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The Arsenal winger declared himself fit to feature in Wednesday's Group L opener with Croatia in Dallas but is having an persistent Achilles problem managed by the FA.

Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements

Every morning, as I shower and dress, I can't help noticing the crepey skin on my chest. Wrinkled and covered in dark spots, it looks a good ten years older than my 53-year-old face.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to lower-end processors, including the consumer version of its Ryzen chips, a CPU that costs less than the Pro version. Over the years, users of these lower-end chips have gotten used to the added security. Recently and without warning or notice, this lower-end line of AMD chips suddenly dropped the protection, and did so in a way that was impossible to detect on Windows machines and required a fair amount of technical work when using Linux. AMD has yet to say why TSME worked on these CPUs, or even to confirm the change. AMD declined to answer questions sent by email other than to say TSME "is a security feature only applied to PRO CPUs as part of AMD PRO Technologies." The statement is the first known time the chipmaker has explicitly made this restriction public. [...] There's no indication that AMD ever advertised or marketed TSME as being available in consumer CPUs. AMD has long said that a related memory protection, Secure Memory Encryption (SME), is available only in the Pro and Epyc CPU tiers. SME is OS-managed. It uses a single key and allows the OS to selectively encrypt individual memory pages. TSME is firmware-managed. It encrypts all RAM with no OS involvement. When active, it provides protection against physical attacks, including cold boot exploits, DRAM interface snooping, and memory module removal. It activates silently when enabled in the BIOS, making it the more practically useful of the two protections. Ben Kilpatrick, a self-described "privacy-conscious Linux hobbyist," discovered that TSME had stopped working on his consumer Ryzen processor despite remaining enabled in the BIOS. He spent months investigating, persuaded MSI engineers to test multiple CPUs, motherboards, and firmware versions, and filed a public AMD bug report that traced the change to newer AGESA firmware apparently disabling TSME on consumer chips while retaining it on Pro and EPYC models. "AMD engineers' comments, such as those mentioned above, and the years of TSME working just fine in the lower-cost tier processors, have understandably conditioned Kilpatrick and other users to reasonably regard it as an expected part of the chip package," reports Ars Technica. "AMD quietly removing it and providing no acknowledgment or explanation strikes these users as something of a betrayal." Joe Fitzgerald, an expert in silicon-level security, said in an interview: "They could have not realized they did it leading to their cagey responses, or they could have done it intentionally and tried to get away with it, leading to the same cagey responses. But I really feel like an explanation should be in order, even if it was 'TSME was never supposed to be supported. We did ship some firmwares that erroneously enabled it, but you shouldn't use them since we can't guarantee it'll work properly.'"

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More than 370,000 bottles of the common antidepressants have been recalled over the concerns.

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Josh Hokit was being interviewed by UFC's color commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan inside the Octagon after stopping Derrick Lewis in the second round when he made the remark.

Zendaya and Tom Holland have posed for their first red carpet together in five years, as they kick off the promotional tour for their new Spider-Man movie.

Sara Cox has announced her first Radio 2 Breakfast Show will launch on Monday July 6 as she replaces Scott Mills.

Police said he used multiple phones and anonymous accounts to try and evade detection

Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The heavily promoted, $499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engineering or supply chain expertise, many assumed the "T1" would just be a private-label phone made by someone else. After a number of delays, the first phones are finally shipping. iFixit has performed a teardown and concluded that the T1 is a just gold-painted 2024 HTC U24 Pro -- a device from a Taiwanese company, probably using mainland China design and supply chains. In collaboration with NBC News, the iFixit team examined both phones using CT scans, side-by-side teardowns, and even reassembled a working T1 using a U24 Pro main board. As for "assembled in the USA," that may be true, in the same sense that your phone's repairman can "assemble" a phone from a handful of subassemblies sourced from someone else. Or it may have been assembled in Guangdong, China like the other U24 Pros. iFixit sums it up: "What you have is not an 'American-Proud Design,' but a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China. I'm failing to find any stirring of American pride within me. I've certainly felt it before, so I can confirm that it is absent at this time." Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs on YouTube also published a comprehensive video of his experience ordering, unboxing, and tearing down the phone. "From pre-order emails landing in Gmail spam thanks to botched DMARC records, to paying for the $47.45 Trump Mobile 47 Plan over the phone, the entire buying experience was a disaster worthy of its own review," writes Nelson.

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Algerians Txomin Huare-Place, 30, and Ayoub Harek, 23, targeted wealthy victims in a series of robberies in the capital and escaped on Lime bikes.

CCTV showing the seconds before Lily Whitehouse, 19, was allegedly fatally crushed against a lamppost were released by police today, along with the moment of Mohammed Azim's arrest.

Church bells rang in defiance of Vladimir Putin from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, where the main Assumption Cathedral, dating to the 11th century, was set ablaze by a drone strike.

A school linked to Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton is to close blaming Labour's tax grab.

They are opening up a store in a busy shopping centre

Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape

Shaun Thompson, 38, has been jailed for violent conduct following a protest outside Epping's Bell Hotel, known for homing asylum seekers.

Shaun Thompson, 38, has been jailed for violent conduct following a protest outside Epping's Bell Hotel, known for homing asylum seekers.

The young woman died after plunging 130 feet from a bridge, but she was shockingly still alive immediately after the fall, according to a nurse who tried to save her.