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The Council Leader has announced works will begin before Christmas

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In the same week that a massive outage of its own cloud inconvenienced millions of customers, AWS has delivered an improved interactive incident reporting service to help its customers explain what happened when their cloud-hosted resources strike trouble.…

THE first 5p coins bearing the portrait of the King will start to show up in people’s wallets and pockets soon and one shop in mid Essex will have a quantity of them.

There are plenty of pets at RSPCA centres in Essex looking for their new homes.

THE first 5p coins bearing the portrait of the King will start to show up in people’s wallets and pockets soon and one shop in mid Essex will have a quantity of them.

A parish councillor said his role is “on the ropes” after his controversial comments on Big Brother.

There are plenty of pets at RSPCA centres in Essex looking for their new homes.

It's a great addition to any winter wardrobe

Development planned across two Essex towns and farmland

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: This week, a reader wrote to us sharing that the infotainment in their 2020 Audi A4 had been "rebooting every five minutes all year." It looks like the problem was caused by a compatibility issue with a SiriusXM app update. Audi tells us the situation's been rectified, but it illustrates a serious pain point in modern cars -- myriad apps interacting with a diverse population of in-car software systems. Our reader was not the only Audi owner affected. "Randomly restarting" Audi infotainment screens have been discussed on Reddit, the Audiworld forum, and elsewhere, going back many months. Audi's recall notice and related service action only went out this summer. It looks like this particular problem was caused when the satellite radio app pushed an update that was supposed to work on the latest version of Audi's infotainment software, but not all cars were running that. Then SiriusXM reverted, which, I guess, did not solve the problem for every owner. Audi now states that the problem has been fixed and originated with the SiriusXM app, but really, the automaker bears more than a little blame, too. [...] I dropped our own contacts at Audi a note about how and why this might have happened, and they added this clarification: "At the beginning of the year, SiriusXM did a programming update which was addressed via a software update to the MMI. However, as not all customers had their cars updated and SiriusXM then reverted back to the previous category numbering. Nonetheless, a MMI update is recommended as the two versions do seem to cause the issue."

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The 71-year-old media mogul highlighted her toned figure in a white dress cinched in at the waist with a black belt, following her dramatic Ozempic weight loss journey.

Meta is laying off about 600 employees from its AI division as part of a restructuring to streamline operations and solidify Alexandr Wang's leadership over the company's AI strategy. "Workers across Meta's AI infrastructure units, Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research unit (FAIR) and other product-related positions will be impacted," notes CNBC. "However, the cuts did not impact employees within TBD Labs, which includes many of the top-tier AI hires brought into the social media company this summer." From the report: Those employees, overseen by Wang, were spared by the layoffs, underscoring Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bet on his expensive hires versus the legacy employees, the people said. Within Meta, the AI unit was considered to be bloated, with teams like FAIR and more product-oriented groups often vying for computing resources, the people said. When the company's new hires joined the company to create Superintelligence Labs, it inherited the oversized Meta AI unit, they said. The layoffs are an attempt by Meta to continue trim the department and further cement Wang's role in steering the company's AI strategy. Following the cuts, Meta's Superintelligence Labs' workforce now sits at just under 3,000, the people said.

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The Iranian man's second dinghy crossing took place just 29 days after he was kicked out of the country under Sir Keir Starmer's flagship borders policy.

Wednesday's episode of The Celebrity Traitors was thrown into chaos as the round table was hit by the first tie-break in the show's history.

Kadey Anglin, 20, who worked at Gorilla in the city centre, was found unresponsive in a flat near the venue's sister site The Deaf Institute in the early hours of October 16.

The final episode of the series is set to air November 6, but spoilers were leaked on Wednesday, ruining the moment for fans.

A passenger travelling along the R49 road between Bakerville and Lichtenburg managed to film the male lion escaping from the truck's roof hatch.

Brooklyn Beckham was in a romantic mood on Wednesday as he shared loved up Instagram snaps with his wife Nicola Peltz.

As it nears its 30th anniversary, Pitchfork is testing user reviews and comments in a major shift from its long-standing critic-only model. The site will now let readers rate albums and leave comments, combining those into an aggregated "reader score" alongside the official Pitchfork score. The Verge reports: Pitchfork has historically been a one-sided affair. While it ran the occasional reader poll, there was no way for readers to directly voice their opinion on the site. If you thought that Jet's Shine On deserved better than a 0.0 (first off, you're wrong), there was no way to let the author know other than shouting into the void of this new thing at the time called Twitter. Now the site is considering letting users comment directly on reviews and give albums scores of their own. And then those scores will be averaged up into a single reader score for each album.

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The 26-year-old appeared via video link before a judge at Cloverhill District Court in the city where a fiery riot broke out last night, sparked by anger over the alleged attack.