Sex tapes, pottery shards, a man biffed over the head on his private island … this crime drama based on Elizabeth George’s hit novels fires off every Chekhov’s gun imaginable. Plus it has an unusually buff posho. Strap in!

He is a Balliol man, a suave toff in a suit as sharp as his cheekbones. Unusually buff for a posho, but that is because he is played by Leo Suter, who was Harald Hardrada in Vikings: Valhalla until about 10 minutes ago and evidently still has protein shakes to use up.

She is a working-class Norfolk lass (“Swaffham High, Swaffham Tech”) in sturdy boots and a utility vest who is in the last chance saloon, job-wise, because of her habit of mouthing off to her bosses. She is played by Sofia Barclay, best known as Dr O’Sullivan in Ted Lasso but not getting to use her comedy chops here, because you mustn’t be funny in front of Balliol men. They find it damn confusing and have to be taken off for a lie down.

Daughter of the Wisconsin author confirmed her father died on 29 December and did not provide cause of death

Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of film-maker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75.

Schumacher’s daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confirmed Monday that her father died on 29 December. She did not provide the cause of death.

Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday said a Hilton hotel canceled reservations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota, where the Trump administration has deployed officers after allegations of fraud against Somali immigrants.

After ICE officers booked rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton canceled their reservations, the department said in a post on X.

It’s not supposed to be like this. Nigeria, for at least two decades, have been a team that huffed and puffed, struggled with the weight of their own history and expectation, seemed always less than the sum of their parts. Even as they won the tournament in 2013, or got to the final in 2024, the sense of effort was palpable. Nothing came easily to them. They’re not meant to be a side who canter through last-16 ties.

But on a foul night in Fez, though, the rain leaching across the stadium, Nigeria, inspired by Ademola Lookman, produced a performance of emphatic attacking quality and effectively had the game won with two goals before the half hour. Lookman put them ahead after 20 minutes with his third goal of the tournament, a typical finish into the top corner after a clever cutback from Akor Adams. Five minutes later, it was Lookman’s cross that Victor Osimhen turned in to make it 2-0. The same combination added a third two minutes into the second half, and whatever sliver of hope remained for Mozambique was vanquished for good. Adams smashed in a fourth from yet another Lookman assist.

Department of education, across the street from the supreme court, also evacuated

Arizona’s supreme court building was evacuated Monday morning after multiple vials that tested positive for a homemade explosive substance were sent to the building, according to the state’s department of public safety (DPS).

At about 8am on Monday, DPS responded to reports of a “suspicious package”. Later that morning multiple agencies, including the US Bureau of alcohol firearms and tobacco responded.

Wi‑Fi 8 arrive chez MediaTek avec Filogic 8000, une gamme pensée pour les réseaux denses, la latence minimale et les usages dopés à l’IA.

Wi‑Fi 8 Filogic 8000 : coordination multi‑AP et latence

Présentée au CES 2026, la famille Filogic 8000 vise le haut de gamme et doit porter l’écosystème Wi‑Fi 8 sur les passerelles (broadband gateways, points d’accès entreprise) et les clients grand public comme smartphones, PC portables, TV, dongles de streaming, tablettes et objets connectés. L’objectif : une fiabilité très élevée, une réactivité accrue et une consommation optimisée, alors que les environnements sans fil se saturent.

Le Wi‑Fi 8 met l’accent sur quatre axes techniques. Côté coordination multi‑AP, Co‑BF (Coordinated Beamforming), Co‑SR (Coordinated Spatial Reuse) et MAP (Multi‑AP Scheduling) orchestrent plusieurs points d’accès pour réduire les interférences et lisser l’efficacité globale. En efficacité spectrale et coexistence, DSO (Dynamic Subband Operation), NPCA (Non‑Primary Channel Access) et IDC (In‑Device Coexistence) améliorent le partage des canaux encombrés.

Pour la couverture et la portée, ELR (Enhanced Long Range) et dRU (Distributed‑Tone Resource Unit) renforcent l’uplink, abaissent les latences et assurent un roaming plus fluide jusque sur les bords du réseau. Enfin, en latence et fiabilité, l’adaptation plus fine des débits et l’APPDU (Aggregated PPDU) visent une constance de service pour la XR, le cloud gaming ou l’automatisation industrielle.

Le Wi‑Fi Alliance salue l’avance de MediaTek : « Wi‑Fi 8 représentera une nouvelle ère de connectivité hautes performances », indique Kevin Robinson, président et CEO, qui souligne des usages plus sophistiqués et une connectivité multi‑gigabit plus fiable. MediaTek revendique pour sa part une démonstration au CES et rappelle son rythme d’exécution tenu à l’ère Wi‑Fi 7.

Périmètre et calendrier : gateways, clients et partenaires

Les solutions Filogic 8000 ciblent des appareils premium et flagship exploitant le Wi‑Fi 8, avec un premier chipset attendu chez les clients plus tard cette année. MediaTek rappelle expédier plus de 2 milliards d’appareils connectés par an et travailler avec Deutsche Telekom, Airties, SoftAtHome, Zyxel, et d’autres partenaires pour accélérer l’adoption. « Nous pionnons la livraison du Wi‑Fi 8 sur un large spectre d’applications », résume Alan Hsu, vice‑président et DG de l’Intelligent Connectivity Business Unit.

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Source : TechPowerUp