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Residents in the nearby area have been advised to keep their windows and doors closed due to significant smoke

Fire crews have worked through the night to tackle a blaze at three commercial buildings in south Essex.

Fire crews have worked through the night to tackle a blaze at three commercial buildings in south Essex.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup. "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account," the project stated. "If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it." The statement came after Brazil's Digital ECA (Law 15.211) took effect on March 17, imposing fines of up to R$50 million (roughly $9.5 million) per violation on operating system providers that fail to implement age verification... Motorola and GrapheneOS announced a long-term partnership at MWC on March 2, to bring to bring the hardened OS to future Motorola hardware, ending GrapheneOS's long-standing exclusivity to Google Pixel devices. A GrapheneOS-powered Motorola phone is expected in 2027. If Motorola sells devices with GrapheneOS pre-installed, those devices would need to comply with local regulations in every market where they ship, or Motorola may need to restrict sales geographically. Or, "People can buy the devices without GrapheneOS and install it themselves in any region where that's an issue," according to a post on the GrapheneOS BlueSky account. "Motorola devices with GrapheneOS preinstalled is something we want but it doesn't have to happen right away and doesn't need to happen everywhere for the partnership to be highly successful. Pixels are sold in 33 countries which doesn't include many countries outside North America and Europe." Tom's Hardware also notes that GrapheneOS "isn't the first and won't be the last company to outright refuse compliance with incoming age verification laws." "The developers of open-source calculator firmware DB48X issued a legal notice recently, stating that their software 'does not, cannot and will not implement age verification,' while MidnightBSD updated its license to ban users in Brazil."

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Danielle says she gets ' judgmental comments' about using the jabs so soon after having a baby

First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

Who, Me?  Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…

The status announced by Zoopla is based on the town having the lowest 'value to earnings' ratio - the equivalent number of years' salary it would take two adults to buy a home.

The investment platform IG has launched a prediction game that tests your knowledge of financial markets, with a huge pot of prizes up for grabs.

There is a special guest appearance in the week of activities

We cannot influence the world at large, we can only try to keep sane amid the chaos.

The Duchess of Sussex , 44, has discreetly locked in 12 Australian trademarks for her lifestyle brand, As Ever,

It is eminently reasonable for companies to have "readability standards" for their code. You're writing this code for humans to read, after all, at least in theory. You need to communicate to future inheritors of your code.

But that doesn't mean readability standards are good. Tony's company, for example, has rules about returning boolean values from functions, and those rules mean you are expected to write code like this:

public bool Completed () { if (completed == true) { return true; } else { return false; } }

It's more "explicit" this way. Which I certainly would have explicit things to say if I were told I needed to write code this way. Also, what's with the non-indented return statements? Is that also part of their coding standards?

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It is said to be creating an environment where pupils are "allowed to be children"

Alisha Lehmann has lifted the lid on why she once begged her family to let her quit the game she loves.

This iconic rocker cut a very unlikely figure as he was spotted on a low key supermarket shop with girlfriend Meegan Hodges this week. 

Missing psychologist Vitória Figueiredo Barreto landed in the UK just three days before she was reported missing.

A Colchester councillor has been ordered to provide a written apology to a resident after serious allegations of breach in code of conduct.

Yes, Microsoft announced it's fixing common Windows 11 complaints. But what about getting rid of that requirement to have a Microsoft account before installing Windows 11? While Microsoft didn't mention that at all, the senior editor at the blog Windows Central reports there's "a number of people" internally pushing at Microsoft to relax that requirement: Microsoft Vice President and overall developer legend Scott Hanselman has posted on X in response to someone asking him about possibly relaxing the Microsoft account requirements, saying "Ya I hate that. Working on it...." [Hanselman made that remark Friday, to his 328,200 followers.] The blog notes "It would be very easy for Microsoft to remove this requirement from a technical perspective, it's just whether or not the company can agree to make the change that needs to be decided." Elsewhere on X someone told Hanselman they wanted to see Windows "cut out the borderline malware tactics we've seen in recent years to push things like Edge, Bing, ads into the start menu, etc." Hanselman's reply? "Yes a calmer and more chill OS with fewer upsells is a goal." Q: When will we see first changes? for now it's just words... Hanselman: This month and every month this year.

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The Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any other time in observed history, according to a shocking new report.

Sam Thompson and GK Barry spent much of the hour, along with fellow celebs Joel Dommett and Judi Love, lurking off-screen or appearing under heavy disguises