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A popular Spanish tourist destination has introduced tough new measures in a bid to tackle over tourism. 

Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence. [...] Here's what engineering leaders don't want to acknowledge: software has physical constraints, and we're hitting all of them simultaneously. Modern software is built on towers of abstractions, each one making development "easier" while adding overhead: Today's real chain: React > Electron > Chromium > Docker > Kubernetes > VM > managed DB > API gateways. Each layer adds "only 20-30%." Compound a handful and you're at 2-6x overhead for the same behavior. That's how a Calculator ends up leaking 32GB. Not because someone wanted it to -- but because nobody noticed the cumulative cost until users started complaining. [...] We're living through the greatest software quality crisis in computing history. A Calculator leaks 32GB of RAM. AI assistants delete production databases. Companies spend $364 billion to avoid fixing fundamental problems. This isn't sustainable. Physics doesn't negotiate. Energy is finite. Hardware has limits. The companies that survive won't be those who can outspend the crisis. There'll be those who remember how to engineer.

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The daughter of presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, 38, welcomed her daughter Bodhi, three, with her ex-husband James Haskell in August 2022.

The royal,19, the son of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has reportedly moved to Milan to live with his girlfriend, Amalie Giæver Macleod, according to SE og HØR .

Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust

The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.…

The oil on canvas artwork, called 'Deck Chairs', was painted more than 30 years ago by Vettriano, who was found dead aged 73 at his apartment in the south of France earlier this year.

The model and influencer, 47, has been acting as a carer for her actor husband, 70, since he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

The Merton School Sport Partnership wrote to disappointed parents last week to inform them they would no longer be welcome at 40 primary schools across southwest London.

Donald Trump 's awkward handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron at Monday's Gaza peace summit has taken a dark turn as new details reveal their intense conversation.

“Platformization” eventually comes to every high-profile IT space as the number of tools and amount of complexity increases. …

Google Rolls Up Gemini And AI Tools Into An Enterprise Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs.…

Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results

Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.…

Aso Hassan was worshipping at a town mosque in Hanley on August 3, 2024 when he noticed police cordons in place outside.

The singer, 40, was seen kissing and cuddling Justin, 53, on her 24-meter yacht, the Caravelle, off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, over the weekend.

Preteens who use increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared to those who use little or no social media. A study published in JAMA examined data from over 6,000 children ages 9 to 10 through early adolescence. Researchers classified the children into three groups: 58% used little or no social media over several years, 37% started with low-level use but spent about an hour daily on social media by age 13, and 6% spent three or more hours daily by that age. Even low users who spent about one hour per day performed 1 to 2 points lower on reading and memory tasks compared to non-users. High users performed 4 to 5 points lower than non-social media users. Jason Nagata, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco and study author, said the findings were notable because even modest social media use correlated with lower cognitive scores.

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There is set to be a community atmosphere and lots of festive joy

Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await

Updated  SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed).…

John Mayer is reportedly in the early stages of a new relationship with a popular influencer.

Defence chief Nicholas Prest, 71, and his wife Anthea, 70, are accused of failing to prepare gardener Paul Marsden to carry out his tasks before he was crushed to death whilst working at their property.

Charlotte, 36, who split from the Newcastle defender over year ago, contacted cops after the attempted break in at her luxury mansion in an upmarket area of Cheshire.