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Furry, fluffy or scaly - the Gazette is on the hunt for the cutest pet in Essex, and your four-legged (or no-legged) friend could be crowned Essex's Cutest Pet.

Furry, fluffy or scaly - the Gazette is on the hunt for the cutest pet in Essex, and your four-legged (or no-legged) friend could be crowned Essex's Cutest Pet.

Fozila Umurzoqova, 19, is a finalist in Miss Teen Great Britain's 16-to-19 category

A former Plume Academy headteacher has spoken of her pride after learning a new science block at the Maldon school will be named in her honour.

New food and drink openings in Essex often generate plenty of excitement, but the service does not always live up to it.

Plans have been submitted to turn a former water tower near Braintree into a one-off home.

Fozila Umurzoqova, 19, is a finalist in Miss Teen Great Britain's 16-to-19 category

The Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production, with an all-female cast led by Dame Harriet Walter, is set to open with an astonishing 14 trigger warnings

Recorded earlier in the year at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands, the new edition of The Celebrity Traitors kicks off this week.

The stepson of Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Saturday accused the explorer's second wife of 'exerting a controlling influence' over him for more than two decades.

Beneath the dad-like clothes and calm demeanour lies a man who knows he is piloting a deeply divided party, packed with MPs already thinking about his potential failure in No 10.

The islands do not have air-to-air refuelling capacity despite Argentina's president vowing to 'take matters into our own hands' at the UN General Assembly last week.

It's said that Granny knows best. And, according to actress Kristin Scott Thomas, the saying certainly rings true.

Viewers of The Real Rooneys follow the couple on a romantic getaway to the Scottish Highlands that was meant to help them 'reconnect' amid marriage troubles.

Experts say the £2 barrier will be breached within days as the Middle East conflict enters its eighth month.

Apple TV's smash hit Slow Horses sees Jackson Lamb and River Cartwright traverse a mostly murky London as their band of MI5 rejects fight to foil terror attacks and other varied nefarious plots.

More than 40 years have passed since the rough and ready Liverpool romcom Letter To Brezhnev charmed critics and became a left-field box office hit.

It was only when he tried to stand up that the 27-year-old former British soldier realised something was wrong.

Last weekend KDE's annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE," writes The Register. This led KDE developer Nate Graham to open a discussion about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions which "rapidly became heated. Moderators issued warnings, restricted further comments, and eventually removed the thread." But as Graham writes on his blog, "A bunch of people mostly outside of KDE who disapprove of LLM usage derailed KDE's attempt to add restrictions to LLM usage." Two people unknown to any KDE contributors appeared and began fighting with one another about the broader topic of the morality of AI, not the proposed guidelines... Someone else outside of KDE set up kdeforpeople.com in an attempt to... pressure KDE into banning LLMs. A bunch of people signed onto it, almost none of whom are known KDE contributors. The topic was picked up on social media and the press with... varying levels of accuracy. The draft proposal was removed and the whole topic hidden... Yep, that's where we're at in the state of online discourse around AI... The "lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" idea was presented by two people important to KDE in decades past, but who had not made any contributions recently besides this Akademy talk. Their idea does not reflect the overall direction of KDE or Plasma, and I don't think it ever will. If "a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" freaks you out, I believe it is completely reasonable and safe to ignore... I completely understand why a lot of people have problems with LLMs. I have these concerns as well. He concluded by asking people not to derail any future process to set usage guidelines, fighting over "the broader topic of AI in general." "The discussion is gone, but the argument continues," adds The Register: GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has also published The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want, proposing that LLMs be barred from creating or modifying anything submitted to GNOME or hosted on its infrastructure. "You might be asked to prove your code meets this requirement," Petridis writes, arguing for proposals that target the norms around developer behavior. His rationale? "The GNOME Project prioritizes the social and human aspects of collective software creation,"

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The Sixties witnessed the legalisation of abortion, a rise in divorce (37,800 in England and Wales in 1965) and an increase in illegitimacy (70,000 in 1967).