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Frankly, I've never been more depressed than reading today's headlines. And I lived and worked in the grim 1970s.

Circle, the world's second-biggest issuer of stablecoins, is examining ways to make it possible to reverse transactions involving its tokens [non-paywalled source], in a rare admission by a major crypto firm that it needs to take lessons from the traditional financial sector. Financial Times: Circle president Heath Tarbert said a mechanism that allowed money to be refunded in cases of fraud or disputes would help the stablecoin industry's push to become part of the financial mainstream. "We are thinking through...whether or not there's the possibility of reversibility of transactions, right, but at the same time, we want settlement finality," Tarbert told the Financial Times. "So there's an inherent tension there between being able to transfer something immediately, but having it be irrevocable," he added. Such measures could be seen as a major departure from the crypto industry's previous emphasis on the "immutability" of the blockchain, a digital ledger that is public and records transactions that cannot be unwound.

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AnneKee de Ligt, nee Molenaar, runs an alchemy brand and regularly shares images of crystals, tarot cards, and self-affirming quotations on her Instagram page.

Alix Williams' previous job was put up for redundancy last April due to Birmingham City Council's debts. The 27-year-old now commutes 100 miles to work in London.

Malcolm Fairley was a calculating predator whose cold, methodical crimes left dozens of lives shattered and the UK on edge in 1984.

Aspirin, which can cost just 3p, is used to treat a variety of aches and pains. Previous studies have shown the medicine can lower the risk of colon cancer.

Daily Mail has obtained images of the sprawling home with heavy changes being made. 'Jennifer wants the home to be exactly as she likes it,' a source tells Daily Mail.

A toddler has been left mutilated after a massive rat gnawed part of his ear off has he lay frozen with fear in bed in a French council flat. 

For the past couple of months, I've been sexually harassed by a man on Instagram.

Told by authorities that he was unable to adopt his own child as a single man, a young father saw his world and family torn apart.

For two years, a young woman was repeatedly told by doctors that her lower back pain was caused by sciatia-but it was deadly cancer.

by George Whittaker Introduction

In the life cycle of any kernel branch, patch releases, those minor “.x” updates, play a vital role in refining performance, patching regressions, and ironing out rough edges. Kernel 6.15.4 is one such release: it doesn’t bring headline features, but focuses squarely on stabilizing and optimizing the 6.15 series with targeted fixes in performance and networking.

While version 6.15 already introduced several ambitious changes (filesystem improvements, networking enhancements, Rust driver infrastructure, etc.), the 6.15.4 update doubles down on making those changes more robust and efficient. In this article, we'll walk through the most significant improvements, what they mean for systems running 6.15.*, and how to approach updating.

Release Highlights

The official announcement of Kernel 6.15.4 surfaced around late June 2025. The release includes:

• A full source tarball (linux-6.15.4.tar.xz) and patches.

• Signature verification via PGP for integrity.

• A changelog/diff summary comparing 6.15.3 → 6.15.4.

This update is not a major feature expansion; it’s a refinement release targeting performance regressions, network subsystem reliability, and bug fixes that emerged in prior 6.15.* builds.

Performance Enhancements

Because 6.15 already brought several ambitious changes to memory, I/O, scheduler, and mount semantics, many of the improvements in 6.15.4 are about smoothing interactions, avoiding regressions, and reclaiming performance in corner cases. While not all patches are publicly detailed in summaries, we can infer patterns based on what 6.15 introduced and what “performance patches” generally target.

Memory & TLB Optimizations

One often-painful cost in high-performance workloads is flushing translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) too aggressively. Kernel 6.15 had already begun to optimize broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD’s INVLPGB (for remote CPUs) to reduce overhead in multi-CPU environments. In 6.15.4, fixes likely target edge cases or regressions in those mechanisms, ensuring TLB invalidation is more efficient and consistent.

Additionally, various memory management cleanups, object reuse, and page handling improvements tend to appear in patch releases. While not explicitly documented in the public summaries, such fixes help reduce fragmentation, locking contention, and latency in memory allocation.

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An independent travel agent who was shortlisted for a national award has opened a permanent premises in an Essex village.

Talk turned to Wayne Rooney 's recent comments that he 'needs to be managed' and has been 'saved' from darkness by his wife Colleen.

Britain is subject to myriad dangers, from terrorist outrages to the threat of a nuclear conflict sparked by one or more of the world's autocratic superpowers.

Steph Driver, who worked for Sir Keir for five years in opposition before  joining him in Downing Street , confirmed today that she was leaving, amid a shake up of the PM's team.

Joely Walker left her glamorous job as Head of Beauty at Grazia magazine to focus on a chronic health issue.

The Prime Minister is expected to announce the mandatory identification system for all British residents at Labour 's annual conference in Liverpool.

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime memberships, the regulatory agency announced Thursday. CNBC: The surprise settlement comes as Amazon and the FTC were just three days into the trial in a Seattle federal court. Opening arguments took place on Tuesday. The lawsuit, filed by the FTC in June 2023 under the Biden administration, claimed that Amazon deceived tens of millions of customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program and sabotaged their attempts to cancel it. Three senior Amazon executives were at risk of being held individually liable if the jury sided with the FTC. Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty to the FTC and will refund $1.5 billion to an estimated 35 million customers who were impacted by "unwanted Prime enrollment or deferred cancellation," the agency said.

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Inspector finds new homes would not provide adequate living conditions'