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The Duke of Sussex's latest move was utterly tin-eared, even for a man of the prince's stupidity and arrogance. Why did he choose this moment to do it?

The son of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is following in his father's footsteps by launching his own adult content platform.

More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil

Denied permission to excavate a landfill in search of his missing Bitcoin, Newport, Wales resident James Howells has a new plan: buy the soon-to-be-capped dumping site outright from the city council.…

EXCLUSIVE BY ALEX BYWATER AND NIK SIMON: Gatland's second stint in the most important job in Welsh rugby has seen his team deliver the worst losing streak in the country's history.

For the first time since 2004, PassMark's global CPU benchmark data shows a decline in average processor performance, with laptop CPUs dropping 3.4% and desktop CPUs falling 0.5% year-over-year. Tom's Hardware reports: We see the biggest drop in laptop CPU performance results. PassMark recorded an average result of 14,632 across 101,316 samples last year. But, in 2025, the average score sat at an average of 14,130 points between 25,541 samples, decreasing the average score by 3.4%. The average desktop PC result in 2024 netted 26,436 points for 186,053 samples. But for 2025, the average score currently sits at 26,311 points for over 47,810 samples -- a 0.5% drop from last year. While that drop is small, we should only see a continued progression of faster performance. [...] Passmark itself mused on X (formerly Twitter) that it could be that people are switching to more affordable machines that deliver lower power and performance. Or maybe Windows 11 is depressing performance scores versus Windows 10, especially as people transition to it with the upcoming demise of the latter. We've certainly seen plenty of examples of reduced performance in gaming with some of the newer versions of Windows 11, particularly as Intel and AMD struggled to upstream needed updates into the OS. [...] PassMark also muses that bloatware could contribute to the sudden decline in performance, but that seems like a longshot.

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Steven Robert Sablan, 63, of Cleburne, Texas , abducted the 13-year-old girl in San Antonio before driving her to California on July 6, 2023.

The Heath Secretary was confronted in the Commons about remarks by Ashley Dalton, who was appointed a new minister in his department by Sir Keir Starmer on Monday.

Elon Musk trolled everyone, including CNN News anchor Dana Bash on Tuesday after he altered his handle to an X-rated name.

Andrew and Dawn Searle were found by a neighbour at their property in Les Pesquies on Thursday. The mayor told French television the deaths were 'clearly a homicide'.

The Foreign Secretary announced a punishing package of sanctions designed to hit the Kremlin-backed cybercriminals 'running rampant' in 'Putin's mafia state'.

Sprouting up on the city's South Side in 2021 like an Egyptian funerary complex, the Taj Barack has already taken nearly twice as long to build as any presidential library in history.

DOGE is shifting attention to the Department of Education sparking a mini revolution among agency bureaucrats as Elon Musk's nerd army stormed into the building on Tuesday.

Jane Seymour has emotionally recalled caring for Christopher Reeve after he was paralyzed in a horse riding accident in 1995.

The couple's only son, Sir Carter, continues to be noticeably absent when his siblings make appearances at public events.

Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand

updated  An international police operation spanning the US, Europe, and Asia has shuttered the 8Base ransomware crew's dark web presence and resulted in the arrest of four European suspects accused of stealing $16 million from more than 1,000 victims worldwide.…

The US, UK, and Australia (AUKUS) have sanctioned Russian bulletproof hosting provider Zservers, accusing it of supporting LockBit ransomware operations by providing secure infrastructure for cybercriminals. The sanctions target Zservers, its UK front company XHOST Internet Solutions, and six individuals linked to its operations. The Register reports: Headquartered in Barnaul, Russia, Zservers provided BPH services to a number of LockBit affiliates, the three nations said today. On numerous occasions, affiliates purchased servers from the company to support ransomware attacks. The trio said the link between Zservers and LockBit was established as early as 2022, when Canadian law enforcement searched a known LockBit affiliate and found evidence they had purchased infrastructure tooling almost certainly used to host chatrooms with ransomware victims. "Ransomware actors and other cybercriminals rely on third-party network service providers like Zservers to enable their attacks on US and international critical infrastructure," said Bradley T Smith, acting under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. "Today's trilateral action with Australia and the United Kingdom underscores our collective resolve to disrupt all aspects of this criminal ecosystem, wherever located, to protect our national security." The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) said additionally that the UK front company for Zservers, XHOST Internet Solutions, was also included in its sanctions list. According to Companies House, the UK arm was incorporated on January 31, 2022, although the original service was established in 2011 and operated in both Russia and the Netherlands. Anyone found to have business dealings with either entity can face criminal and civil charges under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. The UK led the way with sanctions, placing six individuals and the two entities on its list, while the US only placed two of the individuals -- both alleged Zservers admins -- on its equivalent. Alexander Igorevich Mishin and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Bolshakov, both 30 years old, were named by the US as the operation's heads. Mishin was said to have marketed Zservers to LockBit and other ransomware groups, managing the associated cryptocurrency transactions. Both he and Bolshakov responded to a complaint from a Lebanese company in 2023 and shut down an IP address used in a LockBit attack. The US said, however, it was possible that the pair set up a replacement IP address that LockBit could carry on using, while telling the Lebanese company that they complied with its request. The UK further sanctioned Ilya Vladimirovich Sidorov, Dmitry Konstantinovich Bolshakov (no mention of whether he is any relation to Aleksandr), Igor Vladimirovich Odintsov, and Vladimir Vladimirovich Ananev. Other than that they were Zservers employees and thus were directly or indirectly involved in attempting to inflict economic loss to the country, not much was said about either of their roles.

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In a post shared to a social media thread with over 18million followers, the unidentified user told how they were just 15 years old when they suddenly collapsed in the road.

Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT...

The Rust for Linux project is alive and well, despite suggestions to the contrary, even if not every Linux kernel maintainer is an ally.…

Savers - I urge you to check the interest rates on your easy-access accounts constantly in the coming weeks, but don't necessarily switch yet.

Taylor Swift's escape from New Orleans following the humiliation of the Super Bowl has sent Swifties into a spiral. Her fanbase managed to zone in on the one piece of her outfit: A pair of ruby red loafers.