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Failing NHS trusts could be merged or split and their bosses fired under Government plans to tackle 'chronic underperformance'.

The strange weather over the last few weeks might be giving many Brits whiplash. But these unusual fluctuations have provided the 'ideal' conditions for cherry blossoms, experts reveal.

Samantha Curtis crossed into the opposite carriageway and collided head on with a car in which Yvonne Bruce was a passanger.

The Sun's alignment with Saturn in Aries presents a moment of honest reckoning. What we face today has more significance than it might first appear.

Researchers found the strongest benefits were seen in those with little prior experience in the kitchen.

The legislation will allow ministers to quickly transfer swathes of European Union law to the statute book - prompting fresh accusations that Labour is reversing Brexit by stealth.

Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles

Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company’s annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.…

The sighting comes shortly after her Dukes of Hazzard co-stars publicly sent their support to Bach due to her health woes, with former co-star Ben Jones first revealing what had sent her to the hospital.

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's upcoming dark new film The Drama has been condemned by a grieving Columbine victim's father.

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looks less like an incremental update and more like one of Wine's most important upgrades in years. From the report: The numbers are wild. In developer benchmarks, Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS. As well, Call of Duty: Black Ops I is now actually playable on Linux, too. Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games. The games that benefit most from NTSYNC are the ones that were struggling before, such as titles with heavy multi-threaded workloads where the synchronization overhead was a genuine bottleneck. For those games, the difference is night and day. And unlike fsync, NTSYNC is in the mainline kernel, meaning you don't need any custom patches or out-of-tree modules for it work. Any distro shipping kernel 6.14 or later, which at this point includes Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04, and more recent releases, will support it. Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free. All of this is what makes NTSYNC such a big deal, as it's not simply a run-of-the-mill performance patch. Instead, it's something much bigger: this is the first time Wine's synchronization has been correct at the kernel level, implemented in the mainline Linux kernel, and available to everyone without jumping through hoops.

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Boyan Chowdhury (pictured), who was a founding member of the indie rock band, said the attack happened in the Wavetree area of Liverpool on Saturday afternoon.

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

interview  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

In 2024, I got a new patio laid but, just a year later, some of the slabs started to move. The tradesman fixed it once but now the slabs are sliding again

My husband passed away in November last year. He held three separate pensions with Prudential (now part of M&G) totalling more than £400,000.

LEWIS STEELE: Mohamed Salah has thanked Liverpool for the best time of his life after announcing he will leave the club at the end of the season.

Unemployment rates are rising. Salaries are stagnating. The economy is flatlining - and businesses are turning to AI to cut costs. But there is one sector where work is booming.

Investigators believe the drugs would have been worth around £80 million on the streets if cut and sold in the UK

On Tuesday police shared with the Daily Mail that they would not be charging the Reacher actor in the Sunday altercation with a neighbor named Ronnie Taylor.

If you log into one of the main investment platforms to set up a stocks and shares Isa, you'll find as many as 8,000 funds, shares and trusts to choose from.

In his nine-year spell, the 33-year-old provided the Reds with no fewer than 255 moments of joy, elation and delight to help steer the club to silverware at home and abroad.