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The famous pop star, 56, who is also affectionately known as the 'Queen Of Christmas', continued her annual tradition with the new clip.

Ubuntu "is adopting the memory-safe Rust language," reports ZDNet, citing remarks at this year's Ubuntu Summit from Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of engineering for Ubuntu: . Seager said the engineering team is focused on replacing key system components with Rust-based alternatives to enhance safety and resilience, starting with Ubuntu 25.10. He stressed that resilience and memory safety, not just performance, are the principal drivers: "It's the enhanced resilience and safety that is more easily achieved with Rust ports that are most attractive to me". This move is echoed in Ubuntu's adoption of sudo-rs, the Rust implementation of sudo, with fallback and opt-out mechanisms for users who want to use the old-school sudo command. In addition to sudo-rs, Ubuntu 26.04 will use the Rust-based uutils/coreutils for Linux's default core utilities. This setup includes ls, cp, mv, and dozens of other basic Unix command-line tools. This Rust reimplementation aims for functional parity with GNU coreutils, with improved safety and maintainability. On the desktop front, Ubuntu 26.04 will also bring seamless TPM-backed full disk encryption. If this approach reminds you of Windows BitLocker or MacOS FileVault, it should. That's the idea. In other news, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth said "I'm a believer in the potential of Linux to deliver a desktop that could have wider and universal appeal." (Although he also thinks "the open-source community needs to understand that building desktops for people who aren't engineers is different. We need to understand that the 'simple and just works' is also really important.") Shuttleworth answered questions from Slashdot's readers in 2005 and 2012.

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With just weeks until the Budget, I have decided to take a tax-free lump sum from my pension.

Around 78,000 car owners are still refusing to pay ULEZ fines - the equivalent of three per cent of all cars in the zone.

To the outside world, it looked like I had it all. But that wasn't the whole truth. I've struggled with anxiety, on and off, since I was little.

He went from recording TikToks in his shed to winning the nation's hearts at Eurovision. But his Christianity has helped him deal with knockbacks along the way

Luke Freeland, 31, was arrested in August this year when he was seen selling cocaine in Springwood Drive where he immediately confessed.

The error at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex, saw Hadush Kebatu freed when he should have been handed to immigration officers.

If Rachel Reeves and her cohort bring in their suggested mansion tax, I will have to move out of my home.

A jilted man has finally won a battle to prove he is the biological father of his toddler daughter after his 'callous' former girlfriend fled to Latvia with their child and named another man as her father.

In the footage, filmed from a nearby window, a pickup truck can be seen driving down a residential street in Lewisham - in southeast London - as police officers and a police van follow behind.

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg has been exposed by a colleague for showing her 'true colours' when the cameras are off.

Slashdot reader joshuark shares this report from SFGate: The mystery object that struck a plane at 36,000 feet is likely not space debris, as some speculated, but rather a Silicon Valley test project gone wrong... WindBorne Systems, a Palo Alto startup that uses atmospheric balloons to collect weather data for AI-based forecast models,has come forward to say that they believe they may be responsible for the object that hit the windshield... "At 6am PT, we sent our preliminary investigation to both NTSB and FAA, and are working with both of them to investigate further," [WindBorne's CEO John Dean posted on social media...] WindBorne said the company has launched more than 4,000 balloons and that it coordinates with the Federal Aviation Administration for every launch. WindBorne "has conducted more than 4,000 launches," the company said in a statement, noting that they've always coordinated those launched with America's Federal Aviation Administration and filed aviation alerts for every launched balloon. Plus "The system is designed to be safe in the event of a midair collision... Our balloon is 2.4 pounds at launch and gets lighter throughout flight." We are working closely with the FAA on this matter. We immediately rolled out changes to minimize time spent between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. These changes are already live with immediate effect. Additionally, we are further accelerating our plans to use live flight data to autonomously avoid planes, even if the planes are at a non-standard altitude. We are also actively working on new hardware designs to further reduce impact force magnitude and concentration.

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Slashdot reader joshuark shares this report from SFGate: The mystery object that struck a plane at 36,000 feet is likely not space debris, as some speculated, but rather a Silicon Valley test project gone wrong... WindBorne Systems, a Palo Alto startup that uses atmospheric balloons to collect weather data for AI-based forecast models,has come forward to say that they believe they may be responsible for the object that hit the windshield... "At 6am PT, we sent our preliminary investigation to both NTSB and FAA, and are working with both of them to investigate further," [WindBorne's CEO John Dean posted on social media...] WindBorne said the company has launched more than 4,000 balloons and that it coordinates with the Federal Aviation Administration for every launch. WindBorne "has conducted more than 4,000 launches," the company said in a statement, noting that they've always coordinated those launched with America's Federal Aviation Administration and filed aviation alerts for every launched balloon. Plus "The system is designed to be safe in the event of a midair collision... Our balloon is 2.4 pounds at launch and gets lighter throughout flight." We are working closely with the FAA on this matter. We immediately rolled out changes to minimize time spent between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. These changes are already live with immediate effect. Additionally, we are further accelerating our plans to use live flight data to autonomously avoid planes, even if the planes are at a non-standard altitude. We are also actively working on new hardware designs to further reduce impact force magnitude and concentration.

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The actress, 35, recreated the look the Former First Lady wore on the day of President John F Kennedy's assassination.

Ex-criminology lecturer Pauline Al Said made headlines this year after her and her husband Mark Wheatcroft embarked on a daylight theft spree,

Earps, 32, dramatically hit out at the conduct of her former understudy, who replaced her in the Lionesses' first team before this summer's triumphant European Championships.

The man who died when a helicopter crashed in Doncaster this week has been named as 70-year-old Peter Smith.

One of the most stunning stars of the '80s, known for a wild range of roles, stepped out for a rare appearance on Wednesday - much to the delight of fans.

Photographs show Combs, 55, walking through the yard at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute during recreation time on Friday.