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The night times are the most difficult. It's been three months since my husband Dave died and, while the days are busy enough for me to push my thoughts and feelings aside, at night I'm alone.

Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201

Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to 9.86 million pounds ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023." Jisc, a membership organization that runs procurement for higher and further education establishments in the UK, said it had signed an agreement to purchase the new subscription licenses after consultation with members. In a procurement notice, it said institutions that use Oracle Java SE are required to purchase subscriptions. "The agreement includes the waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023," the notice said. The Java SE Universal Subscription was introduced in January 2023 to an outcry from licensing experts and analysts. It moved licensing of Java from a per-user basis to a per-employee basis. At the time, Oracle said it was "a simple, low-cost monthly subscription that includes Java SE Licensing and Support for use on Desktops, Servers or Cloud deployments." However, licensing advisors said early calculations to help some clients showed that the revamp might increase costs by up to ten times. Later, analysis from Gartner found the per-employee subscription model to be two to five times more expensive than the legacy model. "For large organizations, we expect the increase to be two to five times, depending on the number of employees an organization has," Nitish Tyagi, principal Gartner analyst, said in July 2024. "Please remember, Oracle defines employees as part-time, full-time, temporary, agents, contractors, as in whosoever supports internal business operations has to be licensed as per the new Java Universal SE Subscription model." Since the introduction of the new Oracle Java licensing model, user organizations have been strongly advised to move off Oracle Java and find open source alternatives for their software development and runtime environments. A survey of Oracle users found that only one in ten was likely to continue to stay with Oracle Java, in part as a result of the licensing changes.

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In a stunning series of air strikes, its forces attacked nuclear facilities and missile sites. They also took out three of Iran's most senior security chiefs and several of its top atomic scientists.

While the world continues to fixate on AI, there are still plenty of high performance computing workloads that need doing and a speedup to any one part can have a big impact, whether it be computational fluid dynamics, material analysis, or something else. …

Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

A poll, of 2,000 parents of school-aged children in the UK suggests around one in six (17 per cent) parents rated the toilets at their child's school as unclean.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial is underway on Friday in Manhattan federal court. He faces life in prison of convicted of sex-trafficking and racketeering.

With a fortnight to go, Left-wing protesters and some locals are already making their feelings clear about the glitzy three-day event taking place on their doorstep in La Serenissima.

The latest alert was issued by Andy Higginson, the chairman of JD Sports and the British Retail Consortium industry group.

After miscuing his second shot on the venue's par-five 12th, McIlroy couldn't resist launching his club in fury as he dropped to +8 - leaving him one shot behind the projected cut line.

Anker is recalling 1.15 million "PowerCore 10000" portable chargers due to fire and explosion risks linked to overheating lithium-ion batteries, with 19 incidents reported. "That includes two minor burn injuries and 11 reports of property damage amounting to over $60,700," reports CBS News. Consumers are urged to stop using the affected devices, check their serial numbers, and request a free replacement through Anker's website. From the report: According to a notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the lithium-ion battery inside certain "PowerCore 10000" made by Anker, a China-based electronics maker, can overheat. That can lead to the "melting of plastic components, smoke and fire hazards," Anker said in an announcement. The company added that it was conducting the recall "out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety of our customers." The recalled "PowerCore 10000" power banks have a model number of A1263. They were sold online at Anker's website -- as well as Amazon, eBay and Newegg -- between June 2016 and December 2022 for about $27 across the U.S., according to the recall notice. Consumers can check their serial number at Anker's site to determine whether their power bank is included in the recall.

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The judgment by the High Court said the 20 per cent VAT would have a 'disproportionately prejudicial effect' on pupils with special needs.

They announced their surprise separation 14 months ago in typically quirky manner, both dressed in tennis whites.

Apple's macOS 26 "Tahoe" introduces a new disk image format called ASIF, designed to dramatically improve performance over previous formats like UDRW and sparse bundles -- achieving near-native read/write speeds for virtual machines and general disk image use. The Eclectic Light Company reports: Apple provides few technical details, other than stating that the intrinsic structure of ASIF disk images doesn't depend on the host file system's capabilities, and their size on the host depends on the size of the data stored in the disk. In other words, they're a sparse file in APFS, and are flagged as such. [...] Conclusions: - Where possible, in macOS 26 Tahoe in particular, VMs should use ASIF disk images rather than RAW/UDRW. - Unless a sparse bundle is required (for example when it's hosted on a different file system such as that in a NAS), ASIF should be first choice for general purpose disk images in Tahoe. - It would be preferable for virtualizers to be able to call a proper API rather than a command tool. - Keep an eye on C-Command's DropDMG. I'm sure it will support ASIF disk images soon.

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Roaring her on as she reached the quarter-finals was not just her coach Nick Cavaday and agent Thomas Houchin, but a dashing former tennis prodigy close to her heart, Benjamin Heynold.

With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.…

A psychic who successfully predicted dozens of global events in 2024 has made a dire prediction about Meghan Markle 's future.

The devastated parents of a couple who are believed to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning while camping have paid emotional tributes to the pair.

Sarah Healey infamously boasted that Covid-era lockdowns meant she could see more of her children as well as giving her longer to ride her expensive exercise bike.

The incident, captured in a viral video shared on X , shows Krivka throwing the match-winning dart into the D20 and celebrating with teammate Karel Sedlacek at the Eissporthalle.