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French President François Hollande has promised to "respond" after a hacking attack targeted presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. He gave no further details but said he knew of the risks of such attacks because they had "happened elsewhere". The French media and public have been warned that spreading details of the attack would breach strict election rules and could bring criminal charges. The centrist Mr Macron faces far-right candidate Marine Le Pen on Sunday. A trove of documents - said to mix genuine files with fake ones - was released online shortly before campaigning ended on Friday. Mr Hollande told Agence France-Presse on a visit to a cultural centre in Paris: "We knew that there were these risks during the presidential campaign because it happened elsewhere. Nothing will go without a response." He did not elaborate, but Mr Macron's team has already been the victim of attacks which it blames on groups based in Russia and Ukraine, and last year's US election campaign was also the subject of hacking attacks targeting the Democratic Party. Mr Hollande added that he could not say whether the attack was an attempt to destabilise the election. The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the impact of the hacking attack on the vote is unlikely to be significant, as Mr Macron enjoyed a wide lead in opinion polls that were taken before campaigning ended. Why is there a ban on spreading the data? It is part of the restrictions that came into force at midnight local time on Friday. No campaigning or media coverage of it that could sway the election is allowed until polls close at 20:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Sunday. Some overseas French territories have already begun voting. The election commission warned it could be a criminal offence to republish the leaked data. Politicians and media are forbidden from giving details of, or commenting on, the leak. The election commission said in a statement on Saturday: "On the eve of the most important election for our institutions, the commission calls on everyone present on internet sites and social networks, primarily the media, but also all citizens, to show responsibility and not to pass on this content, so as not to distort the sincerity of the ballot." Can a ban work? Analysts say that, given the open flow of social media content, policing this could be impossible. The French daily Liberation covered the leak by publishing a general Q&A with a journalist. Le Monde said it would "not publish the contents before the second round". It said it would vet and publish relevant material but "respecting our journalistic and ethical rules". It also carried a general Q&A of the leaks. Florian Philippot, deputy leader of Ms Le Pen's National Front party, got a tweet in before the rules came in, saying: "Will Macronleaks teach us something that investigative journalism has deliberately kept silent?" What data was released? The documents were leaked on a file sharing website late on Friday. About nine gigabytes of data were posted by an anonymous user. Mr Macron's En Marche movement said internal campaign documents, including emails and financial data, had been taken in an "act of massive, co-ordinated hacking". "The leaked files were obtained several weeks ago by hacking personal and professional email accounts of several officials of the movement," it said in a statement. Where Le Pen and Macron stand on key issues How did the leaks spread? The hashtag #MacronLeaks appeared on Twitter on an account used by a US alt-right figure on Friday afternoon - and was reportedly retweeted 87 times in the first five minutes, suggesting the use of automated bots to spread the information faster. Within 90 minutes, the information had caught the attention of prominent supporters of Marine Le Pen and was further spread by bots. Some three-and-a-half hours after the initial tweet, #MacronLeaks had been used some 47,000 times and the prominent Wikileaks account played a key role in publicising the hashtag. What we learned from TV debate Who might be responsible? Unclear. The Macron camp has not blamed any specific party but said the hack clearly aimed to damage it and undermine French democracy, It compared it to the leak of Democratic Party emails in last year's US presidential election that was blamed on Russian hackers. Wikileaks, which published those emails, posted a link to the Macron documents on Twitter but implied it was not responsible. Macron campaign servers went down for several minutes in February after attacks apparently originating in Ukraine. And last month, security experts from the company Trend Micro said that Russian hackers were targeting Mr Macron's campaign, using phishing emails, malware and fake net domains in an attempt to grab login names, passwords and other credentials of campaign staff Mr Macron's team said it suspected the Kremlin of wanting to help Ms Le Pen, who supports a pro-Moscow foreign policy. Russia has denied that it is behind attacks aimed at Mr Macron. Five things the French election has told us What is at stake on Sunday? France's voters have rejected the two big political parties - the Socialists and the Republicans - that have governed for decades. Voters will be making a decision on France's future direction and on its place at the heart of the European Union. If they opt for liberal Emmanuel Macron, they will be backing a candidate who seeks EU reform as well as deeper European integration, in the form of a eurozone budget and eurozone finance ministers. If instead they choose far-right Marine Le Pen she promises quite the opposite. She wants a Europe of nations to replace the EU.

Thanks to the latest Linux graphics driver update submitted by AMD we now have detailed specifications of the upcoming Radeon RX Vega GPU. The DRM, Direct Rendering Manager, update to Linux was issued yesterday and it’s the first update to date that adds comprehensive Vega feature support to Linux. No doubt in preparation for Vega’s launch which is expected to take place at the end of the month. The latest update for Vega is the biggest by far that we’ve seen yet and it exposes kernel level Vega support for GPU sensors, partial resident textures, network virtualization, non-contiguous vRAM mapping and much more. It also includes intimate details of Vega 10 hardware specifications, AMD’s upcoming flagship graphics chip. As such this update serves as the first official source detailing Vega 10’s specs. So without any further delay let’s dig into the juicy bits! AMD Radeon RX Vega Features 4 Shader Engines, 64 NCUs, 4 Render Back-Ends & 256 Texture Units So first things first, the core count. Vega 10 features 64 Next generation compute units, each containing 64 GCN stream processors. The entire chip has a total of 4096 next generation GCN stream processors divided into four divisions, each making up a single Shader Engine. Every 1024 sp shader engine has two Asynchronous Compute Units, one render back-end and 4 texture blocks. Each render back-end is comprised of 16 render output units, for a total of 64 ROPs. Each texture block is comprised of 16 texture mapping units, for a total of 256 TMUs. Vega 10 also supports 8 independent work threads simultaneously. By comparison, Polaris 10 Pro which is the GPU powering the RX 470 has exactly half as many stream processors, half as many texture mapping units and half as many render output units. Polaris 10 Pro is a slightly cut back variant of Polaris 10 XT which powers the RX 480. Vega 10 has double the render output units of Polaris 10 XT, can execute double the number of work threads and features 78% more stream processors and texture mapping units. Vega Architecture Key Features – 4x Power Efficiency – 2x Peak Throughput/Performance Per Clock – High Bandwidth Cache – 2x Bandwidth per pin – 8x Capacity Per stack (2nd Generation High Bandwidth Memory) – 512TB Virtual Address Space – Next Generation Compute Engine – Next Generation Pixel Engine – Next Generation Compute Unit optimized for higher clock speeds – Rapid Packed Math – Draw Stream Binning Rasterizer – Primitive Shaders

Australia has complained to China's ambassador over what was described as "extraordinary" disruption by Chinese attendees at a diamond conference. Australia was hosting a Kimberly Process conference on controlling conflict diamonds in Perth on Monday. But the Chinese group were angered by the presence of a Taiwanese delegation, and noisily interrupted the official opening ceremony. One high-level Australian attendee told the BBC: "It was disgusting." 'Highly stressful' meeting China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province which will eventually be reunited with the mainland. It insists that other countries cannot have diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan, so few countries recognise the island's independence. China often seeks to isolate Taiwan by blocking its involvement in international events. According to reports, the Chinese group "hijacked the microphone" during a traditional Aboriginal welcoming ceremony, as a senior official was introducing Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. They demanded to know whether the Taiwan group - Rough Diamond Trading Entity of Chinese Taipei - had been officially invited. "They were saying you can't even begin this meeting unless this matter is clarified," said the Australian attendee, who asked not to be named for professional reasons. "It was highly stressful for everyone in the room because they kept demanding to be heard," he said. "No country would accept showing such a lack of respect to its Aborigines and senior members of government." The welcoming ceremony was suspended until the matter had been addressed. A discussion session later in the morning was also abandoned because of continual interruptions by officials from African countries in support of China's position. The Taiwanese representatives were then asked to leave the conference, which discusses ways of preventing the sales of diamond from conflict-hit countries fuelling further violence. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has raised its concerns with the Chinese ambassador. A spokeswoman for DFAT said the invitation of the Taipei-based group was consistent with Australia's One China policy. "The chair had to withdraw the invitation to the Taiwanese following objections from China and several other delegations to the former's presence during the opening session, in order to enable the meeting to continue," she said. A spokesman for the Chinese consulate in Perth told the Sydney Morning Herald: "The head of the Chinese delegation expressed high respect for the traditional owners of the land." A statement sent to the BBC from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office said the incident was regrettable.

AMD has reportedly gained 2.2% CPU market share in the first quarter of 2017. This makes it the very first time the Sunnyvale, California based chip maker has made any meaningful share gains against its much larger rival Intel since Q1 2014. Which was the last quarter where the company saw any share gains that amounted to anything more than 1%. The data is courtesy of PassMark’s quarterly market share report, which is based on the thousands of submissions that go through the database in any given quarter. It’s important to note that because PassMark’s market share data is based on benchmark submissions it counts actual systems in use, rather than systems sold. It also does not include consoles or any computer systems running operating systems other than Windows. – This graph counts the baselines submitted to us during these time period and therefore is representative of CPUs in use rather than CPUs purchased. – The Quarters are by the calendar year rather than financial. (i.e. Q1 starts January 1st) – Baselines can be submitted from anywhere therefore these are global statistics. – We do receive a small number of submissions of CPU types other than AMD and Intel however the percentage is so small as to make it not worth graphing. This combined with rounding off the percentages to 2 decimal places will account for each quarter not always adding up to exactly 100%. – This chart only includes x86 processors and does not include other chip architectures these manufacturers may sell. – This chart only includes CPUs installed into PCs and does not include game consoles. – As the PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS and counts on user submitting their benchmarks. This chart may be non reflective of non Windows user base. AMD Likely Sold All Of Its Available Ryzen Inventory During The Intitial Launch While a 2% share gain does not seem like much it’s actually quite significant for a number of reasons. Ryzen had only been on sale for one out of the three months in Q1. And only the more expensive top-end Ryzen 7 processors were available. Ryzen CPUs were going out of stock as soon as they were put on sale on all major e-tailers in North America, Germany and the UK in March. This means that AMD was likely selling every single Ryzen chip it was making. The initial launch was also hamstrung by a shortage of AM4 motherboards. Today many AM4 motherboards are consistently in-stock and there are more than twice as many Ryzen processors to choose from, thanks to the Ryzen 5 launch last month. At the end of the second quarter, Ryzen processors will also have been on sale throughout the entirety of the quarter, with double the SKUs and the bulk of the AM4 motherboard shortage gone. As such Q2 market share data will reflect Ryzen’s performance in the market with considerably more accuracy. AMD’s CPU Userbase Grew By 12% In Q1 Driven By Ryzen 7 Sales In March In the time period between the 1st of January 2017 and the 31st of March of the same year the AMD CPU installed base grew from 18.1%, excluding consoles, to 20.3%. This represents an accumulative growth of 12%. Ryzen officially debuted in early March and the majority of share gains made by AMD in Q1 are attributable to the users that purchased and built PCs based on Ryzen during the last month of Q1. In April, the company followed up the Ryzen 7 release with the more po[CENSORED]r, and affordable, Ryzen 5 processor lineup. The last time AMD saw similar share gains was in Q4 of 2012, which amounted to 3%. At the time the company’s newly introduced Piledriver FX CPU and APU lineups had been on the market in their entirety throughout the fourth quarter. By comparison only three Ryzen SKUs were available in Q1 of this year, only during March and only for desktops, which clearly underlines the great magnitude of the market’s appetite for Ryzen processors.

Police say they have foiled an active terror plot after a woman was shot during a raid on a house in Willesden, north-west London. The 21-year-old woman was one of the subjects of the investigation and is in a serious but stable condition. A raid also took place in Kent, with six people arrested in total. Officers say the operation was not connected to an arrest near Parliament on Thursday, when a man was detained on suspicion of terror offences. Police said the house in Harlesden Road, Willesden, which was raided on Thursday evening, had been under observation. 'Threats contained' At about 19:00 BST, firearms officers entered the property. CS gas was sprayed and a woman was shot. A 16-year-old boy, and a man and woman, both aged 20, were arrested. A 43-year-old woman was arrested in Kent. Two further arrests were made in Willesden after a man and woman, both aged 28, returned to the raided property. The police said the suspects had been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts. They are in custody at a south London police station. Neil Basu, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said: "Due to these arrests that have been made yesterday, in both cases I believe that we have contained the threats that they pose." When asked by reporters whether police had foiled an active terror plot, Mr Basu replied: "Yes." He added: "There are constant acts of immense bravery by officers, armed and unarmed - those that the public see, where our officers run towards danger just as you saw yesterday, but a huge amount of unseen work that the public will never see behind the scenes." Alex Paton, 50, who lives in Harlesden Road, said he saw a woman "getting all cuffed up and put in a white suit". He described seeing "coppers and masked men with guns". Another resident of the area said she had heard the "bang, bang, bang" of shots. A neighbour of the raided property suggested the shot woman had suffered injuries to her left arm and stomach. He said the family who lived there were from Somalia. Ruth Haile, who lives in the road, said she heard shots and the woman on the ground shouting: "Don't touch me, my body, don't touch my dress." Speaking about the shot woman, a police spokesman said: "Due to her condition, she has not been arrested at this time and remains under police guard at hospital. It is believed to be the first time a woman has been shot by police in 10 years. The last time was in 2007 when Ann Sanderson was fatally shot in Kent. Police said searches had taken place at "linked addresses", as well as where the arrests took place. The Willesden raid has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Met's directorate of professional standards, as is procedure. The IPCC said it was gathering evidence but that no officers were under investigation. On Thursday, police arrested a 27-year-old man at the junction of Parliament Street and Parliament Square, in London, as part of an intelligence-led operation. He was identified on Friday as Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, a British national who is believed to have gone to school in Tottenham, north London, but was not born in the UK. The Met said he had been detained on suspicion of terrorism offences and that knives were recovered from the scene. He had been on the force's radar for some time and it is thought police acted after a concerned family member contacted them.

The United Nations helped launch a smartphone app Tuesday that allows users to "walk a mile in a refugee's shoes" by simulating the daily struggles of a fictional Rohingya Muslim who was forced to flee her home. The "Finding Home" app, developed by the advertising firm Grey Malaysia, allows users to simulate the phone of "Kathijah," a fictional 16-year-old who fled persecution in Myanmar and is trying to make a new life in Malaysia. Users essentially take over Kathijah's phone, answering her calls and texts and scrolling through her photos. In one scenario, she gets a message from her brother Ishak back in Myanmar. "Kat, r u safe?" the message says. "It was a raid, they found us. Had to run." Richard Towles, the UNHCR representative in Malaysia, said he hopes the free app will help people empathize with refugees. "The refugee story is often a deeply personal one and difficult for people to understand," Towles said. "We hope that this application will allow a viewer to walk a mile in a refugee's shoes in order to understand what they go through every day in order to find safety." There are more than 150,000 asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia, one of the highest numbers in Asia, according to the UNHCR. About a third of them are ethnic Rohingya Muslims, identified by the U.N. as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, who are denied citizenship by Myanmar and chased off their land in repeated outbreaks of communal violence. "The refugee crisis is everywhere, yet we are inevitably desensitized to it as it has been going on so long," said Grey's creative director, Graham Drew.

Police have arrested 1,000 people suspected of being part of a movement blamed for the failed 2016 coup. Another 2,200 were being sought as authorities targeted what they said was a secret structure within Turkey's police force. Turkey says a movement loyal to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen organised the July 2016 plot to bring down President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Earlier this month the president won a referendum on boosting his powers. As a result of the narrow victory Mr Erdogan can become head of the executive, beefing up the largely ceremonial role of Turkey's president. "1,009 covert 'imams' in 72 provinces have been taken into custody so far," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was reported as saying, calling it an important step for Turkey. A list of 3,224 people had been compiled by police in an operation across Turkey's 81 provinces, reports said. In Istanbul alone, 390 suspects were being sought. Erdogan tightens grip - by Mark Lowen, BBC News, Istanbul It was widely expected that the post-coup purge would accelerate once President Erdogan achieved the victory he wanted in a referendum on expanding his powers. He feels emboldened and there's no longer a risk of jeopardising potential referendum votes. No matter that the opposition still contests the referendum results, their claim of widespread fraud backed by a scathing report from election observers. The president says the result is final and that's that. So on Wednesday the police bore the brunt of the detentions, but other institutions are likely to follow suit. The governing AKP party was full of Gulen supporters when Mr Erdogan and the cleric were staunch allies. It hasn't yet been purged and could now be targeted since the president has got his referendum victory. And even if not, it will be dangled over potential opponents like a sword of Damocles: speak out and your Gulen affiliation will be exposed. Since the coup, in which 249 people died, the government has accused the Gulenist movement of infiltrating the country's institutions including the police, military and judiciary and of running a state within a state. "We are trying to cleanse members of FETO (the Gulenist movement)" inside the armed forces, inside the judiciary and inside the police," President Erdogan told Reuters shortly before the raids. Before Wednesday, Turkey said a total of 47,000 people had been detained, including 10,700 police and 7,4000 members of the military. Thousands of people have lost their jobs across Turkey's public institutions, including teachers and civil servants, and opposition media outlets have been closed down. The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly angered Turkey on Tuesday by placing the country under review and calling for urgent measures to restore freedom of expression and the press. President Erdogan, in his interview, accused the EU of "closing its doors on Turkey". "In Europe, things have become very serious in terms of the extent of Islamophobia," he suggested.

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The first independent (well, almost) test of the Intel Optane SSD is out and by the looks of it the new memory standard has passed with flying colors. If this review is anything to go by, then the memory type is definitely game changing, although not entirely in the manner most of us thought it would be. It definitely gives an upgrade over traditional SSDs in terms of endurance, speed and latency but probably the most critical update lies in the consistent performance this memory type can offer, which is miles ahead of what any conventional SSD can currently achieve. Intel’s 3D XPoint based DC P4800X SSD blows away the competition with sustained performance under heavy loads Before we go any further, the benchmarks below have been sourced from Tom’s Hardware and you can head over to their site to read the full review should you want to (I definitely recommend doing so). While this review was conducted by a third party, it’s not a completely independent one. Intel only allowed remote access to the drive and did not even give them the user manual to consult, which limits the amount of information they can report on. While I am sure all the tests were run on a real Optane SSD, it does create an unnecessary air of uncertainty which should usually be avoided. In any case, this will have to do for now and boy are the preliminary numbers good! Without any further ado, lets jump in. The first thing you will notice is that the Intel DC P4800X easily has the most endurance around, as compared to traditional SSDs, but this isn’t a structural break in the trend by any means. In fact, the DC P3700 is based on plain ol NAND memory and offers 20% less endurance for almost 4.2x times the amount of total memory. Of course, the DC P3700 will set you back 2 grand ($2065) while as the DC P4800X will retail at around $1520 so you are basically paying around $4 per GB on the DC P4800X and around $1.69 per GB for the DC P3700. This is a steep price to pay for what is essentially, ultra fast storage. Up next, we have the 70/30 Read/Write latency benchmark for the 3D XPoint Memory based SSD and it is here that we see the first signs of a complete structural break from the existing trend. The P4800X Intel Optane SSD is miles ahead of its competition in terms of sustained Read/Write latency as well as the average count! In fact, it is exactly 36x times faster in sustained latency than the DC P3700 and almost 71 times faster than the DC P3608. This is a trend that we will continue to see in the next few benchmarks as well. All benchmarks below are courtesy of Tom’s Hardware. Whereas traditional SSDs hit peak performance during the initial moments after a load is applied, they quickly settle down to a performance level that is many tiers below the original speed. The Intel Optane memory appears to be completely immune to this effect and has no trouble delivering the rated speed consistently throughout the testing done by Tom’s Hardware. In fact, this might be the first SSD where you actually get the performance that is advertised 24/7. Looking at the Random Read, Write and Mixed benchmarks as well we see the same trend: The Optane memory based DC P4800X is in another league when compared to its NAND based siblings and can be safely called a disruptive innovation in this area. Intel has successfully innovated a new memory standard. Currently however, the tech is a bit too expensive for the average consumer. Dropping a grand and a half for a measly 375 GBs of memory is not something the vast vast majority of consumers would do – even in the high end segment. But what these performance numbers do achieve is a proof of concept. This is real live testing done by real world reviewers that show the Optane Memory does manage to deliver on the hype, albeit at a very steep price. While it is bleeding edge tech at the moment, the price will eventually come down to more palatable levels and I have no doubt it will be able to disrupt the NAND industry then. That said, if Intel’s own plans with traditional SSDs is anything to go by, this is not something that is likely to happen for the next couple of years.

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At least three people have been killed in Venezuela in protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. A teenager in the capital Caracas and a woman in San Cristobal, near the Colombian border, were shot dead. A national guardsman was killed south of the capital. Tens of thousands of people rallied to demand new presidential elections and the release of jailed opposition politicians. Mr Maduro accused the opposition of attacking police. He also accused them of looting shops, saying that more than 30 arrests had been made. Supporters of the government held a rival rally in Caracas. Meanwhile, opposition leader Henrique Capriles has called for further mass protests on Thursday. Despite having the world's largest proven oil reserves, Venezuela has suffered for several years from high inflation, rampant crime and a shortage of basic goods. The protests taking place across the country were expected to be the biggest in three years, putting extra pressure on President Maduro to negotiate with the opposition and find a way of easing the country's economic crisis. Anti-government protesters have described it as Venezuela's "second independence day". Elections are not due until late 2018, but the opposition says the country is on the verge of collapse. Inflation is expected to top 700% this year, the IMF says. The latest crisis was triggered by last month's Supreme Court decision to officially take over power from the opposition-controlled parliament.

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AMD has officially launched their Polaris 20 or Polaris Refresh based Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards. The cards to hit the market today are the Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 570. AMD Radeon RX 580 and Radeon RX 570 Officially Launched – Polaris Targets Mainstream Desktop PCs Once Again The AMD Radeon RX 500 series are based on the Polaris GPU architecture. Today, AMD is releasing two Polaris 20 based graphics cards that include the Radeon RX 580 and the Radeon RX 570. Next up, we will get to see two more variants based on the Polaris 11 and Polaris 12 graphics core. The AMD Radeon RX 500 series is once again going to hit the market at sub-$300 US pricing. This will allow AMD to target the wider mainstream market which was their main aim with the Radeon RX 400 series too. The AMD Radeon RX 500 series cards, as previously confirmed, will include the Radeon RX 580 (Polaris 20), Radeon RX 570 (Polaris 20), Radeon RX 560 (Polaris 11) and the Radeon RX 550 (Polaris 12). The refreshed cards will be available in the same price ranges as their older 400 series siblings so AMD is mostly looking to increase performance in their cards through higher clock speeds, however at the cost of slightly higher power consumption which does affect efficiency. AMD’s new target base are users who haven’t updated since the Radeon 300 series cards or the NVIDIA side GeForce 900 series. As most of these cards aren’t able to handle newer titles at the po[CENSORED]r 1080p resolution, AMD is offering a refreshed lineup to entice those users who skipped the Radeon RX 400 series but can now get something better in the form of the Radeon RX 500 series which has several AIB variant available at launch.

China has warned that "conflict could break out at any moment" as tension over North Korea increases. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said if war occurred there could be no winner. Mr Wang's comments come as the US voices increasing concern at North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and deploys a Navy carrier group off the Korean peninsula. China, North Korea's only backer, fears conflict could cause the regime to collapse and problems on its border. Mr Wang said: "Lately, tensions have risen between on the one hand the United States and the Republic of Korea [South Korea] and on the other, the DPRK [North Korea] and one has the feeling that a conflict could break out at any moment. "I think that all relevant parties should be highly vigilant with regards to this situation." The foreign minister added: "We call on all parties to refrain from provoking and threatening each other, whether in words or actions, and not let the situation get to an irreversible and unmanageable stage." Adding to Chinese unease, President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that the US was not afraid of acting alone on North Korea. "If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A." The US president has recently demonstrated his willingness to resort to military methods. He ordered a cruise missile attack on Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack, and the US military just used a huge bomb against so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan. Washington is concerned North Korea might develop the ability to launch a nuclear weapon at the US. Mr Trump and China's President Xi Jinping have been in contact by phone since their summit last week in Florida, and Reuters quotes US officials as saying tougher economic sanctions against North Korea are also being considered.

Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil says he will put talks over his future at the club on hold until the summer. Ozil, 28, has just under a year left on his contract after joining the Gunners from Real Madrid in 2013. However the German wants to help sixth-placed Arsenal finish in the top four and secure a Champions League place before discussing his future. "At the moment what is important is Arsenal, not me or any other players," Ozil told Sky Sports. "The team are having a more difficult spell and at this stage I am not important, no other player is important - what is important is the club. "We will talk in the summer and clear things then. At the moment it would be wrong to think about that." Manager Arsene Wenger came in for renewed fan criticism during and after the side's 3-0 defeat by Crystal Palace on Monday, but Ozil said the Frenchman "deserves respect" for his achievements. "I always said he was the most important factor in me coming here," he added. "He has been here for 20 years and has given a lot to this club and I think he deserves respect for what he has achieved here."

Last year, NVIDIA introduced to the world, their latest and greatest GPU architecture, codenamed Pascal. The new Pascal GPU powered everything from enterprise level supercomputer chips to blazing fast GTX 10 series graphics cards. Utilizing the 16nm FinFET architecture, NVIDIA unleashed a new generation of graphics cards that delivered the highest clock speeds on any consumer GPU to date, the fastest graphics processing capabilities and a wide range of memory technologies that were supported by these chips like HBM2 and GDDR5X. A year has gone by since NVIDIA launched the fastest consumer graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1080, but NVIDIA is not stopping there. This year, NVIDIA has introduced a new flagship product, one that will offer even higher performance than the GeForce GTX 1080. Meet the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a juggernaut GPU that is in a class of its own. Today, I’ll be testing the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X variant and would like to thank MSI for arranging this sample for our review. Meet GeForce 10 Series – Now Featuring The Behemoth GeForce GTX 1080 Ti With Pascal, NVIDIA launched a new generation of GeForce cards, the GeForce 10 series. The GeForce 10 series comprises of Pascal based GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, GTX 1060, GTX 1050 and now the GTX 1080 Ti. All cards feature the same Pascal DNA and aim at the entire top-to-bottom segment of the gaming market. NVIDIA also launched the Titan X (Pascal) last year and the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a lot of resemblance to that card, except the latter comes at a lower price and features a better tuned core design for increased gaming performance.

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Romelu Lukaku (left) and Ross Barkley have been offered new contracts by Everton Everton midfielder Ross Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract, says manager Ronald Koeman. The 23-year-old England international, who set up the first of Romelu Lukaku's two goals in Sunday's 4-2 victory over Leicester, has a year left on his deal. "We offer him a new contract, and there are two possibilities," said Koeman. "One, he signs that contract. If he doesn't sign that contract then we need to sell the player. It's simple, it's not so difficult in my opinion." Barkley, who was born in Liverpool and came through the Everton academy, has scored five goals and provided eight assists this season. Team-mate Lukaku, the Premier League's top scorer with 23 goals, last month turned down a new five-year deal thought to be worth about £140,000 a week. The Belgian, whose contract expires in 2019, recently stated his desire to play in the Champions League next season. The Toffees are seventh in the table - seven points shy of a Champions League spot. "We try to keep the best players," said Koeman. "We spoke a lot about Ross and Rom because they are really important. "Most of the time the quality of the players can be the difference between Everton and the opponent, and they played really well. "We know Rom is a great finisher but Ross played really good football between the lines. "I think he should have scored one but it is what you like to see - your best players performing like they showed, because they were outstanding. The whole team was outstanding."

A "bomb-like" device has been destroyed in a controlled explosion in central Oslo, police have said. Officers cordoned off a large part of the Gronland area on Saturday evening, before the bomb squad detonated the suspect device. A police spokesman said the noise was "louder" than their explosives alone would have caused. A suspect is in custody. Police were already on alert after an attack in Sweden on Friday. A truck ploughed into a Stockholm department store, killing four people and injuring 15 more. It was the worst attack to hit the Nordic region since the far-right extremist Anders Brevik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. Swedish police confirmed on Saturday they had found an unknown device on the driver's seat in the abandoned lorry, which they were testing. The device in Oslo was capable of causing only limited damage, police said. The investigation has been handed over to Norway's Police Security Service.

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Lingard (centre) celebrates winning the EFL Cup against Southampton in February Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard has signed a new contract at Old Trafford that could earn him £100,000 a week. The 24-year-old England international is now committed to the Premier League club until 2021 and there is the option to extend the deal by a further year. Lingard has made 70 appearances for United, who he joined as a seven-year-old, and won four caps for his country. "Manchester United has always been a big part of my life," said Lingard. "I feel great pride every time I pull the shirt on." Lingard holds the rare distinction of scoring in three successive games for his club at Wembley. After netting the winner in last season's FA Cup final, Lingard also scored against Leicester in the Community Shield and Southampton as United won theEFL Cup in February. "To have scored in two cup finals for my boyhood club were immensely proud moments for me and my family," he added. "As a team, we have already won a major trophy this season and I look forward to helping us win many more under this great manager." United boss Jose Mourinho said: "Jesse is a po[CENSORED]r member of the squad and I am delighted he has signed a new contract. "He has good intelligence which, when combined with his energy and ability, makes for a player with a great future ahead of him." Lingard had spells on loan at Leicester, Birmingham and Brighton before he was given his first-team debut by Mourinho's predecessor Louis van Gaal against Swansea in the opening game of the 2014-15 season. This season he has played 29 times, scoring five goals.

Audi has a particularly sturdy reputation when it comes to open-top four-seaters. The original B4-generation Audi Cabriolet, a roll-top bath of class and stocky heft, cemented the brand’s reputation in a life cycle which lasted for practically the entire duration of the 1990s, before being replaced by Peter Schreyer’s B6-generation A4 in 2000. Certainly, by the time Audi hived off the convertible into its current A5 format nearly ten years later, the model’s identity was well understood: reputable, elegantly understated, rock solid and a safe place for sunbed money. That each and every variant was somewhat staid to drive hardly registered as a problem for its buyers. Princess Diana drove a B4, and that, frankly, was enough. The latest version of the Cabriolet, as with the wider A5 range, moves through its standard life cycle rejuvenation without seeking to alter the essential recipe. It's marginally longer and significantly lighter than before – as well as being more efficient across the board – thanks to the migration to Audi’s MLB Evo platform, but the look and calibre of the car is instantly recognisable. Likely the greatest difference is the advent of the diesel engine not just as a vaguely acceptable method of driving a cabriolet, but the potentially preferable way. The 188bhp 2.0-litre TDI with the seven-speed S-tronic ‘box you can now have with front-wheel drive (meaning you can officially get 62.8mpg) has that vibe about it – especially as it starts at a tax-pleasing sub £40,000 in entry-level SE trim. We tried the sparklier S line version. A right chip off the old block: supremely well-made, tactfully good-looking and mellow to drive in all the ways you’d mostly hope for. Much of the latter quality can be attributed to the engine, which gnashes gently at idle but then smoothes promptly out to provide the kind of muffled, well-mannered and attentive power source that you want in a car which never aspires to set your ruffled hair alight. Undoubtedly a lighter kerbweight and the addition of the dual-clutch automatic transmission grease its effort at every turn. The weight loss isn’t monumental at 55kg – and the car overall isn’t featherlight at 1690kg either – but 295lb ft of torque from 1750rpm makes short work of the effort, and the gearbox’s fluttering shifts could hardly be more adept at keeping you in the motor’s most productive range. Impatience can result in 0-62mph in 8.3sec – exposing you to a negligible edge of gravelly voice – but the drivetrain hardly feels strained by the effort and nor does the chassis, making the option of a quattro-driven rear axle seem mildly frivolous. Nothing the Cabriolet does smacks of authentic sportiness, of course – it remains too straightforward and unambiguous for handling novelty to ever prosper – but that doesn’t limit its usability or its easily found swiftness. By default, the S line has lower-riding suspension, but given the firmness of the low-speed ride on the optional, adaptive comfort suspension fitted to our test car, we’d suggest you avoid the passive standard setup (the same goes for the 19in wheels of our test car, too). Otherwise, refinement is generally decent, if negated somewhat by the stiff breeze which inevitably rolls around the four-seat interior if you’ve neglected to go through the 20sec rigmarole of putting up the plastic wind deflector. The roof takes 2sec less to erect, and the A5 Cabriolet is unimpeachably quiet once you’ve done so. The rest of the interior, it hardly needs to be added, is of first-rate order. A minor lengthening of the car's wheelbase hasn’t drastically improved rear leg room, but it was already decent, and with reasonably generous headroom, the A5 remains a genuine four-seater with the boot space to match. The A5 Cabriolet is arguably a better niche filler than even the regular A5 – the slightly more leisurely, wind-in-your-hair undertow helping to negate the coupé’s failure to invigorate on a deeper dynamic level. Obviously the A5 Cabriolet, despite handsome price tags across the board, isn’t intended to plunder Porsche 718 Boxster buyers, but there are few soft-tops which can claim precisely the same mix of status, space and stylishness for the money. That the diesel model throws in big-range fuel economy and just about the right level of performance simply reinforces the idea that the A5 Cabriolet's likely po[CENSORED]rity is probably well-deserved.