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It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers

Deborah Brockman, a former TV producer, was tossed to the ground and detained by mask-wearing Border Patrol officers, in the Windy City's Lincoln Square neighborhood last October 10.

Police are investigating the 'deliberate' incident, which occurred in Bridge Lane, Golders Green, on Tuesday at around 4am, as a suspected arson attack.

The 28-year-old actress will star in a film adaptation of Lindsey Anderson Beer's novel, Hollow. It comes after her turn as Cassie Howard came to an end with Euphoria's series finale.

Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run locally on devices equipped with just 16GB of VRAM, making advanced AI more accessible to developers, researchers and businesses. The launch highlights a growing trend across the AI industry: bringing powerful AI models directly to personal computers instead of relying solely on remote data centers. Gemma is Google's family of open AI models built using technology and research from its Gemini program. The new Gemma 4 12B model contains 12 billion parameters and has been designed to handle multiple types of information, including text, images and audio. Unlike traditional AI systems that focus only on text, Gemma 4 12B can understand visual content, process audio inputs and perform advanced reasoning tasks. This makes it suitable for a wider range of applications, from software development and content creation to research and automation. Google says the model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing developers and organizations to use, modify and deploy it with relatively few restrictions. [...] One of the most significant technical changes in Gemma 4 12B is its new unified architecture. Traditionally, multimodal AI systems use separate components known as encoders to process images, audio and text before combining the information. Google says Gemma 4 12B removes the need for separate multimodal encoders. Instead, the model processes different types of information through a unified architecture. According to the company, this helps improve efficiency while reducing memory requirements and computational overhead. The result is a model that can deliver advanced multimodal capabilities while remaining small enough to run locally on modern hardware.

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Meridian Thomas Woodson, 28, was killed May 28 in Elmwood, New Orleans when her former husband Kody Woodson, 30, opened fire before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Unscrupulous developers took advantage of the late May bank holiday weekend to move in caravans on patches of picturesque countryside in Hampshire and Bedfordshire.

A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.

The Armed Forces minister, who served in Afghanistan with the Royal Marines, has 'abandoned his principles' and 'put two fingers up' to British soldiers, it has been claimed.

Iran could recruit sleeper agents in Britain who are 'motivated to kill Jews' to carry out terror attacks, an expert has warned.

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. "These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications -- including attach and detach force -- to help you build a high-quality accessory band," Google says on a store page listing. 9to5Google reports: Noting how the "community has already come up with innovative and creative new ideas to make the Fitbit Air [their] own" since launch last month, Google is "officially releasing the hardware specifications and accessory design guidelines for the Fitbit Air tracker to the public." For example, owners have already found their own bicep band solutions. This information would typically just be available for third-party accessory companies, but Google wants to open things up to "independent designers and artisan makers." The Google Store page also lists other things developers should keep in mind, such as sensor clearance, sensor pressure, secure retention, and skin-friendly materials.

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The presenter, 50, appeared on the Vanessa show on Wednesday where she gave an update on her benign brain tumour.

Prince William surprised local residents and pub goers in SE15 this afternoon as he visited The Prince of Peckham pub in south-east London.

JAMES SHARPE: A furious Aryna Sabalenka suffered a complete French Open meltdown as her hopes of winning a fifth Grand Slam were blown away by the Roland Garros wind.

She thought she'd finally found her happily-ever-after when, dressed in white, she walked down the aisle with a man she'd barely known for a week.

The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures

Timothy Hudson, 16, is accused of raping and murdering his stepsister , 18-year-old Anna Kepner, in November of last year on a Carnival cruise ship.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is "a compact developer PC" built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in memory. The Dev Box looks a little like a cartoon anvil or piano fell onto an Xbox Series X and flattened it. Its aluminum casing was designed "to double as a heatsink," and its preloaded version of Windows 11 Pro will include a "purposeful" set of developer-centric default settings and preinstalled tools. This is a follow-up of sorts to the Windows Dev Kit 2023, also known as "Project Volterra." This Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-powered PC was essentially the system board from a Surface Pro tablet stuffed into a plastic box, and it was introduced alongside Arm-native versions of several Microsoft developer tools. It helped to set the stage for the Arm-based flagship Surface devices that launched the next year, which benefitted from a better and faster x86-to-Arm code translation technology called Prism and a greater number of Arm-native third-party apps that didn't need to be translated in the first place. Microsoft didn't announce pricing or specific specs for the RTX Spark Dev Box, but you can probably expect it to cost quite a bit more than the $600 that Project Volterra did. Hopefully, Microsoft can keep the price at least somewhat lower than the $4,699 asking price for Nvidia's similarly specced DGX Spark box. On the software side, several developer-centric changes are coming to Windows 11, particularly for users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in "the coming months"; and something called Windows Developer Configurations that uses the WinGet tool to quickly set up "a distraction-free dev environment with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, WSL, PowerShell 7 and developer-optimized settings with one command on any Windows 11 device." Microsoft also introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), as "enterprise-grade sandboxed environments" that let AI agents like OpenClaw operate on Windows without getting unrestricted access to the whole system. In theory, MXC could let organizations enforce agent-specific limits, such as blocking access to personal accounts, separating work and personal data, or requiring permission before deleting files. The MXC GitHub repo also notes support for "multiple containment backends," meaning the same sandboxing concept could apply beyond AI agents to other plugins, tools, and workloads. Further reading: Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw

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Anthony Durkan is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on July 21.