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After years of requests, Instagram is finally releasing a dedicated iPad app on September 3rd... "But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to," reports The Verge. From the report: Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly to a feed of Reels, the company's TikTok competitor -- perhaps a sign of the short-form-video times. [...] Other features will be available on iPad: Stories will still line the top of the homepage, and users will be able to switch to a "Following" tab where they'll be able to swipe between feeds that more resemble the mobile Instagram experience (including a chronological option). The bigger screen means more space and fewer clicks: comments on Reels will appear next to full-size videos, and the DMs page will have your inbox alongside chats, similar to what Messenger looks like on desktop.

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A 30-year-old woman and a woman aged 43 were both arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.

When Joanne Froggatt fell pregnant as filming for the final Downton Abbey movie approached, writer Julian Fellowes knew exactly what to do.

The band confirmed today that they would be playing at venues this winter across Europe and in London, including a four-day residency at The O2 arena in November.

When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot

Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written materials, according to researchers.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few months after Cloudflare blocked a then all-time high DDoS attack of 7.3 Tbps. This latest attack was almost 60% larger. According to Cloudflare, the assault was the result of a hyper-volumetric User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flood attack that lasted about 35 seconds. During that just more than half-minute attack, it delivered over 5.1 billion packets per second. This attack, Cloudflare reported, came from a combination of several IoT and cloud providers. Although compromised accounts on Google Cloud were a major source, the bulk of the attack originated from other sources. The specific target of this attack has not been publicly disclosed, but we can be sure the intent was to overwhelm the victim's network and render online services inoperative. Cloudflare says its globally distributed, fully autonomous DDoS mitigation network detected and neutralized the threat in real time, without notable impact on customer services or requiring manual intervention. This operation highlights both the rising sophistication of attack methods and the resilience of modern internet infrastructure defenses, especially Cloudflare's use of real-time packet analysis, fingerprinting, and rapid threat intelligence sharing across its network.

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What a difference a comeuppance makes. Angela Rayner, Westminster's most careless taxpayer, entered the Commons. A full House was hushed, stunned.

The first one's always free - or at least deeply discounted for the first year

Not wanting to miss the opportunity to grow its federal footprint, ServiceNow has signed a deal to offer the US government discounts on its latest AI innovations. …

James Clacher, 57, violently raped two women in Troon, South Ayrshire in August 2019 and in Glasgow in September 2020. He matched with them on dating apps.

Kayla Rae Reid filed a motion to amend her initial petition for divorce and made a series of shocking accusations against the six-time Olympic gold medalist.

Jill Harrison (right), 46, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, told the Daily Mail her daughter Amber (left) is only now getting the support she needs after the years-long battle.

The release of the infamous 'missing minute' from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell appears to cast doubt over Attorney General Pam Bondi's bungled explanation.

The King shared a candid health update as he spoke with a cancer patient at the opening of a new hospital in Birmingham today - while his wife was visiting the New Normandy Barracks in Aldershot.

World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status

The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) out of China.…

Epping Forest District Council will keep options open, they say

Laken Snelling, 21, was arrested on Saturday in Lexington and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.

U.S. workers are becoming more stressed about their rising personal debts and financial health, a Bank of America survey showed. From a report: Of the respondents polled by BofA, 47% of employed people said they had a sense of financial well-being, dropping from 52% at the start of the year. Nearly 85% of consumers carried some type of personal debt, while 26% of the workforce was seeking help in areas such as emergency savings, paying down debt, and overall financial wellness, compared with 13% in 2023, according to the May survey of more than 1,000 people working full-time.

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The IT disruption aimed at Jaguar Land Rover has crippled production lines - and there are fears the firm could be vulnerable to ransom demands ahead.

The former Saturdays singer, 36, took to TikTok on Tuesday to share a candid parenting confession with fans.

This Morning has been hit with Ofcom complaints after Rylan Clark made an impassioned speech on the ITV mid-morning show about immigration