Michelle Joan Leahy goes missing in Newlands, Perth as husband offers $100k reward
A husband has spoken out after his wife went missing outside a hospital in Australia.
Beloved cheerleader, 18, will die TODAY after she was shot by stranger at party
Kimber Mills, of Cleveland in Alabama, was one of four people who were shot close to a highway near Palmerdale on Saturday.
Call police if you see this man wanted after woman defrauded out of five figure sum
Essex Police wish to speak to this man in connection with an investigation
Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos: Labour probe into child sex abuse falling apart as potential chairman and three victims pull out amid 'cover-up' fears
In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage. Three victims have also resigned from an advisory group, labelling it a 'cover-up'.
Three shops in Witham town centre could be turned into flats
Shops in Witham’s town centre could be turned into flats if blueprints are approved.
George Gilbert on time on Big Brother, 'racking up warnings' and own goals
After being booted from the Big Brother house for offensive language, parish councillor George Gilbert said he stands by his comments.
The new Essex road on M25 and A12 junction opens as drivers set for 'faster journeys'
The new section of road is expected to reduce travel times for drivers
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue
Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…
Automattic CEO Calls Tumblr His 'Biggest Failure' So Far
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company's Tumblr acquisition his biggest failure -- but one he hasn't given up on yet. The comments were made at the recent WordCamp Canada 2025 conference, where Mullenweg went live for a Town Hall session to connect with the open source-focused WordPress community.
The exec noted that Tumblr was still on a different technical stack than WordPress -- something he had intended to correct by migrating the back end to WordPress infrastructure. However, that massive undertaking was put on hold earlier this year, as the cost to move Tumblr's half-billion blogs would be difficult given that the blogging platform wasn't profitable and continues to be sustained by the profits of other Automattic products.
The company has tried to trim costs with layoffs and the reallocation of Tumblr resources to more profitable parts of the business, but those efforts have yet to pay off. Mullenweg acknowledged these concerns at his Town Hall session, saying, "I need to switch [Tumblr] over to WordPress, but it's a big lift. It's over 500 million blogs, actually, and, as a business, it's costing so much more to run than it generates in revenue." As a result, Automattic had to prioritize other projects to make Tumblr sustainable, he said. "It's probably my biggest failure or missed opportunity right now, but we're still working on it," he added.
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Katie Price is pictured for the first time since her ex-husband Kieran Hayler was charged with rape and sex assault of girl, 13, while they were married
Personal trainer Hayler, 38, is alleged to have committed the offences between June and October 2016 - in the middle of his marriage to the ex-glamour model, 47.
British Columbia to Permanently Ban New Crypto Mining Projects From Grid
British Columbia is permanently banning new cryptocurrency mining operations from connecting to its power grid to conserve electricity for industries that generate more jobs and tax revenue. The province is also capping power allocations for AI and data centers, while launching a competitive allocation process in January 2026. CoinDesk reports: The move from the government of Canada's third-most populous province is part of a broader legislative and regulatory overhaul unveiled Monday [...]. "Government will also implement several regulatory and policy changes in fall 2025 that will ... permanently ban new BC Hydro connections to the electricity grid for cryptocurrency mining to preserve the province's electricity supply and avoid the overburdening of the electricity grid," the government said in a post on its website
The province said the restrictions will help prevent grid strain and ensure industrial development is powered by clean electricity. "We're seeing unprecedented demand from traditional and emerging industries," Charlotte Mitha, the president and CEO of power utility BC Hydro, said in the web post. "The province's strategy empowers BC Hydro to manage this growth responsibly, keeping our grid reliable and our energy future clean and affordable." Crypto mining operations often consume large amounts of electricity without creating many local jobs or tax revenue, according to the statement. By contrast, projects like mines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities are seen as more beneficial to the economy.
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Furious victims of Britain's 'thought police' demand forces go further after the Met vows to stop investigating 'non-crime hate incidents'
The Met has announced it will end the practice of investigating 'non-crime hate incidents' - or NCHIs - after dropping a case against Father Ted writer Graham Linehan over posts about trans activists.
SARAH VINE: Whether it's the backstreets of Bolton or a mews house in Mayfair, the mindset of sexual predators is the same: some girls are disposable
SARAH VINE: Watching the BBC interview with Amy Wallace, co-author of the late Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, which was published yesterday, I was struck by something she said.
Internet Archive Celebrates 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
alternative_right shares a report from the Internet Archive: This October, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to access via the Wayback Machine.
We'll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event: a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it's a tribute to what we've built together: a free and open digital library of the web.
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New Look's 'lovely' sparkly bag that looks just like a designer one - but is £600 cheaper
It's perfect for the holiday season
Fake Homebrew Google Ads Push Malware Onto macOS
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: A new malicious campaign is targeting macOS developers with fake Homebrew, LogMeIn, and TradingView platforms that deliver infostealing malware like AMOS (Atomic macOS Stealer) and Odyssey. The campaign employs "ClickFix" techniques where targets are tricked into executing commands in Terminal, infecting themselves with malware. Researchers at threat hunting company Hunt.io identified more than 85 domains impersonating the three platforms in this campaign [...].
When checking some of the domains, BleepingComputer discovered that in some cases the traffic to the sites was driven via Google Ads, indicating that the threat actor promoted them to appear in Google Search results. The malicious sites feature convincing download portals for the fake apps and instruct users to copy a curl command in their Terminal to install them, the researchers say. In other cases, like for TradingView, the malicious commands are presented as a "connection security confirmation step." However, if the user clicks on the 'copy' button, a base64-encoded installation command is delivered to the clipboard instead of the displayed Cloudflare verification ID.
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Passenger shares 'disgusting' behaviour spotted on a flight - but its left people divided
One plane passenger captured a fellow flyer's 'diabolical' act while using the bathroom - though the move has left people divided on social media.
Driving us potty! Breakdowns caused by Britain's pothole menace up by a quarter in just 12 months
The number of pothole-related breakdowns has risen by a quarter this summer compared with last year, new figures from RAC's Pothole Index show.
Stunning pre-war Alfa Romeo supercar - one of just 38 ever made - is put up for auction for £5.5million
The hot red 8C 2900 B Spider, made in the signature Italian style of Zagato, was manufactured in 1937 and is widely regarded as the most important model in the carmaker's history
Railway trade union bosses 'spent £1,000s on all-expenses-paid Las Vegas trip', leaked dossier claims
The Las Vegas visit took place while Manuel Cortes (left) was general secretary of the union, which has 17,000 members paying £25 a month each.