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When it comes to fashion, I would not claim to be an expert. But even I could have done better than this year's Met Gala cohort. Perhaps it was some sort of sophisticated joke which went way over my head.

The rat-borne virus that is suspected of killing three and sickening at least seven others on a cruise ship may have spread between passengers, in a rare event.

Deputy travel editor Hayley Minn enjoyed a honeymoon at Sandals in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

With his dark hair and chiselled features, DJ Richard Baker liked to think of himself as a good-looking charmer who could cast a spell on any woman he crossed paths with in England and Spain.

George Powell (pictured) had been on the run from the police for nine months when he attacked Lewis Prosser at a caravan site in Paignton, Devon, in October 2025.

David Haye has confirmed his plans to sue ITV for 'irreparable damage to his brand' amid claims I'm A Celeb bosses deliberately edited him in a negative light. 

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator.…

Gartner says some VMware customers may find it cheaper to move certain Linux VM workloads to IBM mainframes than to adopt Broadcom's new VMware licensing, especially for fleets of hundreds of Linux VMs and mission-critical apps needing long-term stability. The Register reports: Speaking to The Register to discuss the analyst firm's mid-April publication, "The State of the IBM Mainframe in 2026," [Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti] said some buyers in many fields are comparing mainframes to modern environments and deciding Big Blue's big iron comes out ahead. "I can build a multi-region cloud application, but things like data synchronization and high availability are things I need to build into application logic," he said. "The mainframe has that in the platform, which shields developers from complexity." He also thinks mainframes are ideally suited to workloads that need many years of transactional consistency and backward-compatibility. That said, Galimberti doesn't recommend the mainframe for all applications. He said mission-critical applications that are unlikely to change much for a decade are best-suited to the machines, as are Linux applications because the open source OS runs on IBM's hardware. IBM also offers the z/VM hypervisor, which he says can make Linux "even better and more enterprise-ready." Which is why Galimberti thinks IBM's ecosystem is attractive to VMware users, especially those who operate a fleet of 500 to 700 Linux VMs. [...] Committing to mainframes therefore means planning "to spend time negotiating price and renewal protections, rather than prioritizing the business value these solutions can deliver." Another downside is that mainframes pose clear lock-in risk, so users may hold back on useful customizations out of fear they make it harder to extricate themselves from the platform. Access to skills remains an issue, too, as kids these days mostly don't contemplate a career working with big iron. Galimberti sees more service providers investing in their mainframe programs, which might help. So does the availability of Linux.

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The 23-year-old's decision to pull out of the event in Rome came just 30 minutes after she conducted her pre-tournament media duties.

Always bet on backpropagation

Always bet on backpropagation

If you've ever read Anthropic's disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, "That's what I need to spice up financial operations," you're in luck.…

The artist, 62, took to Instagram with an emotional post which saw her eye bandaged following the operation before moving onto a patch amid her recovery.

The underside and tire of United Airlines Flight 169 struck a light pole and ​tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike around 2pm, according ​to a New Jersey State Police spokesperson.

Blake McElhatton (pictured with his pet dog Spirit), 31 from Derby, has left two jobs and has PTSD after his pet dog Spirit was brutally killed by a pack of XL Bullys.

As she joins a growing list of A-listers who welcome children in their late 40s and early 50s, experts have warned that high-profile examples can 'oversimply' the reality of getting pregnant...

Kylie Minogue gave a first glimpse into her life as she dropped the Netflix trailer for her upcoming 'intimate' documentary KYLIE on Instagram on Tuesday. 

A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK's Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The Register reports: The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe. A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required. The report even cites cases of children drawing a mustache on their faces to fool age detection filters. Seriously. While nearly half of UK kids say it's easy to bypass online age checks (and another 17 percent say it's neither hard nor easy), only 32 percent say they've actually bypassed them, according to Internet Matters. Like scoring some booze from "cool" parents, keeping age-gated content out of the hands of kids under the OSA is only as effective as parents let it be, and a quarter of them enable their kids' online delinquency. More specifically, Internet Matters found that a full 17 percent of parents admitted to actively helping their kids evade age checks, while an additional 9 percent simply turned a blind eye to it.

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A quick lick of paint might seem like a cheap way to make fences sing...but it can be a kiss of death for style, says one home and garden expert.

Pete Hegseth says the fragile ceasefire with Iran is still holding, even as he acknowledges that Iranian forces have attacked US troops nearly a dozen times since the pause in hostilities took effect.