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Chancellor Rachel Reeves effectively confirmed at a reception this week that a policy targeting high-value homes will be unveiled in the Budget.

The data comes from Top 500 Bars, which uses a complex algorithm that feeds off 'thousands of data points'.

The force-feeding will continue until morale improves

Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.…

PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last

Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…

Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base

The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…

He joked that there is pressure on him all year round

The fountain has long stood as a symbol of the town's heritage

Kelly Osbourne has blasted Kelly Brook branding her a 'bully' and 'performative' after the model clashed on screen with Osbourne's brother Jack during I'm A Celeb.

Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US

TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…

An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus. Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San Diego arrived with math skills below high-school level. Now, according to a recent report from UC San Diego faculty and administrators, that number is more than 900 -- and most of those students don't fully meet middle-school math standards. Many students struggle with fractions and simple algebra problems. Last year, the university, which admits fewer than 30 percent of undergraduate applicants, launched a remedial-math course that focuses entirely on concepts taught in elementary and middle school. (According to the report, more than 60 percent of students who took the previous version of the course couldn't divide a fraction by two.) One of the course's tutors noted that students faced more issues with "logical thinking" than with math facts per se. They didn't know how to begin solving word problems. The university's problems are extreme, but they are not unique. Over the past five years, all of the other University of California campuses, including UC Berkeley and UCLA, have seen the number of first-years who are unprepared for precalculus double or triple. George Mason University, in Virginia, revamped its remedial-math summer program in 2023 after students began arriving at their calculus course unable to do algebra, the math-department chair, Maria Emelianenko, told me. "We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is going up," Janine Wilson, the chair of the undergraduate economics program at UC Davis, told me. "Things like that are just kind of in our bones when we are college ready. We are just seeing many folks without that capability." Part of what's happening here is that as more students choose STEM majors, more of them are being funneled into introductory math courses during their freshman year. But the national trend is very clear: America's students are getting much worse at math. The decline started about a decade ago and sharply accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. The average eighth grader's math skills, which rose steadily from 1990 to 2013, are now a full school year behind where they were in 2013, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard for tracking academic achievement. Students in the bottom tenth percentile have fallen even further behind. Only the top 10 percent have recovered to 2013 levels.

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The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease is a new facility in Leeds, located at the Seacroft Hospital site, that is dedicated to the diagnosis, research and care of MND.

The reality star from Essex could be making a return

Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, are on trial at Portsmouth Crown Court accused of preventing lawful burial of a dead body and fraud.

Detectives have carried out a series of enquiries to try and establish how she died, when, and if, someone else was responsible, who they are

Natalie Greene, 26, a 'constituent advocate director' for Representative Jeff Van Drew, had a friend call 911 saying she was attacked while on a nature walk by three men.

Katie Price has revealed she is on hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms, after her recent dramatic weight loss. 

Despite being one of Hollywood's most popular young stars, fans think Jacob Elordi could improve on one thing - his handwriting.

Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the hitmaker shared a stunning photo of her daughter sporting a red long-sleeved crop top.

The journalist, who dated Princess Margaret 's son David Linley, now the 2nd Earl of Snowdon, opened up about her thoughts on the former Duke of York on the Spooning with Mark Wogan podcast.

In an eye-opening discussion about notable deals brokered in their playing days, Rooney's startling admission left Neville , Carragher , Wright and Keane stunned