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This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket
FunnyPlaying has announced the FPGB Mini, a compact handheld that plays original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, as well as ROMs. Its smaller size and lower price make it an appealing alternative to Analogue’s Pocket, although it lacks support for Game Boy Advance and Sega Game Gear games. The FPGB Mini uses FPGA…
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Afghan boat migrant who travelled 150 miles to stab shop worker to death because he had been messaging his cousin’s wife is jailed for life
Sulaiman Tajzai, an 18-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years for the murder of Farmanullah Sherzad, 26, whom he stabbed to death in Westminster on 27 March. The judge described the attack as exceptionally violent and savage, with Tajzai stabbing his victim at least ten…
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Oxford United apologise for launching ‘United 93’ clothing range around 9/11 anniversary
Oxford United released an American-style sportswear collection called the “Campus Collection” on Friday, which inadvertently carried the slogan “United 93” on its clothing items. The phrase was intended to reference the club’s founding year of 1893, but it coincided with the name of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the 9/11 terrorist attacks…
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Could AI really end humanity? Our tech experts are answering your questions now
The article presents a Q&A discussion examining whether AI poses existential risk to humanity, highlighting tensions between discussing potential apocalyptic scenarios and addressing current AI harms. Critics argue that AI companies may exploit extinction fears as a smokescreen to avoid regulation of present-day problems such as algorithmic discrimination, whilst others contend that discussing multiple risks…
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Army’s first female Master Tailor accused of repeatedly pinching subordinate’s bum leaving him feeling ‘violated’, court martial told
Warrant Officer Emma Colton, the British Army’s first female Master Tailor, was acquitted at Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire after being accused of repeatedly pinching a subordinate’s bottom and engaging in inappropriate conduct whilst deployed to the Falkland Islands. The case involved allegations that she had followed the male sergeant, touched him without consent during…
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‘This noise came out of me and I just crumbled’: Mint Velvet founder opens up on tragic death of her 20-year-old son after he was hit by car while cycling
Liz Houghton, co-founder of fashion brand Mint Velvet, has opened up about the death of her 20-year-old son Will, who was struck by a car whilst cycling on the A32 in Hampshire in January 2016. Speaking on Davina McCall’s podcast Begin Again a decade later, she described the moment she learned her son’s head injuries…
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Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
Microsoft’s September security update for Excel, intended to address remote code execution vulnerabilities, inadvertently broke the paste function across multiple versions (2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024). The paste operation fails silently without error messages, making the malfunction particularly troublesome for users who receive no indication that their paste action has failed. This represents part of…
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Airports chaos caused by ‘software glitch’ officials find – as Government orders further probe but dodges sacking under-fire NATS boss
A preliminary investigation found that a software glitch in NATS’s air traffic control system caused widespread disruption on 8 September, grounding more than 2,000 flights and affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. The malfunction occurred when an aircraft identification-code request was interrupted by a higher-priority task and failed to restart correctly, triggering restrictions on UK…
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Banker boyfriend wanted to offer his partner £70,000 plus land in Greece to separate before she stabbed him to death and left his body to rot for nine days, court hears
The trial at the Old Bailey concerns the death of City banker Henrik Slotsaa, 52, who was killed by his partner Joanna Cierpka, 51, in March 2026. After police discovered his partially-decomposed body in their Elephant and Castle flat, Cierpka attempted to harm herself and was arrested. The case has attracted attention because of evidence…