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A Peruvian fisherman, Máximo Napa Castro, has revealed how he managed to survive 95 days lost at sea. He was rescued 680 miles offshore by Ecuadorian fishermen.

LEWIS STEELE AT WEMBLEY: The Arne Slot machine malfunctioned at the worst time possible, following up their European exit with a Carabao Cup final defeat.

Amanda Spielman has called on the Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson to drop proposed changes including forcing academics to teach the national curriculum.

A contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was left absolutely stumped after being asked a tricky sports question. 

Raphael's father Michael Pryor saw him fall down and CPR immediately being performed before the teenager was taken to Wexham Park Hospital and kept alive until his mother arrived.

Company director Nathan Sayer, 50, and his wife Catharine, 54, were scolded by a judge as they were sentenced for assault and religiously aggravated harassment at The New Inn in Hook, Hampshire.

Nicole Bodgers and Brad Roberts were enjoying a night out in Manchester when they found Blake Spiers, 13, suffering a heart attack after his friend was robbed in the city centre.

An anonymous reader shared this article from TechCrunch: Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week, while on-stage at South by Southwest, but it attracted fresh attention on Friday night, after she posted about it on Bluesky. Some users reacted with alarm to the company's plans, which they saw as a reversal of Bluesky's previous insistence that it won't sell user data to advertisers and won't train AI on user posts.... Graber replied that generative AI companies are "already scraping public data from across the web," including from Bluesky, since "everything on Bluesky is public like a website is public." So she said Bluesky is trying to create a "new standard" to govern that scraping, similar to the robots.txt file that websites use to communicate their permissions to web crawlers... If a user indicates that they don't want their data used to train generative AI, the proposal says, "Companies and research teams building AI training sets are expected to respect this intent when they see it, either when scraping websites, or doing bulk transfers using the protocol itself." Over on Threads someone had a different wish for our AI-enabled future. "I want to be able to conversationally chat to my feed algorithm. To be able to explain to it the types of content I want to see, and what I don't want to see. I want this to be an ongoing conversation as it refines what it shows me, or my interests change." "Yeah I want this too," posted top Instagram/Threads executive Adam Mosseri, who said he'd talked about the idea with VC Sam Lessin. "There's a ways to go before we can do this at scale, but I think it'll happen eventually."

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A stark report lays bare the scale of Labour's challenge as it seeks to see off opposition from its own backbenchers to slash the ballooning welfare bill and encourage adults back to work.

What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind ... let's skip to maintenance

Who, Me?  With the weekend behind us, it's time to once again ask the question "Who, Me?" That's the name of The Register's Monday column in which we share reader-contributed confessions of making a mess with tech.…

Are we in the new age of EVs? Mercedes new CLA coupe is priced the same as the hybrid and will give you 492 miles of range for around £40k. It'll go on sale later this year.

The USS Gravely recently spent nine months in the thick of conflict in the Middle East, fighting off continuous assaults from Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.

I have £150,000 in savings in my name and I would like advice on how to use this money to give me an income for life to help with the running costs of my home.

The Royal Mint has today launched a new series of commemorative coins celebrating the life and work of John Lennon.

Becoming a millionaire is something many of us dream about - but building such an impressive nest egg is not as out of reach as you think.

Fresh out of university, Remco accepted a job that allowed him to relocate to a different country. While entering the workforce for the first time, he was also adjusting to a new home and culture, which is probably why the red flags didn't look quite so red.

The trouble had actually begun during his interview. While being questioned about his own abilities, Remco learned about Conglomcorp's healthy financial position, backed by a large list of clients. Everything seemed perfect, but Remco had a bad gut feeling he could neither explain nor shake off. Being young and desperate for a job, he ignored his misgivings and accepted the position. He hadn't yet learned how scarily accurate intuition often proves to be.

The second red flag was run up the mast at orientation. While teaching him about the company's history, one of the senior managers proudly mentioned that Conglomcorp had recently fired 50% of their workforce, and were still doing great. This left Remco feeling more concerned than impressed, but he couldn't reverse course now.

Flag number three waved during onboarding, as Remco began to learn about the Java application he would be helping to develop. He'd been sitting at the cubicle of Lars, a senior developer, watching over his shoulder as Lars familiarized him with the application's UI.

"Garbage Collection." Using his mouse, Lars circled a button in the interface labeled just that. "We added this to solve a bug some users were experiencing. Now we just tell everyone that if they notice any weird behavior in the application, they should click this button."

Remco frowned. "What happens in the code when you click that?"

"It calls System.gc()."

But that wasn't even guaranteed to run! The Java virtual machine handled its own garbage collection. And in no universe did you want to put a worse-than-useless button in your UI and manipulate clients into thinking it did something. But Remco didn't feel confident enough to speak his mind. He kept silent and soldiered on.

When Remco was granted access to the codebase, it got worse. The whole thing was a pile of spaghetti full of similar design brillance that mostly worked well enough to satisfy clients, although there was a host of bugs in the bug tracker, some of which had been rotting there for over 7 years. Remco had been given the unenviable task of fixing the oldest ones.

Remco slogged through another few months. Eventually, he was tasked with implementing a new feature that was supposed to be similar to existing features already in the application. He checked these other features to see how they were coded, intending to follow the same pattern. As it turned out, they had all been implemented in a different, weird way. The wheel had been reinvented over and over, each time by someone who'd never even heard of a circle. None of the implementations looked like anything he ought to be imitating.

Flummoxed, Remco approached Lars' cubicle and explained his findings. "How should I proceed?" he finally asked.

Lars shrugged, and looked up from a running instance of the application. "I don't know." Lars turned back to his screen and pushed "Garbage Collect".

Fairly soon after that enlightening experience, Remco moved on. Conglomcorp is still going, though whether they've retained their garbage collection button is anyone's guess.

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Gal Gadot joined fellow Disney villains while promoting her much-maligned new film, Snow White, at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California on Sunday.

Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience'

Google has decided to silence its voice Assistant and replace it with the Gemini AI service.…

The first reviews of the new Snow White film were released on Sunday - as controversy over the Disney remake rumbles on.

ESSEX'S state secondary schools have been ranked by their happiness with two in Colchester making the top ten.