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The Princess of Wales has nailed autumn dressing with the perfect blend of outdoorsy and elegant, wearing her signature green wax jacket styled with a ME+EM jumper.

Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment. However, Linux users still need 32-bit libraries and graphics drivers for compatibility, meaning fully 64-bit-only systems remain unsupported. VideoCardz.com reports: Valve's updated requirements explicitly state that 64-bit-only installations are not supported. Systems must still provide both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries and graphics drivers, including multilib support. The new client also requires Linux kernel 5.6 or newer and glibc 2.31 or newer. The update also introduces Steam Achievement Sets, a feature we covered earlier that allows developers to organize achievements into separate groups for base games, DLCs and seasonal content. Players can complete individual sets without losing their existing completion status when developers add more achievements. Valve has also updated the achievements page to display progress across these groups. The 64-bit Linux client and Achievement Sets are currently available through the Steam Client Beta. Valve has not confirmed when these changes will reach the stable Linux release. Until then, users on the regular Steam client will continue using the existing architecture.

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MAGA activists are urging President Donald Trump to consider martial law as they brace for what they believe could be another 'rigged' midterm election.

El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16

He received a £67million pay off after he was sacked last year by Red Bull following an investigation into controlling and coercive behaviour allegations.

You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup

The Prime Minister has vowed to end rough sleeping, pledging to get everyone off the streets by Christmas. The trouble is, few of those he is trying to help think he will succeed...

The future is private, the present is plunder

Meta is facing criticism over updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 that could give the company broad permission to scrape content from websites linked to business accounts and use it to train AI. Legal experts warn the changes could undermine lucrative AI licensing deals for news publishers, with no direct opt-out for businesses that accept the terms. Ars Technica reports: As Nieman Lab reported Thursday, this will affect all business accounts but is particularly shocking for news publishers who could perhaps charge Meta millions in licensing fees to continually access their articles for AI training. Currently news organizations are fighting a battle with OpenAI over whether such training without licensing is fair use, and Meta's terms seemingly risk granting it sweeping permissions, no matter which way the court leans. "While journalism isn't the only industry that will be affected by this update, virtually every news organization has at least one Meta business account, including Nieman Lab," the lab said. [...] Notably, there is no mention of AI, but it's inferred from a single use of the word "train" and references to automated scraping and crawling. Meta's spokesperson told Nieman Lab that Meta has no plans to use the terms as a legal basis to ignore robots.txt instructions that block scraping on news sites. The company still allows news organizations to opt out of scraping and provides instructions on how to block crawling. A spokesperson told Ars that "there is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false." However, should courts affirm that AI training non-news articles is fair use, news organizations question if Meta's stance might change, and the terms could be used to freely grab access to content by legally overriding robots.txt instructions.

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A teenage gunman stormed Silver Rail Elementary School on Thursday and killed three students and a teacher before he was shot dead by a person who followed him inside.

The Prime Minister was accused of 'opening the door' to another divisive independence referendum after failing to rule out a fresh vote during his premiership.

Basildon man Gift Osondu jailed after police found a knife and cannabis linked to drug dealing during an illegal e-scooter stop on October 9.

Basildon man Gift Osondu jailed after police found a knife and cannabis linked to drug dealing during an illegal e-scooter stop on October 9.

Zack Coughlan, 23, previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murdering Jamie Collins, 21, by the garden of their home in Filton, south Gloucestershire.

It has been produced by the team behind a popular Christmas event at the park

An OpenAI research model reportedly accessed an Ethereum testnet wallet without permission in order to complete a coding task during internal training. "This case shows that a model can substitute its own judgment about likely harm for the account holder's permission, then act on that judgment without authorization," OpenAI wrote. Engadget reports: The incident, which occurred on June 26, happened while a GPT-5.6 Sol model was in internal training. The task involved updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying contracts (publishing special code) on an Ethereum test network called Sepolia. Payment of a network fee is required for such contracts, but OpenAI "supplied no funded wallet and gave no permission to spend funds from an account the model found independently," OpenAI said in the report. The lack of funds at first stymied the agent, but it was not to be discouraged. The model reasoned that it could use public developer recovery phrases (similar to those you might use to recover a password) to access keys from unauthorized accounts. It tracked down 362 addresses open to that avenue of attack and found one that held enough Sepolia ETH to finish its deployment (to be clear, Sepolia ETH has no value outside of testing). Like many criminals, the agent reasoned that someone must have left this access open for automated draining of the ETH "faucets." It also figured that the crypto was effectively "abandoned" and "valueless," according to OpenAI's misalignment records. The piece de resistance was that the agent "did not disclose that it had selected a funded account through a public recover phrase or spent that account's balance," OpenAI said. To prevent similar events in the future, the company is now monitoring all traffic and paging security if live internet access is detected.

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Deepak Sandhu (pictured) had come to the UK on a student visa the UK in September 2024 which was revoked six months later after he dropped out of a university in Southampton.

In unprecedented detail, the Daily Mail's Battle Board series shows exactly how this fight played out, and analyses the effects it will have on the way all battles are fought in the future.

Joe Swash has reportedly landed a huge six-figure payday after previously being declared bankrupt twice - but his finances are still dwarfed by wife Stacey Solomon.

When I saw the pictures of the Duchess of Sussex having lunch with her hairdresser in London, I have to confess I had only one thought: thank heavens Meghan is back.