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William Scammell, 24, was charged with being in possession of a shortened shotgun after the shooting at a car on Speedwell Road at approximately 1.50pm on Wednesday.

The reality TV star has named the victims of a devastating road accident in Kent as his relatives Francie Connors and three-year-old Ka Connors.

First Lady Melania Trump on Friday teased the upcoming royal visit from King Charles with a rare behind-the-scenes video of White House preparations.

JEFF POWELL: The peculiar bromance between former world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and never world champ Derek Chisora brings them into a manosphere clinch.

Bestselling author Jane Fallon has shared a health update on Instagram on Friday after undergoing surgery following being diagnosed with breast cancer. 

The TV personality, 35, opened up about her changing face and denied going under the knife during an Instagram Q&A with followers on Friday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 -- titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair -- out of committee and into the state senate and house for a vote. The bill modifies Colorado's Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment act, which was passed in 2024 and went into effect in January 2026. While the protections secured by that act are wide, the new SB26-090 bill aims to "exempt information technology equipment that is intended for use in critical infrastructure from Colorado's consumer right to repair laws." The bill is supported by tech manufacturers like Cisco and IBM, according to lobbying disclosures. These are companies that have vested interests in manufacturing things like routers, server equipment, and computers and stand to profit if they can control who fixes their products and the tools, components, and software used to make those upgrades and repairs. They also cite cybersecurity concerns, saying that giving people access to the tools and systems they would need to repair a device could also enable bad actors to use those methods for nefarious means. (This is a common argument manufacturers make when opposing right-to-repair laws.) [...] During the hearing, more than a dozen repair advocates spoke from organizations like Pirg, the Repair Association, and iFixit opposing the bill. YouTuber and repair advocate Louis Rossmann was there. The main problem, repair advocates say, is that the bill deliberately uses vague language to make the case for controlling who can fix their products. [...] The Colorado Labor and Technology committee advanced the bill, but it still needs to go through votes on the Colorado Senate and House floors before going into effect. Those votes may take place as early as next week. Regardless of how the bill goes in the state, it's likely that manufacturers will continue their push to alter or undo repair legislation in other states across the country. "The 'information technology' and 'critical infrastructure' thing is as cynical as you can possibly be about it," says Nathan Proctor, the leader of Pirg's US right-to-repair campaign. "It sounds scary to lawmakers, but it just means the internet." The current wording of the bill "leaves it up to the manufacturers to determine which items they will need to provide repair tools and parts to owners and independent repairers and which ones they don't," says Danny Katz, executive director CoPIRG, the Colorado branch of the consumer advocate group Pirg. "This is a bad policy and would be a big step back for Coloradans' repair rights." iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing: "There's a general principle in cybersecurity that obscurity is not security," iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing. "The money that's behind the scenes, that's what's driving the bill."

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From a drama about an unemployed financier who turns to burglary, to a cheeky Irish comedy about two feckless teens - our Easter television guide has something to tickle everyone's fancy.

The billionaire inventor said the Chancellor's 'death taxes' on farmers and Ed Miliband's continued defence of carbon taxes is weakening Britain's capacity to stay self-sufficient

The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club in Winkfield has dumped an estimated half a million cubic metres of dirt (pictured) on its grounds since 2013.

An analysis by sports business publication Sportico has revealed the top 50 athletes by all-time earnings - with one notable NBA star rising high above the rest.

The actress, 38, was asked about her chemistry with Baldoni, 42, and how she was 'sometimes the intimacy co-ordinator' in some of their scenes.

Eghosa Ogbebor (pictured) was found lifeless as police responded to emergency calls at 3.40pm on Thursday on Lord Warwick Street in Woolwich.

Kevin Phan, 20, was on an early-morning fishing trip in California when he struggled to reel in a catch he soon realized was a juvenile great white shark.

'Mr Badger' and Mrs Badger' as they are known were gifted to The Oddfellows Arms in Wimborne, Dorset, by a customer in 1991.

The determined couple celebrated their emotional ending after walking an astonishing 131 miles from Oxford to Leicester Square this week.

At 6ft 3in tall, the 20-year-old NEXT model towered over his 52-year-old 5ft 9in mother as they posed together on the black carpet

Is the buccal facial the next facelift? I tried it out for myself.

The Wall Street Journal shares the "wild behind-the-scenes story" of how the world's largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. "At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million compromised home Android devices and digital photo frames -- enough DDoS firepower to disrupt internet traffic across the U.S. and beyond." From the report: Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled. A cat meme helped him crack the case. A growing network of hacked devices was launching the biggest cyberattacks ever seen on the internet. It had become the most powerful cyberweapon ever assembled, large enough to knock a state or even a small country offline. Investigators didn't know exactly who had built it -- or how. Brundage had been following the attacks, too -- and, in between classes, was conducting his own investigation. In September, the college senior started messaging online with an anonymous user who seemed to have insider knowledge. As they chatted on Discord, a platform favored by videogamers, Brundage was eager to get more information, but he didn't want to come off as too serious and shut down the conversation. So every now and then he'd send a funny GIF to lighten the mood. Brundage was fluent in the memes, jokes and technical jargon popular with young gamers and hackers who are extremely online. "It was a bit of just asking over and over again and then like being a bit unserious," said Brundage. At one point, he asked for some technical details. He followed up with the cat meme: a six-second clip that showed a hand adjusting a necktie on a fluffy gray cat. Brundage didn't expect it to work, but he got the information. "It took me by surprise," he said. Eventually the leaker hinted there was a new vulnerability on the internet. Brundage, who is 22, would learn it threatened tens of millions of consumers and as much as a quarter of the world's corporations. As he unraveled the mystery, he impressed veteran researchers with his findings -- including federal law enforcement, which took action against the network two weeks ago. Chad Seaman, a researcher at Akamai, joked at one point that the internet could go down if Brundage spent too much time on his exams.

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The radio presenter - who is the younger half-sister of EastEnders star Jessie Wallace - was in a relationship with cage fighter Tony Giles from 2010 to 2019 and the pair welcomed two children.