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A major new study suggests a previously unknown risk factor for dementia that strikes decades before symptoms manifest.

The series returned on Sunday night for its 25th series with Geordie duo Ant and Dec presenting live from Brisbane, Australia.

Many people in Dublin Airport were on cloud nine before they even departed for their flights after Republic of Ireland's dramatic win over Hungary on Sunday afternoon.

Android's security team published a blog post this week about their experience using Rust. Its title? "Move fast and fix things." Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn't just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, with memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time. We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one... Data shows that Rust code requires fewer revisions. This trend has been consistent since 2023. Rust changes of a similar size need about 20% fewer revisions than their C++ counterparts... In a self-reported survey from 2022, Google software engineers reported that Rust is both easier to review and more likely to be correct. The hard data on rollback rates and review times validates those impressions. Historically, security improvements often came at a cost. More security meant more process, slower performance, or delayed features, forcing trade-offs between security and other product goals. The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics. With Rust support now mature for building Android system services and libraries, we are focused on bringing its security and productivity advantages elsewhere. Android's 6.12 Linux kernel is our first kernel with Rust support enabled and our first production Rust driver. More exciting projects are underway, such as our ongoing collaboration with Arm and Collabora on a Rust-based kernel-mode GPU driver. [They've also been deploying Rust in firmware for years, and Rust "is ensuring memory safety from the ground up in several security-critical Google applications," including Chromium's parsers for PNG, JSON, and web fonts.] 2025 was the first year more lines of Rust code were added to Android than lines of C++ code...

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It's a rule that had resulted in thousands of people being fined

There has to be a special circle in hell reserved for people who ruin your summer holiday. May it rain there endlessly, and be filled with sadistic passport officials and drunken stag parties.

Jets cornerback Kris Boyd was hit in the abdomen in the shocking incident, which took place in Midtown early on Sunday morning.

Councillor Kathleen Fraser provided a character witness and defence statement on behalf of Ronald Evans, 84, one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners.

Shabana Mahmood is to unveil a 'sliding scale' of penalties for states not accepting failed asylum seekers or foreign criminals.

Keir Starmer was due to hold a crunch phone call with the US President as the fallout intensifies over the corporation twice broadcasting doctored footage of his speech before the Capitol riots.

Richard Tice is set to produce figures showing that Reform's local authorities are making savings totalling £331million by ending wasteful spending since the May elections

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ will reportedly soon be returning to TV in a huge reboot 40 years after it first aired. 

Police have urged three Good Samaritans to come forward after two teens 'intervened and had an altercation' with attackers after a teenage girl was raped.

There are 'some really encouraging early indications' that support seemed to be slipping, with fewer doctors striking than in any previous rounds of industrial action according to reports

A top budget airline has cut the number of flights to a major UK airport in an attempt to slash costs. 

Terry Willis and Alex Fowlie, pictured, are among the criminals to have been served with ancillary orders from the National Crime Agency, which include so-called 'boat bans'

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: [T]he computing power of crypto mining generates a lot of heat, most which just ends up vented into the air. According to digital assets brokerage, K33, the bitcoin mining industry generates about 100 TWh of heat annually — enough to heat all of Finland.This energy waste within a very energy-intense industry is leading entrepreneurs to look for ways to repurpose the heat for homes, offices, or other locations, especially in colder weather months. During a frigid snap earlier this year, The New York Times reviewed HeatTrio, a $900 space heater that also doubles as a bitcoin mining rig. Others use the heat from their own in-home cryptocurrency mining to spread warmth throughout their house. "I've seen bitcoin rigs running quietly in attics, with the heat they generate rerouted through the home's ventilation system to offset heating costs. It's a clever use of what would otherwise be wasted energy," said Jill Ford, CEO of Bitford Digital, a sustainable bitcoin mining company based in Dallas... "Same price as heating the house, but the perk is that you are mining bitcoin," Ford said... The crypto-heated future may be unfolding in the town of Challis, Idaho, where Cade Peterson's company, Softwarm, is repurposing bitcoin heat to ward off the winter. Several shops and businesses in town are experimenting with Softwarm's rigs to mine and heat. At TC Car, Truck and RV Wash, Peterson says, the owner was spending $25 a day to heat his wash bays to melt snow and warm up the water. "Traditional heaters would consume energy with no returns. They installed bitcoin miners and it produces more money in bitcoin than it costs to run," Peterson said. Meanwhile, an industrial concrete company is offsetting its $1,000 a month bill to heat its 2,500-gallon water tank by heating it with bitcoin. Peterson has heated his own home for two-and-a-half years using bitcoin mining equipment and believes that heat will power almost everything in the future. "You will go to Home Depot in a few years and buy a water heater with a data port on it and your water will be heated with bitcoin," Peterson said. Derek Mohr, clinical associate professor at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business, remains skeptical. Bitcoin mining is so specialized now that a home computer, or even network of home computers, would have almost zero chance of being helpful in mining a block of bitcoin, according to Mohr, with mining farms use of specialized chips that are created to mine bitcoin much faster than a home computer... "The bitcoin heat devices I have seen appear to be simple space heaters that use your own electricity to heat the room..." CNBC also spoke to Andrew Sobko, founder of Argentum AI (which is building a marketplace for sharing computing power), who says the idea makes the most sense in larger settings. "We're working with partners who are already redirecting compute heat into building heating systems and even agricultural greenhouse warming. That's where the economics and environmental benefits make real sense. Instead of trying to move the heat physically, you move the compute closer to where that heat provides value."

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Sarah McKenzie, from Belle Vale, says she has been contacted by the DWP debt division demanding £5,444.19 for the last half-decade.

The TV personality, 38, who shares Larose, four, with her ex, Charles Drury, arrived on the orange carpet wearing a black leather jacket and trousers.

The death has sparked outrage among parents and community members with several other students reportedly subjected to the same punishment for arriving late to school.