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Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet

Krzysztof Orzechowski started the blaze on a residential street in Slough, Berkshire, at 4am on March 9 while a young family were fast asleep at home.

Apple has begun rolling out ads in Apple Maps, with sponsored businesses appearing at the top of search results and in the "suggested places" section for users in the U.S. and Canada. Apple says the ads can be based on approximate location, search terms, or the area of the map being viewed, but are not tied to users' Apple Accounts and personal data remains on-device. 9to5Mac reports: Ads appear just like every other business listing, except they have a small blue badge that says 'Ad.' You can see examples of ads [embedded in the article]. Like Apple's ads policy with other services, the company touts user privacy protections for ads in Maps. Per Apple Newsroom: "Ads on Maps builds on Apple's broader privacy-first approach to advertising, and maintains the same privacy protections Maps users enjoy today. A user's location and the ads they see and interact with in Maps are not associated with a user's Apple Account. Personal data stays on a user's device, is not collected or stored by Apple, and is not shared with third parties."

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K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years

Andy Burnham has chosen to stand up to Vladimir Putin. And Putin is already plotting his revenge.

The world's largest manta ray was spotted lurking off one of America's busiest beaches, carrying a passenger as it hunted for food.

On Wednesday morning the track held the top spot on the Apple Music: Top 100 USA, with several others making the top 10, including 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream and I Will Always Love You.

Carse, 31, was seen in handcuffs in footage which circulated online after he was arrested - then de-arrested - on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly following the incident.

The viral 'no-make-up' make-up has sold more than two million bottles... so I put it to the test.

I now rejoice when my trains are late, which is often. You might even have seen me thrusting a clenched fist into the air as my belated so-called express crawls into the stations.

Rupert Grint has become the subject of fierce online vitriol from anti-JK Rowling activists after it was announced he will reprise his Ron Weasley role.

Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon

Sarah Roberts, 52, allowed tens of thousands of pounds to be moved into her bank account by her husband, Hizekiah Roberts, 49, and her 29-year-old son John Parker.

Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. "The employee worked at Amazon's VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same facility as LAS8, where Amazon operates its print-on-demand business," reports 404 Media. "Both operations are part of a larger complex of Amazon facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada." Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an excerpt from the report: [...] What does it look like when they cut the spines off the books? It's a machine people operate. Each of these machines is just like a little workstation, and there'll be one person at each of these stations. It's really safe because it has a little cover and it has a little area where you slide the book into, remove your fingers from the area, and then you press a button, and it just comes down and slices it. And then you remove the books after the blade is gone. After they cut the spines they have these kind of library carts, kind of like how you would stack books, but instead, it's a stacks of paper and little cardboard things to separate -- I'm guessing -- the different books. I saw the pages being thrown in a shuttle after they were scanned. We were walking by and we went over to one of the shuttles and looked into it because we could tell they were throwing the old books in it or the cut books in it, and it's just a bunch of loose paper like just sheets thrown in there. What do you think about Amazon doing this? At first what they were telling people is that it was for Kindles, but I just didn't believe that. I instantly was like, I don't think that's how they do it because of publication rights and stuff, copyright and everything. Then I saw it was for AI. I don't like it only because I wish I could take these books. There's so much knowledge and so much stuff in them and some of them look like they might be rare, and I've heard that they order rare books, and that's why I say some of these are so obscure. I definitely don't like the idea that they can't be reused or anything like that afterwards. They're reducing the amount of available copies for other people.

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Jamie O'Brien, 33, pleaded guilty to assaulting Cordina, but the fighter denied assaulting him back.

Fred Wortman was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 for the attempted murder of Staci Jones.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy 's murder trial has finished hearing all the evidence from the prosecution and defense as they prepare to hear closing arguments.

The serene, oak-lined cemetery is where the legendary singer will be laid to rest beside her devoted husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean.

'I count my lucky stars that I called Dolly my friend,' Witherspoon wrote after Parton died aged 80 Tuesday following a secret cancer battle.

Events across Essex have been cancelled due to forecast high winds and storms this week.