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Brace yourself for a summer of doom and gloom as Chancellor Rachel Reeves works out how to fill a gaping £40bn hole in the public finances.

Billionaire Elon Musk has launched another salvo at MAGA world by claiming that former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is implicated within the Jeffrey Epstein files.

As catastrophic floods swept through Central Texas on July 4, several National Weather Service (NWS) offices across the state were already in crisis due to DOGE cuts.

ESSEX man has been arrested as part of our response to reports of a person acting inappropriately in Epping.

Activision removed "Call of Duty: WWII" from Microsoft Store and Game Pass after hackers exploited a security vulnerability that allowed them to compromise players' computers, TechCrunch reported Tuesday, citing a source. The gaming giant took the 2017 first-person shooter offline last week while investigating what it initially described only as "reports of an issue." Players posted on social media claiming their systems had been hacked while playing the game. The vulnerability was a remote code execution exploit that enables attackers to install malware and take control of victims' devices. The Microsoft Store and Game Pass versions contained an unpatched security flaw that had been fixed in other versions of the game.

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It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet

Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…

DRIVERS in and around Witham are already facing significant traffic delays following the closure of The Avenue and Avenue Road.

Corporate employees of Amazon have been asked to volunteer their time to the company's warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day. From a report: In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate "volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet." It is not clear how many took up the offer. The ask came the day before Prime Day kicks off. The manager said volunteers are "needed" to work Tuesday through Friday this week, in two-hour shifts between 10am and 6pm in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the company operates a warehouse as part of its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh. Corporate employees seconded to the warehouse would be tasked with picking items, preparing carts and bags of groceries for delivery, packing boxes on receiving carts, and working to "boost morale with distribution of snacks," though they would be allowed to step into a conference room to take meetings and calls, according to the message. The manager noted such an effort would help "connect" warehouse and corporate teams. Further reading: Amazon Prime Day Spending Down 14% in Early Hours From 2024.

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The BBC has received new claims from 50 people over the TV presenter, including allegations he pulled his trousers down in front one MasterChef worker and groped another.

A new favourite to play James Bond has emerged, after Tom Holland was dubbed 'too adorable' for the role. 

Alex Cairnie, 30, was reported missing on Sunday afternoon after being spotted at the supermarket in Tidworth, Wiltshire

You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!

A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …

The No 10 seed, who has had a light-hearted relationship with crowds this tournament, gave fry-ups an abysmal score as he was quizzed by BBC Sport about quintessential aspects of British life.

Napster has returned with an AI-powered reinvention, launching a platform of specialized chatbots and holographic avatars. The former dot-com music file-sharing pioneer now offers dozens of "AI companions" trained as experts in fields from therapy to business strategy, plus the View device for 3D holographic video chats, FastCompany reports. Infinite Reality acquired Napster for $207 million in March and rebranded itself under the nostalgic name. The platform charges $19 monthly or $199 bundled with hardware, marking Napster's latest attempt at relevance after previous owners tried VR concerts and crypto ventures.

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You generally expect separating couples to avoid each other once the split is made, but Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are still spending time with each other and four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove.

Dolly, 32, from Colorado, spends her days trying to uncover how someone died - and she revealed that there's a few things that seem harmless but are actually extremely dangerous.

In her other life she works in marketing, has a husband and a loving family. But 'Major M' is also an Israeli fighter pilot who made history in mid-June.

Experts are warning the US homeland could be vulnerable to this type of terrifying attack.

An anonymous reader shares a blog post: Version 140 of the Thunderbird mail client has been released. Notable features include "dark message mode" to adapt message content to dark mode, the ability to easily transfer desktop settings to the mobile Thunderbird client, experimental support for Microsoft Exchange, as well as global controls for message threading and sort order. Thunderbird 140 is an extended-support release (ESR) which will be supported for 12 months. However, the Thunderbird project is trying to encourage users to adopt the Release channel for monthly updates instead. The project is staggering upgrades to 140 for existing Thunderbird users in order to catch any significant bugs before they are widely deployed, but users can upgrade manually via the Help > About menu. See the release notes for a full list of changes.

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Just when you think that ultra-woke progressives can't go any lower, we have new horrors: Celebrating abortion and cheering the deaths of little girls at summer camp.