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Loose Women stars boycotted the National Television Awards on Wednesday evening after years of losing out to rivals This Morning amid the show's looming budget cuts.

'Olivia is surprised Harry is dating Zoe,' a source told Daily Mail. 'It always feels weird to her when Harry starts dating a new celebrity.' Another source said she really 'doesn't give a crap.'

While Cuomo, hit the catwalk, his mayoral race opponents Mayor Eric Adams and State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani were noticeably missing after both RSVP'd no.

More than a quarter (26 per cent) of five to 12-year-olds spend three or more hours on such devices every day, with 7 per cent racking up over five hours daily.

By 2028, Gartner research VP Julia Palmer predicts that VMware will lose 35% of its current workloads as Broadcom's licensing changes and rising costs push customers toward competitors like Nutanix and public clouds. The Register reports: On Wednesday at the analyst firm's Symposium event in Australia, Palmer pointed out that the Broadcom business unit recently tweaked its licensing program so that hyperscalers can no longer sell VMware subscriptions to users of their hosted VMware services. Customers must instead buy direct from Broadcom and use license portability entitlements for any VMware infrastructure they host in hyperscale clouds. Palmer said that decision shows VMware does not consider hyperscalers strategic partners, and she thinks the feeling is mutual. Hyperscalers nevertheless welcome customers who use them to run VMware workloads "because they know over time they will convert you to 'proper cloud'." Which is one reason she expects VMware will lose so many workloads: Hyperscalers will use their engagements with VMware customers to extol the virtue of public clouds. Palmer thinks VMware customers should heed that pitch. "We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change," Palmer said, not least because Broadcom's acquisition of VMware shows how lock-in to a virtualization platform can be costly. But she counseled against planning to move all workloads off VMware, as no rival vendor offers a superior platform and a full migration will take three or more years. Palmer instead advised assessing which applications are ripe for modernization and re-platforming, and shifting those -- a job that can take up to a year.

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Consultant anaesthetist Suhail Anjum, 44, was discovered 'in a compromising position' with another nurse in the operating theatre at Tameside General Hospital.

The teenager is one of the most talented footballers in the European game but over the summer, Yamal made headlines for his exploits away from the pitch.

Donald Trump has been seen in public for the first time since he announced the tragic death of MAGA behemoth Charlie Kirk.

The Spice Girl turned fashion designer, 51, wore a crumpled top tucked into a grey midi skirt, while completing the look with bold red heels.

The Prime Minister finally acted to remove the disgraced peer as ambassador to the United States amid a growing Labour revolt over his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The former TOWIE star's company Joey Essex Management Ltd has been forced into liquidation as he can't pay its huge debts, mostly due to the taxman.

Musk tore into left-leaning users on the platform for 'celebrating cold-blooded murder' of the conservative campus organizer.

A giant and extremely rare creature of the deep has stunned California beachgoers after it mysteriously washed ashore in Bodega Bay.

Ronak Singhal will be moving onto better and brighter opportunities at the end of the month

The chief architect behind Intel's Xeon line of server CPUs is leaving Chipzilla for greener pastures.…

The Little Women star, 31, and her actor husband, 35, were spotted enjoying a low-key stroll in London while pushing their buggy, after it was revealed Saoirse had given birth to their first child together.

Scammers are extorting small businesses worldwide by threatening to flood their Google Maps profiles with fake one-star reviews or demanding payment to remove reviews already posted, according to The New York Times. Fraudsters target service businesses dependent on online ratings -- movers, roofers, contractors -- demanding hundreds of dollars per incident. The Times story documents many cases, including of one Los Angeles contractor Natalia Piper, who paid $250 to multiple scammers after her rating plummeted from 5.0 to 3.6 stars. Industry watchdog Fake Review Watch documented over 150 affected businesses globally. The scammers typically operate from Pakistan and Bangladesh using WhatsApp to contact victims. Google removes most fraudulent content but offers no direct support channel for targeted businesses.

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Saudi government officials arrived in the U.S. nearly three years before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to reportedly serve as an 'advance team' for hijackers, according to newly declassified reports.

Tom Mannello (pictured) was moments away from taking off on 11 September 2001 when his flight was instructed not to take off from JFK airport.

Atlantic Council warns US investors are fueling a market that undermines national security

After years of being dominated by outsiders, the computer surveillance software industry is booming in the United States as investors rush into the ethically dodgy but highly lucrative field.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon lost an attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine for selling customer location data without its users' consent. The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected Verizon's challenge in a ruling (PDF) issued today. The Federal Communications Commission fined the three major carriers last year for violations revealed in 2018. The companies sued the FCC in three different courts, with varying results. AT&T beat the FCC in the reliably conservative US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, while T-Mobile lost in the District of Columbia Circuit. Although FCC Chairman Brendan Carr voted against (PDF) the fine last year, when the commission had a Democratic majority, his FCC urged the courts to uphold the Biden-era decisions. A ruling against the FCC could gut the agency's ability to issue financial penalties. The different rulings from different circuits raise the odds of the cases being taken up by the Supreme Court. Today's 2nd Circuit ruling against Verizon was issued unanimously by a panel of three judges, and it comes to the same legal conclusions as the DC Circuit did in the T-Mobile case. The court did not accept the carrier's argument that the fine violated its Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and that the location data wasn't protected under the law used by the FCC to issue the penalties. "We disagree [with Verizon]," the 2nd Circuit ruling said. "The customer data at issue plainly qualifies as customer proprietary network information, triggering the Communication Act's privacy protections. And the forfeiture order both soundly imposed liability and remained within the strictures of the penalty cap. Nothing about the Commission's proceedings, moreover, transgressed the Seventh Amendment's jury trial guarantee. Indeed, Verizon had, and chose to forgo, the opportunity for a jury trial in federal court. Thus, we DENY Verizon's petition." Until 2019, the ruling said Verizon operated a location-based services program that sold customer location data through intermediaries like LocationSmart and Zumigo, who then resold it to dozens of third-party entities. Instead of directly managing consent and notifications, Verizon "largely delegated those functions via contract" to its partners, a system that came under scrutiny after a 2018 New York Times report exposed security breaches. One major misuse involved Securus Technologies, which "was misusing the program to enable law enforcement officers to access location data without customers' knowledge or consent, so long as the officers uploaded a warrant or some other legal authorization," the ruling said. Verizon argued that Section 222 of the Communications Act only covered call-location data, but the court ruled that device-location data also qualifies as protected customer information.

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