InfoWorld. From the report: What makes Aardvark unique, OpenAI noted, is its combination of reasoning, automation, and verification. Rather than simply highlighting potential vulnerabilities, the agent promises multi-stage analysis -- starting by mapping an entire repository and building a contextual threat model around it. From there, it continuously monitors new commits, checking whether each change introduces risk or violates existing security patterns. Additionally, upon identifying a potential issue, Aardvark attempts to validate the exploitability of the finding in a sandboxed environment before flagging it. This validation step could prove transformative. Traditional static analysis tools often overwhelm developers with false alarms -- issues that may look risky but aren't truly exploitable. "The biggest advantage is that it will reduce false positives significantly," noted Jain. "It's helpful in open source codes and as part of the development pipeline." Once a vulnerability is confirmed, Aardvark integrates with Codex to propose a patch, then re-analyzes the fix to ensure it doesn't introduce new problems. OpenAI claims that in benchmark tests, the system identified 92 percent of known and synthetically introduced vulnerabilities across test repositories, a promising indication that AI may soon shoulder part of the burden of modern code auditing.

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Men and women were asked how much they spend across price ranges from less than £10 to over £250 a year - and men were found to outspend women in the top range. Pictured: File photo