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China sent Iran 'a gift' that was intercepted by US forces, Donald Trump said Tuesday morning while venting about Chinese President Xi Jinping a month before their Beijing meeting.

Donald Trump is poised to resume bombing if Tehran refuses to come to the table, the President told CNBC Tuesday morning.

Essex County Council has been majority held by the Conservatives for 25 years

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especially as rivals like Anthropic PBC offer more effective and popular tools to businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The search giant is now working to unite some of its coding initiatives under one banner to speed progress and take advantage of a surge in customer interest. In some corners of Alphabet's Google, particularly AI lab DeepMind, concerns about the company's position are mounting, according to current and former employees and executives, who declined to be named because they weren't authorized to speak publicly. Businesses are just starting to realize that AI coding tools can enable anyone to build products by prompting a chatbot. But Google doesn't have a clear solution for them. Its Gemini model's capabilities are sprinkled across half a dozen different coding products with different branding, indicating how the company's lack of focus and competing internal efforts have hampered success, the people said. Even internally, some Google engineers prefer to use Anthropic's Claude Code, they said. More concerning, the people said, are the engineers who are struggling to adopt AI coding at all. [...] Google's emphasis on its own technology has also complicated the push to catch up. Most employees are banned from using competing tools such as Claude Code or Codex due to security concerns, but Googlers can request exceptions if they can demonstrate they have a business case, one former employee said. Some teams at DeepMind, including those working on the Gemini model, internal applications, and open source models, use Claude Code, according to three former employees. "You want the best people to use the best tool, even inside Google," one of the former employees said. [...] In recent years, DeepMind has tried to tighten control over how its AI breakthroughs are woven into Google products. Last year, Google appointed Kavukcuoglu to a new position as chief AI architect, a role in which he is charged with folding generative AI into Google products. Yet confusion about who is leading the charge on AI coding persists. Along with DeepMind, Google Cloud, Google Core, Google Labs and Android are all pushing AI coding in different ways, one of the people said. [...] Within the Googleplex, there is a philosophical clash between AI researchers who want to move as quickly as possible and more traditional senior engineers who have exacting standards for code quality, former employees say. AI usage is factored into performance reviews, according to a former employee. But engineers who try to use internal AI coding tools often hit capacity constraints due to competition for computing power, the former employee said.

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CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch

America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…

Previous artist's impressions for a new national memorial to the late monarch showed a large statue of the Queen bestriding a horse on top of an imposing stone plinth.

There has been speculation over Hathaway's looks with some fans even guessing she has had plastic surgery, but the star has maintained she has never gone under the knife.

Mail on Sunday columnist and former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman has revealed she's married her partner David, after 20 years together.

Insiders reveal that a growing number of A-listers are turning to a tiny pill...

Al Awir Central, nicknamed Dubai's Alcatraz, is notorious for its brutal conditions, with inmates tortured for confessions and suffering from horrific illnesses.

Microsoft is cutting the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, but the tradeoff is that new Call of Duty releases will no longer arrive on the service at launch. Instead, they'll show up about a year later. The Verge reports: After Xbox CEO Asha Sharma admitted last week that "Game Pass has become too expensive for players," Microsoft is dropping the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month, and PC Game Pass moves to $13.99, down from $16.49 a month. The price drops are being fueled in part by future of Call of Duty titles no longer joining Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. "New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available," says Microsoft.

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Carson Bender, 19, of Wisconsin Rapids, was enjoying the first weekend of blood sports when he found himself face-to-face with a 25-pound bobcat in Wisconsin on Saturday.

Kate Middleton has officially crowned lilac the colour of the season, stepping out in a stunning bespoke dress by Emilia Wickstead.

Keira Knightley and her husband James Righton were pictured out in north London on Tuesday with their wedding bands in place. 

Having been holed away for months since she was stripped of her title, home and income over the Epstein scandal, it was only a matter of time before the former Duchess of York had to surface.

Days after returning home to Montecito from her and Prince Harry's divisive Australia tour, the Duchess of Sussex, 44, announced she had added two new candles to her lifestyle brand for Mother's Day.

Gabrielle Carrington, a former X Factor finalist and influencer, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today charged with attempting to murder social media personality Klaudia Zakrzewska.

Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall

The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026.…

A high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet could help improve how the pancreas functions in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.

The Atomic Kitten star, 45, admitted she has 'never been so scared' as she revealed the terrifying health scare earlier this month.