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After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal

Essex Police are searching for missing 65-year-old Bilsev Hussein, last seen in Colchester on October 2 carrying a red walking stick. Contact police on 101.

Essex Police are searching for missing 65-year-old Bilsev Hussein, last seen in Colchester on October 2 carrying a red walking stick. Contact police on 101.

Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

Kheirddine Fatmi, 35, of Wood Green, gave the guard a shove and spat on his bare arm at the West End store in London on October 30.

AmiMoJo shares a report from heise online: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a used AMD processor, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, in their PC. Because the previous owner was caught cheating, the new owner cannot start several online games. The problem was noticed in the first-person shooter "Valorant" from the development studio Riot. Right from the first start, the new owner was kicked out directly, according to their statement. Riot support confirmed that the previous owner had cheated. The processor is therefore on an internal blacklist -- and, with its installation in the PC, now apparently also some other components like the mainboard. Riot support does not remove such entries manually. In addition to "Valorant," all other PC games from Riot are affected: the strategy game "League of Legends," the auto-battler "Teamfight Tactics," the card game "Legends of Runeterra," the fighting game "2XKO," and likely future titles as well. Riot's "Vanguard" anti-cheat system traditionally runs deep in the Windows kernel and starts with the PC, but a June 2026 update allows it to launch with a game if security features such as TPM and Secure Boot are enabled. It's unclear how Riot uniquely identifies processors, though possibilities include hardware fingerprinting based on chip behavior or storing identification hashes in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which Vanguard accesses in the newer mode.

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On Friday, Lloyd was the latest unsung community hero to feature on the latest instalment of the feel-good segment on the hit BBC show.

Bodycam footage showed an officer first encountering the dog in the dark on the middle of a road while patroling a Kansas City suburb last month.

Essex Police warn of UK scam calls offering jobs and asking victims to add callers on WhatsApp, harvesting personal and bank details from victims.

Essex Police warn of UK scam calls offering jobs and asking victims to add callers on WhatsApp, harvesting personal and bank details from victims.

The King won't apologise for Britain's role in the historic transatlantic slave trade or offer reparations when he tours the Caribbean later this month.

The Little Mix star, 34, is expecting her third child with footballer husband Andre Gray, whom she married in June 2023.

Vice President JD Vance was quick to dodge questions about his political future while eagerly dishing out an obvious jab at one of his potential 2028 GOP rivals.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick enjoyed a New York City date night on Thursday at a glittering gala.

Student protests descended into anarchy across France today with a video showing a rioter blasting a woman in the face with a flamethrower. 

Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

He said that he "should have just stopped" when he was arrested

The European Commission has rolled out Element Pro as a self-hosted "sovereign back-up" to Microsoft Teams and the reviews aren't great. Politico reported that several officials questioned its usefulness and usability, with one calling it "absolute shit." Politico reports: "I don't understand the added value here," one official wrote on an internal staff message board, seen by POLITICO. Another described the tool as "absolute shit." A third official said that, judging matters on how well Element Pro works compared to Teams, the U.S. would "instantly win the war" if it ever decided to switch off its technology. All the officials were granted anonymity to speak freely. The Commission hosts the Element system on its own infrastructure rather than relying on Microsoft's cloud. That gives the institution greater control over its communications data and systems. "That is not the case with Teams, where all we have is a guarantee that Microslop will not peek inside," a fourth official wrote, presumably referring to Microsoft, in internal communications viewed by POLITICO. Element is a U.K. company whose software is used by governments and public-sector organizations in Europe. The application works much like Teams, allowing staff to hold "audio and video calls with Commission colleagues, send and receive files, and create dedicated 'rooms' for projects and conversations, much like chats and channels in M365 Teams," according to the Commission memo. "Obviously there are going to be some teething issues," said Element CEO Matthew Hodgson, adding there will always be "cognitive dissonance" when switching to a new app, if only because the "buttons" are in a different place. He noted that the United Nations and NATO also use Element Pro. "Change is always painful, particularly if it's a switch from a much-used program like Teams."

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My surgeon's kind face gave nothing away as I sat down to hear how my operation had gone. He knew, as I did, that what he was about to tell me would shape the rest of my life.

Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay criticised plans for Green members to pass a motion that defines Zionism as support for 'an ethnonationalist Jewish State'.