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Celebrity Traitors star Sebastian Croft has revealed how he was outed as gay during his school years which led him to quit education at the age of 16.

Former Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw said she was 'feeling blessed' this weekend as she gave a positive update amid her breast cancer battle. 

July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can't get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web: Nscale's problem is not really Nscale's. It is Britain's. Grid-connection times have become the single biggest brake on new data centres. Some UK projects face waits stretching close to a decade for enough power. One estimate found more than a quarter of data-centre capacity slipped in 2025 alone. "The data centre was due to receive its power supply at the end of the year," reports the BBC. "But as first reported by the Telegraph on Sunday, Nscale has been told this will not happen until the 2030s." (Though Nscale and Microsoft are still working together on other projects in Norway, Portugal and America.) But now anchor-tenant Microsoft has pulled out of the Essex deal, reports the Telegraph, adding that Microsoft's move "leaves the site in apparent limbo. The company was its only announced customer, having agreed to rent 23,000 Nvidia AI chips at the facility..." Microsoft's decision threatens to undermine Nscale's attempts to push ahead with a Wall Street flotation worth up to $35bn (£26bn), despite a brutal sell-off in AI computing stocks. Rival data centre developers have seen their share prices plunge over the last week on concerns that they will struggle to repay their debts as interest rates and inflation continue to rise.... Tech analyst Gartner said last week that $3.5 trillion could be written off by 2030 if the AI boom fails to deliver on its promises. And "our research indicates that enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI capital expenditures during this period," Gartner wrote: "In 2026, AI providers are expected to spend nearly $1 trillion on AI infrastructure, and are forecast to invest an additional $6 trillion between 2027 and 2030," said Will Sommer, Sr Director Analyst at Gartner.... Failure to achieve sustainable return on investment capital (ROIC) on rapidly depreciating assets would almost certainly necessitate write-downs. Based on Gartner projections, a continued AI infrastructure investment trajectory could leave more than $4 trillion in asset value exposed to write-down risk through 2032. In this scenario, Gartner does not expect the 12% ROIC to be achieved until the end of 2032 at earliest... Gartner estimates AI-optimized IaaS spending will grow from $66 billion in 2027 to $174 billion in 2030. "The growth in spending on AI-optimized IaaS will be too low for most AI compute providers to recover their AI investments before the current generation of AI semiconductors is replaced," said Sommer. By 2030, Gartner predicts that cost pressure and a lack of a differentiating business model will force over 80% of neocloud [AI-specialized infrastructure] providers to cease independent operations.

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The new substance of choice in London's druggy underbelly is the synthetic cannabinoid known by the street name Spice.

Kevin McCloud looked like the cat who had just won a lifetime's supply of finest-quality clotted cream, and who could blame him.

A total of six children were inside the home when the fire began, police said. All of them were saved by neighbors, and the final rescue was captured by a deputy's body camera.

Vincent Chan is in prison for abusing children at the nursery where he worked. But families affected by his depravity say Labour failed to protect children.

Martin Stokes, 20, threatened to murder officers at the scene following his eventual arrest when they discovered a 15-year-old child was in the back of the car.

Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world's coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, with over half already lost compared to coral coverage in the 1950s... But there's some good news, thanks to a new study published this Wednesday in the journal Science Advances: Marine ecologists at Stanford have discovered that bleached corals can be revived via contact with a healthy coral neighbor, who (like a good neighbor) shares their photosynthetic, symbiotic algae (Symbiodiniaceae) with their peers. "This incredible new result — that fast and full recovery is possible in bleached coral — can inspire solutions that eventually may be scalable," [Fiorenza Micheli, a marine ecologist with Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions and study co-author, told the journal Nature]... Unlike their controls, bleached coral in contact with healthy coral recovered in just eight weeks... [T]he surprise discovery of this method alongside the other techniques that marine conservationists are now actively pursuing — including the successful deep-freezing and revival of at-risk coral sampled from Hawaii — could offer threatened reefs the lifeline they need. Coral contact could super-charge other efforts, like the selective breeding of heat-tolerant corals and the cultivation of protected coral nurseries

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Hollywood's biggest names - including 14-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift - emerged in Los Angeles on Saturday night to attend the invite-only Academy Museum Gala.

Mohammed bin Salman is now sheltering in heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers as Houthi rebels bombard Riyadh, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks, users of services like Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their AI agents from performing tasks across top websites. Yelp told TechCrunch that it only allows AI agents that pay for its data licensing program, while Delta Air Lines is preventing them from booking tickets on behalf of users. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab have also confirmed that they're blocking AI agents from accessing accounts due to security concerns. Some users say sites that previously worked with their AI agent are no longer accessible, including Cars.com and Amtrak, suggesting other companies could be quietly blocking them.... Muse, Meta's deceptively cute AI assistant, most recently faced the wrath of Amazon, which said its "continued access" violates its site policies. There are reports of xAI's Grok, Instinct's AI agent, and OpenAI's Dots being unable to use Amazon as well. xAI owner Elon Musk responded by saying that maybe he "should start a competitor to Amazon." The more places bots struggle to access, the greater the questions about how useful they are.... Instead of trying to fight Amazon, [Meta] has partnered with retailers like Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Best Buy, and others, allowing Muse to shop on their sites. At the same time, Shopify has also opened its network of storefronts to AI agents.

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President Donald Trump International Airport in Florida announced that law enforcement launched an investigation into a 'suspicious phone call' on Sunday afternoon.

The 50-year-old actress and 50-year-old actor were part of a large group who migrated from the iconic Los Angeles hotel to a private party across the street.

Blanchard, 35, who rose to fame after being convicted of plotting her mother's murder and serving eight years in prison, allegedly nearly pushed the other driver's vehicle into a Walgreens flowerbed.

The American tech giant was due to be the 'anchor tenant' at the AI infrastructure company's first planned UK site in Loughton, Essex, where it had agreed to rent 23,000 high-end AI chips.

Strictly Come Dancing pro Amy Dowden has said 'it's important to be kind' and 'what do you expect?' in response to Brendan Cole's 'cruel' comments about her dance skills following her cancer battle.

Princess Andre looked glamorous as she celebrated a friend's birthday with a night out in Mayfair this weekend. 

Davina McCall has revealed she has cardiovascular disease as she gave a new health update in Sunday's episode of her Begin Again podcast.

A teenage boy who died in an air crash with his 80-year-old flying instructor was on his 10th flying exercise, it has emerged.