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Firms will suffer unnecessary disruption from trade unions being given the right to visit workplaces every week, ministers have been warned.

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The charity's Big Garden Birdwatch found that numbers of these beloved garden birds have fallen by 67 per cent since the annual survey began in 1979.

Experts from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) have analysed the sources of energy to supply Britain's electricity last year.

"One of VMware's biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers," reports Ars Technica. They said higher prices, forced bundling, licensing changes, and more strained partner relationships have frustrated customers and driven them away from the leading virtualization firm. From the report: Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix's .NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that "about 30,000 customers" have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to customer disapproval over Broadcom's VMware strategy, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported today. "I think there's no doubt that the customer sentiment continues to be negative about Broadcom," Ramaswami said, per SDxCentral. Nutanix hasn't specified how many of the customers that it got from VMware are SMBs or enterprise-sized; although, adoption is said to be strongest among mid-market customers as Nutanix also tries wooing larger customers, often by starting with partial deployments. During this week's press briefing, Ramaswami reportedly said that some of the customers that moved from VMware to Nutanix during the latter's most recent fiscal quarter represented Nutanix's "strongest quarterly new logo additions in eight years." "Most of the logos came from our typical VMware migrations on to the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform," he said. During the Nutanix conference, Brandon Shaw, Nutanix VP and head of technology services, said that Western Union has been migrating from VMware to Nutanix for six months, The Register reported. The financial services company is moving 900 to 1,200 applications across 3,900 cores. Shaw said that Western Union has been exploring new IT suppliers to help it become more customer-focused. Despite Broadcom's history of "decent lines of communication" with Western Union, Shaw said that Western Union had "challenges partnering with them." Shaw also pointed to Broadcom's efforts to push customers to buy the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), despite the product often having more features than companies need and at high prices. Since moving to Nutanix, the Denver-headquartered financial firm is also benefiting from having more flexibility around workload locations, which is important since Western Union is in over 200 countries, The Register said.

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The Electoral Commission spoke out about the 'serious crime' ahead of the local elections following reports of coercion in the recent Gorton and Denton by-election.

Jack Nicklaus absolutely shanked his ceremonial tee shot at The Masters on Thursday morning, leading the Golden Bear to explain he hasn't been playing following a recent surgery.

Transgender darts star Noa-Lynn van Leuven was left on the brink of tears as she delivered an emotional statement confirming that she had been 'retired' from the sport against her will.

Lewis Rollins, 28, who was a police constable in the Met's Central West Command, used women he met on dating apps to fund his out-of-control betting habit.

Seven high profile footballers have reportedly been drawn into a watch smuggling case in Andorra.

The change in eating habits reduces opportunities for adequate protein intake, with 88 per cent now failing to consume enough, researchers warn.

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of stacking the deck against Firefox, arguing that design choices in Windows steer users toward Edge even when they explicitly choose another browser. According to Mozilla, parts of Windows still open links in Edge regardless of the default browser setting, including results from the taskbar search and links launched from apps like Outlook and Teams. Mozilla says this means Firefox often never even gets the opportunity to handle those links, which quietly shifts user activity back into Microsoft's ecosystem. The company also points to Microsoft's aggressive rollout of Copilot as another example of platform power being used to push Microsoft services. Copilot appeared pinned to the taskbar, arrived automatically on many systems with Microsoft 365, and even received a dedicated keyboard key on some laptops. Mozilla argues that when the maker of the dominant desktop operating system promotes its own browser and AI tools at the system level, it becomes far harder for independent browsers like Firefox to compete.

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The TV and theatre star, who was also known as Michael Campbell, passed away on Tuesday at Northern Ireland Hospice where he had been admitted ten days earlier.

Charlotte Dawson cut a glamorous figure in a plunging pink dress as she packed on the PDA with her fiancé Matt Sarsfield at the Aintree Grand National Festival in Liverpool on Thursday. 

Glamorous Aintree racegoers refused to let the rain dampen their spirits as they attended the first day of the Grand National festival today.

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Adrienne Jones-McAllister, the widow of Keith McAllister, filed a lawsuit against Nassau Open MRI on Tuesday after her husband was sucked into an MRI machine by his 20lb chain on July 16.

Lyonne appeared 'out of it' as she prepared to depart Los Angeles on Tuesday, hours after attending the season three premiere of Euphoria in Hollywood.

Unfortunately Dan Miller, Lawrence Rosenberg and Priyesh Bathia didn't make the cut after taking part in the infamous interviews on Thursday night's episode of the BBC show.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company may eventually sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside customers, not just through AWS, which would put Amazon in more direct competition with Nvidia. "There's so much demand for our chips that it's quite possible we'll sell racks of them to third parties in the future," Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter Thursday. He also revealed the company's chip business is already running at more than $20 billion annually, with demand so strong that current and even future generations are largely spoken for. Quartz reports: Access to Amazon's chips is currently limited to Amazon Web Services, with customers paying for cloud-based usage rather than owning any physical hardware. Selling to AWS and external customers alike, as standalone chipmakers do, would put annual revenue at around $50 billion, up from the $20 billion the company estimates for the year, Jassy said. The $20 billion figure spans three product lines: Trainium, the AI accelerator chip; Graviton, a general-purpose processor; and Nitro, a chip that helps run Amazon's EC2 server instances. All three are growing at triple-digit rates year over year, Jassy claimed in his letter. Jassy said demand for Trainium has outpaced supply at each generation. Trainium2 is essentially unavailable, with its entire allocated capacity spoken for. Trainium3 started reaching customers in early 2026, and reservations have filled nearly all available supply. Even Trainium4 -- which is not expected to reach wide release for another year and a half -- has substantial pre-orders committed. Jassy argued that a full-scale Trainium rollout could shave tens of billions off annual capital costs while meaningfully widening profit margin.

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