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In a heartbreaking image shared by police, a five-month-old puppy is seen staring straight ahead, wide-eyed and visibly distressed, with her ears down and a paw resting on a car dashboard.

Antarctica is being overwhelmed by a triple whammy of climate chaos that has driven sea ice to record lows, a new study has revealed.

Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It's still unclear which Apple products would use Intel-made chips, but the deal would mark a major potential win for Intel's foundry ambitions and give Apple another manufacturing option beyond TSMC.

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The move is said to have been prompted by the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several of his top advisers.

First Minister Baroness Eluned Morgan was on course to lose her seat as the party conceded it would no longer govern the country.

While acknowledging the pregnancy is 'lovely, happy news', Eden warned that every mention of Beatrice and Eugenie in an official capacity only serves to remind the public of their parents.

The woman, said to be in her 40s, told police that she was assaulted by a man on Boscombe beach at 10pm on Thursday.

Emergency services including an air ambulance rushed to a property in South Manchester on Thursday morning after reports of a concern for welfare.

It is an incurable disease that slowly attacks the brain and spinal cord, stripping patients of their mobility and bodily functions - and experts say it's on the rise.

A reported crash is causing delays for Essex commuters on the A12 Northbound.

A reported crash is causing delays for Essex commuters on the A12 Northbound.

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Sir Keir Starmer , open-collared, stony-eyed, insisted he was 'not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos'.

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

Taylor Swift stepped out in a very stylish black floral frock while out in London on Thursday night celebrating pal Poppy Delevingne's 40th birthday.

Katie revealed last year that she nearly died after undergoing a botched Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) in 2019 to enhance her bottom. 

JoJo Siwa is said to have signed up for Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins after impressing Channel 4 bosses with her performance on Celebrity Bake Off.

He was found unresponsive after a friend noticed he had not returned

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, archivists said. Over the last several months, prices for both consumer level and enterprise solid state drives, hard drives, and other types of storage have skyrocketed. As an example, a 2TB external Samsung SSD I purchased last fall for $159 now costs $575. PC Part Picker, a website that tracks the average price of different types of drives, shows a universal increase in storage prices starting in about October of last year. Prices of many of the drives it tracks have doubled or increased by more than 150 percent, and at some stores SSDs and hard drives are simply sold out. There is now even a secondary market for some SSDs, with people scalping them on eBay and elsewhere. Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, the most important archiving projects in the history of the internet, told 404 Media that the skyrocketing costs of storage is "a very real issue costing us time and money." "We have found that the preferred 28-30TB drives are just not available or at very high price," Kahle said. "We gather over 100 terabytes of new materials each day, and we have over 210 Petabytes of materials already archived on machines that need continuous upgrades and maintenance, so we need to constantly get new hard drives." "We are fortunate to have an active community that donates to the Archive, and we are also looking for help from hard drive manufacturers in these difficult times. We are always looking for more help," he added. "So far we have ways to work around these shortages, but it is a very real issue causing us time and money." The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and various other projects, including Wikimedia Commons, an open repository of royalty free media, told 404 Media that the cost of storage has become a concern for the foundation's projects as well. "With over 65 million articles on Wikipedia alone, access to server and storage capacity is vital to us. We've certainly seen price increases since the end of 2025. These price increases are of concern to us, as with every other player in the industry. We see the primary impact in the purchase of memory and hard drives but also in terms of lead times on server deliveries and our capacity to place future orders," a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told us. "The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit, and as such how we allocate budget is very carefully considered. We maintain our own data centers to serve our users from all over the world. We're putting workarounds in place where we can, mainly involving being smart with how we prioritize investment in hardware, building in flexibility as well as extending the life of existing hardware where possible." Western Digital, one of the largest manufacturers of hard drives and other storage systems, said that it has essentially sold out of its 2026 inventory to enterprise clients, many of which run data centers. Micron, which made RAM and SSDs under the brand name Crucial, has exited the consumer market altogether because "AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments."

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One video released in the Trump Administration's UFO disclosures shows a glowing object resembling an 'eight-pointed star' with uneven arms.