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Double yellows conjure painful memories in the Beckham household - just ask dad David.

To judge by her striking new hairdo, you'd think she was at a fringe event.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's accelerated Android release cycle will soon deliver a new version of the software, and it might look quite different from what you'd expect. Amid rumors of a major UI overhaul, Google seems to have accidentally published a blog post detailing "Material 3 Expressive," which we expect to see revealed at I/O later this month. Google quickly removed the post from its design site, but not before the Internet Archive saved it. It has been a few years since Google introduced any major changes to its Material theming, but the design team wasn't just sitting idly this whole time. According to the leaked blog post, Google has spent the past three years working on a more emotionally engaging vision for Android design. While the original Material Design did an admirable job of leveraging colors and consistent theming, it could make apps look too similar. The answer to that, apparently, is Material 3 Expressive. Google says this is "the most-researched update to Google's design system, ever." The effort reportedly included 46 separate studies with hundreds of sample designs. The team showed these designs to more than 18,000 study participants to understand how the user experience would work. In these studies, the design team used a variety of metrics, including the following: - Eye tracking: Analyzing where users focus their attention - Surveys and focus groups: Gauging emotional responses to different designs - Experiments: Gathering sentiment and preferences - Usability: Seeing how quickly participants could understand and use an interface "The result of all this is an interface that appears much more varied than the previous Material Design," writes Ars. You can check out 9to5Google's article, which preserved many of the blog post's visuals before they were removed.

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The decision comes after Charles Bronson - one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners - took part in one of the country's first public parole hearings in 2023.

The luxury new accommodation is slated to be completed by the end of 2031, and will offer a combination of tourist hotel rooms and resident apartments.

On Tuesday, the troubled pop star posted a duo of photos of Hailey attending the Met Gala with the caption: 'Tell em uncle charlie'.

This comes after her ex-husband Tom Cruise , 62, has started romancing Ballerina actress Ana de Armas , 37, in recent weeks. Katie was married to Top Gun star Tom from 2006 until 2012.

Emily Atack has become the new face of PG Tips after signing a six-figure deal replacing TV favourite Johnny Vegas.  

The owner of a pet mortuary promised clients that their beloved pets would receive proper cremations and burials - returning their ashes.

The LAPD Threat Management Unit is 'investigating' the man that allegedly crashed his car through the gates of Jennifer Aniston's Bel Air home for stalking.

The TV presenter, 35, and her husband Joe Swash, 42, opened the doors of their beloved home, Pickle Cottage, for cameras to film a 'Kardashians-style' TV show.

Longtime Slashdot reader RoccamOccam shares a blog post from the Trifecta Tech Foundation, a nonprofit organization that creates secure, open source building blocks for infrastructure software. The foundation is also the developer behind Sudo-rs. From the report: Ubuntu 25.10 is set to adopt sudo-rs by default. Sudo-rs is a memory-safe reimplementation of the widely-used sudo utility, written in the Rust programming language. This move is part of a broader effort by Canonical to improve the resilience and maintainability of core system components. [...] The decision to adopt sudo-rs is in line with Canonical's commitment to Carefully But Purposefully increase the resilience of critical system software, by adopting Rust. Rust is a programming language with strong memory safety guarantees that eliminates many of the vulnerabilities that have historically plagued traditional C-based software. Sudo-rs is part of the Trifecta Tech Foundation's Privilege Boundary initiative, which aims to handle privilege escalation with memory-safe alternatives.

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A young man has sparked a debate after revealing his roommate demanded he pay hundreds in medical costs.

The actress and presenter has been gracing our screens since the 1960s -from playing a Bond girl, to a spy in the New Avengers in the '70s and a drunken Patsy Stone in the '90s.

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction

A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment systems.…

Sir David Attenborough turns 99 on Thursday and the best birthday present we can collectively give the great man is by going to the cinema to see his powerful new feature-length documentary.

The Commons was updated on the weekend arrest, in English towns, of several Iranians on suspicion of terror offences.

I was recently thinking of the time I was packing up my belongings after a particularly toxic break-up when a close male friend came over and offered what I thought was a shoulder to cry on...

Holly Willoughby is reportedly in talks with ITV bosses about her future with the channel.

President Trump's proposed 2026 budget seeks to cut nearly $500 million from CISA, accusing the agency of prioritizing censorship over cybersecurity and election protection. "The proposed cuts -- which are largely symbolic at this stage as they need to be approved by Congress -- are framed as a purge of the so-called 'censorship industrial complex,' a term the White House uses to describe CISA's work countering misinformation," reports The Register. From the report: In its fiscal 2024 budget request, the agency had asked [PDF] for a total of just over $3 billion to safeguard the nation's online security across both government and private sectors. The enacted budget that year was about $34 million lower than the previous year's. Now, a deep cut has been proposed [PDF], as the Trump administration decries the agency's past work tackling the spread of misinformation on the web by America's enemies, as well as the agency's efforts safeguarding election security. [...] "The budget eliminates programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda as well as external engagement offices such as international affairs," it reads [PDF]. "These programs and offices were used as a hub in the censorship industrial complex to violate the First Amendment, target Americans for protected speech, and target the President. CISA was more focused on censorship than on protecting the nation's critical systems, and put them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion."

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