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The latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code generated by LLM-based assistants. From a report: The FreeBSD Project's Status Report for the second quarter of 2025 contains updates from various sub-teams that are working on improving the FreeBSD OS, including separate sub-projects such as enabling FreeBSD apps to run on Linux, Chinese translation efforts, support for Solaris-style Extended Attributes, and for Apple's legacy HFS+ file system. The thing that stood out to us, though, was that the core team is working on what it terms a "Policy on generative AI created code and documentation." The relevant paragraph says: "Core is investigating setting up a policy for LLM/AI usage (including but not limited to generating code). The result will be added to the Contributors Guide in the doc repository. AI can be useful for translations (which seems faster than doing the work manually), explaining long/obscure documents, tracking down bugs, or helping to understand large code bases. We currently tend to not use it to generate code because of license concerns. The discussion continues at the core session at BSDCan 2025 developer summit, and core is still collecting feedback and working on the policy."

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The former WWE star, 53, has even been at the centre of Oscars rumours for his new role, which sees him depict former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

A shocking sex abuse case filed by a Gucci heiress took a dramatic turn on Tuesday.

Bradley Moffat, 49, of Maynard Court, Waltham Abbey, has since been charged with threatening to damage or destroy property, assault and public order offence.

Bradley Moffat, 49, of Maynard Court, Waltham Abbey, has since been charged with threatening to damage or destroy property, assault and public order offence.

An immigration expert tells the Daily Mail it could point to the Duke having a very special type of visa.

Sandie Peggie was suspended from work at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, after complaining about being made to change next to trans medic Dr Beth Upton on Christmas Eve 2023.

The new branch restores Post Office services to the community after the previous Masefield Road location closed in January 2023

A mother-of-three is calling for anyone with an autoimmune disorder to be screened for cancer , after she initially dismissed her incurable disease for a common cold.

If I said to you, 'Henrietta is popping in at noon,' you'd be forgiven for imagining an ever-so aristo type swanning in, trailing a chic waft of Byredo fragrance behind her.

Amid a campaign to raise flags around Britain's streets which swept the nation this summer, Union Jacks have been hung on the side of South Lakes Islamic Centre.

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework

The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.…

The SAT is billed as "a great way to find out how prepared students are for college." If that's true, recent changes to its format offer an unflattering assessment of the country's aspiring scholars, Bloomberg's editorial board wrote Wednesday. From the piece: [...] Then the pandemic hit. As in-person exams became impractical, hundreds of schools dropped their testing requirements. The SAT and its main competitor, the ACT, lost millions of dollars in revenue. Although both recently started offering digital options, schools have been slow to reinstate their requirements. Today, more than 80% of schools remain test-optional. "If students are deciding to take a test," as one College Board executive put it, "how do we make the SAT the one they want to take?" To anyone familiar with American teenagers, the company's answer should come as no surprise: Make the test easier. The newly digitized format allows a calculator for the entire math section and drastically cuts reading comprehension. Gone are the 500- to 750-word passages about which students would answer a series of questions. Instead, test takers read 25- to 150-word excerpts -- about the length of a social media post -- and answer a single question about each. [...] An effort by the College Board to reemphasize the benefits of deep reading -- for critical thinking, for self-reflection, for learning of all kinds -- might go a long way toward restoring some balance. It should build on efforts to incorporate college prep into school curricula, work with districts to develop coursework that builds reading stamina for all test takers, and consider reducing the cost of its subject-specific Advanced Placement exams that continue to test these skills (now $99), in line with the SAT ($68). Schools, for their part, should recommit to teaching books in their entirety.

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From cloud IDEs to autonomous assistants, company says future is agentic

Gitpod, best known for cloud-hosted dev environments, has rebranded as Ona and is now pitching itself as an AI agent platform.…

Only one can be crowned the best in Essex!

Two autistic pupils are celebrating their progress as they prepare to leave a specialist school in Witham.

A healthcare assistant is on her way to a new career in nursing thanks to adult learning provider ACL Essex.

Frightened auctioneers, in Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, are desperate to sell a 'possessed pram' after CCTV caught it rolling across the store room 'on its own' - and vow there's 'no returns'.

It was the upstairs downstairs drama that became a hit with its class driven storylines.