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The by-election to replace former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne is likely to take place at the end of February, after the process to hold the poll was begun.On Monday, government chief whip Jonathan Reynolds asked for the writ for the Gorton and Denton constituency to be issued in Parliament.The by-election has to take place between 21 and 27 working days from the issuing of the writ, so the poll is likely to fall on Thursday 26 February.Sir Keir Starmer has opted for the fastest possible by-election timetable in the seat, amid anxiety in the Labour Party about the bitter fallout…

Alan Shearer has accused former Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim of “arrogance” after his interim replacement Michael Carrick has won both of his games since taking the helm. The Red Devils followed up a comprehensive 2-0 victory over Manchester City with a dramatic 3-2 win over league-leaders Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday to push them into the Premier League’s top four. Questions are already being asked over Carrick’s suitability to the permanent job at Old Trafford, such is the improvement he’s made in the team in such a short space of time. READ MORE: Premier League winners and losers:…

Image: Simon Ray/Unsplash Microsoft is under scrutiny after it emerged that the company shared encryption keys with US law enforcement, an uncommon move that has alarmed privacy experts and reignited the debate over who truly controls encrypted data. According to Forbes staffer Thomas Brewster, Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker recovery keys that allowed investigators to unlock data on three encrypted laptops. The request came through a valid search warrant issued in a federal investigation in Guam into alleged fraud in the island’s COVID-19 unemployment assistance program. The laptops were protected by BitLocker, Microsoft’s full-disk encryption software that is enabled…

The Trump administration is planning on using Google Gemini to draft important federal regulations, . This is starting with the Department of Transportation, according to interviews with agency staffers. Regulations created by the DOT help keep us safe when traveling.The plan was initially presented to DOT staffers last month, with agency attorney Daniel Cohen writing to colleagues about AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings.” Gregory Zerzan, the agency’s general counsel, has indicated that President Donald Trump is “very excited by this initiative” and that DOT will be “the first agency that is fully enabled to use AI…

According to reports, Lucas Paqueta is edging closer to leaving West Ham as a ‘final agreement’ has been ‘reached’, while they want to sign a Serie A star. For the first time in a while, West Ham look like they have a chance of avoiding relegation to the Championship. The Hammers have looked doomed for much of this campaign, while Nuno Espirito Santo has looked on the brink of the sack in recent weeks. However, the London outfit have boosted their chances of survival by winning back-to-back Premier League games against Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland and they have done this…

A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug trafficking charges in a case that relied solely on intercepted evidence from the encrypted phone network Sky ECC. The case is the most significant rejection by a court of the validity of electronic evidence intercepted during an international police hacking operation against an encrypted phone network used by criminal groups. The provincial court in València found that prosecutors could not rely on digital evidence to prove their case when defendants had been refused access to the raw data harvested…

The 2026 Winter Olympics are taking place in Italy this year, with all the action taking place in Milan and the Alpine city of Cortina. This year marks the fourth time Italy has hosted the Winter Games; most recently, Turin hosted in 2006. Of the 16 sports that will be featured at the Winter Olympics, there will be 15 returning favorites, including figure skating, Alpine skiing, curling, ice hockey, speedskating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing and ski jumping, and one entirely new sport, snow mountaineering. (Will it be as big a hit as the 2024 Summer Games’ new addition, breaking? It remains…

Liverpool are getting closer to securing the services of Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton on a five-year deal, according to reports. The Reds have been having a tough season in the Premier League after winning the title last campaign under Arne Slot. After spending over £400m on new players over the summer transfer window, there are now rumours that Liverpool have decided to replace Slot. Liverpool lost 3-2 to Bournemouth on Saturday and dropped to fifth in the Premier League after arch-rivals Manchester United beat Arsenal to move above them. One of the players potential replacement Xabi Alonso wants to…

It is a 142-year footballing rivalry steeped in a centuries-old conflict dating back to political differences during the English Civil War. But maybe Sunderland and Newcastle can find some common ground over their decision to essentially forfeit games when their why aye talisman is unavailable. It feels a bit hypocritical of Regis Le Bris to implore Sunderland to not “search for excuses because it should be too easy to say that Granit wasn’t here with us,” considering he overthought Xhaka’s absence so thoroughly as to change the team’s shape while deploying Trai Hume in one of the more curious and…

Microsoft has announced that Azure’s US central datacentre region is the first to receive a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference accelerator, Maia 200. Microsoft describes Maia 200 as an inference powerhouse, built on TSMC 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 (floating point) tensor cores, a redesigned memory system that uses 21 6GB of the latest high-speed memory architecture (HBM3e). This is capable of transferring data at 7TB per second. Maia also provides 272MB of on-chip memory plus data movement engines, which Microsoft said is used to keep massive models fed, fast and highly utilised. According to the company, these hardware…