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Riots erupted outside the Ministry of Transport, with protesters demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and transport minister Oscar Puente.

Detectives have been trying to track down two men after the girl reported being assaulted in a park in Bethnal Green on August 1, 2024.

Two people have been arrested after a night-time Colchester operation as well as shops caught selling alcohol to underage cadets.

Two people have been arrested after a night-time Colchester operation as well as shops caught selling alcohol to underage cadets.

The presenter, 51, took over the Breakfast Show in July from Scott Mills, who was sacked in March.

Kelly Brook branded her ex-fiance Jason Statham a 'cliche' because he 'changed' after he began receiving offers for tough guy Hollywood roles.

The owner of a ticket claiming the prize was bought in Greater Manchester.

The Chancellor unveiled the proposed expansion of a Net Zero 'carbon charge' on refined oil products in yesterday's Budget, which also threatens to push up prices at the pumps for drivers.

The professional dancer reposted a number of pointed comments on cheating to her Instagram stories on Wednesday evening, to her 341,000 followers.

It was once thought that plastic surgery or cosmetic tweakments were reserved solely for women. But fast forward to 2026 and a growing number of famous men are embracing changes to their face.

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The Britain's Got Talent star, 55, looked incredible in a white minidress as she took inspiration from Sharon's leg-crossing scene in the 1992 erotic thriller.

Rebecca Waterfall previously conned bosses out of more than £10,000 while working at a Cheshire travel agency, spending the cash on holidays for friends to boost her popularity.

Owners of a popular pumpkin patch have spoken of their heartbreak after visitors deliberately smashed hundreds of pumpkins

Owners of a popular pumpkin patch have spoken of their heartbreak after visitors deliberately smashed hundreds of pumpkins

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Antoine de Massy's body was discovered behind the New National Museum along the Boulevard du Larvotto in Monaco.

'We are deeply saddened that due to constantly rising costs, we have had to make this decision'

by George Whittaker

The KDE Project has released KDE Plasma 6.8.2, delivering another round of stability improvements for its Wayland-based Linux desktop environment. Released on October 27, 2026, the update arrives one week after Plasma 6.8.1 and two weeks after the anniversary release of Plasma 6.8, which marked 30 years since the KDE project's founding.

This second maintenance release concentrates on correcting regressions discovered after the initial rollout. The largest collection of changes targets KWin, KDE's window manager and Wayland compositor, with fixes involving multi-GPU synchronization, display handling, pointer constraints, color pipelines, and window stacking. Additional improvements address disappearing desktop icons, application launcher behavior, remote desktop sessions, screen recording, accessibility, and system monitoring.

Although Plasma 6.8.2 does not introduce major new desktop features, its corrections are particularly important because Plasma 6.8 completed KDE's transition away from native X11 desktop sessions. With Wayland now serving as Plasma's display foundation, improvements to KWin and its supporting components directly affect the reliability of the entire desktop environment.

KDE Continues Stabilizing Its Anniversary Release

KDE Plasma 6.8 arrived on October 14, 2026, coinciding with the project's 30th anniversary. The release introduced significant desktop changes, including the retirement of native X11 sessions, additional HDR improvements, expanded remote desktop capabilities, NVIDIA graphics optimizations, and further development of KDE's Union theming engine.

The transition represented an important architectural milestone, but major desktop releases frequently expose problems that were not encountered during development or beta testing. Linux desktops must operate across numerous combinations of graphics hardware, display configurations, drivers, input devices, and applications. Even extensive testing cannot always reproduce every environment used by the wider community.

KDE acknowledged this challenge during the development cycle following Plasma 6.8, noting that users had discovered regressions that were not reported during the beta period. Contributors responded with a substantial collection of fixes, many of which have now reached the stable 6.8 branch through its first two maintenance releases.

Plasma 6.8.2 continues that stabilization effort. Rather than changing the desktop's overall direction, it improves the reliability of existing functionality and addresses issues that could affect everyday workflows. The release includes corrections across KWin, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, Discover, KRDP, KPipeWire, and several other components.

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Reddit is overhauling its homepage with separate "For You" and "Following" feeds, with the former combining posts from subscribed communities and algorithmic recommendations based on users' interests and activity. The Verge reports: It's a big shift for the platform, but not an entirely surprising one, as Reddit hasn't been shy about wanting to switch up the homepage. Earlier this year, the company announced it would be deprecating r/all, which surfaced posts that were popular across the platform, as part of its "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization." "This new feed experience is a first step in helping drive discovery that leads to something novel and relevant -- an idea, a connection, a unique perspective, or even a new interest," Reddit says. "A more human internet is not just something you sit back and watch, it is something you find value in and want to participate in."

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