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The premium electric 'shooting brake' can add 224 miles of driving range from a 5-minute charging sessions using BYD's ground-breaking Flash Chargers. A £95k PHEV will be available too.

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers

An investigation has been launched into the death of the well known influencer, who frequently posted photos with her young daughter.

Romeo Beckham looked just like his famous father David as they showed off their tattooed torsos during their family holiday in Ibiza on Wednesday. 

PC Alan Greer took his own life in May, but his 'truly shocking' crimes were not revealed by Police Scotland until two months after his death.

The area has enjoyed less than 2 per cent of the rainfall expected for July so far, leaving river flows at a perilously low level and swathes of land completely dried out.

by George Whittaker

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.1.4, the latest stable maintenance update for the Linux 7.1 series. As with other stable kernel releases, version 7.1.4 focuses on fixing bugs, improving hardware compatibility, and addressing security and reliability issues without introducing new features. The update became available on July 18, 2026, and users of the Linux 7.1 branch are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Rather than changing the kernel's feature set, Linux 7.1.4 delivers dozens of targeted fixes collected from developers across multiple kernel subsystems, helping ensure a more stable experience for desktops, servers, embedded devices, and cloud deployments.

Another Important Stable Maintenance Release

The Linux stable branch exists to provide safe updates between major kernel versions. Every stable release undergoes review before being published and contains fixes that have already been tested in the mainline kernel.

Linux 7.1.4 continues this process by incorporating patches that resolve regressions, improve system stability, and fix issues reported by users since the release of Linux 7.1.3.

For most users, these maintenance updates are recommended because they improve reliability without altering existing functionality.

Bug Fixes Across Multiple Kernel Subsystems

Like previous stable releases, Linux 7.1.4 includes fixes spanning many areas of the kernel.

The update addresses issues affecting:

• Memory management
• File systems
• Networking
• Device drivers
• Architecture-specific code
• Core kernel infrastructure
• USB and storage subsystems

These targeted patches help eliminate crashes, improve compatibility with newer hardware, and resolve edge cases that may only appear under specific workloads.

Improved Hardware Compatibility

One of the ongoing goals of Linux stable releases is expanding support for existing and newly released hardware.

Linux 7.1.4 includes updated drivers and compatibility fixes for various devices, helping improve support for:

• Graphics hardware
• Storage controllers
• Networking devices
• USB peripherals
• Laptop components
• ARM development boards

Although no major driver additions are expected in a maintenance release, incremental improvements like these often resolve hardware-specific bugs reported by users after earlier releases.

Security and Reliability Updates

Stable kernel releases also include security-related fixes that have been accepted into the maintenance branch.

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A deep partial solar eclipse is set to be visible across Essex skies on August 12. Here is all you need to know.

Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider influential startup community to weigh in on one of the Trump administration's most closely watched AI debates. At issue: whether Washington should restrict access to increasingly powerful open-weight -- meaning, AI models whose weights are publicly available -- AI models released by Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI and Alibaba. "American leadership requires two things: world-leading American open-weight models and continued access for U.S. builders to open models already available worldwide," the startup founders wrote in the letter (PDF) obtained by POLITICO, also sent to Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. Instead of broad prohibitions, they argue the government should adopt targeted safeguards. And they warn that banning Americans from downloading Chinese open-weight models wouldn't stop their proliferation -- but would weaken U.S. startups. "There'll be hundreds of companies that instantly die," said Suhail Doshi, founder of AI infrastructure startup Particle and a member of the association, which POLITICO first wrote about exclusively, in an interview. "It's great for Anthropic. We're all going to have to spend money on Anthropic." Last week, the Beijing-based AI company "Moonshot" released a massive new model that reset the AI race overnight, immediately vaulting into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests. China's Xi Jinping also used his first appearance at China's World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry.

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A deep partial solar eclipse is set to be visible across Essex skies on August 12. Here is all you need to know.

Bryony, now 44, happily played the role of the future King's 'decoy' girlfriend during his time at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Nearly 41 per cent of people in England and Wales witnessed antisocial behaviour in the year to March, compared to around a third over the previous year.

Heidi Klum turned up the heart while posing topless on the beach on Wednesday. 

Craig Nelson, 59, was killed by lightning while hiking with his brother near the summit of a popular Utah mountain on July 18.

New details have emerged

Two Braintree students have earned black belts in the Korean martial art of Soo Bahk Do.

Hashem Abedi, brother of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi, is among the record number of terrorists currently in British jails.

A seven-year-old boy has been lanced through the stomach by a javelin thrown by a top youth athlete, leaving him seriously injured. 

Mya Golabek, nine, and her brother Sigmund, seven, both died when the boat they were on with their grandparents, Laurie and Steven Schneider, hit a channel marker.