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Iran could recruit sleeper agents in Britain who are 'motivated to kill Jews' to carry out terror attacks, an expert has warned.

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. "These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications -- including attach and detach force -- to help you build a high-quality accessory band," Google says on a store page listing. 9to5Google reports: Noting how the "community has already come up with innovative and creative new ideas to make the Fitbit Air [their] own" since launch last month, Google is "officially releasing the hardware specifications and accessory design guidelines for the Fitbit Air tracker to the public." For example, owners have already found their own bicep band solutions. This information would typically just be available for third-party accessory companies, but Google wants to open things up to "independent designers and artisan makers." The Google Store page also lists other things developers should keep in mind, such as sensor clearance, sensor pressure, secure retention, and skin-friendly materials.

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The presenter, 50, appeared on the Vanessa show on Wednesday where she gave an update on her benign brain tumour.

Prince William surprised local residents and pub goers in SE15 this afternoon as he visited The Prince of Peckham pub in south-east London.

JAMES SHARPE: A furious Aryna Sabalenka suffered a complete French Open meltdown as her hopes of winning a fifth Grand Slam were blown away by the Roland Garros wind.

She thought she'd finally found her happily-ever-after when, dressed in white, she walked down the aisle with a man she'd barely known for a week.

The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures

Timothy Hudson, 16, is accused of raping and murdering his stepsister , 18-year-old Anna Kepner, in November of last year on a Carnival cruise ship.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is "a compact developer PC" built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in memory. The Dev Box looks a little like a cartoon anvil or piano fell onto an Xbox Series X and flattened it. Its aluminum casing was designed "to double as a heatsink," and its preloaded version of Windows 11 Pro will include a "purposeful" set of developer-centric default settings and preinstalled tools. This is a follow-up of sorts to the Windows Dev Kit 2023, also known as "Project Volterra." This Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-powered PC was essentially the system board from a Surface Pro tablet stuffed into a plastic box, and it was introduced alongside Arm-native versions of several Microsoft developer tools. It helped to set the stage for the Arm-based flagship Surface devices that launched the next year, which benefitted from a better and faster x86-to-Arm code translation technology called Prism and a greater number of Arm-native third-party apps that didn't need to be translated in the first place. Microsoft didn't announce pricing or specific specs for the RTX Spark Dev Box, but you can probably expect it to cost quite a bit more than the $600 that Project Volterra did. Hopefully, Microsoft can keep the price at least somewhat lower than the $4,699 asking price for Nvidia's similarly specced DGX Spark box. On the software side, several developer-centric changes are coming to Windows 11, particularly for users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in "the coming months"; and something called Windows Developer Configurations that uses the WinGet tool to quickly set up "a distraction-free dev environment with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, WSL, PowerShell 7 and developer-optimized settings with one command on any Windows 11 device." Microsoft also introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), as "enterprise-grade sandboxed environments" that let AI agents like OpenClaw operate on Windows without getting unrestricted access to the whole system. In theory, MXC could let organizations enforce agent-specific limits, such as blocking access to personal accounts, separating work and personal data, or requiring permission before deleting files. The MXC GitHub repo also notes support for "multiple containment backends," meaning the same sandboxing concept could apply beyond AI agents to other plugins, tools, and workloads. Further reading: Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw

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Anthony Durkan is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on July 21.

The guidance is at the heart of controversy after footage emerged of Henry Nowak being handcuffed and his pleas for help ignored as he bled to death on the floor.

Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit] said the team behind the software had also introduced "several optimizations" to reduce its impact on computer battery life, after employees complained it was consuming so much data it was causing their home internet usage to spike. "While we remain confident in the privacy protections we put in place at launch, which went through several layers of risk review, we have heard your concerns about personal data on work devices, battery life, and wanting more control over when capturing happens," Kasriel said in the memo.

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The hotel became the focal point of protests last summer after a resident was charged and later convicted of sexual assault against a woman and a teenage girl

Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling have welcomed their second child together as they announced the happy news on Instagram on Wednesday. 

Family members of the victims want a fresh inquiry into one of the Soviet Union's most enduring mysteries.

Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything

Brad Pitt looked in complete shock as he watched the Isle of Man TT racing while his new movie starring Channing Tatum kicked off filming on Wednesday. 

Princess Catherine has taken to X to say both she and William had the family and friends of the deceased Royal Navy crew members in their 'hearts at this very difficult time'..

The man in his 20s was previously arrested on suspicion of 'sexual assault, stalking and coercive control' as he landed at a UK airport.