Storms hit New York 24 hours from World Cup final: Spain suffer blow as last training session is cancelled and flash floods bring city to a standstill
There is also the threat of tornadoes in parts of New Jersey, winds of more than 65 miles per hour and of flooding to worsen after the area received up to three inches of rainfall in one hour.
Mel C is married! Sporty Spice, 52, ties the knot with her model boyfriend Chris Dingwall in a 'perfect' countryside ceremony in a stunning gown designed by her pal Victoria Beckham
Ms Chisholm, better known as Sporty Spice, or Mel C, said 'I do' dressed in a simple white, floor length gown while clutching a wildflower meadow bouquet at the Country House Cumbria.
Pregnant mother-of-two is blinded and her cat killed when her pets are 'poisoned by heroin' - as police arrest woman, 32
Courtney briefly lost her sight after falling ill herself and has been swamped with thousands of pounds of vet bills amid the ordeal, which has left one of her beloved cats dead and the rest critically unwell.
Cheapest World Cup final tickets rise above $10,000 as get-in price reaches double the Super Bowl record
As fans and A-listers alike flock to New Jersey for the FIFA showpiece on Sunday, prices have continued to rise ahead of what will be Lionel Messi's last ever World Cup match.
NextBSD Returns to Port Apple Source Onto FreeBSD
"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register:
Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell, we've mentioned him before: he put together the Gershwin desktop in GhostBSD. Soon after we covered Gershwin on GhostBSD, he asked the maintainers if he could take over the NextBSD project. He did have a relatively minor role in the original — you can see his list of commits.
The original NextBSD project was started by FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard in 2015 — its Wikipedia article has some of the history. The plan was to port some of the components of Apple's Darwin OS to FreeBSD... [T]he NextBSD plan is to take the FreeBSD kernel, the most capable of the FOSS BSD kernels, but replace FreeBSD's traditional and server-focused userland with the relevant parts of the publicly available Apple code. The rebooted NextBSD-redux is not based on a fork of the decade-old code. FreeBSD has moved on substantially in that time, and so have macOS and Darwin. This is a new project by a new developer, but it picks up the same overall plan, aims to assemble the same puzzle pieces, and shares the same intended goal.
In places, it does draw on a little of the same code, though. The NextBSD-redux README describes what's working so far, with a lot more detail in the porting notes. Although there's no graphical desktop yet, that's underway as well.... For us, perhaps the key aspect of NextBSD — both the original version and NextBSD-redux — is that it isn't an effort to build something completely new from scratch. It's an effort to cherry-pick and combine elements of existing separate FOSS projects, and assemble them into a useful whole.
The Team section of the homepage lists two core developers: Maloney and Anthropic's Claude Code. "From my perspective, AI is a force multiplier here," Maloney told The Register. "It is my team of developers, but I am steering the entire thing."
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Geri Halliwell is the first Spice Girl to arrive at Mel C's Lake District wedding as Sporty ties the knot with model boyfriend Chris Dingwall
Mel is set to marry the model this weekend at the stunning Country House Cumbria, with all of the Spice Girls, except Victoria Beckham, in attendance.
Alan Carr's first task after he moves into his castle? Have a real banquet of course!
Alan Carr has said he plans to hold a banquet at his Scottish castle as he prepares to move into the £3.3 million property.
Elsa Pataky's diet and fitness secrets revealed as Chris Hemsworth's stunning wife turns 50
Aside from her glittering Hollywood career, Elsa Pataky is widely admired for her healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Johnny Vegas shares rare insight into his relationship with long-term girlfriend Vikki Jones after she joined his antiques business so they can spend 'more quality time together'
The comedian, 54, has been dating the art gallery owner for three years, and this year she's begun working at his antiques shop in Cheshire.
Strictly's Jowita Przystal shows off her sculpted abs in a white bikini while in Madrid as rumoured former flame Pete Wicks hard-launches his romance with Olivia Attwood
The Strictly Come Dancing star, 31, is currently soaking up the sun on holiday as her former flame Pete Wicks hard-launched his romance with Olivia Attwood .
Argentina or Spain? Daily Mail Sport experts predict who will win World Cup final as Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal go head to head for the first time
The reigning world champions take on the reigning European champions in Sunday's World Cup with Argentina hoping to retain the trophy after facing Spain.
Vogue Williams says it's a 'shame' Katie Price hasn't learned from her past relationships as she criticises her for not 'being kind' to her exes - after she hit out at her 'really stupid' husband Lee Andrews
Vogue Williams has said it's a 'shame' Katie Price hasn't learned from her past relationships, after she was embroiled in a feud with Lee Andrews.
CNBC's Jim Cramer Says He Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof AI Is Paying Off
In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC:
"I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now...." While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into measurable financial returns for customers. Cramer said one of his biggest concerns this earnings season is that companies adopting AI have largely failed to point to meaningful revenue gains or cost savings from the technology. "We're still early in the earnings season but already we are not hearing anything material about the use of AI," he said...
While AI infrastructure companies continue to benefit from the spending boom, Cramer said the same cannot yet be said for many of the businesses buying the technology... Cramer said only a handful of companies, most notably fintech firm Block and web-security provider Cloudflare, have clearly attributed recent layoffs to AI adoption. Block did so in February, while Cloudflare's job cuts were disclosed in May. Plus, critics argue some companies may also cite AI as a buzzy excuse for cuts, leading to the creation of the term "AI washing." Ultimately, Cramer said that if more businesses do not begin reporting tangible returns, the AI skeptics will grow louder, with ramifications for the tech industry's big spenders.
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Major incident is declared at retail park as five are rushed to hospital
Two air ambulances landed near Mostyn Champneys retail park in Llandudno after medics were called at 10.52am to an 'incident'.
A120 CLOSED after crash at Galley's Corner roundabout
Reports suggest the Galley's Corner roundabout is blocked with traffic being diverted on to Cressing Road
King Charles' Crown Estate charges the RNLI more than £60,000 a year to launch its lifeboats
The Crown Estate is a public corporation that runs the monarchy's £16billion land and property portfolio, including virtually all of the seabed around the UK
Ricky Gervais says 'offending people makes it funnier for him' as he hits back at critics who blast his controversial jokes
Ricky Gervais has admitted 'offending people makes it funnier for him' as he hit back at critics who blast his controversial jokes.
Lindsey Graham's aide of 27 years reveals the secret 'love language' behind his unlikely Trump friendship... the day he was 'madder than a hornet' and the final call that never came
For over 27 years, Senator Lindsey Graham would call his communications director Kevin Bishop in after nine in the morning to get a jump start on the news.
Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science
Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015. But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN.
It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons is in great shape and ready to transmit a stream of science data gathered during hibernation from its location in the region of icy objects known as the Kuiper Belt.
Pluto is the largest of thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, that exist in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system — remnants from its formation 4.5 billion years ago... The spacecraft is capturing data about the rotation rates, orientations and shapes... The measurements provide insights into how planets are born from dust and pebbles, said Pontus Brandt, New Horizons project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
"There seems to be more paired, snowman-shaped bodies, like Arrokoth, out there than anyone expected," Brandt wrote in an email. "Are such binaries the most common planetesimal and is this how larger planets have been built in our own and other stellar systems? These are very deep questions that New Horizons can help answer."
The spacecraft also measures the distribution of gas in the outer heliosphere, the expansive, protective bubble formed by a steady stream of particles that release from the sun called the solar wind. Meanwhile, an instrument called the Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation is measuring galactic cosmic rays, extremely fast particles created when stars explode. The particles pose one of the more severe threats for human activities in space, Brandt said, but the boundary of the heliosphere acts as a shield to protect our solar system from 70% of them. New Horizons' data could help scientists learn more about how this puzzling shielding works, he said.
Another instrument, the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, has collected data that has thrown New Horizon's team a curveball, Brandt said. The team expected dust abundance to be high within the Kuiper Belt due to the significant presence of small objects. But New Horizons has traveled beyond the known boundary of the Kuiper Belt — and it's still in a dusty environment.
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Former presenter Michael Barrymore's move to Devon turns sour - as his TikTok fans learn of star's grisly past
Michael Barrymore decided to dramatically reset his life this year: moving out of London and reinventing himself professionally as a TIkTok influencer.