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MIKE KEEGAN: The UK Football Policing Unit is leading the investigation into the abuse directed at Michael Oliver - and has spoken to social media companies as it seeks to trace those responsible.

A young funeral home owner in Ohio is changing the game of mourning and the community is talking about it.

Basildon town's e-scooter trial has been cancelled after councillors voted unanimously to end the 'havoc' they were causing in the community.

Maybe they should have called it DeepFake, or DeepState, or better still Deep Selloff. …

How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Canadian prime minister's eldest son posted a clip on Instagram of his first song, Til The Nights Done, where he sings, 'we could roll some, we could light one.'

Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS, with the original founder, Eric Migicovsky, starting a company to continue where he left off in 2016. "This is part of an effort from Google to help and support the volunteers who have come together to maintain functionality for Pebble watches after the original company ceased operations in 2016," said Google in a blog post. The Verge reports: The company -- which can't be named Pebble because Google still owns that -- doesn't have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old. The reason, Migicovsky tells me, is simple. "I've tried literally everything else," he says, "and nothing else comes close." Sure, he may just have a very specific set of requirements -- lots of people are clearly happy with what Apple, Garmin, Google, and others are making. But it's true that there's been nothing like Pebble since Pebble. "For the things I want out of it, like a good e-paper screen, long battery life, good and simple user experience, hackable, there's just nothing." The core of Pebble, he says, is a few things. A Pebble should be quirky and fun and should feel like a gadget in an important way. It shows notifications, lets you control your music with buttons, lasts a long time, and doesn't try to do too much. It sounds like Migicovsky might have Pebble-y ambitions beyond smartwatches, but he appears to be starting with smartwatches. If that sounds like the old Pebble and not much else, that's precisely the point. [...] Migicovsky also hopes to be part of a broader open-source community around Pebble OS. The Pebble diehards still exist: a group of developers at Rebble have worked to keep many of the platform's apps alive, for instance, along with the Cobble app for connecting to phones, and the Pebble subreddit is surprisingly active for a product that hasn't been updated since the Obama administration. Migicovsky says he plans to open-source whatever his new company builds and hopes lots of other folks will build stuff, too. Thank you Slashdot reader sziring for sharing this story.

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The mother-of-three - who asked not to be identified - believes the thieves were watching her property before they broke in just after dusk on December 18 last year.

The FBI has begun a large-scale nuclear incident drill in New York to be ready 'to respond in the event of a nuclear incident in the United States or overseas.'

Homeowners have been warned of a surge in rogue traders and con artists looking to exploit the widespread damage caused by Storm Eowyn.

Dr Stephanie Psaki - who worked on infectious disease responses - wrote in an editorial this weekend that Americans were not being protected from Marburg virus , which kills up to 88 percent of people it infects.

A mom, who lives in Sydney, Australia, has shared the terrifying moment she found out her five-year-old son had leukemia after thinking he had been bitten by a bug.

Microsoft has launched an open-source document database platform built on PostgreSQL, partnering with FerretDB as a front-end interface. The solution includes two PostgreSQL extensions: pg_documentdb_core for BSON optimization and pg_documentdb_api for data operations. FerretDB CEO Peter Farkas said the integration with Microsoft's DocumentDB extension has improved performance twentyfold for certain workloads in FerretDB 2.0. The platform carries no commercial licensing fees or usage restrictions under its MIT license, according to Microsoft.

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JEMIMA CAINER: There are days when things receive a real shove from the cosmos to get things going. Today is one of those days.

A 1990s indie icon has announced her return to music, 20 years after touring with Britpop's biggest names.

Jennifer Lopez is already generating excitement for next awards season following the world premiere of her new musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, at Sundance.

EXCLUSIVE: Former The Only Way Is Essex star Olivia Attwood has opened up about the latest series of her ITV2 show Getting Filthy Rich - and she's made some bold statements

The daytime quiz show sees contestants go up against one of six chasers - Mark Labbett , Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty , Paul Sinha , Jenny Ryan and Darragh Ennis - to win money.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have confirmed that women are drawn to younger partners - whether they realise it or not.

He would charge a service for crooks to bypass multi-factor authentication to gain access to people's bank accounts

The TV presenter, 44, took to her Instagram to share details of the terrifying ordeal and ask her followers if they also felt there had been a rise in cat-calling and 'aggressive approaches'.