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Speaking ahead of the Duchess's funeral at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday, pianist and singer Adam O'Shea said her mentoring was key for his own progression in music.

Television has few taboos any more. Dramas about mental illness, sexual dysfunction, even child abuse, are commonplace now when they would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

The teacher at Kingsmead School in Staffordshire, reportedly made the comments after father-of-two Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University last week.

Ball was discussing the reaction to Robinson, 22, on her YouTube show Breaking Points when guest Emily Jashinsky talked about the disturbing trend of killers who gain cult followings.

Travelling alone as a woman can be full of pitfalls to avoid and situations to treat with caution. But there are also opportunities to explore the world safely and make the most of experiences.

The 23-year-old refugee was reveling in her new life in America - sipping cocktails, eating barbecue and dancing with friends. She was killed in a senseless attack last month.

Fears of a Conservative exodus are growing within the party after one of its key thinkers quit to join Reform UK.

Tom Grennan has reflected on how being beaten up as a teenager led him into a spiral of being unfit and depression before he turned his life around - as he posed for Men's Health UK.

Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump and fiancée Alice Yaxley are expecting their first baby, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Charlie Hunnam has stunned fans in the dark debut trailer for the upcoming Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

Robinhood has filed with the SEC to launch "Robinhood Ventures Fund I," a publicly traded fund designed to give retail investors access to startup shares before IPOs. TechCrunch reports: While the current version of the application is public, Robinhood hasn't filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don't know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other details like the management fee it plans to charge. It's also unclear which startups it hopes this fund will eventually hold. The paperwork says it "expects" to invest in aerospace and defense, AI, fintech, robotics as well as software for consumers and enterprises. Robinhood's big pitch is that retail investors are being left out of the gains that are amassed by startup investors like VCs. That's true to an extent. "Accredited investors" -- or those with a net worth large enough to handle riskier investments -- already have a variety of ways of buying equity in startups, such as with venture firms like OurCrowd. Retail investors that are not rich enough to be accredited have more limited options. There are funds similar to what Robinhood has proposed, including Cathy Wood's ARK Venture Fund, a mutual fund which holds stakes in companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX, and others. [...] This new closed-end "Ventures Fund I" is a more classic, mutual fund-style, approach. As to when Robinhood's new fund will be available we don't know that either yet.

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Robert Munsch, a ubiquitous children's book author suffering from dementia and Parkinson's disease, has announced that he will die by physician assisted suicide.

A Missouri surgeon was moments away from harvesting Larry Black's organs - but the helpless patient's doctor intervened just in time.

Police reviewed security arrangements ahead of the state visit of Donald Trump, who arrives in Windsor on Wednesday, but said the killing of US activist Charlie Kirk has not changed their plans.

Downing Street accused Elon Musk of spreading 'dangerous' language, saying his rhetoric during an appearance at an anti-migrant protest in London threatened 'violence and intimidation'.

Mel B's daughter Phoenix Brown has revealed that her mum once told her: 'I'm the famous one and you're not' as she insisted she won't be a 'shadow' of her success in a new interview.

Trump has long and bumpy history with the British Royal Family.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She's now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces. She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas. But dealing with AI-generated code that one hopes to use in production can be "worse than babysitting," she said, as these AI models can mess up work in ways that are hard to predict. She had turned to AI coding in a need for speed with her startup, as is the promise of AI tools. "Because I needed to be quick and impressive, I took a shortcut and did not scan those files after the automated review," she said. "When I did do it manually, I found so much wrong. When I used a third-party tool, I found more. And I learned my lesson." She and her son wound up restarting their whole project -- hence the tears. "I handed it off like the copilot was an employee," she said. "It isn't." Rover is like many experienced programmers turning to AI for coding help. But such programmers are also finding themselves acting like AI babysitters -- rewriting and fact-checking the code the AI spits out. A recent report by content delivery platform company Fastly found that at least 95% of the nearly 800 developers it surveyed said they spend extra time fixing AI-generated code, with the load of such verification falling most heavily on the shoulders of senior developers. These experienced coders have discovered issues with AI-generated code ranging from hallucinating package names to deleting important information and security risks. Left unchecked, AI code can leave a product far more buggy than what humans would produce. Working with AI-generated code has become such a problem that it's given rise to a new corporate coding job known as "vibe code cleanup specialist." TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding. Thoughts varied, but one thing remained certain: The technology still has a long way to go. "Using a coding co-pilot is kind of like giving a coffee pot to a smart six-year-old and saying, 'Please take this into the dining room and pour coffee for the family,'" Rover said. Can they do it? Possibly. Could they fail? Definitely. And most likely, if they do fail, they aren't going to tell you. "It doesn't make the kid less clever," she continued. "It just means you can't delegate [a task] like that completely." Further reading: The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes

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Fans of the late Gene Hackman were left outraged after the Hollywood legend was omitted from the In Memoriam segment at the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

The former paratrooper, now in his 70s and known only as Soldier F, is accused of killing two of the 13 civil rights demonstrators who lost their lives on January 30, 1972.