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An officer on a motorbike had signalled for the Mini Cooper to stop

Butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers are selling on TikTok in a bid to showcase quality produce and speak in a more personal way to customers - and it's working, they say.

The Florida-based firm has helped develop a data platform for the NHS to bring together information from across the service.

When Hayden Panettiere published her memoir two months ago, her mother's response was scathing.

Like millions living with eczema , Amy had relied on steroid creams. She saw them as a tool but did not fully understand the potential consequences of repeated or prolonged use.

A man has been charged with attempted GBH and several driving offences after an incident in Chelmsford.

A man has been charged with attempted GBH and several driving offences after an incident in Chelmsford.

Former sprinter Leon Baptiste, 41, has not contacted anyone back at home since he travelled to Morocco with friends for what was believed to be either a stag do or a golfing trip.

The US President shared a map on Truth Social showing the narrow waterway with the words 'NEW U.S. TERRITORY' written across it.

Sources confirmed the action was taken against Mr Montgomerie, a political commentator, prior to the publication of a podcast episode.

The 96-cap England international left City on loan for AC Milan in January 2025, bringing an end to eight years at the Etihad Stadium.

Cher Lloyd broke down in tears as she told fans she is in the 'worst pain she's ever felt' following her dad's death and marital split. 

Owners are treating their pets to red light therapy, chiropractor massages and specialised supplements in hopes they can 'biohack' their 'fur babies' to live longer.

Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows

by George Whittaker

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux Kernel 7.2, opening another chapter in the development of the world's most widely deployed open-source kernel. The final release arrived on August 16, 2026, following seven release candidates and roughly two months of development. Kernel.org now lists Linux 7.2 as the latest mainline release.

Linux 7.2 is a substantial update with improvements spanning CPU scheduling, storage performance, AMD and Intel hardware support, graphics, networking, virtualization, RISC-V, and Apple Silicon. Among its biggest additions are Cache-Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4 support, and initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality.

Cache-Aware Scheduling Lands in Linux

One of the most interesting performance additions in Linux 7.2 is Cache-Aware Scheduling (CAS).

Modern processors frequently contain multiple last-level caches shared between groups of CPU cores. Traditional scheduling decisions don't always account optimally for those cache relationships, potentially moving tasks between cores in ways that increase cache misses.

Cache-Aware Scheduling gives the Linux scheduler additional information about cache topology so it can make smarter decisions about where workloads should run.

Early testing during development produced particularly impressive results for some server workloads, including major gains in certain MySQL configurations. The improvement varies significantly by hardware and workload, so users shouldn't expect similarly dramatic gains everywhere.

For modern AMD and Intel systems with increasingly complex CPU topologies, however, CAS provides another tool for extracting better performance from existing hardware.

USB4STREAM Enables High-Speed Connections Between Computers

Linux 7.2 also introduces USB4STREAM, an interesting new capability for transferring data directly between computers over USB4 or Thunderbolt connections.

Rather than treating USB primarily as a traditional host-to-device interface, USB4STREAM can facilitate high-speed communication between systems.

Potential applications include:

• Large file transfers
• Development environments
• High-speed system-to-system networking
• Debugging
• Specialized workstation workflows

With USB4 and Thunderbolt increasingly common on laptops and desktops, this could eventually become a useful option for moving large amounts of data between Linux machines.

AMD ISP4 Finally Reaches the Mainline Kernel

AMD users receive another important addition with the arrival of the AMD ISP4 driver.

ISP stands for Image Signal Processor, hardware responsible for processing camera data before it reaches applications.

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Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, cataloging 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've had over the years. His analysis finds that Microsoft product names survive an average of two years and eleven months. The site even predicts which products are most likely to get renamed next, "by considering the amount of time the current name has applied, prior names, and the frequency with which Microsoft changes names of products in the same family," reports The Register. "That methodology led him to suggest an 'elevated' likelihood of name changes for the Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service." From the report: Readers may remember that Strant has also created the site Let Me Correct That For You, which lists the exact names of Microsoft products -- an effort he told The Register he thinks is useful because Microsoft in its wisdom uses Camel Case for names like PowerPoint but went with conventional capitalization for Copilot. Another of his sites immortalizes Microsoft cloud product logos. He's also created HumbledandHonored.com, a site that generates social media posts MVPs can use to announce they have earned or retained Microsoft's awards. Strant told The Register that the Rebrand Registry came about after some banter between himself and other MVPs, during which the topic of Microsoft's many product name changes came up. He decided to do something about it.

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Actress Phyllida Law has died aged 94 surrounded by her loved ones at home.

Footage has captured the moment a drill artist who was has now been jailed was arrested with a gun at a probation meeting.

Footage has captured the moment a drill artist who was has now been jailed was arrested with a gun at a probation meeting.

The younger York princess said the couple looked to the people they 'love and admire, past and present' when naming the newest member of the British royal family.