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British researchers found MRI scans alone can, in some cases, accurately diagnose the disease.

In a statement posted by the band, ZZ Top frontman Billy F. Gibbons paid tribute to a 'great friend and collaborator' who he says was a key part of their success.

Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive

The Morning Poll: Should we press ahead with Labour's net zero targets?

The post featured numerous photos taken with loved ones, including her many grandchildren.

Asking prices on new-build homes have increased by tens of thousands in some areas of Britain, despite the housing market being in the doldrums.

Europe's seas are warming at an 'alarming' rate - and climate change is largely to blame, according to scientists from the World Weather Attribution.

LAURA CRAIK: Cindy, Christy, Naomi, Linda - so famous were these supermodels in the 1990s that no surname was required.

Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built directly into its AI coding environment. The company is initially positioning Origin as a low-risk layer on top of GitHub, keeping GitHub as the "source of truth," but the launch landed just as a major GitHub outage highlighted growing concerns about reliability in the age of AI-generated code. VentureBeat reports: Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation -- error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log. Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync all failed. So did Copilot. The developer internet did what the developer internet does. "You can now host your repos in Cursor Origin and deploy to Vercel via Cursor Origin which is itself hosted on Vercel," Vercel chief executive Guillermo Rauch posted on X. "And unlike GitHub, it's online [smile emoji]" Asked why he was smiling, Rauch replied: "trying to make light of the situation. We ourselves are stuck because of github rn!" Matt Palmer, who works at Cursor, quote-tweeted his own company's launch with the day's best line: "We were going to ship this earlier, but GitHub was down." A GitHub outage, in other words, delayed the launch of a GitHub competitor. Product launches get locked weeks in advance, and no evidence suggests Cursor timed this one. But the coincidence did the company an enormous favor, because it dramatized the argument Origin exists to make. For eighteen years, choosing where to host your team's source code has been the least interesting decision an engineering organization makes. Cursor is betting that AI agents have made it interesting again -- and for technical decision makers, that is the real news here. Not a new product, but a new procurement question with a governance problem attached.

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Madonna posed for a rare family snap with five of her six children as she marked her 68th birthday in Greece this week.

The rapper, 49, is slated to become the biggest Western artist to perform in Russia since the country's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The Alpine region is known as one of the most scenic spots in Italy with its cable cars, mountain views and hiking trails luring millions of holidaymakers a year.

Jobs that involve strenuous physical activity, heavy lifting or long periods of standing could increase the risk of dementia, a major study has warned.

Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, was spotted walking down a north London road with the then-teenage boy by his mother.

Comcast is activating Wi-Fi motion sensing on millions of compatible Xfinity gateways, allowing the routers to detect movement by measuring disruptions in signals between the gateway and connected devices. The free feature, part of Xfinity Shield, can send activity alerts through the Xfinity app and offers Home, Away, and nighttime monitoring modes without requiring separate motion sensors. The Verge reports: Wi-Fi motion sensing is a technology that has been around for a while, but it's only recently that it's become accurate and reliable enough to catch on. Linksys launched a similar service in 2021, but discontinued it a few years later. Lighting company Wiz launched a line of Wi-Fi-sensing smart bulbs in 2023, and more recently Philips Hue deployed a similar radio-frequency sensing technology in its products (using Zigbee rather than Wi-Fi). Comcast's motion sensing pairs with new modes in the Xfinity app -- Home Watch, Away Watch, and Dark Watch (a night/sleep mode) -- allowing you to turn sensing on or off based on your activities.

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Several celebrity dogs were ready for their closeup this week as Dogue once again returned for the 2026 issue. 

A vicar who caused havoc by crashing his bishop's car while three times over the drink drive limit has been given a new job by the Church of England at a Grade II listed church in Chiswick, west London.

Households in Wandsworth, which has long been known for its low bills, are facing the biggest rise in council tax ever imposed in England.

Erin Patterson's fight to quash her convictions will start in the Victorian Court of Appeal on Wednesday.