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Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader

World War Fee  On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Amazon after it was reported the tech giant intended to show how much President Trump's import tariffs would inflate the price of stuff sold through its internet souk.…

Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham reports: Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips -- codenamed Lunar Lake -- will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They're Intel's only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft's Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel's best-performing integrated GPUs, the Intel Arc 130V and 140V. Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system. Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent, and can speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames per second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the time) by as much as 25 percent. This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down to that 1 percent level.

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The I'm A Celeb star, 30, wed the Brewdog founder in March, as the couple eloped to North East Scotland on a fishing boat.

A new Channel 4 documentary is reportedly set to chart Taylor Swift's incredible rise to fame and billionaire status.

Arsene Wenger made a rare appearance to the Emirates Stadium to support his old club during their Champions League semi-final first-leg defeat by Paris Saint-Germain.

The supermodel, 51, showed off her incredible figure in a black midi dress and oozed confidence as she posed for sizzling snaps.

QUENTIN LETTS: Energy Secretary Mr Miliband came prancing into the Commons dressage ring. He was on the tips of his hooves, gnashers bared, swishing his tail.

This is the dramatic moment that Molly-Mae Hague was thrown from a horse in an accident she described as 'traumatising'.

It has certainly been a roller-coaster ride as he has announced policies with an unprecedented forcefulness and pace, making his - and America's - presence felt.

Online banking and digital payment services have become the norm for many. However, there have been some devastating unintended consequences for some groups.

Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it

Meta is scrambling to grab some of that ChatGPT and Grok buzz with the launch of its own standalone AI app. Built on its Llama 4 LLM, the assistant touts personalization and smoother voice chats, but the most visible feature is a Discover feed showing off how other users interact with it, and even that feels more like a gimmick than a game-changer.…

Dr Charlotte Proudman remembers the last time she saw her father. It isn't a happy memory. Then he died a week after her fourth birthday - freeing her from what would have been a life of 'sheer hell'.

Cryptographers' panel a bit gloomy this year

RSAC  It was a somewhat gloomy Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with two of the industry's sages in a pretty grim mood.…

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: So Alan Bennett and Keith McNally make a most unlikely couple.But McNally, 73, is to reveal in his memoirs that he a five-year romance with Bennett.

Oti Mabuse has opened up about having a 'toxic' relationship with her body image after spending her career as a professional dancer.

The Italian manager is set to leave Real Madrid at the end of the season, and has been heavily linked with taking charge of the five-time World Cup winners.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says a $254 billion state budget deal has been reached, including a "bell-to-bell" school cellphone ban. [...] The distraction-free policy would take effect next school year, making New York the largest state in the country with a "bell-to-bell" cellphone ban. Hochul says the plan will help protect children from addictive technology and improve their mental health. The New York State United Teachers union also came out in support of the ban, saying "we are at a crisis point." The governor previously outlined the proposal back in January, saying it would ban the use of smartphones and other internet-enabled devices on school grounds during the school day. That includes classroom time, lunch and study hall periods. "A bell-to-bell ban, morning until the day is over, is not going to hurt your kids. It's going to help them emerge with stronger mental health and resiliency," she told CBS News New York at the time. Hochul said the ban would include smartphones and other personal "smart" devices, like smartwatches. Exemptions could be made if a student requires a device to manage a medical condition or for translation purposes. Cellphones that don't have internet capability and devices that are provided by the school for lesson plans would still be allowed. The proposal would let individual schools come up with their own ways to implement the ban and store the devices, and schools would be able to decide whether to have students leave them in things like pouches, lockers or cubbies. It would also require schools to make sure parents have a way to contact their children during the day, if needed. "Protecting our communities requires more than streets where people feel safe. We need classrooms where young minds can flourish, and that means eliminating once and for all the digital distractions that steal our kids' attention," the governor said, adding, "We protected our kids before from cigarettes, alcohol and drunk driving, and now, we're protecting them from addictive technology designed to hijack their attention."

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The director of the upcoming 'Freaky Friday' sequel revealed she 'begged' Jodie Foster for a nostalgic cameo, but the star refused. 

Mail Sport's ISAAN KHAN was at the Emirates Stadium running the rule on the players in the thick of the action.

Love Island will commemorate its 10th anniversary on screen by welcoming back a series of its biggest stars for a spin-off where they reveal their juiciest secrets.