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Geoffrey Williams was the global vice president of colleague attraction and inclusion at Burberry until he was let go over the summer.

The weather's taken a decidedly autumnal turn, and while that's not great for our hair on rainy commutes, it's perfect for evenings snuggled up watching a stellar series on Netflix.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Lufthansa announced plans to cut 4,000 roles on Monday as it aims to increase profitability and lean on AI to drive efficiency. The airline group said it will eliminate a total of 4,000 FTE, or full-time equivalent, roles worldwide by 2030. The company is targeting primarily admin roles, the majority of which will be affected at its home base in Germany, as part of a broader restructuring strategy. "The Lufthansa Group is reviewing which activities will no longer be necessary in the future, for example due to duplication of work. In particular, the profound changes brought about by digitalization and the increased use of artificial intelligence will lead to greater efficiency in many areas and processes," the company said in a release issued during its Capital Markets Day in Munich. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said earlier this year that artificial intelligence had partially helped to shrink the company's headcount by 40% down from 5,000 employees to almost 3,000.

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New homes are being built on a site despite concerns there is contamination on part of the land

Broadoak School, in Partington, Greater Manchester, has launched an investigation into comments allegedly made to pupils on Friday morning following complaints by parents.

Commandos were called to a burning home in the city's north earlier this morning after it was deliberately set on fire in what has been described as a 'family dispute' over inheritance.

A tiny piece of land in the Baltic Sea is the world's smallest 'divided island' shared by two countries.

The magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck at about 10pm local time on Tuesday, leaving residents trapped in collapsed homes, nightclubs and other businesses, officials said.

A new mega town is set to be built in the UK with 25,000 homes and thousands of jobs.  

Keir Starmer may have had a tricky time at party conference in Liverpool but Lady Starmer has breezed through it looking like a Prime Minister's wife for serious times that require hard choices.

Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year

Raspberry Pi is upping the cost of some devices by double-digit percentages from today driven by what CEO Eben Upton calls "insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI applications."…

He has been sent to prison and given a ban from all BP garages and Co-op stores in Essex

Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters arrived on scene this morning to tackle the blaze as it wrecked the multi-storey facility.

The Princess Royal, 75, spent Tuesday in Kyiv amid a media blackout, where she met with President Zelenskyy and movingly laid a toy bear at a memorial commemorating children.

Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training

IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed code-related data.…

Nicole Kidman become the primary residential parent of her daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14 - following her eldest children Connor, 30, and Bella, 32, opting to live with Tom Cruise.

Adam Zawi, who claims to be 21, was living in a three-star hotel at the taxpayer's expense, when he swiped rucksacks filled with gadgets from a pub in London 's financial district on July 30.

Back at the end of July, we had a discussion with CPU maker AMD and the topic of conversation was hybrid cloud. …

Arm Says Neoverse Is A More Universal Compute Substrate Than X86 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The £8.5million upgrade to Southend Hospital won't be used to treat children straight away as the NHS prepares for a surge in patients as winter approaches

While police are currently able to issue £50 on-the-spot fines for noisy exhausts, 67% think these should be higher.