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Officers made 26 arrests and recovered eight stolen vehicles in three days targeting the criminal use of roads in Essex.

Officers made 26 arrests and recovered eight stolen vehicles in three days targeting the criminal use of roads in Essex.

Has the clock going back left you struggling to move forward? As we enter winter officially, these easy but effective tweaks to your morning routine will get you raring to go

The BBC is under pressure to 'review one of its biggest stars' after British Airways pulled its support for Louis Theroux's podcast over platforming Bob Vylan 's lead singer.

Eight years ago, Cirencester's most famous siblings, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, became the toast of the TV world.

The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way of life, pushing the limits of work hours, demanding that workers move fast to be first in the market. Some are even promoting 996 as a virtue in the hiring process and keeping "grind scores" of companies... Whoever builds first in AI will capture the market, and the window of opportunity is two to three years, "so you better run faster than everyone else," said Inaki Berenguer, managing partner of venture-capital firm LifeX Ventures. At San Francisco-based AI start-up Sonatic, the grind culture also allows for meal, gym and pickleball time, said Kinjal Nandy, its CEO. Nandy recently posted a job opening on X that requires in-person work seven days a week. He said working 10-hour days sounds like a lot but the company also offers its first hires perks such as free housing in a hacker house, food delivery credits and a free subscription to the dating service Raya... Mercor, a San Francisco-based start-up that uses AI to match people to jobs, recently posted an opening for a customer success engineer, saying that candidates should have a willingness to work six days a week, and it's not negotiable. "We know this isn't for everyone, so we want to put it up top," the listing reads. Being in-person rather than remote is a requirement at some start-ups. AI start-up StarSling had two engineering job descriptions that required six days a week of in-person work. In a job description for an engineer, Rilla, an AI company in New York, said candidates should not work at the company if they're not excited about working about 70 hours a week in person. One venture capitalist even started tracking "grind scores." Jared Sleeper, a partner at New York-based venture capital firm Avenir, recently ranked public software companies' "grind score" in a post on X, which went viral. Using data from Glassdoor, it ranks the percentage of employees who have a positive outlook for the company compared with their views on work-life balance. "At Google's AI division, cofounder Sergey Brin views 60 hours per week as the 'sweet spot' for productivity," notes the Independent: Working more than 55 hours a week, compared with a standard 35-40-hour week, is linked to a 35 percent higher risk of stroke and a 17 percent higher risk of death from heart disease, according to the World Health Organization. Productivity also suffers. A British study shows that working beyond 60 hours a week can reduce overall output, slow cognitive performance, and impair tasks ranging from call handling to problem-solving. Shorter workweeks, in contrast, appear to boost productivity. Microsoft Japan saw a roughly 40% increase in output after adopting a four-day work week. In a UK trial, 61 companies that tested a four-day schedule reported revenue gains, with 92 percent choosing to keep the policy, according to Bloomberg.

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31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring

The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and illegal sports betting.…

There are now incredibly 893 padel courts in the UK, with councils inundated with planning applications to build more.

Harris, who lost out to Donald Trump last November, told the BBC that she would 'possibly' be commander-in-chief one day.

Sophia Koetsier's mother, Marije Slijkerman has spent a decade trying to solve the mystery of what happened to her daughter - calling the Ugandan police investigation deeply flawed.

The 9-1-1 Nashville actress who died at 23 years old was suffering from a neurological disorder that affects three million people worldwide, her family has said.

Everything was planned; Charlotte Blackwell's intimate five-star summer wedding was, her friends agreed, going to be an event to remember.

Akinsoji, a sinister figure wearing all-black clothing, a balaclava and gloves, was with an accomplice but he was the 'stabber', the person who wielded the knife.

It must be lovely to see such elegant creatures right outside your door!

Virginia Giuffre's estranged husband has been spotted in public as mystery surrounds what will happen to the $24.5million Prince Andrew donated to the sex trafficking victim.

Thousands  of Henry vacuum customers have been urged to 'stop using the product immediately' amid an urgent recall due to 'electric shock risk'.

The CEBR say improving financial literacy will mean Britons are less likely to default on loans, more likely to borrow responsibly and do more to help grow the economy.

Banks are splashing the cash to reel new customers in. Six high street banks are handing out cash sweeteners worth up to £200.

Whether you are a morning person or not, many of us can't start the day without a caffeine fix to fuel our workouts and workdays-with most of us reaching for coffee within minutes of waking.

An anonymous reader shares this report from the Associated Press: Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported Monday... The centers are infamous for recruiting workers from other countries under false pretenses, promising them legitimate jobs and then holding them captive and forcing them to carry out criminal activities. Scam operations were in the international spotlight last week when the United States and Britain enacted sanctions against organizers of a major Cambodian cyberscam gang, and its alleged ringleader was indicted by a federal court in New York. According to a report in Monday's Myanma Alinn newspaper, the army raided KK Park, a well-documented cybercrime center, as part of operations starting in early September to suppress online fraud, illegal gambling, and cross-border cybercrime.

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