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Students and staff at Essex University test positive for coronavirus
Essex University has confirmed a “small number” of staff and students have tested positive for coronavirus.
Categories: Essex News
Students and staff at Essex University test positive for coronavirus
Essex University has confirmed a “small number” of staff and students have tested positive for coronavirus.
Categories: Essex News
Leading London divorce lawyer told women staff not to wear cardigans
Ayesha Vardag, who runs law firm Vardags in London's Old Bailey, wrote staff a lengthy email titled 'Attire and image - dress code and beyond'.
Categories: UK News
Hopes of a Brexit deal by October are at 50/50
Hopes of a Brexit deal by next month were put at 50/50 yesterday as No 10 said the EU had a 'more constructive' attitude but still had not bridged significant gaps
Categories: UK News
Ex-minister Esther McVey reveals there's nothing a can-do spirit can't conquer
The Tory MP got married last Saturday, but when she first realised she was going to have to cull her wedding guest list, to comply with Covid rules, she worried about how to break the news to friends.
Categories: UK News
ROBERT HARRIS: Heroines who gave the V-sign to the V2
ROBERT HARRIS: The obituary columns will remind you that the wartime generation went through far harder trials than anything we are experiencing and lived to see a better world.
Categories: UK News
Coronavirus UK: Lockdown 'may kill 75,000' - that's the OFFICIAL projection
Startling research presented to the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) will further increase pressure on Boris Johnson.
Categories: UK News
Wales' health minister said ghostly 'lighthouse' lab would open in August - but it's STILL idle
Labour's bullish Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething claimed Britain's next 'Lighthouse Laboratory' in Newport, south Wales, would 'support our Test, Trace, Protect strategy'.
Categories: UK News
BEL MOONEY: Do I HAVE to be my family's shoulder to cry on?
This week Bel answers a question about a daughter who wonders if she should be her family's shoulder to cry on
Categories: UK News
Coronavirus UK: How experts' offers of tests to NHS were IGNORED
Experts said millions of Britons a day could be getting tested by now instead of a paltry 250,000. A testing lab that was supposed to open in August has yet to process a single test.
Categories: UK News
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Are YOU a victim of hidden diabetes? (Believe it or not, I was too!)
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: I am extremely thankful the problem was picked up so early, before raised blood sugars could do extensive damage to my blood vessels and nerves
Categories: UK News
BEL MOONEY asks: How could once-indomitable Britain be reduced to slaves to fear?
BEL MOONEY: This year may well go down as the one in which Britain faced its biggest danger since war. Who would have thought that Britons would become slaves to fear?
Categories: UK News
China Blocks Wikimedia Foundation's Accreditation To World Intellectual Property Organization
China this week blocked the Wikimedia Foundation's application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues. As a result of the block, the Foundation's application for observer status has been suspended and will be reconsidered at a future WIPO meeting in 2021. Wikimedia Foundation: China was the only country to raise objections to the accreditation of the Wikimedia Foundation as an official observer. Their last-minute objections claimed Wikimedia's application was incomplete, and suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter. The United Kingdom and the United States voiced support for the Foundation's application. WIPO's work, which shapes international laws and policies that affect the sharing of free knowledge, impacts Wikipedia's ability to provide hundreds of millions of people with information in their own languages. The Wikimedia Foundation's absence from these meetings further separates those people from global events that shape their access to knowledge.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Categories: Technology
Developers of Florida hotel make amazing finds during renovation
Developers renovating a historic hotel in St. Petersburg visited by John F. Kennedy have been startled by discoveries unearthed as walls have been taken down and wallpaper peeled away.
Categories: UK News
Swift System is Now Open Source and Supports Linux
Michael Ilseman, an engineer on the Swift Standard Library team at Apple, writes: In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I'm excited to announce that we're open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Categories: Technology
Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared
Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about
For the past few years, the security of JavaScript software packages available through the Node Package Manager, or npm, has been the subject of skepticism as a result of blunders, brouhahas, and tepid countermeasures.…
Categories: Technology
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