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The study found that adults who followed a consistent diet - repeating meals and keeping their daily calories steady - lost more weight over 12 weeks than those who ate a more varied diet.

MP says said the issues are “amongst the worst” he’s seen following meeting with Essex headteacher

Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the world, tech leaders, educators, and nonprofits to collaborate on practical solutions that expand access to educational tools while strengthening protections for children in digital environments (Day 2 WH summary). The Times begins: "On Wednesday, Mrs. Trump appeared at the White House alongside Figure 3, a humanoid, A.I.-powered robot whose uses, according to the company that makes it, include fetching towels, carrying groceries and serving champagne. But Mrs. Trump joins tech executives and some researchers in envisioning a world beyond robot butlery. She is interested in how these robots could cut it as educators. Both clad in shades of white, the first lady and the visiting robot walked into a gathering of first spouses from around the world, a group that included Sara Netanyahu of Israel, Olena Zelenska of Ukraine, and Brigitte Macron of France. The dulcet tones from a (presumably human) military orchestra played as the first lady and her guest entered the event. Both lady and robot extolled the virtues of further integrating robots into the educational and social lives of children. In the history of modern first-lady initiatives, which have included building a national book festival (Laura Bush), reshuffling the food pyramid (Michelle Obama) and advocating for free community college (Jill Biden), Mrs. Trump's involvement of a humanoid robot in education policy was a first." "Figure 3 delivered brief remarks and delivered salutations in several languages. With its sleek black-and-white appearance, Figure 3 would fit right in with the first lady's branding aesthetic, which includes a self-titled coffee table book and movie, not least because the name "MELANIA" was emblazoned on the side of its glossy plastic head. After Figure 3 teetered gingerly away, Mrs. Trump looked around the room and told them that the future looked a lot like what they had just witnessed. 'The future of A.I. is personified,' she told her audience. 'It will be formed in the shape of humans. Very soon artificial intelligence will move from our mobile phones to humanoids that deliver utility.' She invited her guests to envision a future in which a robot philosopher educated children."

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The warping of PMQs, so increasingly blatant in recent weeks, continued, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Amity sends us a "weird" replacement, and I regret to inform you, it's not as weird as it should be.

$body = str_replace(['<pre><code>', '</code></pre>'], ['<pre>', '</pre>'], $body);

This PHP code scans through a string containing HTML and replaces all the <pre><code>.../<code></pre> tags with just <pre></pre>. And yes, that's a weird thing to do; these mean different things, after all. pre tells us the text is preformatted and things like extra whitespace and line breaks should be respected. code tells us the text represents some sort of code. Usually, that involves respecting the formatting, but it also generally involves rendering in a monospace font.

And this touches upon one of my complaints about this very site. A complaint I don't complain about much, because I could easily fix it, and also it doesn't bother me that much, but also, I don't want to be maintaining our little homegrown CMS more than I have to, so I haven't done it.

Quite some time ago, we did a redesign here. It was fairly necessary, as the site old 100% didn't work on mobile devices. At the time, one habit was en vogue amongst web developers: clear all the formatting rules from the default browser stylesheet and replace them with your own. I can sympathize with that, I suppose. It's certainly one way to deal with cross browser rendering quirks: burn everything to the ground and build up from scratch. You'll still have cross browser quirks, but they'll all be your fault, and your fault alone. And another "quirk" that showed up in that rebuilding, and a quirk I've seen on a depressing number of other sites: make pre content be in monospace.

For some reason I don't fully understand, there was a brief period in CSS styling where people willfully collapsed the distinction between pre and code, and just turned them into the same thing. I'm admittedly a bit of a semantic snob (HTML is a DATA format not a PRESENTATION format, it's still SGML to me).

In any case, this doesn't impact you, our dear readers, who instead get a sometimes confounding Markdown comment box with bad editing support. But I post articles here in pure HTML, and while I rarely need a pre tag, every once in awhile, the default site stylesheet throws me off.

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CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA

Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…

The A130 in Essex is closed in both directions for "crash investigation work" this morning with detours in place.

The A130 in Essex is closed in both directions for "crash investigation work" this morning with detours in place.

I am a keen gardener, and water my garden a lot in the hot summers we are now experiencing. We don't want to be worrying about how much we use.

The surge in the oil price off the back of the Iran War suddenly changes the appeal of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels - and they look cheap.

She says the school's curriculum had been 'successfully overhauled'

The Mail can reveal that Her Majesty's name was proposed and accepted at a meeting on Wednesday - after she secretly attended in person.

Graham Sisson, from Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, donated the organ to Ian Tonks, 49, of nearby Buxton, in October 2024.

The SS Richard Montgomery shipwreck lying at the bottom of the Thames and loaded with 1,400 tons of explosives has become a 'sitting duck' for an Iranian drone attack, experts have warned.

On November 23, 2025, the American Pie star, 50, alleged she was drugged by a stranger after having just one drink at a hotel in Rosemont, near the O'Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois.

Sir James Cleverly says frustrations with the A120 are a “regular drumbeat” from constituents and that the government cannot ignore it.

Jack Louis put 1000 leaflets containing vouchers to his salon that looked like parking tickets on local cars

Sir James Cleverly says frustrations with the A120 are a “regular drumbeat” from constituents and that the government cannot ignore it.

Lord Sewell, who led a landmark race report in 2021, said 'diversity, equity and inclusion' (DEI) drives were warping decision-making by some professionals.

The Yankees traveled to the San Francisco Giants to raise the curtain on the new season and retired US serviceman Generald Wilson was given the honor of singing The Star-Spangled Banner.