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With Easter eggs already lining supermarket shelves across Britain, shoppers are snapping up chocolate treats for children - and plenty for themselves, too.

Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

After weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.…

Alan Ritchson was armed with a bodycam when he allegedly got into a fistfight with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Tennessee on Sunday.

Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time

Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.…

Venice, Barcelona and the Maldives may dominate Instagram feeds, but a trip to these much-loved spots often comes with two predictable consequences: sky-high prices and dreadful crowds.

A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong?

Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.…

The men's heptathlon at the World Athletics Indoor Championships is one of the most challenging events for athletes to partake in, and for one athlete the task became even more difficult.

Sameeksha Reddy, 27, had been carrying out a temperature check on the animal at the Tavarekoppa Lion and Safari Zoo in Karnataka, India , on Friday when tragedy struck.

The Daily Mail has learned that she is thrilled with the results. 'She is very happy that she made the move last year because she feels beautiful,' a source said.

Epic Games is cutting more than 1,000 jobs as usage of its flagship title, Fortnite, falls. "The layoffs aren't related to AI," CEO Tim Sweeney noted. Reuters reports: The cuts, along with more than $500 million in savings from lower contracting and marketing spending and unfilled roles would put the company in "a more stable place," Sweeney said in a note to employees. [...] "We've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic," Sweeney said, adding "market conditions today are the most extreme" since the early days of the company founded in 1991. The move marks Epic's second major round of layoffs in three years. In September 2023, the company cut about 830 jobs, or roughly 16% of its workforce. It was not immediately clear what percentage of staff would be impacted by Tuesday's announcement.

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A RAF hangar held an annual remembrance service to mark the largest single airborne operation in history.

Analysis shows that the average cost of renting a one-bedroom property in Colchester has risen by 37.63% since 2020.

Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much

Updated  Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…

Do you keep your ­savings with your High Street bank? Millions do even though other smaller banks and building societies offer just as much protection.

Jeff Brazier proved he is anything but a traditional grandfather in a racy new video. 

Emergency services rushed to the scene shortly after midday today following reports that a terraced building on King Street, in Oldham, had fallen down.

The former glamour model, 47, appeared on the sofa earlier this month (16 March) to set a few things straight in a tell-all chat.

Authorities said the alleged scheme unfolded quietly inside some of the world's most powerful tech companies, where the defendants held trusted roles giving them access to cutting-edge systems.

Last week Labour performed another U-turn as it ditched plans to force artists, musicians and publishers to object to their copyrighted work being used by Big Tech.

Humanoid robots are serving up meals and entertaining customers at a McDonald's in Shanghai - and they even wear the famous uniform.