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It added to the gathering gloom over the economy at the start of the year as supermarket chain Sainsbury's yesterday revealed a cull of jobs while Primark said its sales were suffering.

Investing is often portrayed as a numbers game, where success boils down to returns and volatility. Beneath the surface lies a crucial concept that many investors fail to grasp: sequence risk.

Pensions and farmers grabbed the headlines after the Budget inheritance tax raid but there is lesser-known element we should be concerned about.

Police say he has connections to Basildon and Tillingham Green

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on AI Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says "act as barriers to American AI innovation." From a report: To maintain global leadership in AI technology, "we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas," Trump's order says. The new order doesn't name which existing policies are hindering AI development but sets out to track down and review "all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken" as a result of former President Joe Biden's sweeping AI executive order of 2023, which Trump rescinded Monday. Any of those Biden-era actions must be suspended if they don't fit Trump's new directive that AI should "promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security." Last year, the Biden administration issued a policy directive that said U.S. federal agencies must show their artificial intelligence tools aren't harming the public, or stop using them. Trump's order directs the White House to revise and reissue those directives, which affect how agencies acquire AI tools and use them.

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Mitchell, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones, was denied his freedom at a parole hearing last year.

"Math is hard, especially timely math," explains The Beast in Black.

 

Cinephile Jono enjoys contemporary dramas far more than sci-fi. "Letterboxd tells me I've logged this movie 3 times, I'm not sure I'll be watching it in 2566." I hope you are, Jono.

 

Pieter may have to turn in his official pedants card. Pieter is concerned about the apparent contradiction between the two salaries on offer here, declaring:
"The title says She can earn up to 8.000 euro/month. But by the time you get to the actual article link, that amount deflated to 6.000 euro/month. I didn't know it was that bad in the euro zone! Or is it good, since we've got inflation under control? I don't know which way is up anymore..."
Pieter, 6,000 is "up to" 8,000. Technically.

 

Cross-country runner Andrei looks to be taking the long way around for this trip. Says he, "According to Google Maps, one of my transfers involves teleporting about 70 km away to catch my next train."

 

Finally David B. reports "My wife works as a quality auditor for Initech [ed: the William Lumberg company, presumably, not the Flavor and Fragrance company]. When setting up contact information for a company she will be auditing in the near future they needed some basic information. So much for gender equality." They're just getting ahead of the next batch of executive orders.

 

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Natalie Wood's tragic 1981 drowning may have been exacerbated by a parka she was wearing.

The tea room will now be allowed to open late and serve alcohol

Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done

A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.…

Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff were spotted together on a trip to the grocery store amid rumors the now former Second Couple's marriage is on the rocks.

While Lauren Sanchez may have been the talk of Trump's inauguration ceremony for her revealing outfit, it looks like her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, doesn't seem to mind all eyes being on her.

Some closures from January 24 to 26 on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some Essex drivers this weekend.

Chelmsford City Racecourse in the A131 is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a focus on community initiatives.

An 'eco-electric'’ show home was available for the public to see in Silver End in the final phase of 127 new homes.

Some closures from January 24 to 26 on the M25, A12 and Dartford Crossing may affect some Essex drivers this weekend.

The address in Dell Road was targeted multiple times last year

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from MotorTrend: A coming ground-fault circuit-interrupter revision could make slow-charging your car nearly impossible. The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) publishes a new National Electric Code every three years, and we almost never notice or care. But the next one, NFPA 70 2026, has the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) electric-vehicle charging subcommittee, OEMs, and companies in the EV Supply Equipment (EVSE, or charger) biz mightily concerned. That's because it proposes to require the same exact ground-fault circuit-interrupter protection that makes you push that little button on your bathroom outlet every time the curling iron won't heat up. Only now, that reset button will often be down in an electric panel, maybe locked in a room where you can't reset it. If EV drivers can't reliably plug in and expect their cars to charge overnight at home or while at work, those cars will become far less practical. [...] The national code doesn't care what you're plugging in, but vehicle chargers deserve their own carve-out. That's because no current ever flows until the charger has verified a solid ground connection from car to charger and from charger to electrical panel. They also include their own GFPE (Ground Fault Protection of Equipment), which is intended to protect equipment and is permitted to trip at values larger than 5mA, often in the 15-20mA range. That's why this new code REALLY needs to set a higher supply-side cutout (like what is allowed for marine vehicle shore power, which is up to 30mA). Because even if the Special Purpose GFCI with its 15-20mA trip level were allowed, it would be a 50/50 chance that any fault would trip the electrical-supply breaker or the device's internal breaker. But while the device is programmed to automatically reset and try again, the panel requires a manual reset. There is one EV-charger carve-out: Bi-directional chargers are exempt. This problematic application of 5 mA trip to most 240-volt equipment was added into this regulation late, during a second draft, and now the only way to head it off is for interested parties (SAE, OEMs, and EVSE manufacturers) to register their notice of motion in February for consideration in March. This isn't a government regulation, so it's utterly unaffected by the change in federal administration. These are functionary folks with minimal experience of EV charging, so the arguments must aim to convince the NFPA that implementing this code as is could grossly embarrass the Agency. (Understanding that any such embarrassment will only arise after buildings and projects are completed under the new code.)

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'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge

It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people's private communications in America.…

Gregor Haas was detained in the Philippines in May last year after being accused of running five kilograms of methamphetamine into Indonesia.