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'All hell' descended on the sleepy home county village of Alford last Thursday, when travellers transformed a rural field into a 17 plot 'gated community'.

The firm was given instructions to remove waste - however, these were missed as the owner 'didn't do' emails

After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue," the digital rights group said. "The math hasn't worked out for a while now." From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago. [...] When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis. EFF takes on big fights, and we win. We do that by putting our time, skills, and our members' support where they will effect the most change. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and eff.org. We hope you follow us there and keep supporting the work we do. Our work protecting digital rights is needed more than ever before, and we're here to help you take back control.

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C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…

The Irish actor, 49, could be seen bare chested in between takes for the currently untitled movie, which is filming in Athens, Greece.

A historic £37,000-a-year private school has announced it is closing down after being overwhelmed by Labour's VAT raid.

Molly-Mae Hague has addressed Tommy Fury's controversial fight date being a day after she is expected to give birth to their second child.

The mother of a girl who was groomed through the gaming platform Roblox has warned parents to keep an eye on their children's online activity, as her daughter's abuser was jailed for 28 months.

Taylor Swift had fans buzzing as she stepped out in an outfit that hinted at her upcoming nuptials to fiancé Travis Kelce.

Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…

Fitzpatrick, Schauffele and DeChambeau formed one of the headline groups at Augusta. But all three took turns missing fairways and greens, putting fans in the firing line.

The England international alleged that when he and his Al-Ahli team-mates attempted to talk to the referee, they were told to instead focus on the AFC Champions League.

Jackson was accused of molesting Jordan Chandler, who he had initially met at a restaurant when he was 'very, very little', before they eventually began visiting each other years later.

Donald Trump is considering punishing members of NATO that he believes were unhelpful to the US and Israel in the war against Iran by pulling American troops out of the country's bases.

The core product is solid and priced fairly

I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.…

It isn't uncommon for actors to undergo huge physical transformations for their roles so it's good to see when they are able to relax with a more attainable physique.

FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too

Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…

Owner Nadine says the area has been 'crying out' for a proper pie and mash spot

Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google's Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. "We realized, hey, once we're at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they've asked for and something that we collect at scale," said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo's policy development and research manager. "And so we figured out a way to make that happen." The Verge reports: Waymo uses its perception hardware, including cameras and radar, as well as accelerometers and the vehicle's physical feedback system, to log every pothole its vehicles encounter. These sensors detect physical changes to the road's surface, such as tilt and movement when the vehicle encounters irregularities. Originally, Waymo knew it needed the ability to detect potholes so it could ensure that its vehicles slowed down to avoid damage or injury to the passenger. Later, the company realized this could be invaluable data for cities, too. Under the new pilot program, that data will now be made available to cities' departments of transportation through a free-to-use Waze for Cities platform, which provides access to real-time, user-generated traffic data that officials can then use to make important decisions -- such as pothole repair. The platform also allows for Waze users to validate pothole locations through their own observations, decreasing the chances that city officials will be led astray by false positives. Currently, many cities rely on a patchwork of non-emergency 311 reports and manual inspections to address their pothole problems. Waymo developed this pilot program after collecting years of feedback from city officials about the state of their highways and surface streets. The company is launching the new pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta, where Waymo says it has already helped the city identify approximately 500 potholes. Fleisher said that Waymo would be open to expanding the project to other street maladies based on further feedback from officials. The company is eager to learn what other types of street condition or safety data might be valuable, she said. "We want to be responsive to cities," Fleisher said. "They are interested in safer streets and potholes are really a tough challenge for cities. So we really wanted to meet that need as part of our desire to be a good partner and to ultimately advance our goal for safer streets."

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Finbar Sullivan, 21, was killed at the popular north London beauty spot after going to meet an undergraduate student friend on Tuesday evening.