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sdinfoserv writes: After running a Reddit clone for a couple of months, the Digg beta shut down again. The website is a splash memo from CEO Justin Mezzell, blaming the latest "Hard Reset" on bots. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different," writes Mezzell. "We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team..." The decision was made after struggling to gain traction and an overwhelming influx of AI-driven bots and spam. "When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority," says Mezzell. "Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us." "We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on." Despite the setback, Digg plans to rebuild with a smaller team, with founder Kevin Rose returning to work full-time on a new direction for the platform. "Starting the first week of April, Kevin will be putting his focus back on the company he built twenty+ years ago," writes Mezzell. "He'll continue as an advisor to True Ventures, but Digg will be his primary focus." Slashback: The Rise of Digg.com

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CCTV footage of the incident captured a young girl playing in the sand at 5:20pm near the Three Shells Lagoon in Southend, Essex, before suddenly sinking into the ground.

The USA skiing legend, 41, made a miraculous comeback to reach this year's Winter Olympics, only to tear her ACL shortly before the Games and then suffer a nasty broken leg in Italy.

The 69-year-old pocketed £481,947 (€558,000) from a 50-cent each-way Lucky 63 bet as all six of his selections won.

Gray Lappin (pictured) was suspended and fired by the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance in November 2023 for the attentions he paid to the 11-year-old pupil.

DOMINIC KING AT CHELTENHAM: The 12-year-old was having his eighth race at The Festival and had won here three times - on the flat, over hurdles and fences - in a marvellous career.

Gemma Collins suffered an awkward wardrobe malfunction in her quirky outfit at Cheltenham races on Thursday.

From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town

Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.…

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…

There was also evidence of personal trainers offering clients boxes of weight loss medication, according to the London Assembly's health committee report.

I am a pretty hopeless churchgoer but whenever I have attended a service in our village I have found myself talking to a nice old boy who has always gone out of his way to make me feel welcome.

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to stress modern hardware. The dataset now hosted in the cloud weighs in at over 130TB, while the full working dataset used during the calculation reached about 2.1PB when intermediate checkpoints were included. The report notes that the Pi digits have been broken into roughly 200GB chunks to make it more practical for researchers or enthusiasts to download. Here's what StorageReview founder Brian Beeler said about the project: "Pushing [Pi] to 314 trillion digits was far more than a headline number. It was a sustained, months-long computational challenge that stressed every layer of modern infrastructure, from high core-count CPUs to massive high-speed storage, and it gave us valuable insight into how extreme, real-world workloads behave at scale. Making this dataset available in the Backblaze cloud takes the project a step further by opening access to one of the largest raw outputs ever generated in a single-system calculation. Hosting multi-petabyte files for the broader community is no small feat, and we appreciate Backblaze stepping up to ensure researchers, developers, and enthusiasts can explore and build on this record-setting achievement."

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The councils said an increase in unspent funds is 'not unusual due to fluctuating levels of council activity'

Emily Atack made sure to catch the eye in a bold leather beret and matching jacket as she attended Cheltenham Festival on Friday. 

Hegseth lectured the press about unfavorable headlines but refused to answer questions about the military's plan to curb the Islamic regime's efforts to deepen the global oil crisis.

British holidaymaker Andrea Pendrey and her partner found themselves stuck in the Maldives after their flight home was cancelled due to the ongoing conflict.

The Friends of St George Park planted more than 30,000 bulbs in their local park on Saturday, with nearly 70 'volunteers ranging from 9 months old to early 80s' coming together.

The maker of blockbuster weight-loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound has issued an urgent warning against knockoff versions of the medications over 'critical safety issues.'

The Daily Mail has rounded up the biggest and most luxurious jewels ever worn to the Oscars awards - as we anticipate who will shine brightest this year.