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Blonde, tanned and beautiful, Anne had a sensational secret. For the past year and a half, she had - she believed - been in an online relationship with Brad Pitt.

In a corner of a Perthshire bookstore - closed for the day for movie-making purposes - former supermodel Caprice Bourret briefly lets her mind unspool. It's been a morning.

Suspicion fell on the retail worker, 40, after he survived the dreaded death match earlier this week and failed to prove to his innocence to his fellow faithfuls.

Fans were left gutted after the sat down at breakfast and discovered the loveable lady had left and wished that 'annoying' Joe had had the chop instead.

The reality star, 28, is appearing on the spin-off version of the ITV2 show and when series two contestant Tina, 29, arrived on Friday night, he made a confession/

Google computer scientists have been using LLMs to streamline internal code migrations, achieving significant time savings of up to 89% in some cases. The findings appear in a pre-print paper titled "How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?" The Register reports: Their focus is on bespoke AI tools developed for specific product areas, such as Ads, Search, Workspace and YouTube, instead of generic AI tools that provide broadly applicable services like code completion, code review, and question answering. Google's code migrations involved: changing 32-bit IDs in the 500-plus-million-line codebase for Google Ads to 64-bit IDs; converting its old JUnit3 testing library to JUnit4; and replacing the Joda time library with Java's standard java.time package. The int32 to int64 migration, the Googlers explain, was not trivial as the IDs were often generically defined (int32_t in C++ or Integer in Java) and were not easily searchable. They existed in tens of thousands of code locations across thousands of files. Changes had to be tracked across multiple teams and changes to class interfaces had to be considered across multiple files. "The full effort, if done manually, was expected to require hundreds of software engineering years and complex crossteam coordination," the authors explain. For their LLM-based workflow, Google's software engineers implemented the following process. An engineer from Ads would identify an ID in need of migration using a combination of code search, Kythe, and custom scripts. Then an LLM-based migration toolkit, triggered by someone knowledgeable in the art, was run to generate verified changes containing code that passed unit tests. Those changes would be manually checked by the same engineer and potentially corrected. Thereafter, the code changes would be sent to multiple reviewers who are responsible for the portion of the codebase affected by the changes. The result was that 80 percent of the code modifications in the change lists (CLs) were purely the product of AI; the remainder were either human-authored or human-edited AI suggestions. "We discovered that in most cases, the human needed to revert at least some changes the model made that were either incorrect or not necessary," the authors observe. "Given the complexity and sensitive nature of the modified code, effort has to be spent in carefully rolling out each change to users." Based on this, Google undertook further work on LLM-driven verification to reduce the need for detailed review. Even with the need to double-check the LLM's work, the authors estimate that the time required to complete the migration was reduced by 50 percent. With LLM assistance, it took just three months to migrate 5,359 files and modify 149,000 lines of code to complete the JUnit3-JUnit4 transition. Approximately 87 percent of the code generated by AI ended up being committed with no changes. As for the Joda-Java time framework switch, the authors estimate a time saving of 89 percent compared to the projected manual change time, though no specifics were provided to support that assertion.

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Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors

The "chip wars" between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile, Washington's latest export restrictions have angered even some of its allies.…

Rainer Edmund Morgan-Kavanaugh of, Plymouth, stole medical items worth around £3,000 from South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust's vehicles.

Wardens recruited from countries such as Nigeria have turned up for work on their first day expecting to be handed living quarters with their job.

Leading scientists have now called on ministers to review the upfront costs that must be paid by workers in science, technology, engineering and maths fields.

it is little wonder that 94 per cent of Britons believe certain family traits are genetic, getting passed down through generations.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The Mail has been deeply sceptical of the vast number of reviews and inquiries set up by Labour since it came to power.

The show threw the influencer's mansion doors open to viewers to follow her life as a single parent following her split from Tommy Fur y, both 25, but reviewers branded it 'uninformative'.

The Great British Bake Off star, 51, took on the lead role of the legendary highwayman in the big-budget series, which debuted last spring.

Salford-based trader Christopher Parr, 36, removed roof tiles from an 85-year-old widow and then never returned after charging nearly £8,000.

Longtime Slashdot reader tlhIngan writes: In what is perhaps the greatest irony ever, the operators of RedNote (known as Xiaohongshu) have decided to "wall off" US TikTok refugees fleeing to its service as the TikTok ban looms. The reason? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to prevent American influence from spreading to Chinese citizens. The ban is expected to be in place next week, while many believe that the influx of Americans to be temporary and just a reaction to the TikTok ban to move to another Chinese app. Many Chinese users are not happy with the influx as having "ruined" their ability to connect with "Chinese culture, Chinese values and Chinese news."

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Following Labour's VAT raid on school fees, Chinese investors are circling a host of independent schools across the UK, seeing them as potential investment opportunities.

Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds

Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.…

The Love Island star, 25, revealed she 'begged' Tommy to stay sober during the special family event in her new documentary Behind It All, which was released on Prime Video on Friday.

Over 300 migrants are now living in the theatre as part of what they're calling an 'anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle' for state-sponsored housing.