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An anonymous reader shared this report from Computer Weekly: Policing data hosted in Microsoft's hyperscale cloud infrastructure could be processed in more than 100 countries, but the tech giant is obfuscating this information from its customers, Computer Weekly can reveal. According to documents released by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) under freedom of information (FoI) rules, Microsoft refused to hand over crucial information about its international data flows to the SPA and Police Scotland when asked... The tech giant also refused to disclose its own risk assessments into the transfer of UK policing data to other jurisdictions, including China and others deemed "hostile" in the DPIA documents. This means Police Scotland and the SPA — which are jointly rolling out Office 365 — are unable to satisfy the law enforcement-specific data protection rules laid out in Part Three of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA18), which places strict limits on the transfer of policing data outside the UK. The same documents also contain an admission from Microsoft — given while simultaneously refusing to divulge key information about data flows — that it is unable to guarantee the sovereignty of policing data held and processed within its O365 infrastructure. This echoes the statements senior Microsoft representatives made to the French senate in June 2025, in which they admitted the company cannot guarantee the sovereignty of European data stored and processed in its services generally. The revelation that Microsoft may access customer data from more than 100 countries is a result of the correspondence previously disclosed under Freedom of Information and reported on by Computer Weekly... All in all, an analysis of Microsoft's distributed documentation — conducted by independent security consultant Owen Sayers and shared with Computer Weekly — suggests that Microsoft personnel or contractors can remotely access the data from 105 different countries, using 148 different sub-processors. Despite technically being public, Sayers highlighted how this information is not transparently laid out for Microsoft customers, and is distributed across different documents contained in non-indexed webpages.... "[A]ny normal amount of due diligence — even if it is conducted by skilled persons will likely fail to see the full scope of offshoring in play," he said... Microsoft did not contest the accuracy of the remote access location figures cited by Computer Weekly in this story.

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The 44-year-old SKIMS founder brought her 12-year-old firstborn to celebrate her brand's collaboration with Nike at its store opening at The Grove.

Dani Dyer was forced to withdraw from the BBC competition Strictly Come Dancing last week after suffering an injury in training

The 36-year-old widow and mother of two appeared alongside his close colleagues and friends on 'The Charlie Kirk Show' on Friday.

She enjoyed a chippy dinner for her son's birthday

VILLAGERS are taking ministers to court after being refused permission to buy their local pub.

NIK SIMON AT TWICKENHAM: Outside Twickenham train station, a giant image of Ellie Kildunne welcomed fans off the trains from Reading and Waterloo.

In the wake of the tragedy, mourners from across the sporting world have paid tribute to the Stockport fighter. Hatton has also received poignant farewells from family members.

'Because of everything we've been through to get here, I asked my husband to keep the news private until I reached the second trimester. I really wanted to protect this little secret until I felt ready.'

Eddie Burton, 23, from Liverpool, has been jailed for 19 years for running a £20million international operation alongside his 'gangster moll' ex-girlfriend Sian Banks, 25, also from Liverpool.

"Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos is far worse than we previously thought," writes Futurism: As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn't scale linearly. For instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip. "These findings highlight both the structural inefficiency of current video diffusion pipelines and the urgent need for efficiency-oriented design," the researchers concluded in their paper... Fortunately, there are ways to slim down those demands, including intelligent caching, the reusing of existing AI generations, and "pruning," meaning the sifting out of inefficient examples from training datasets. The Hugging Face researchers gave their paper a cheeky title. "Video Killed the Energy Budget: Characterizing the Latency and Power Regimes of Open Text-to-Video Mode."

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Netflix's Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen has captivated viewers with its intimate portrait of the boxing, darts and snooker empire built by Barry Hearn and now fronted by his wide-boy son Eddie.

When you see or hear an Essex reference, there is bound to be an overhyped stereotype in there somewhere

An angry Rory McIlroy told Ryder Cup fans to 'shut the f*** up' on Saturday during a heated moment at Bethpage Black.

Electric powertrains allow for "crazy fast acceleration figures," reports Car and Driver, as well as "huge power numbers." And now a Chinese luxury electric car brand owned by BYD Auto "just hit a top speed of 308.4 mph, making it not only the fastest electric car on the planet, but the fastest car. Period." Engadget reports that the U9 Xtreme "is packed with four motors that produce just under 3,000 horsepower. The electric hypercar also runs on one of the world's first 1,200V platforms, which offers better performance and efficiency, along with some weight reduction." And Car and Driver adds that "Other changes to achieve the speed include dropping the wheel size from 21 to 20 inches, narrowing the front track, and adding wider, semi-slick track tires at the front of the car." One small caveat that doesn't lessen the impressiveness of the feat is that while the U9 Xtreme does classify as a production model, it barely does. That's because BYD is planning to limit production of the top-speed version of the U9 to no more than 30 units. The car hit its "facemelting" top speed during a livestream at Germany's Automotive Testing Papenburg, reports Engadget. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear for sharing the news.

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We are very possibly heading for a historic crash, one that could presage all manner of impoverishment, ruined careers, decimated retirement prospects, social unrest - and worse.

Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in Kerman, southern Iran, on January 3 as they embarked on a motorcycle trip around the world to Australia.

During a four-day visit to the UK earlier this month, the Duke of Sussex, 41, met Charles, 76, at Clarence House face-to-face for the first time in a year and a half on September 10.

The Black Sea Fleet submarine Novorossiysk is 'experiencing serious technical problems' and has now put out the urgent warning, Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU reported today.

Nuno Espirito Santo has been appointed as West Ham United's new manager after the London club sacked Graham Potter on Saturday morning.