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Lorna Luxe has revealed a sweet nod to her late husband John Andrews while sharing a glimpse of her lavish new 'temporary' home on Saturday. 

"The April 1st timing should have been your first clue," writes Gadget Review. TechSpot's false story was just an April Fool's prank — although Gadget Review thinks it's still funny how "something about this particular piece of satire felt uncomfortably plausible." Maybe it's because AMD stock sits around $196 while Intel hovers near $41, or perhaps it's the poetic justice of the underdog finally eating the giant. The semiconductor world has witnessed stranger reversals, but none quite this dramatic. Your gaming rig's CPU battle represents decades of corporate warfare, legal grudges, and technological leapfrogging that makes Game of Thrones look like a friendly board game. Picture this: In 1975, AMD reverse-engineered Intel's 8080 processor, creating the Am9080 clone. The audacity was breathtaking — AMD spent 50 cents per chip to manufacture something they sold for $700. That's a 1,400% markup on borrowed technology, making today's GPU prices look reasonable. This relationship evolved from copying to partnership to bitter rivalry. The companies signed second-sourcing deals in the late 1970s, with AMD becoming Intel's official backup supplier. Then came the lawsuits. AMD sued Intel for antitrust violations in 2005, eventually settling for $1.25 billion in 2009. That settlement money helped fund the Ryzen revolution that's currently eating Intel's lunch. The historical irony runs deeper than your typical tech rivalry. AMD literally started as Intel's shadow, creating chips by studying Intel's designs under microscopes. Today, Intel engineers probably study AMD's Zen architecture the same way... This April Fool's joke works because it captures something true about power shifts in technology. The site TipRanks notes that both companies saw their stock price rise Wednesday, though that might not be related to the false article. "Positive analyst coverage from Wells Fargo could be acting as a catalyst for AMD stock today. Intel also announced plans to buy back its 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Apollo Global Management APO."

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They have lost the positive exemplars once provided by rapidly disappearing youth clubs and male volunteers in sports and leisure activities, the research found. Pictured: File photo

Labour is considering sending the 65,000-ton HMS Prince of Wales to join the event on July 4, which will mark 250 years since America defeated Britain in 1776.

Amazon "must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island," reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The union formed in 2022, according to the article, and "has been seeking to negotiate with Amazon over pay, working conditions and other matters." The NLRB said in its ruling that Amazon "has engaged in unfair labor practices" by refusing to bargain with the labor group or to recognize its legitimacy... Amazon said on Thursday it disagreed with the NLRB's ruling. "Representatives of the NLRB improperly influenced this election," the company said in a statement, suggesting it planned to appeal. "We're confident an unbiased court will overturn the original certification, and we look forward to the opportunity for our team to fairly voice their opinions." An appeal would likely preclude Amazon from having to comply with the NLRB's order while it makes its way through the courts... Related to the Staten Island case, Amazon has argued that the NLRB itself is unconstitutional and sued to block the agency from ruling on it. The matter is still pending. After forming independently, that union "has since aligned with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters," the article points out. The Teamsters represent 1.3 million American workers, according to a statement they issued this week, which also includes this quote from the president of Amazon Labor Union-e Local 1. "We are making history at Amazon, and we are doing it through undiluted worker power..." Their statement adds that the ruling "came only one day after the union announced another historic victory that upheld Amazon Teamsters' right to strike."

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Backshall exclaims with glee as the orca harmoniously glide through the choppy waves more than 500 miles away from their home in Scotland.

Rachael Leigh Cook had fans of 90s rom-coms doing a double take when she made a rare appearance on Friday - looking as though she'd discovered the secret to eternal youth.

Julien Jourdain, owner of Bistro on the Quay in Ipswich, alleged the pair had ordered a bottle of wine, two starters and two mains on April Fools Day, claiming they left without paying their £195 bill.

Long-haired looks have proven immensely popular on the red carpet recently, with A-listers such as Demi Moore and Brooke Shields showing off their lengthy locks.

Named after a hero of the First World War, the pub survived flooding and many other disasters before being claimed by a fire

Maidenhead United boss Ryan Peters was sent off after he allegedly heatbutted Slough Town coach Scott Davis during a confrontation after a last-minute equaliser in the National League South tie.

The best-selling author, 65, who has been in a relationship with comedian Ricky Gervais for over 40 years, revealed she had been diagnosed with the disease in March following a routine mammogram.

Yasmine Mattar, 26, from Florida, believes that she has uncovered a simple method to figure out early on if a romance is going to last long-term or be destructive down the line.

Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code and created their own product, Collabora Online. But this week Meeks blogged about even more changes, writing that the Document Foundation (the nonprofit behind LibreOffice) "has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years." Meeks argues the ejections were "based on unproven legal concerns and guilt by association." This includes seven of the top ten core committers of all time (excluding release engineers) currently working for Collabora Productivity. The move is the culmination of TDF losing a large number of founders from membership over the last few years with: Thorsten Behrens, Jan 'Kendy' Holesovsky, Rene Engelhard, Caolan McNamara, Michael Meeks, Cor Nouws and Italo Vignoli no longer members. Of the remaining active founders, three of the last four are paid TDF staff (of whom none are programming on the core code). The blog It's FOSS calls it "LibreOffice Drama." They've confirmed the removals happened, also noting recently adopted Community Bylaws requiring members to step down if they're affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with the Foundation. But The Documentation Foundation "also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing 'when the time comes.'" Collabora's Meeks adds in his blog post that there's "bold and ongoing plans to create an entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office for users that is smoother, more user friendly, and less feature dense than our Classic product (which will continue to be supported for years for our partners). This gives a chance to innovate faster in a separate place on a smaller, more focused code-base with fewer build configurations, much less legacy, no Java, no database, web-based toolkit and more. We are excited to get executing on that. To make this process easier, and to put to bed complaints about having our distro branches in TDF gerrit [for code review], and to move to self-hosted FOSS tooling we are launching our own gerrit to host our existing branch of core... We will continue to make contributions to LibreOffice where that makes sense (if we are welcome to), but it clearly no longer makes much sense to continue investing heavily in building what remains of TDF's community and product for them — while being excluded from its governance. In this regard, we seem to be back where we were fifteen years ago.

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For no reason, Alice suddenly launched herself at Missy, clamping her jaws around her neck, biting me by accident in the process.

Vim Maru, chief executive of Barclays UK, said the bank wanted to spread its 'footprint' through a branch expansion - and does not want customers to get 'stuck in some chatbot'.

Five are thought to have mistakenly abandoned the bag outside the house of the mayor (pictured) in Clapham, south London, at about 9.30pm on Tuesday.

The biggest military parachute jump in the UK for more than 10 years has shown how the British Army and Royal Air Force can work together in the air.

Aiden Smith took over the shop in Brightlingsea ten years ago with a clear vision: to preserve the heritage of a traditional butcher

The biggest military parachute jump in the UK for more than 10 years has shown how the British Army and Royal Air Force can work together in the air.