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Ozzy Osbourne's adopted son Elliot is living a quiet life as an IT technician in New Zealand after he was noticeably left out of his family's tribute to the rockstar following his death.

Keith Smith, 71, and his wife Julie, 68, were left frustrated by a row of cypress trees belonging to David Hunter and Niena Hunter Mistry in the Edinburgh suburb of Prestonfield.

Experts, influencers and fitness trackers have long touted 10,000 steps a day as the 'perfect' number to ward off obesity, cancer and early death. However, a new study suggests the number might be lower.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed growing internal unease at the company Thursday morning in a company-wide memo that acknowledged the "uncertainty and seeming incongruence" of conducting layoffs while achieving record profits and AI investments. The tech giant has eliminated more than 15,000 positions in 2025, including 9,000 cuts in early July alone, marking one of the most aggressive periods of job reductions in Microsoft's history. Nadella described this as the "enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value," noting that Microsoft is thriving by "every objective measure" with strong market performance and record capital investments. "Progress isn't linear. It's dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before," he added. Microsoft President Brad Smith said that an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.

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This is the moment a gang of brazen thieves use an angle grinder to steal a scooter from the car park of IKEA in Croydon, South London, as helpless security watch on.

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Pedro Pascal has been known to get along particularly well with his costars - so well, in fact that people typically assume he's dating them.

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work

Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…

Jazzy, the stepdaughter of the late Marquess of Bute, shared snippets from the ultra-exclusive holiday on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday.

Following powerful summer thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, the picturesque Passiria Valley in northern Italy was flooded after over 100mm of rain fell in just a few hours.

Mr Farage has apologised after claiming officers had 'bussed' people to the protest

Seemingly harmless rickshaw bikes ferrying tourists around have become a serious concern for Transport for London (TfL) over rip-off prices.

A Chinese inventor with no medical training is charging cancer patients $20,000 to inject highly concentrated chlorine dioxide -- a toxic bleach solution -- directly into their tumors, and is working with a former pharmaceutical executive to bring the unproven treatment to the United States, Wired reports. Xuewu Liu uses injections containing 20,000 parts per million of chlorine dioxide, significantly higher than the 3,000 ppm concentrations typically found in oral bleach solutions peddled by pseudoscience promoters. One patient told WIRED her tumor grew faster after Liu's injections and suspects the treatment caused her cancer to spread to her skin.

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David Geffen's estranged husband claims in a lawsuit that while they were in a relationship, his billionaire beau forced him to take drugs, subjected him abusive sex and controlled his every move.

Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster

T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…

A father-of-three who was diagnosed with bowel cancer at just 31-years-old has urged others not to dismiss a little-known sign of the aggressive disease.

'Build, baby, build', and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it

The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory approach that disengages the brakes from AI development and datacenter construction in the US. The plan also promises to clamp down on what it called "ideological bias" in AI models.…

She has been a lead goal-scorer for the Lionesses

Let the games begin

Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…

French model dev hopes to inspire others to adopt standards-based reporting

While it's widely known that the computers powering generative AI use a ton of water and power, its actual impact on the environment is often harder to pin down.…