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Donald Trump is considering sending 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give Washington more military options even as ​the president ​weighs peace talks with ‌Tehran.

Kemi Badenoch was joined by some of Britain's top business chiefs in attacking the Chancellor who is raking in soaring tax receipts from higher prices at the pumps.

Which? compared the price of 245 branded items, ranging from Pampers nappies and Carex handwash to McCain potato wedges and Mr Kipling cakes.

There is no particular theme this week, except that I have noticed many of these contributors are providing "customized" email addresses. This is a practice which I too have followed, to detect who is selling my email address to spammers. I would use a consistent login id for many web sites, and a decent password generated by a mental algorithm, with a unique email address for each site. It worked great until some website wanted to know specifically what "my" email address is, and I couldn't remotely remember which of 300 variant email addresses I had signed up for their services with.

First up, Martin is traveling by air. "I have heard it's so beautiful this time of year, so I look forward to visit @arrCity_SLPH." Martin helpfully explains "First sentence is in Danish: Your SAS-booking has been confirmed."

 

Dr. Bob Bobbers, PhD would rather drive. "Somehow I'm projected to arrive 20 minutes ago. I had started in one timezone and was finishing in the next timezone to the east, and when I had connectivity, the ETA was right, but somehow seems to have stopped computing correctly when I went offline."

 

Caleb B. thinks Amazon's AI-generated coding practices don't compute. "I've been working with my kid a lot with her math homework explaining that the alligator eats the bigger number. I think someone at Amazon needs to learn it too."

 

Andrew knows that there's a difference between > and ⋝. "Tried to upload my insurance card back and front. Apparently I cannot please the webserver."

 

And finally, Daniel D. has a timely reminder that we should all bear in mind so that nobody else has to: "Set your country, set your time zone and they should match. Google thinks otherwise, offering only one option (Czechia) for the selected country (Slovakia). The timezone is correct as the whole Central Europe uses the same time (CET). But the basic rule of usability is: Don't make me think!"

 

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An ex-police officer has been spared jail for entering a relationship with a vulnerable victim and using a national police database without permission.

An ex-police officer has been spared jail for entering a relationship with a vulnerable victim and using a national police database without permission.

Ruben Saraiva, who grew up in Reading, Berkshire, from the age of four, was disguised as a delivery driver when he strolled into a Balkan seaside resort owned by Ardian Nikulaj and blasted him six times.

He admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a woman, who was a victim of domestic abuse that he met during the course of his duties.

At a campaign launch yesterday, the Reform UK leader promised local policies, including changes to council tax.

At a campaign launch yesterday, the Reform UK leader promised local policies, including changes to council tax.

The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat

On Call  Every week is special in its own way, and The Register celebrates that fact by using Friday mornings to deliver a fresh installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your memories of managing IT messes someone else made.…

Bride-to-be Venezuela Fury stunned in a gold metallic dress and tiara as she threw a wild hen do party with her closest friends and family at Morecambe Football Club on Thursday.

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is celebrated for her impeccable sense of style, and nowhere is this more evident than in her carefully curated accessories - particularly her footwear.

The Royal Navy has been forced to borrow a German frigate after 'running out of ships' - as Donald Trump mocked Britain's aircraft carriers as 'toys'.

Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code

Computer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.…

The crossbow maniac carried out his attack on the Hunt family just 13 days after Louise had ended their 18-month relationship.

Some 61,331 devices were snatched throughout 2025 - equivalent to 1,179 a week or 168 a day, according to analysis of the Metropolitan Police's crime dashboard data.

Plans also include money for Canvey Lake and updating the high street

CERN has confirmed it will host an expanded version of Open Research Europe, the EU-backed fee-free open access publishing platform that works to "keep knowledge in public hands." Research Professional News reports: A little over a year ago, 10 European research organizations announced that they would add their support to Open Research Europe, to broaden eligibility beyond only those researchers funded by the EU research program. Earlier this year, RPN reported that this group had expanded further and that Cern was set to host the broadened version of ORE, currently provided by the publisher F1000. On March 26, Cern itself finally announced the news, saying it will "provide the technical and operational infrastructure" for the broader version. It said this will build on its "longstanding experience in developing and maintaining open science infrastructures and community-governed services." [...] In its own announcement, the Commission said ORE will have a budget of 17 million euros for 2026-31, with the EU providing 10 million euros. Since it launched five years ago, ORE has published more than 1,200 articles. Cern said the platform is "expected to support a growing number of research outputs each year." Last month, experts told RPN they thought uptake of the increased eligibility will depend on how the newly participating national organizations engage with their communities. Eleven members of Science Europe, a group of major research funding and performing organizations, are part of the expansion.

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Taylor Swift made a rare red carpet appearance on Thursday night as she joined the likes of Miley Cyrus and Nicole Scherzinger at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles.