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Officers found the man unresponsive in his cell at the Windmill Road custody suite in Croydon at 12:30am on Friday after he became unwell.

A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and find Luke Skywalker. "This is what the emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and the hidden base on Hoth," he said. The Hill reports: He urged that the cameras be used to surveil any "rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium, because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers, they are following children." The plea for the cameras shifted to raising taxes to clear out storm drains and to the clearing of homeless encampments in the city. The man said the council members can use "doublespeak" to say the police department is humanitarian. "And how will the people trust this City Council when this City Council continues to vote for surveillance technology that imprisons them? Ms. Campbell, you must work on your Jedi mind tricks," he said, addressing City Council member Jennifer Campbell, before waving his hand to the audience. "Do it like this." His last plea was for the Flock cameras to be used to "help us find Luke Skywalker as he traverses the universe in his X-wing." "This technology is a necessary, necessary force," he concluded. According to DeFlock, San Diego has more than 550 Flock cameras across the city.

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Paige Crisp and her accomplices were stopped by Birmingham Airport border with a staggering 460 kilograms of the Class-B drug on August 9, 2024.

Constance Marten, pictured, has been granted permission to appeal her sentence over the death of her baby Victoria. Marten and partner Mark Gordon went on the run when the baby was born.

Micron says it will spend $10 billion over the next decade on a new research lab in Boise focused on advanced memory technologies, computing systems, and future chip manufacturing. Here are some details, as reported by Reuters: - Micron Research Labs will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor ecosystem to pursue breakthroughs, the company said. - The latest investment builds on the more than $250 billion that Micron had separately committed to manufacturing and R&D across the United States. - The lab will be connected to Micron's research and technology footprint across the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, Singapore and Taiwan. - Growing adoption of AI workloads and infrastructure buildout have boosted demand for high-bandwidth memory, which rapidly feeds data to AI accelerators, making it a critical component of modern computing infrastructure. - The Trump administration has prioritized domestic chip manufacturing in a bid to reduce foreign dependence, boost the economic output and maintain its lead in the AI race. - Micron expects to break ground on the facility in 2027, which will be capable of hosting hundreds of researchers and facilitating international conferences and workshops.

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Prince Harry and Princess Eugenie are 'no longer speaking' to each other, it has been claimed.

Nine men, aged between 54 and 76, were arrested in July as part of an investigation into allegations of abuse against victims between 1985 and 1996.

On the latest episode of Palace Confidential, Richard Eden and Sarah Vine share their anxieties over Harry and Meghan's shock return to Britain.

Emily Drury, 26, first targeted the boy after seeing him drinking alcohol with a friend, a court heard, and later left him a note saying 'I enjoy every piece of you', Lincoln Crown Court heard.

The Duke of Sussex will have to dig deep after the High Court's latest ruling in the disastrous case he and six other famous names brought against the Daily Mail. Prince Harry and the others face paying millions

The Christopher Nolan-directed movie broke the record for a R-rated film set by 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine.

You've got to hand it to the Sussexes: they know how to make a splash. The bombshell news that Prince Harry and his family are swapping California for rainy Britain quite knocked me off my perch.

Mohammed Abdullah initially offered the young woman a ride home on the back of a bike he had rented before launching an attack on the victim.

A 21-year-old from Rayne was caught in possession of drugs while riding an illegal e-scooter through Braintree high street.

Linus Torvalds says AI "enormously helped" him track down a stubborn Intel Xe graphics driver bug that took 24 debugging patches and 18 kernel boots to isolate. "I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it," wrote Torvalds on the commit. "I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am..." Phoronix reports: The patch by Linus Torvalds is for the Xe kernel driver and the change is no longer hand out the flat Compute Command Streamer (CCS) storage as usable vRAM. On a Battlemage G21 graphics card, he was hitting a scenario where there was a mismatch where the usable memory ended and hit a case where the GDM display manager would end up being endlessly restarted. [...] Linus Torvalds views AI as a useful tool and in this case reaffirmed he found it "enormously helped" his effort in tracking down this Intel graphics driver bug. The Intel Xe driver fix is merged to Linux 7.3 Git and is also marked to back-porting to the stable kernel branches.

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More than half a century after they met, and following 21 years of marriage, Camilla remains the King's greatest supporter.

Police warned the thrill-seekers they were risking their lives by 'tombstoning' into shallow water but were dubbed the 'fun police'.

The reality star, 42, is reportedly in talks with ITV bosses about making a potential return to Big Brother.

I remember the day that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK because I was there with them, at Buckingham Palace, for their last engagement as working royals.

It is an astonishing anthropological experience to stand in a row of people waiting to greet a member of the Royal Family. If you ever get the chance, you should look carefully at your neighbours.