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Residents were woken in the night by a “loud bang” as a car smashed into a block of flats Braintree town centre.

Some closures from February 7 to 9 on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some Essex drivers this weekend.

Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age

Amazon Web Services is struggling to get the high-quality servers it needs to build AI infrastructure and has retired other hardware early to make room to accelerated machines.…

Alleged Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gangsters looking to escape arrest ended up on the roof of an apartment complex as ICE closed in, exclusive video obtained by DailyMail.com shows.

Donny Osmond has announced he will be performing with his 14-year-old self as part of the ever-growing CGI trend.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CyberScoop: Ransomware payments saw a dramatic 35% drop last year compared to 2023, even as the overall frequency of ransomware attacks increased, according to a new report released by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. The considerable decline in extortion payments is somewhat surprising, given that other cybersecurity firms have claimed that 2024 saw the most ransomware activity to date. Chainalysis itself warned in its mid-year report that 2024's activity was on pace to reach new heights, but attacks in the second half of the year tailed off. The total amount in payments that Chainalysis tracked in 2024 was $812.55 million, down from 2023's mark of $1.25 billion. The disruption of major ransomware groups, such as LockBit and ALPHV/BlackCat, were key to the reduction in ransomware payments. Operations spearheaded by agencies like the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) caused significant declines in LockBit activity, while ALPHV/BlackCat essentially rug-pulled its affiliates and disappeared after its attack on Change Healthcare. [...] Additionally, [Chainalysis] says more organizations have become stronger against attacks, with many choosing not to pay a ransom and instead using better cybersecurity practices and backups to recover from these incidents. [...] Chainalysis also says ransomware operators are letting funds sit in wallets, refraining from moving any money out of fear they are being watched by law enforcement. You can read the full report here.

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OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries

Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first app containing hidden optical character recognition spyware in Apple’s App Store. Cunningly, the software nasty is designed to steal cryptocurrency.…

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The former child star - turning 50 this month - has played this actor's love interest in three rom-coms

Oliver Freeston, a 25-year-old North East Lincolnshire councillor, branded the warning email he received from a compliance officer as an 'attack on free speech'.

Hands up, I have never bought a piece of clothing from a supermarket. And yet, earlier this week, I found myself wearing a cardigan-style jacket from George at Asda for a dinner with the Queen.

How a radical surgical approach saved the life of a neonatal nurse practitioner with a rare abdominal cancer - but meant operations to remove six organs

A Pakistani father-of-two had been jailed for grooming young girls for more than a year - but an unnamed judge ruled removing him from the UK would be 'unduly harsh', a tribunal heard.

The University of the West of England (UWE), in Bristol, hit out at 220 of the bard's works and famous TV and stage adaptations of them in guidance for drama students.

There was a time when seeing David sweating under the physical labours of an outdoor task would have set my own pulse racing.

JEMIMA CAINER: This week has seen some pivotal cosmic shifts. Change, as we all know, is inevitable. Part of that process is some discomfort as things unfold.

Arm has dropped its attempt to terminate Qualcomm's Architecture License Agreement (ALA), allowing Qualcomm to continue developing and producing Arm-compatible chips for PCs, smartphones, and servers. "The Brit biz had sought to end that license in a lawsuit it brought against Qualcomm in 2022," notes The Register. "That suit is rooted in Qualcomm's 2021 acquisition of a startup called Nuvia, which was co-founded by the brains behind Apple's custom processors and had signed an architecture license agreement (ALA) with Arm that allowed it to design its own Arm-compatible CPU cores." From the report: On Wednesday, Qualcomm's latest quarterly financial report [PDF] revealed Arm had indicated on January 8, 2025 it was no longer seeking to kill off Qualcomm's ALA. During Qualcomm's Q1 2025 earnings conference call with Wall Street, CEO Cristiano Amon confirmed Arm "has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement. We're excited to continue to develop performance leading, world-class products that benefit consumers worldwide that include our incredible Oryon custom CPUs." [...] On the other side of the fence, Arm noted in a regulatory filing [PDF] that post-trial motions had been filed on both sides to clarify the legal situation following the jury's verdicts, and a new trial may be sought. On its own latest quarterly earnings call, which like Qualcomm's took place on Wednesday, Arm's CFO Jason Child was asked about the impact of the case. He said Arm's revenue forecasts assumed the biz was "not going to prevail in that lawsuit," and that it expected to continue receiving payments from Qualcomm, which licenses various technologies from Arm and doesn't just hold an ALA. "The primary reason for the lawsuit very much was around defending our IP and that's important," Child said. "But from a financial perspective, we had assumed that we'll continue to be receiving royalties at basically the same rates that they've been paying for in the past and will continue to pay." Qualcomm continues to pursue another case against Arm, alleging the UK outfit didn't honor some of its contractual obligations. Arm reckons that matter will reach the courts in the first half of 2026.

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Controversial Project 2025 co-author Russel Vought has been confirmed by the Senate to become the next head of the Office of Management and Budget despite Democrat's objections.

The religion has 'clear teachings' and 'tries to explain mankind's place in the universe' with its concepts of spirits and divinity, a panel said.

All of the damning moments of the CBS interview that were edited out can now be viewed alongside the final cut that American households saw.