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Now, the label that Samantha Cameron started working on when she was resident at No 10 Downing Street , is closing down, and apparently no one saw it coming.

Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due

OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the course of five years to fuel Sam Altman's AI ambitions by providing five gigawatts of compute capacity.…

Police were called to Wigan Interchange, in the town centre, at around 5.20pm on Wednesday evening.

The Education Secretary, who is being viewed as No10's de facto candidate, has now been nominated by 116 MPs in the battle to become Labour's number two.

The senior Labour peer Maurice Glasman privately warned Keir Starmer 's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney against the appointment in January.

The last surviving member of David Bowie's Spiders from Mars band says the singer was a 'strange bloke who you could not discuss the football scores with'.

President Trump on Tuesday issued a memorandum directing the FDA and HHS to crack down on misleading direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads, requiring clearer disclosure of risks and ensuring that promotions don't overstate benefits or push costly drugs over generics. Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares an excerpt from the memorandum: The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall therefore take appropriate action to ensure transparency and accuracy in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising, including by increasing the amount of information regarding any risks associated with the use of any such prescription drug required to be provided in prescription drug advertisements, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The Commissioner of Food and Drugs shall take appropriate action to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's prescription drug advertising provisions, and otherwise ensure truthful and non-misleading information in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements. "Advertising dollars is a major avenue for pharmaceutical companies to influence news and attempt to shape public opinion," comments sinij. "Advertising was a major contributor to painkiller addiction, where networks were hesitant to cover early reports of addictiveness. It is likely directly contributing today to lack of critical coverage of Ozempic. It is just too big of a conflict of interest to allow to stand."

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The decision to mothball the facility in King's Cross, which had been due to open in 2027, will see 125 scientists and support staff laid off.

You might have been told your mobile network covers 99 per cent of the UK. But new data reveals the truth about how good the quality of that connection really is in your local area.

The Stroke Association says paramedics know which hospitals have stroke clinics and patients who seek help via 999 are therefore more likely to receive specialist treatment.

The political world was left stunned Wednesday when influential conservative Charlie Kirk was murdered onstage at an event at Utah Valley University.

The Ladies Of London star now declares she will never return to live in the capital, citing what she calls an epidemic of street crime. 'I'm very sad by what's going on in England right now,' she says.

Are we teetering on the edge of World War Three after the brazen incursion by Russia's drones into our ally Poland's airspace?

Oracle shares had their best day since 1992, skyrocketing 36% and adding $244 billion in market value as surging AI-driven cloud demand pushed the company toward a $1 trillion valuation. The surge boosted founder Larry Ellison's fortune by $100 billion, making him the new world's wealthiest person. CNBC reports: The company said Tuesday after the bell that it has $455 billion in remaining performance obligations, up 359% from a year earlier. "This is a very historic kind of print right here from Oracle with this backlog," Ben Reitzes, technology research head at Melius Research, told CNBC's "Closing Bell: Overtime" on Tuesday. "The Street was looking for about $180 billion in RPO and they're talking about a number that is a multiple of that. That is astounding." Oracle now sees $18 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in fiscal 2026, with the company calling for the annual sum to reach $32 billion, $73 billion, $114 billion and $144 billion over the subsequent four years. Other analysts were left "blown away" and "in shock." D.A. Davidson's Gil Luria called it "absolutely staggering on CNBC's "Fast Money." Wells Fargo analysts said it was a "momentous confirmation" of the AI trade. Oracle's cloud revenue projections overshadowed an otherwise lackluster fiscal first-quarter report in which the company missed expectations on the top and bottom lines. The company had earnings of an adjusted $1.47 per share for the quarter, just below the $1.48 per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. Revenue for the first quarter came in at $14.93 billion, missing the $15.04 billion expected.

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To witness the outcry after last week's public appearance by the Princess of Wales, you might have thought that there was an abdication on the cards. But no, she had simply lightened her hair.

Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else

Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned out to be related to a year-old bug.…

Well that was all a bit sticky. Sir Keir Starmer was asked by Kemi Badenoch if he had 'full confidence' in Peter Mandelson.

We went through two hours of Senate hearings so you didn't have to

Video  As the Trump administration pushes to loosen federal rules on AI, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to give AI developers a two-year waiver from certain regulations, renewable for up to a decade.…

Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 29 at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after returning from Ireland.

As a Cotswold resident for the past 15 years, I am quite sick of the Sweaty Betty crowd, clutching their turmeric oat milk lattes on their way to goat yoga.