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Russia has declared that a Cold War is over and a 'fiery' conflict with the West is now under way, as Russian spokesperson Maria Zakharova states 'we are already in another form of conflict.'

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022. The pyroclastic flow severed both of Tonga's underwater internet cables. The eruption cut sixty-five miles from the domestic cable and fifty-five miles from the international link to Fiji. Tonga lost all internet access. The cables sit on the ocean floor and carry 95% of the world's international internet traffic. The Guardian has a long read on what happened in the aftermath. A.T.M.s (cash machines) stopped working because banks could not verify account balances. Businesses could not file export paperwork. Foreign remittances made up 44% of the country's G.D.P. The government found old satellite phones. Three or four days later, officials restored a hundred and twenty megabytes per second of bandwidth for essential work. A month after the eruption, SpaceX donated fifty Starlink terminals. SubCom's repair ship Reliance took five weeks to restore the international cable. Vava'u did not get broadband back until August, 2023. Another earthquake in the summer of 2024 severed the domestic cable again.

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The former Made In Chelsea star, 36, has been sharing clips of the abode, now thought to be worth £12 million, as he and Sophie prepare to welcome their first child.

Honor among thieves - extortion is fine, but no juveniles, please

A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals.…

Rather than the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, the game was played at the Arena Lublin in Poland, with thousands of Crystal Palace fans making the trip to cheer on their side.

Cara Delevingne looked less than impressed as she was forced to wait in line before entering the Stella McCartney show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.

Horner, husband of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, was given a massive £80million payoff by Red Bull after being brutally sacked from his long-term role as team principal back back in July.

I saw it flash up on one of the screens at my gym last week as I was doing my fourth set of lateral pulldowns: September 24, UK National Fitness Day.

Gemma Collins has declared she'll never be thin as she opened up about how weight loss injections have changed her life. 

Patients at hospitals in Manchester have described the moment they were told that the doors would be sealed during a lockdown in the wake of a terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester.

Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator

Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.…

AI has run out of training data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. "We've already run out of data," Raphael said on the bank's podcast. He said this shortage is already shaping how developers build new AI systems. China's DeepSeek may have kept costs down by training on outputs from existing models instead of fresh data. The web has been tapped out. Developers have been using synthetic data -- machine-generated material that offers unlimited supply but carries quality risks. Raphael said he doesn't think the lack of fresh data will be a massive constraint. "From an enterprise perspective, I think there's still a lot of juice I'd say to be squeezed in that," he said. Proprietary datasets held by corporations could make AI tools far more valuable. The challenge is "understanding the data, understanding the business context of the data, and then being able to normalize it."

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Swifties lit up social media overnight with posts claiming the tracks had surfaced on Discord and other platforms in low quality audio, but enough to get listeners buzzing.

Thanks to the time difference and searing daytime temperatures in host countries the US, Mexico and Canada, games are expected to start at 5pm, 8pm, 11pm and 2am BST.

Police say they found the evidence on his phone

A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. …

Kylie, 28, smiled for the cameras as she headed in for the catwalk show as Fashion Week in Paris continues.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications. In a statement, Google said a group claiming affiliation with the ransomware gang cl0p, opens new tab was sending emails to "executives at numerous organizations claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite." Google cautioned that it "does not currently have sufficient evidence to definitively assess the veracity of these claims."

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New funding from the Government will create an extra 1,250 Crown Court sitting days across the country

Lady Gabriella Windsor made a powerful appearance at a charity gala in New York, following her husband's tragic passing last year.

Walmart plans to deploy sensors across its 4,600 US stores by the end of 2026 to track 90 million pallets of groceries shipped annually [Editor's note: non-paywalled source]. The retailer and technology vendor Wiliot announced the expansion Thursday. The sensors will monitor the location, condition and temperature of perishables as they move from warehouses to stores. Walmart started testing Wiliot's sensors at a Texas warehouse in 2023 and has expanded to 500 locations. The full rollout will cover the retailer's US store network and 40 distribution centers. The microchips measure 0.7 square millimeters and are embedded in shipping labels. They use Bluetooth to transmit real-time data about pallets. Walmart previously relied on manual scanning and paper checks by employees. The Arkansas-based company employs 2.1 million people but increased revenues by $150 billion over five years without adding workers. Walmart accounts for more than a fifth of US grocery sales.

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