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Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey

According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices — but they're not necessarily all that happy about it.…

The reality TV turned singer is taking new steps with her music career

Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023. From a report: Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert -- giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the first 7.8 magnitude quake. Google told the BBC half a million people were sent a lower level warning, which is designed for "light shaking", and does not alert users in the same prominent way. The tech giant previously told the BBC the system had "performed well" after an investigation in 2023. The alerts system is available in just under 100 countries -- and is described by Google as a "global safety net" often operating in countries with no other warning system. Google's system, named Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA), is run by the Silicon Valley firm - not individual countries.

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Auterion CEO explains how autonomy will change the face of warfare

interview  The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battle of drones, and defense software firm Auterion has just won a $50 million Pentagon contract to supply 33,000 AI-powered “strike kits” that aim to augment Ukrainian UAVs and push them to the front lines.…

Lawmakers have denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request for congressional immunity in exchange for her testimony, the Daily Mail has learned.

Barbie spent more than 30 years living under the false identity of businessman Klaus Altmann in Bolivia after being helped to flee post-war Germany by American intelligence agents

The NFL great, a seven-time Super Bowl winner, split from his wife of 13 years in October 2023, months after dramatically reversing his decision to retire from football.

Protesters on the southern Greek island of Crete unfurled a huge Palestinian flag at the port of Agios Nikolaos and shouted 'Free, free Palestine'.

Apple has lost its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta [non-paywalled source], marking the latest setback to the iPhone maker's AI efforts. From a report: Bowen Zhang, a key multimodal AI researcher at Apple, left the company on Friday and is set to join Meta's recently formed superintelligence team, according to people familiar with the matter. Zhang was part of the Apple foundation models group, or AFM, which built the core technology behind the company's AI platform. Meta previously lured away the leader of the team, Ruoming Pang, with a compensation package valued at more than $200 million, Bloomberg News has reported. Two other researchers from that group -- Tom Gunter and Mark Lee -- also recently joined Meta. AFM is made up of several dozen engineers and researchers across Cupertino, California, and New York. In response to the job offers from Meta and others, Apple has been marginally increasing the pay of its AFM staffers, whether or not they've threatened to leave, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the moves are private. Still, the pay levels pale in comparison with those of rivals.

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Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty have announced they have split after 12 years of marriage. 

Her ordeal started with a Facebook ad looking for an au pair. The Brit she hired had seemed normal over text, but Rebecca noticed red flags from the moment she picked her up from the airport...

Almost one in five - or 2.4 million - older people have limited use of the internet and use it less than once a month or not at all, according to Age UK.

Katharine VansBuskirk, 69, was attacked by the animal on the back porch of her home in Somerville, Massachusetts. She suffered deep scratches to her face, arms and legs.