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Joe Harkness suffers from ADHD but finds nature a safe space. In his new book he explores why people with neurodivergence excel in the natural world.

Historian Eve Macdonald recounts the meteoric rise and crashing fall of Rome's greatest adversary, Carthage.

Beaten with chains, held at gunpoint and sexually abused, the women of Nagyrev could see only one way out… poisoning their husbands, fathers-in-law and sons with arsenic.

Now a newly unearthed statement made by the Stones' lead singer while he was on bail reveals extraordinary details about the circumstances of the Redlands raid.

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has revealed he's still head-over-heels for wife Nicola after the pair secretly renewed their wedding vows in a romantic ceremony earlier this month.

Just as Carrie is completely oblivious to the real world around her - to the needs, feelings and opinions of anyone else - so, it seems, is SJP.

"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in the merge window especially with his international travels this week being known. And he's unhappy with some of the code included as part of this merge request. . Here's the text of Torvalds' response... > RISC-V Patches for the 6.17 Merge Window, Part 1 No. This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests because I'm traveling, and if you can't follow that rule, at least make the pull requests *good*. This adds various garbage that isn't RISC-V specific to generic header files. And by "garbage" I really mean it. This is stuff that nobody should ever send me, never mind late in a merge window. Like this crazy and pointless make_u32_from_two_u16() "helper". That thing makes the world actively a worse place to live. It's useless garbage that makes any user incomprehensible, and actively *WORSE* than not using that stupid "helper". If you write the code out as "(a In contrast, if you write make_u32_from_two_u16(a,b) you have not a f%^5ing clue what the word order is. IOW, you just made things *WORSE*, and you added that "helper" to a generic non-RISC-V file where people are apparently supposed to use it to make *other* code worse too. So no. Things like this need to get bent. It does not go into generic header files, and it damn well does not happen late in the merge window. You're on notice: no more late pull requests, and no more garbage outside the RISC-V tree. Now, I would *hope* there's no garbage inside the RISC-V parts, but that's your choice. But things in generic headers do not get polluted by crazy stuff. And sending a big pull request the day before the merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care is not a winning strategy. So you get to try again in 6.18. EARLY in the that merge window. And without the garbage. Torvalds' message drew a conciliatory response from the submitter of the patches. "I'll stop being late, and hopefully that helps with the quality issues."

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The woman was rescued from the sea at 5pm on Saturday and brought back to shore but Lincolnshire Police confirmed she was unable to be saved and sadly passed away.

Police caused a free-speech row when they turned up at Rob Davis's vintage store in North Wales and told him to take down a handwritten sign that referred to shoplifters as 'scum bags'.

In the latest turn of events a member of the crew, who reportedly worked on show for a decade until 2023, has broken their silence on Strictly's wild behind the scenes parties.

Five teenagers - including a boy aged 14 - have been arrested after a man in his 50s was fatally hit by a pick-up truck in Crawshawbooth, Lancashire, on Friday night.

Instead, the role of sado-masochist millionaire Christian Grey in the eponymous film went to Irish actor Jamie Dornan - and turned him into a star.

"Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software," reports TechCrunch: Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company's AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team of hackers Project Zero, reported its first-ever vulnerabilities, mostly in open source software such as audio and video library FFmpeg and image-editing suite ImageMagick. [There's also a "medium impact" issue in Redis] Given that the vulnerabilities are not fixed yet, we don't have details of their impact or severity, as Google does not yet want to provide details, which is a standard policy when waiting for bugs to be fixed. But the simple fact that Big Sleep found these vulnerabilities is significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if there was a human involved in this case. "To ensure high quality and actionable reports, we have a human expert in the loop before reporting, but each vulnerability was found and reproduced by the AI agent without human intervention," Google's spokesperson Kimberly Samra told TechCrunch. Google's vice president of engineering posted on social media that this demonstrates "a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery."

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Aalborg Zoo, in northern Denmark is running a programme where people can donate their pets to be euthanised and fed to the animals.

High August is when childhood's freedoms are forged. The school holiday stretches to the horizon, offering endless scope for adventure.

The Welsh government has supported the Mbale Tree Planting Project to tackle climate change, improve the livelihoods of Ugandans and promote gender equality for female workers.

A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is

Black Hat  Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…

Every week millions of us do our bit. We rinse yoghurt pots, flatten packaging, and sort plastic into the right bins. But most of that plastic isn't recycled in the UK.

Antonio Simoes says Rachel Reeves needs. to focus on 'creating the right conditions' that would 'encourage' funds to back the UK economy.

Epitomising the return of Cool Britannia were the Lionesses, with the England football team in Marks & Spencer tailoring, draped with national flags on their victory bus.