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Sales are expected to have surged to £41.5 billion from £26.6 billion when the tech group delivers its figures, according to data firm Refinitiv.

New identity verification rules are designed to end Britain's unwanted reputation as a haven for corporate fraud.

Dan Neidle has called for scrapping stamp duty, cleaning up inheritance tax and a rethink of property levies to simplify things.

The YouTube star, 25, took to the dance-floor with pro partner Alexis Warr for an emotional Rhumba, leaving fans at home and head judge Shirley Ballas in tears.

EastEnders icon Shaun Williamson is set to return to Walford this December. 

'Brave and beautiful' Lainie Williams, 17, was found fatally wounded at her home in Cefn Fforest, near Blackwood, South Wales, shortly after 7am on Thursday.

The individuals, aged between fifty and seventy-five, were arrested on the bridge on suspicion of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger: Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user agent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler) was hitting my blog's machine at an unreasonable rate. I followed the URL and discovered this is what Meta uses to gather premium, human-generated content to train its LLMs. I found the rate of requests to be annoying. I already have a PHP program that creates the illusion of an infinite website. I decided to answer any HTTP request that had "meta-externalagent" in its user agent string with the contents of a bork.php generated file... This worked brilliantly. Meta ramped up to requesting 270,000 URLs on May 30 and 31, 2025... After about 3 months, I got scared that Meta's insatiable consumption of Super Great Pages about condiments, underwear and circa 2010 C-List celebs would start costing me money. So I switched to giving "meta-externalagent" a 404 status code. I decided to see how long it would take one of the highest valued companies in the world to decide to go away. The answer is 5 months.

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A British woman has been killed after Storm Claudia winds ripped through a Portuguese holiday campsite.

Martin Kemp, 64, has revealed he will 'not be avoiding that Jungle shower' on this year's I'm A Celebrity.

The Highland capital with the motto 'concordia et fidelitas' - harmony and faithfullness - is no stranger to historic conflict and has always nurtured its military roots.

Sir Billy Connolly's attendance at an event near his home in Florida proved to be an emotional moment.

The royal couple, who first met at St Andrew's University in Scotland, announced their engagement in a historic interview with Tom Brabmy in 2010.

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! is returning to screens for its twenty-fifth series - and the stars are being thrown straight into the deep end. 

An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath: Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios' Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn't have many — which is why it may be surprising to hear that a group of players are reverse-engineering the game and its servers to bring it back to life. Publisher Sony removed Concord from stores and digital marketplaces, automatically refunded some, and, later, shut down Firewalk Studios. Two hundred or so people were laid off, and any hopes of Concord's return were dashed. Poor sales — estimated to be under 25,000 copies sold — and low player numbers marred the release. Firewalk Studios' game director Ryan Ellis said in a blog post that pieces of the game "resonated with players," but "other aspects of the game and [Concord's] initial launch didn't land the way [Firewalk Studios] intended." Concord wasn't a bad game, but it just didn't generate enough interest with enough players. Now, a group of three hobbyist reverse-engineers, who go by real, Red, and gwog online, are trying to make it playable again... "Sometimes there's enough of the server left in the game, that we can 'activate' that code and make the game believe it's a server," Red said. "We do pretty much always need to fill in the gaps though..." Concord used an anti-tamper software to keep people from cheating, which also creates a problem for people reverse engineering. It's "nearly impossible" to crack, Red said, so the group didn't — they found an exploit to "forcefully decrypt the game's code" to "restore the game and start working on servers...." It's not open to the public, but people can sign up for future tests. Even former Firewalk Studios employees have joined the server. They're excited to see Concord come back to life, too, the developers said. "Friday morning, a video of the playtest was posted to the Concord Reddit page," according to the article. (Though ironically by Friday night YouTube had had removed the video "due to a copyright claim by MarkScan Enforcement."

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The creature stood about six feet tall in the long grass, distinctly ape-like and in size not dissimilar to a chimpanzee or an orang-utan, like a man covered in hair.

A leafy market town has become an attractive hotspot for prospective homeowners of all ages, but there is one demographic with which it is particularly popular.

ISABEL BALDWIN AT PELICAN GOLF CLUB: 'She's just another girl. She's just like any other golfer,' a father assured his young daughter. But he was wrong. Kai Trump was not just any golfer.

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum: You know that feeling when you're waiting for the cable guy, and they said 'between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is 'electricity,' the day is '50 years,' and you're one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop waiting and figure it out yourself. What's happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it's not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It's being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it's working. Over 30 million solar products sold in 2024. 400,000 new solar installations every month across Africa. 50% market share captured by companies that didn't exist 15 years ago. Carbon credits subsidizing the cost. IoT chips in every device. 90%+ repayment rates on loans to people earning $2/day. And if you understand what's happening in Africa, you understand the template for how infrastructure will get built everywhere else for the next 50 years.

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The woman, Kelly, was reported missing from the Witcombe area, near Gloucester, on Friday afternoon and was last seen on Wednesday.