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Kyla Blight was only 15 when she first picked up a vape. In a few years, the teenager was reaching for one the moment she woke up - and getting through a 4,000-puff device every couple of days.

Comedian Russell Brand, 51, is accused of preying on a 21-year-old after luring the fan to his Hampstead mansion, promising to 'help' her after a break-up.

This is the terrifying moment a three-year-old girl was left dangling from the window of a high-rise building, while her head became trapped between the safety bars, in Fujian, China, on Saturday.

AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge reports: AMD launched its FSR 4.1 update for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards in March, and promised to bring the technology to older GPUs and handhelds this year. FSR 4.1 can improve performance in more than 300 supported games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 6, and Assassin's Creed Shadows. [...] While owners of Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs and Gorgon Halo- or Strix Halo-powered devices will get FSR 4.1 today with the latest Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1 drivers, Xbox console owners will have to wait a little longer. "We've worked very closely with AMD to optimize this technology, giving developers another powerful tool for great performance and visual quality for players," says Xbox CTO Scott Van Vilet.

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Holly Hagan has shared an emotional post marking one year since her sister Darci tragically passed away aged 19. 

The Great British Bake Off had a blast from the past on Tuesday night as fans went wild for a Mary Berry mention. 

And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model

The Reform leader said that Army, Navy and RAF reserves - who serve in their spare time - would not pay tax on their service earnings in a bid to boost recruitment.

When special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri was found dying in the street metres from her home in May 2006, suspicion instantly turned to a botched break-in.

But Emma Webber, whose son Barnaby was killed by Valdo Calocane in June 2023, declared he would be freed 'over my dead body'.

Google is beginning to replace traditional support articles with "Ask Google Help," a Gemini-powered interface that summarizes documentation and lets users troubleshoot through a chatbot. 9to5Google reports: "Ask Google Help" will display a condensed version of the support article with direct troubleshooting steps, with the user then able to type in queries to have Gemini help figure out the next step forward. A "View Sources" button at the bottom of the AI response allows users to still access the original article, but direct links to any of these articles now defaults to the AI experience. An example can be seen below on the "Secure a hacked or compromised Google account" page that Google's own support account directed users to within the past few days. It can also be seen on the "Fix common issues with 2-Step Verification" page and, as far as we can tell, any support pages on the Google Account Help forum. Google, as of right now, appears to only be testing this on select support topics. The Google Pixel Help section, for instance, still defaults to articles, whereas the Google Chrome topic has also moved to the new experience. Beyond support pages alone, this new design also impacts the central hub, with links to topics no longer showing by default in exchange for an AI chatbot that helps you find the relevant page.

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President Trump is vowing to pour hundreds of millions more into an already multibillion-dollar midterm election battle.

A California resident has captured the breathtaking moment an enormous great white shark leaped out of the Pacific Ocean near Monterey Bay.

Organisers are planning to have extra security at the event, both inside the venue and at the entrance, to ensure it runs smoothly and everyone is kept safe.

Coronation Street star Eileen Mayers has died at the age of 94. 

More than 43,000 residents died after hospitals discharged infected patients into care homes without adequate protections, allowing the virus to 'spread like wildfire'.

New court records reportedly show that DHS targeted Stop Cop City activist Samuel Tunick at an Atlanta airport because he was under investigation for suspected "terrorist activities." However, the CBP officers told him instead that they wanted to search his phone for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Tunick, who is not accused of terrorism or any other crime beyond allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone during the encounter, faces up to five years in prison. 404 Media reports: Instead of saying he was being targeted for suspected terrorism -- although this search happened just at the start of the second Trump administration, it has dramatically broadened what organizations or people may be considered such -- they said they needed his phone to look for "kiddie p*rn." "Good afternoon," an email sent from a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) official, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to CBP and other officials reads. "The following subject is scheduled to arrive in ATL [Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport] today via DL 1778 @ 1930 Hours. TUNICK is under investigation by HSI/JTTF for suspected terrorist activities." The email includes a photo of Tunick, and asks the officials to direct him to secondary inspection, retain all of his electronics, and collect their passcodes. As 404 Media first revealed in December, Tunick was charged because he allegedly "did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government's lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control." Matthew Dodge, one of Tunick's lawyers, previously told 404 Media he only found one other case using the same obscure law, a drug trafficking case. "This is extraordinarily rare," Dodge said. Tunick was part of the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which broadly protested the building of a large police training center, and which authorities investigated for arson, vandalism, and doxing. Tunick is not suspected of any crime beyond the alleged wiping of the phone, and has previously put his current prosecution in the context of the wide spanning cases against other Stop Cop City protesters. The newly filed court record, in which Tunick's lawyers argue that evidence should be thrown out, include new photos and descriptions of the airport encounter. The CBP officials asked Tunick if they were going to find "kiddie p*rn" on his phone, which Tunick immediately denied. "As the evidentiary hearing made clear, these unfounded accusations were nothing more than pretext for a fishing expedition into the depths of Mr. Tunick's devices," the lawyers wrote. They added, "Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child p*rnography," referring to one of the officials.

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23 years after the last episode was made, viewers will see surviving members of the cast watch missing scenes for the very first time, in Only Fools And Horses: The Lost Archive.

The cast of The Gentlemen reunited to film series three on Monday - but there was no sign of the Duchess Of Sussex on set.

Hayadulla Turkmani, 53, was unanimously acquitted by jurors of murder and manslaughter after two-and-a-half days of deliberations at Basildon Crown Court.