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It was an 'abandon ship' variety of interview rather than providing reassurance. Keir Starmer, from a torpedo-damaged Downing Street, gave a less than serene account of himself.

Video obtained by TMZ shows what appears to be Tyler Robinson walking towards Utah Valley University around 8am last Wednesday, about four hours before Charlie Kirk was shot.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin decried the Royal Navy's decrepit subsurface fleet at a time when the world is getting more dangerous and unstable.

Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. From a report: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license. "Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web -- and now, it's available in the Microsoft 365 apps," explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. "It's content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you're working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it's included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users." While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, and help create slides in PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per user Microsoft 365 Copilot license will still have the best integration in Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot license is also not limited to a single document, and can reason over entire work data.

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A boy was found with stab wounds before being pronounced dead. Police are hunting for the killer after the deadly incident in Moss Side, south Manchester, shortly after 4.30pm on Monday.

A source told Us Weekly: 'They've decided to be much more private about it. They are still speaking and are very interested in each other.'

Oh, sickly old Hollywood, even the prospect of depriving poor children of much-needed charity can't stop you from being yourself at the 2025 Emmy Awards.

A healthy girl who doted on her cuddly Winnie-the-Pooh bear, Lorelei Cowmeadow seemed 'a bit under the weather' last November. She died a few days later - just before her second birthday.

Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER

A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …

Body language expert Judi James has spoken exclusively to the Daily Mail about Sydney's surprising gestures of hesitation.

Runaway aristocrat Constance Marten and her lover Mark Gordon were today sentenced to 14 years each in jail after being convicted of killing their baby.

Lead times for high-capacity hard drives have exceeded 52 weeks as AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for warm storage that sits between fast SSDs and offline tape archives, according to TrendForce. Western Digital notified customers of price increases across its entire hard drive portfolio citing demand for "every capacity" in its product line. The shortage stems from AI infrastructure requirements including training datasets, model checkpoints and inference logs that consume petabytes of storage space. These files are too large for primary SSD storage but must remain accessible for quick retrieval. Hard drive manufacturers have not significantly expanded production capacity in approximately a decade. Cloud service providers are evaluating QLC SSDs for cold data storage despite costs remaining four to five times higher per gigabyte than mechanical drives. Memory suppliers are developing SSD products specifically for this intermediate storage tier.

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“If you build it, they will come,” as we all learned from watching Field of Dreams two and a half decades ago. …

Field Of GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks

Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…

Ahead of a looming ground operation, the IDF has issued evacuation orders for large sections of the city.

There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors

Opinion  The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.…

President Donald Trump called Monday for companies to report earnings every six months instead of quarterly. Trump posted on social media that semi-annual reporting would save money and let managers focus on running companies. The SEC mandated quarterly reports in 1970. Trump made similar comments in 2018 that prompted SEC public comment but no regulatory changes. Critics argue quarterly reporting increases costs and encourages short-term thinking. Supporters say frequent disclosures maintain investor trust and reduce market manipulation risks. Further reading: The Renewed Bid To End Quarterly Earnings Reports.

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Breathe deep on internet fumes

Discarded vapes are becoming the new cigarette butts in pollution terms, but a hacker has found a novel way to repurpose the chips they contain to build a web server.…

The Palace appeared to snub the Duke of Sussex's birthday celebrations by failing to publicly acknowledge his 41st. The Royal Family Instagram account was abuzz with updates on Trump's arrival

Jeremy Clarkson has introduced the newest four-legged member of Diddly Squat Farm in a heartwarming post shared with fans.