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King Charles has reportedly received an olive branch from his son, 41, in the form of an invitation to the multi-sport event, held in Birmingham.

Only the most determined or those with nothing to lose remain in Ceuta. They number a few thousand now and refuse to budge from their little outpost, an encampment on a hill on the edge of the city.

This photo shows him and his wife Anna showing off their rings, together with his mother Olena and their baby son Artem and other siblings.

The Institute of Directors (IoD) said cost pressures and political upheaval had led to forecasts sagging among business leaders.

Andy Burnham has finally decided to go where previous Labour leaders have feared to tread. Namely the White Cliffs of Dover, to announce the French farce to stop the small boats will finally end.

Figures show 45 of 131 bosses earned more than £100,000 last year - with one in six raking in packages worth as much as the Prime Minister's salary of £170,000 or more.

Nicole Kidman, who was married for 19 years, was pictured grinning alongside private equity mogul Michael Reinstein in his £250,000 Ferrari 296 GTB.

Mr Lowe, whose hard-Right party proved a major thorn in Reform's side at the Makerfield by-election, said the two parties could find a 'common way forward'.

Harry Styles proved he is every inch the showman as he managed to rectify a stage fall while performing his Together, Together tour in Mexico this weekend.

Hundreds of people gathered to watch 20 pooches hit the waves for the event's tenth anniversary.

Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal: After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks one of the biggest shifts in the company's history and signals a stronger commitment to Linux as a first-class gaming platform. While GOG has offered DRM-free Linux game downloads since 2014, its Galaxy launcher has remained exclusive to Windows and macOS — until now. Although the company has not announced a release date, GOG says Linux has become a major area of investment, with development already underway... Unlike the web-based game downloads that Linux users already have access to, GOG Galaxy serves as a full-featured game management application. The launcher currently offers features including: — Automatic game installation and updates — Cloud save synchronization — Achievement tracking — Playtime statistics — Game library organization — Integrated storefront browsing — Friends lists and social features — Cross-platform launcher integration Today, Linux users typically access these capabilities through community projects such as Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, or Bottles. A native Galaxy client would provide an officially supported alternative with direct integration into GOG's ecosystem... For GOG, supporting Linux more fully aligns with its philosophy of giving users greater control over their purchased games. The article argues this news shows Linux growing in importance for game publishers. After the rapid adoption of Valve's Steam Deck, there's also been continuous improvements to Proton and Vulkan, increasing hardware compatibility, and native Linux game development efforts. "As more companies recognize the platform's growth, Linux users can expect broader support from game publishers and software developers alike."

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As Shadow business secretary, I watched on in horror as Labour MPs voted through the Act at the end of last year. It was clear to me that the Bill would be disastrous for the British economy...

Like many midlife women I've become slightly obsessed with trying to anti-age my eyes - and I think I might have actually found the secret and it's less than £30.

What if there was an accessory you could throw on with whatever you happened to be wearing and, shazam, instant high score on the styleometer?

In Europe, that will be Michael Portillo, with his Bradshaw's railway guide, fedora and wardrobe in all the colours of a sweet shop.

Baldwin said that following his role as McManus in 1995's The Usual Suspects, he found himself at a crossroads in his life and career.

Learn how PrinterLogic simplifies print management, eliminates server drawbacks, and improves the end-user printing experience.

Phil Collins' children were summoned to say their final goodbyes to the singer after he almost drank himself to death two years ago.

Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly. More than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers (US and UK) were surveyed for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator DE-CIX by market researchers Censuswide. But despite 96% of respondents claiming their enterprise networks are ready for cloud/AI loads, the average IT team still spends more than 11 hours each week resolving cloud connectivity problems: Other leading concerns included downtime or reliability issues (26%), latency or slow performance (28%), and security vulnerabilities/DDoS attacks (27%). Cost of connectivity, staff expertise and lack of visibility/control over data flows were also cited as major challenges... As a result, as indicated in the study, many businesses are now turning to private interconnection, which enables enterprises to connect directly to cloud providers over dedicated infrastructure rather than routing traffic across the public Internet. Designed to deliver lower latency, greater resilience, enhanced security and more predictable performance, private interconnection has become an increasingly important way of supporting modern cloud and AI workloads. Specifically, the data showed that 61% of companies are already using private connectivity to clouds, while another 31% are actively considering it... [And 71% of enterprises with 1000 or more employees] Only 8.62% of the smaller companies were spending 21 to 40 hours per week dealing with connectivity issues, while just 2.53% of the largest companies in the sample do. Summing up these findings, DE-CIX said that together they suggest direct interconnection is rapidly becoming a core component of enterprise cloud and AI infrastructure and a competitive advantage for companies, though optimising interconnection strategies clearly remains a pressing challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises... "Every AI application depends on data moving quickly, securely and predictably between users, clouds and AI infrastructure. Our research suggests that far too many enterprises are still spending valuable time trying to maintain that kind of connectivity, with more than a third spending between 11 and 20 hours per week, and just under one in 10 spending between 21 to 40 hours per week. This confirms what we already knew — that that network architecture can make or break AI adoption." Elsewhere The Register reports that cloud infrastructure services "grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure." According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure passed $143 billion in Q2, a year-on-year growth rate of 43 percent. This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size... "AI has, of course, driven most of that incremental growth, and we now see year-on-year growth rates of 165 percent for AI-specific cloud services...." And the top three global players continue to dominate the market, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud together accounting for 67 percent of all the cloud revenue during the quarter. That percentage has increased since the third quarter of last year, when the triumvirate made up 63 percent of enterprise cloud infra spending.

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