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Brittany Balinski, who advocates a shoe-free or barefoot-shoe lifestyle, spends her time strolling around the UK capital - while entirely barefoot.

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales

Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.…

Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things

opinion  A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

CHELTENHAM BREAKFAST: Nobody wants to win at Cheltenham more than JP McManus and it will be fascinating to see how many times he hits the bullseye this week.

An Essex Police initiative, funded by cash seized from criminals, has paid for new cameras to help protect the county's most vulnerable rural areas.

An Essex Police initiative, funded by cash seized from criminals, has paid for new cameras to help protect the county's most vulnerable rural areas.

Treasury chief secretary James Murray warned the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) is simply being handed more money instead of controlling costs.

Paloma Faith has welcomed her first child with her boyfriend Stevie Thomas. 

New research has revealed the eight cheapest coastal regions on mainland Spain, with average prices ranging from £457 to £662 per person

Edward who celebrated his 62nd birthday today is one of the more staid members of the Royal Family , but he could have a more tumultuous year ahead with this book on the horizon.

Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure

Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.…

Vitoria Barreto had been with her friend Liliane Silva at Essex University's Wivenhoe campus before she disappeared

Vitoria Barreto had been with her friend Liliane Silva at Essex University's Wivenhoe campus before she disappeared

BBC bosses were 'desperate' to keep the 36-year-old Russian dancer amid the bloodbath because 'they know how popular she is with viewers.'

Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them

As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.…

Essex Police have issued an update

The Essex Build Expo brought together businesses from across the county's construction sector.

The Essex Build Expo brought together businesses from across the county's construction sector.

Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open-source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, roughly doubling the valuation since EQT took the company private in 2023. Reuters reports: EQT "has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The deliberations are at "an early stage and there is no certainty that EQT will proceed with "a transaction, the sources said. [...] The potential deal comes amid a broader selloff in software stocks, which has disrupted mergers and acquisitions activity. Investors are "concerned that new artificial intelligence tools could displace many existing software products, weighing on technology "valuations and making deals harder to price. Some investors, however, see Luxembourg-headquartered SUSE as a potential beneficiary of AI adoption, arguing that demand for enterprise-grade infrastructure software is likely to grow as companies build and deploy more AI applications. The company generates about $800 million in revenue and more than $250 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) and could fetch between $4 billion and $6 billion in a sale, the sources said.

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The Essex branch will close for refurbishment