Aggregator

According to the Wall Street Journal, the videogame giant Electronic Arts is nearing a $50 billion deal to go private. A group of investors, including private-equity firms Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, may announce a deal for Electronic Arts as soon as next week. The report says it "would likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time." Developing...

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

When Sacha Baron Cohen was finalising his divorce from wife Isla Fisher, he hired expensive and rottweiler-esque PR gurus to ensure that his squeaky-clean reputation remained fully intact.

PC Faizaan Najeeb, 24, had attended a single vehicle collision in the town of Raunds, Northamptonshire, at about 12.35pm on September 19. Pictured: File photo

Tupac Shakur's godmother and convicted cop killer Assata Shakur - who escaped jail and fled to Cuba in 1979  -  has died aged 78.

David Beckham's football agent pal, 49, took to his Instagram on Friday with a gushing post after popping the question to girlfriend Jessica Clarke.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A team of suspected Chinese hackers has infiltrated US software developers and law firms in a sophisticated campaign to collect intelligence that could help Beijing in its ongoing trade fight with Washington, cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hackers have been rampant in recent weeks, hitting the cloud-computing firms that numerous American companies rely on to store key data, Mandiant, which is owned by Google, said. In a sign of how important China's hacking army is in the race for tech supremacy, the hackers have also stolen US tech firms' proprietary software and used it to find new vulnerabilities to burrow deeper into networks, according to Mandiant. [...] In some cases, the hackers have lurked undetected in the US corporate networks for over a year, quietly collecting intelligence, Mandiant said. The disclosure comes after the Trump administration escalated America's trade war with China this spring by slapping unprecedented tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States. The tit-for-tat tariffs set off a scramble in both governments to understand each other's positions. Mandiant analysts said the fallout from the breaches -- the task of kicking out the hackers and assessing the damage -- could last many months. They described it as a milestone hack, comparable in severity and sophistication to Russia's use of SolarWinds software to infiltrate US government agencies in 2020.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Menzies Campbell was in the noble tradition of Scottish Liberalism. In tone, he belonged to an earlier political age, one in which principles were held fiercely.

The Borat actor, 53, split from actress Isla Fisher, 49, at the end of 2023 after 14 years of marriage and welcoming three children together.

EXCLUSIVE: The model, 37, was married to TV presenter Paddy for 11 years before they split for good in 2022.

With Amber rounding out the cast, a surprisingly large amount of the celebrities on this year's Strictly already have prior dance experience.

He has been found guilty of multiple sexual offences

Tributes have been paid to a British holidaymaker found dead in the woods near a Spanish holiday resort after it was confirmed the body was his.

John McDonnell and Apsana Begum had the whip suspended in July last year after they voted against the Government on the King's speech, along with five of their colleagues.

Residents would be moved into alternative accommodation while development takes place

The game is still in mourning after Jota was tragically killed alongside his brother, Andre Silva, in a car accident on July 3 when travelling through northern Spain.

Amazon Fire TV devices will run the company's Linux-based Vega OS starting in 2025, according to a job listing that Amazon subsequently edited after press inquiries. The software development manager position originally sought someone to oversee "the Vega OS experience" and "the dedicated Prime Video app on Vega OS" launching in 2025. Amazon removed references to Vega after a reporter contacted the company for comment. The proprietary OS already powers the Echo Hub, Echo Show 5 third generation, and Echo Spot, running on Linux kernel 5.16 according to Amazon's source code notices. Current Fire TV devices won't receive Vega updates. The shift from Android would eliminate Google's influence over Amazon's streaming hardware business and remove smartphone code unnecessary for TV devices.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Oversight efforts have been rebuffed, says Democratic report, 'putting Americans' personal data at risk'

A trio of federal executive agencies targeted by DOGE cost-cutters either don't know or won't say what the group is doing inside their operations, according to a Senate investigation that concludes DOGE is acting without legal authority or oversight.…

The plans will come in phases, with the first application expected next year

The 44-year-old Grand Slam Champion 'unveiled' a 'beautiful' box of the Duchess's 2024 Napa Valley Rose, saying she 'can't wait' to crack a bottle open.

It is a now well-known fact in the datacenters of the world, which are trying to cram ten pounds of power usage into a five pound bit barn bag, that liquid cooling is an absolute necessity for the density of high performance computing systems to be increased to drive down latency between components and therefore drive up performance. …

Microsoft And Corintis Champion Microfluidics Cooling Pioneered By IBM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.