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Andy Flintoff gets in touch: “Looking at that Liverpool line-up, the two players with squad numbers >11 could so easily be switched with Endo & Salah with not a lot of positional changes required, which would leave it with a very retro looking 1-11.”

Arne Slot has been explaining his team selection to Sky Sports.

MP speaks to delegates in Liverpool after boycotting conference yesterday

Kemi Badenoch has reiterated her calls for the chancellor to resign on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, after accusing Rachel Reeves of breaking promises not to raise taxes.

In this year’s budget, Reeves froze tax thresholds for three years longer than previously planned, meaning that as wages rise more people will have to start paying income tax.

The chancellor called an emergency press conference telling everyone about how terrible the state of the finances were and now we have seen that the OBR had told her the complete opposite. She was raising taxes to pay for welfare.

The only thing that was unfunded was the welfare payments which she has made and she’s doing it on the backs of a lot of people out there who are working very hard and getting poorer. And because of that, I believe she should resign.

The shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, has written to the FCA (the Financial Conduct Authority). Hopefully there will be an investigation, because it looks like what she was doing was trying to pitch-roll her budget – tell everyone how awful it would be and then they wouldn’t be as upset when she finally announced it – and still sneak in those tax rises to pay for welfare. That’s not how we should be running this process.

[Deal du Jour] Il y a des jeux de société pour tous les goûts et pour tous les âges. Mais ce qu'on préfère, ce sont ceux qui sont en promotion.

AMD passe à l’offensive sur la gamme X3D : le Ryzen 7 9850X3D est désormais listé officiellement avec un boost à 5,6 GHz. Un signe clair que la riposte s’organise face aux prochaines générations d’Intel, notamment les Arrow Lake Refresh : Core Ultra 290K, 270K Plus.

Ryzen 7 9850X3D officiel : 8 cœurs, 5,6 GHz et 120 W

Après plusieurs rumeurs crédibles relayées sur notre site, AMD a publié une page dédiée au Ryzen 7 9850X3D. La fiche confirme une configuration à 8 cœurs et 16 threads, 96 Mo de cache L3, un boost maximal à 5,6 GHz et un TDP de 120 W. Par rapport au Ryzen 7 9800X3D, on gagne 400 MHz de fréquence en pointe, à cache et nombre de cœurs identiques. D’après les informations disponibles, AMD tirerait parti de dies mieux triés pour proposer une alternative plus affûtée face aux plateformes Intel à venir.

La puce s’inscrit dans la famille « Granite Ridge » des Ryzen 9000 X3D. Si AMD ne détaille pas encore les performances applicatives, la combinaison 3D V-Cache + boost relevé laisse présager des gains sensibles en jeu, cœur de cible de ces références.

Un Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 en ligne de mire

Au-delà de cette annonce, un modèle phare resterait en préparation : le Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. Selon les fuites, il embarquerait 16 cœurs et 32 threads, avec de la 3D V-Cache sur les deux chiplets pour un total d’environ 192 Mo de L3. Il serait cadencé à 4,30 GHz de base, pour un boost proche de 5,6 GHz, et un TDP aux alentours de 200 W. La nouvelle dénomination « X3D2 » laisserait entendre un compromis de 100 MHz sur le pic de boost par rapport à une version X3D simple pile, en échange d’un cache nettement accru. Toutefois, seul le Ryzen 7 9850X3D est confirmé à ce jour par AMD.

AMD se positionne ainsi en amont des « Arrow Lake Refresh » attendus début 2026 et de « Nova Lake » pressenti pour fin 2026. La marque semble temporiser, tout en consolidant son offre X3D à court terme.

Source : TechPowerUp

Kiwi developers are punching well above their weight thanks to a unique government support program that offers more than just grants

Those not immersed in the world of gaming might not be familiar with Pax Australia: the enormous gaming conference and exhibition that takes over the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre every October. My favourite section is always Pax Rising, a showcase of indie video games and tabletop, the majority Australian – but there has been a recent shift that was particularly notable this year: many of the standout titles had crossed the Tasman, arriving from New Zealand.

At the booth run by Code – New Zealand’s government-funded Centre for Digital Excellence – 18 Kiwi developers demoed their forthcoming games in a showcase of the vibrant local scene that was buzzing with crowds. In the comedic Headlice, I controlled a parasitic headcrab monster which could latch on to people’s brains and puppet them. How Was Your Day?, a cozy time-loop game set in New Zealand, warmed my heart with its story about a young girl searching for her missing dog. And Killing Things With Your Friends, a co-operative multiplayer action game about surviving bizarre medical trials, had me pulling off my own arm to use as a weapon against enemy hordes.

I was travelling with my parents and discovered that Don Giovanni was being performed while we were there. I simply had to try to see it

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At age 20, I fell head over heels in love with opera. It happened after seeing Joseph Losey’s film adaptation of Don Giovanni. Something clicked in me. I became a fervent subscriber to the Australian Opera and saw every opera I possibly could.

A few years later, I was travelling in France with my parents and discovered that Don Giovanni was being performed in Avignon while we were there, with José van Dam, who had played Leporello in the film, starring as Don Giovanni. I simply had to get a ticket to see it.

We’re taught that modesty is good and pride is bad. This ignores the fact that telling ourselves we’re OK is actually beneficial

What’s your favourite thing about yourself? Stylist’s Love Yourself campaign asked over 400 women that, and published eight pages of their answers. People mostly picked low-key, quite specific stuff – “I can cook something out of nothing”; “I’m really strong”; “I can talk to anyone”; “I’ve got an excellent bum” – and it was lovely, and touching, to see women affirm what they like about themselves. It also felt strange – almost shocking? Stylist called giving yourself a compliment “squirm-inducing” and yes, the thought of doing it myself made me squirm.

I feel something similar when I see people online expressing uncomplicated, justified pride in their achievements or liking who they are out loud – it’s a sort of “is that allowed?” feeling, like the rules have changed and no one told me. If toxic humility is a thing, I definitely have it, because I get a masochistic buzz from self-deprecation, especially when it provokes someone into contradicting me. I have a shopping list of things I hate about myself that I take out and luxuriate in on sleepless nights, but deep down, I don’t actually believe I’m a worthless, irredeemable worm (even typing that feels transgressive!); I do hate the idea of letting anyone know that though.