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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak urged the Government to show workers 'whose side you are on', as he addressed its annual congress in Brighton.

Claire Bell, 42, from Huddersfield, was devastated when her boyfriend of six years dumped her in June, just months before they were due to tie the knot.

One university - Imperial College London - leads our institutional league table, but table-topping success is shared by 44 universities at subject level.

Last night, as she cheered on England's Red Roses at the Brighton & Hove Albion stadium, Kate appeared to be experimenting with a new hair look once again.

Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg

AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…

As revealed in extracts from Burrell's new memoir, exclusively serialised in the Daily Mail, the Duke of Sussex sent his grandmother the device that would allow him to bypass her courtiers.

For years I have suffered with electric shock sensations in my left big toe. I can go for months without it happening, then suddenly I'll experience these terrible painful episodes.

As summer draws to a close and the dark nights creep in, it might be tempting to book a holiday to escape the dreary autumn weather.

Fire crews remained on scene all weekend

Each year, millions of people across the UK pay over the odds in tax because they are in the wrong tax band, MSE claimed. (Martin Lewis pictured left)

Slashdot reader Charlotte Web shared this report from the Register: Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories. The second most popular discussion — where popularity is measured in upvotes — is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews. Both of these questions, the first opened in May and the second opened a month ago, remain unanswered, despite an abundance of comments critical of generative AI and Copilot... The author of the first, developer Andi McClure, published a similar request to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code repository in January, objecting to the reappearance of a Copilot icon in VS Code after she had uninstalled the Copilot extension... "I've been for a while now filing issues in the GitHub Community feedback area when Copilot intrudes on my GitHub usage," McClure told The Register in an email. "I deeply resent that on top of Copilot seemingly training itself on my GitHub-posted code in violation of my licenses, GitHub wants me to look at (effectively) ads for this project I will never touch. If something's bothering me, I don't see a reason to stay quiet about it. I think part of how we get pushed into things we collectively don't want is because we stay quiet about it." It's not just the burden of responding to AI slop, an ongoing issue for Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg. It's the permissionless copying and regurgitation of speculation as fact, mitigated only by small print disclaimers that generative AI may produce inaccurate results. It's also GitHub's disavowal of liability if Copilot code suggestions happen to have reproduced source code that requires attribution. It's what the Servo project characterizes in its ban on AI code contributions as the lack of code correctness guarantees, copyright issues, and ethical concerns. Similar objections have been used to justify AI code bans in GNOME's Loupe project, FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, and QEMU... Calls to shun Microsoft and GitHub go back a long way in the open source community, but moved beyond simmering dissatisfaction in 2022 when the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) urged free software supporters to give up GitHub, a position SFC policy fellow Bradley M. Kuhn recently reiterated. McClure says In the last six months their posts have drawn more community support — and tells the Register there's been a second change in how people see GitHub within the last month. After GitHub moved from a distinct subsidiary to part of Microsoft's CoreAI group, "it seems to have galvanized the open source community from just complaining about Copilot to now actively moving away from GitHub."

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Domino's Pizza restaurants in the UK will launch a new fried chicken menu, as the struggling group looks to revive its fortunes.

Tia Rey can't remember a time where she wasn't feeling achey, but she'll never forget the day she was told she was living with a rare and incurable autoimmune disease.

From over-the-top ruffles and bizarre feathers to clashing patterns and weirdly-shaped frocks, the 2025 VMAs have been filled with a slew of sartorial nightmares and fashion fails.

The Old Station (pictured) in the Trentham area of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, went under the hammer earlier this year offering plenty of bang for any buyer's buck.

Experts at Arkeologerna, Sweden 's leading consultant on archaeology, say it formed structures used by hunter-gatherers to get across a lake.

Center Parcs remains a go-to family holiday for many UK tourists but is the activity holiday brand turning off its core market with high prices and its very mainstream brands?

Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard

UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.…

Labelled a “tell-all tour”, the pair will discuss their careers, marriage, divorce, bankruptcy, family, and appearing on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

Labelled a “tell-all tour”, the pair will discuss their careers, marriage, divorce, bankruptcy, family, and appearing on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.