Three far-right extremists who amassed hundreds of weapons and planned to carry out attacks on targets including a mosque have been convicted of terrorism offences. Brogan Stewart, 25, from West Yorkshire, Christopher Ringrose, 34, from Staffordshire, and Marco Pitzettu, 25, from Derbyshire, were part of an online group who "idolised the Nazi regime". Sheffield Crown Court was told how Stewart had detailed torturing a Muslim leader using an "information extraction kit". All three were found guilty of terrorism offences at the same court on Wednesday and are due to be sentenced on 17 July.Counter Terrorism Policing North EastThe trio had amassed a cache of weapons as part of their planning During the nine-week trial, the court heard more than 200 weapons including machetes, hunting knives, swords and crossbows were found at their homes. Ringrose had also begun to build a 3D-printed semi-automatic firearm, which counter-terror police said would have been a "lethal weapon".

Much has been made of the fact that the year's most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. It's a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for 40, and everybody wins. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Sandfall Interactive, the game's French developer, comprises around 30 people, but as Rock Paper Shotgun points out, there are many more listed in the game's credits – from a Korean animation team to the outsourced quality assurance testers, and the localisation and performance staff who give the game and its story heft and emotional believability.

Early this year the Chinese company Deepseek revealed that it had developed a very powerful model mostly using Nvidia chips obtained before the Biden administration closed an export loophole in 2023, heightening the intensity of the race. Last week, the Trump administration ripped up those rules, with a spokesperson calling them "overly complex, bureaucratic" and saying they "would stymie American innovation." They then switched to a new tack: linking countries' access to AI chips with larger trade negotiations. Transitioning to a negotiation-based approach, the administration argued, could allow for more flexibility from country-to-country and allow Trump to secure key business concessions from Middle Eastern partners. Business and governments in the Middle East have massive ambitions for AI, aiming to position themselves at the forefront of this emerging technology.

Will artificial intelligence (AI) help smash through the technical debt that has been growing in recent years? Or will emerging technology add a new layer of issues? Or, looking at it another way, could the overhang of technical debt slow down efforts to adopt AI? The good news is that a recently issued report suggests AI may be an answer to finding and reducing systems that slow things down. Technical debt is defined as shortcuts or workarounds taken to meet delivery deadlines quickly, according to tech analyst Gartner.

Still running Windows 10 on your gaming PC? You're not just behind, you're soon to be unsupported. Microsoft is officially ending security updates for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025, which means now's the time to upgrade your operating system. If you're gaming, working, or doing anything important on that machine, Windows 11 Pro offers the security, performance, and features you actually need in 2025. Right now, you can get a Windows 11 Pro license for just 14.97 through June 1 at 11:59 PM, no subscription required. Windows 11 Pro brings a major performance boost, especially for gamers.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. There are plenty of negative stereotypes about games and gamers. And it's true that focusing on gaming to the detriment of all else will have negative effects--there's a reason that the World Health Organization recognizes video game addiction as a mental health condition. In the 50 years since Atari unleashed Pong on the world, there's been plenty of research on the effects of video games on our brains, and it's not all bad. Here are a few of the potential benefits of gaming, according to research. A research review published in American Psychologist in 2013 by Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, looked at decades of research and highlighted the various benefits found in gaming.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seized on a May 9 video of a train car meeting among three European leaders to claim they had used drugs and were trying to hide it. The video showed French President Emmanuel Macron sitting at a table with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer. On the table before them were two blue folders, two drinking glasses and a small white object. The three men smiled for photographers who had gathered. Just as the shutter clicks started, Macron removed the crumpled white object from the tabletop and held it in his fist.

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Around a year ago, I deleted all my dating apps. After eight first dates in a row and a period of inactivity on the apps, I decided if I couldn't find love in real life, then perhaps I didn't want it. Fast forward to spring 2025, and I am still off the dating apps but am admittedly feeling less certain about my scorched-earth approach. However, one thing remains crystal clear in my mind: the desire not to embark on a relationship with someone whose political views feel incompatible with my own. There was the fan of misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate, not to mention the paranoid conspiracy theorist -- both of whom I met on Hinge.

Kushal Kedia (left) and Prithwish Dan (right) are members of the development team behind RHyME, a system that allows robots to learn tasks by watching a single how-to video. Cornell researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence – called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) – that allows robots to learn tasks by watching a single how-to video. RHyME could fast-track the development and deployment of robotic systems by significantly reducing the time, energy and money needed to train them, the researchers said. "One of the annoying things about working with robots is collecting so much data on the robot doing different tasks," said Kushal Kedia, a doctoral student in the field of computer science and lead author of a corresponding paper on RHyME. "That's not how humans do tasks. We look at other people as inspiration."