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Essex has many historic towns and villages, but some have been claimed by other counties

DANIEL MATTHEWS AT AUGUSTA: Fans are allowed to bring cameras inside Augusta for practice rounds but as soon as the tournament starts on Thursday, the club bans many electronic devices.

With a younger sister hoovering up the accolades - and money-spinning opportunities - aplenty, life isn't exactly straightforward for Jemma Solomon.

When 63-year-old Albert Douglas landed at Heathrow airport after four years languishing in prison in Dubai, the first thing he did was kiss the ground.

The biotech industry's engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes "an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells." In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological material. They created a genetic combination lock in which the locking or encryption process scrambled the DNA of a cell so that its important instructions were non-functional and couldn't be easily read or used. The unlocking, or decryption, process involves adding a series of chemicals in a precise order over time — like entering a password — to activate recombinases, which then unscramble the DNA to their original, functional form... They created a biological keypad with nine distinct chemicals, each acting as a one-digit input. By using the same chemicals in pairs to form two-digit inputs, where two chemicals must be present simultaneously to activate a sensor, they expanded the keypad to 45 possible chemical inputs without introducing any new chemicals. They also added safety penalties — if someone tampers with the system, toxins are released — making it extremely unlikely for an unauthorized person to access the cells. "The researchers conducted an ethical hacking exercise on the test lock and found that random guessing yielded a 0.2% success rate, remarkably close to the theoretical target of 0.1%."

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A young woman was critically injured by a falling light fixture during John Summit's surprise DJ set at Coachella.

Farming organisations were reportedly discussing how to carry out similar protests that have brought roads to a standstill in Ireland over the past week.

Police say they believe 19-year-old Jamie-Lea was killed by a pet Lurcher Cross dog

Footage from Sandringham during Christmas 2000 revealed an awkward conversation between Andrew and his nephew, who was 18 at the time.

Essex Police have confirmed the name of the 19-year-old woman who died after an incident involving a dog.

Essex Police have confirmed the name of the 19-year-old woman who died after an incident involving a dog.

Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, in England remain on strike this weekend and will return to work at 6.59am on Monday following a six-day walkout.

Businessman Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, pictured in London in 2022, was tied up and held at knifepoint at his family home in Berkshire by four thieves who demanded cryptocurrency.

Mel C and her Australian model boyfriend Chris Dingwall stepped out hand in hand at Coachella over the weekend.

The game was paused in the second-half as medical personnel rushed to the aid of the supporter in the stands. Sadly, the fan's passing was confirmed on Sunday in a club statement.

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…

Rory McIlroy could become just the fourth man in the history of The Masters to defend his title on Sunday at Augusta, where he starts the last day tied for the lead.

The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — "has made its way into the Linux kernel," reports the blog It's FOSS "thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command." He's been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called "clanker" on his working kernel tree. It began with the ksmbd and SMB code. Kroah-Hartman filed a three-patch series after running his new tooling against it, describing the motivation quite simply. ["They pass my very limited testing here," he wrote, "but please don't trust them at all and verify that I'm not just making this all up before accepting them."] Kroah-Hartman picked that code because it was easy to set up and test locally with virtual machines. "Beyond those initial SMB/KSMBD patches, there have been a flow of other Linux kernel patches touching USB, HID, F2FS, LoongArch, WiFi, LEDs, and more," Phoronix wrote Tuesday, "that were done by Greg Kroah-Hartman in the past 48 hours.... Those patches in the "Clanker" branch all note as part of the Git tag: "Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000" The T1000 presumably in reference to the Terminator T-1000. It's FOSS emphasizes that "What Kroah-Hartman appears to be doing here is not having AI write kernel code. The fuzzer surfaces potential bugs; a human with decades of kernel experience reviews them, writes the actual fixes, and takes responsibility for what gets submitted." Linus has been thinking about this too. Speaking at Open Source Summit Japan last year, Linus Torvalds said the upcoming Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit will address "expanding our tooling and our policies when it comes to using AI for tooling." He also mentioned running an internal AI experiment where the tool reviewed a merge he had objected to. The AI not only agreed with his objections but found additional issues to fix. Linus called that a good sign, while asserting that he is "much less interested in AI for writing code" and more interested in AI as a tool for maintenance, patch checking, and code review.

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Following the birth of her first child, Michelle Keith felt helpless in her battle to lose weight - unaware that the hormonal shift of pregnancy had triggered an incurable condition.

Freddy Brazier has reportedly moved out of the home he shared with girlfriend Holly Swinburn and their newborn daughter following a row over his grandmother, Jackiey Budden.