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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is now facing renewed scrutiny after state leaders revealed a dramatically higher price tag, now estimated at roughly $231 billion, nearly seven times the original $33 billion projection approved by voters in 2008. The revised figures have reignited talks in Sacramento over whether the project can realistically be completed, how long it will take, and whether the state can continue to fund it at this scale. Senator Strickland pointed to comments from Lou Thompson, former chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority peer review group, who recently criticized the latest draft business plan. Thompson wrote that the 2026 draft plan "has reached a dead end," arguing that the project has drifted far from its original vision due to escalating costs, delays, and unfunded gaps. Under current projections, assuming funding and construction proceed as planned, service between San Francisco and Bakersfield could begin around 2033, while the full Los Angeles to San Francisco connection could extend to 2040.

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The Tory leader arrived in the north London suburb on Wednesday afternoon following the stabbing of two Jewish men in what has been declared a terror attack.

A couple have won a battle to bulldoze a £1million house and replace it with a £4million mansion.

The Coronation Street star, 42, revealed on April 25 that the couple had welcomed their first child and that he arrived a few days before his due date.

Bobby Norris left ITV viewers in shock as he unveiled his new look after undergoing a facelift at the age of 39 - following a decade of 'abusing fillers' and online trolling.

Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…

If you've ever wondered what your hometown might have been like during the time of the dinosaurs, scientists finally have an answer.

Milligan, a 51-year-old physical therapist, first became romantically involved with the 78-year-old Terminator icon back in 2012.

Chelsea's £88million winger Mykhailo Mudryk will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being slapped with a four-year ban from football for doping.

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…

Janet Gee said Jamie Varley, 37, turned up unannounced at her home, looking 'distressed and agitated' towards the end of June 2023.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech companies might try to undo repair legislation more broadly in the US. Colorado's landmark 2024 repair law, the Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment, went into effect in January 2026 and ensured access to tools and documentation people needed to modify and fix digital electronics such as phones, computers, and Wi-Fi routers. The new bill, SB26-090, would have carved out an exception to those repair protections for "critical infrastructure," a loosely defined term that repair advocates worried could be applied to just about any technology. SB26-090 was introduced during a Colorado Senate hearing on April 2 and was supported by lobbying efforts from companies such as Cisco and IBM. It passed that hearing unanimously. The bill then passed in the Colorado Senate on April 16. On Monday evening, the bill was discussed in a long, delayed hearing in the Colorado House's State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. Dozens of supporters and detractors gave public comments. Finally, the bill was shot down in a 7-to-4 vote and classified as postponed indefinitely. "While we were making progress at chipping away at the momentum for it, we had still been losing," said Danny Katz, executive director of the local nonprofit consumer advocacy group CoPIRG. "So, we took nothing for granted, and I believe the incredible testimony from the broad range of cybersecurity experts, businesses, repair advocates, recyclers, and people who want the freedom to fix their stuff made a big difference."

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Some wildlife has been intentionally killed or hurt

The Monster star previously opened up about her beauty regime revealing she has an 'evening routine' she always sticks to after her two young daughters go to bed.

The victim, Liana K, had been speaking to her grandfather when she was struck in August last year, according to Geisleden's mayor Markus Janitzki.

They were doing it in Texas...

Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…

The siblings had a day by the seaside with Junior sharing a photo of them on a fairground ride.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a tense exchange with a top Democrat on Capitol Hill on Wednesday over the current state of Iran's nuclear facilities.

The cousin of a missing British travel influencer in Morocco has denied claims that she has been located.

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.…