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We just can't go on like this. It is now clear that the cost of electricity in this country is out of control. We are walloping consumers and we are crippling our industry.

Minutes of a private meeting with councillors in Norfolk reveal Home Office officials refused to guarantee that the number of small-boat migrants housed there won't soar.

English argued that Harry's behaviour since Megxit was 'nasty' and 'vindictive' enough to warrant estrangement, and that William should not be judged if he chooses not to seek reconciliation.

Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update, according to Medical Daily. Of 5,659 calls to the Bronx call center during that period, about 1,700 calls connected but could not be heard by emergency operators. Some were rerouted to other call centers, but an estimated 400 human callers never got through. The potentially serious consequences of delayed response to emergencies are not yet known. The city did not notify the public and only released information when journalists inquired. How buggy software came to be installed on a running system is not yet known. The early-morning software update was pushed by Motorola, though exactly what it changed or why it caused the failure remains unknown. The city is still investigating whether the update was adequately tested and whether the same software release was deployed elsewhere.

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Ramming homes with vehicles has become the modus operandi in the tit-for-tat gang wars plaguing Middlesbrough.

Holly Willoughby is facing an uphill battle to attract viewers to her YouTube series Together, which is being billed as a 'home for real conversations'.

Oasis singer Liam Gallagher 's youngest son Gene, 25, took to the stage at the Reading music extravaganza with his band Villanelle.

Victor Valentine from St Pauls in Cheltenham was issued a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order on Monday despite not being convicted of any sexual offences.

Multiple cars have been rammed into people's houses, a man was stabbed two miles from that crash site and other cars have been set on fire. All this in the space of a week.

The skies over East Kent's chalk downs are vast. The villages above the white cliffs, with their brick-and-flint houses and low-steepled churches, are small-c conservative places.

The H98 collided with a building on Station Road in Hayes and Harlington at around 7 pm on Friday evening.

A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state regulators their biggest legal victory yet against the booming industry. "There are still related lawsuits pending across the country, and legal experts believe the matter will ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court," reports CNN. "But Friday's ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the largest courtroom victory to date for the states as they seek to regulate prediction sites." CNN reports: The 3-0 ruling came from a panel of three Trump-appointed judges. The case originated from Nevada, where regulators tried to shut down the Kalshi prediction site. [...] "The substance of the sports event contracts offered on Kalshi's (exchange) is sports gambling, regardless of whether Kalshi calls them swaps," the appeals panel wrote Friday, adding that "Kalshi's attempts to distinguish its sports event contracts from sportsbooks betting are unpersuasive." The judges also said it was "disingenuous" for Kalshi to argue in court that its products weren't sports-betting when it previously used that phrasing in marketing materials. Kalshi spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a statement: "Despite the Ninth Circuit's opinion, we still believe the CFTC regulations as written do not prohibit sports contracts, and in any event, the CFTC is working to clarify those regulations. We will be seeking further review." "It's the first ruling against Kalshi at the appellate level, and the opinion seemed to be pretty brutal for the company," said Dustin Gouker, an independent journalist who covers the prediction industry. "This gets us one step closer to an almost inevitable Supreme Court case on the legality of sports event contracts."

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Ministers have endorsed quango proposals to introduce 20mph or lower speed limits, encourage car sharing and make roads narrower on new housing estates.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial were sent home for the weekend as they continue to deliberate on her fate.

Haakon's new role follows the passing of his father - the cousin of King Charles III - who died after a brief stay in hospital today.

Sources claim the British firebrand was taken into custody at an airport in Louisiana, with inmate records indicating he is now at a detention center there, via TMZ .

Essex County Council said it will provide 'security operatives' in Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford after it was announced that the capacity of MPD Weathersfield would rise.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over a hundred tech companies -- including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft -- have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter -- which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial institutions and internet infrastructure firms -- calls for the adoption of new forms of cyber defense, while also encouraging governments at the "local, national, and international levels" to collaborate on security. "In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable," the letter states. "The companies and public services our communities depend on -- from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet -- are at risk." [...] The letter further suggests the mobilization of a "collective response," one in which "new partnerships" are formed "to raise security standards and find new solutions to emerging cyber threats." Several of the AI companies that have signed the letter are still actively developing ever more advanced AI models, highlighting their conflicted position. At the same time, they are also offering programs to use frontier AI models for defensive purposes, including OpenAI's Daybreak program, Anthropic's Mythos, and Microsoft's new cyber platform Perception.

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Wealthier households are seeing prices rise higher than poorer ones for the first time since March last year.

The Prime Minister had supported returning the sculptures, saying two years ago they should be shipped to Greece with 'no strings attached'.