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Saturday 16 May 2026 3:48 pm  |  Updated:  Saturday 16 May 2026 4:39 pm Wes Streeting has resigned from government. Former health secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed he will join any potential leadership race, as pressure piles on Starmer’s premiership.Speaking to Sky News, Streeting spoke of his intention to join the race.He said: “We need a proper contest with the best candidates on the field, and I’ll be standing.”He went on to confirm that he wouldn’t trigger an immediate contest as it wasn’t in the “party’s interest” or national interest.He argued going ahead with an immediate contest would mean “the new…

Easterhouse Road is closed between Brodie Gardens and Springhill Parkway after a crash, with drivers urged to use alternative routes. Source link

“This is a very special relationship between a father and his son. Mr Collett was the principal carer for his father before he went into custody.”16:23, 15 May 2026Updated 16:24, 15 May 2026A PSNI supplied image of the AKM rifle seized in DerryA Derry man caught with an assault rifle was refused compassionate bail today to visit his dying father in hospital.Patrick James Collett, 58, of Rossnagalliagh, is in custody after he pleaded guilty to possession of a Romanian AKM assault rifle and ammunition in suspicious circumstances.He also pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to possessing the 7.62 assault rifle which had…

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired. This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is out on medical leave. Wired also reports that in a staff memo, Brockman described plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into a single unified experience. “We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise,” Brockman reportedly said. This is just…

Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss. I’ve spent the better part of a decade at a home desk, iterating on the setup as I go — gaming chair, lumbar support, the works. None of it guarantees good posture. Then I came across Isa, a desk device from German startup Deep Care that takes a different…

I have always thought New Zealand’s wilder places work best when people are given time to meet them properly. Not in a rushed, heroic sort of way, and not with the expectation that every hour outside has to become a story. More often, it happens quite quietly. Someone steps out of the vehicle in Fiordland and takes a few moments before saying anything. A family stops along the West Coast and realises the rain has changed the colour of everything: the road, the forest, the river stones. In Central Otago, people sometimes look across the open land for longer than…

Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion. But in 2019, when it was three years old, it came dangerously close to failure – incinerating a shocking amount of money. It was trying to solve a technical problem no one in the semiconductor industry thought could be done.  “We were spending about $8 million a month,” founder CEO Andrew Feldman told TechCrunch of that period. “At this point,…

Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models. On May 20, Amazon will end support for the following Kindle devices: Kindle 1st Generation Kindle 2nd Generation Kindle DX  Kindle DX Graphite Kindle Keyboard Kindle 4 Kindle 5 Kindle Touch Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation Kindle Fire 1st Generation  Kindle Fire 2nd Generation  Kindle Fire HD 7  Kindle Fire HD 8.9 The move means users will only be able to use their devices to read content that’s already downloaded. So, naturally, people are jailbreaking them. Jailbreaking refers to bypassing the software restrictions…

Key TakeawaysBitcoin fell below $78,000 as rumours of potential U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran intensified.The sudden crypto market crash wiped out $666 million in long positions.Investors look ahead as the Israel Defense Forces prepare assets for a conflict that could last for weeks. Bitcoin Slips Below $78,000 as Geopolitical Tensions Rise Bitcoin dipped below $78,000 Saturday morning amid fears that the U.S. and Israel are about to resume bombing Iranian facilities. Bitstamp data show that the top cryptocurrency dropped to a session low of $77,614 before recovering and consolidating around $78,000. The slide continues a downward trend that…

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