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The man behind Sir Keir Starmer 's rise to power - and possibly his fall from grace - has finally stepped out of the shadows and answered questions in Parliament for the first time.

No arrests have been made with the investigation still ongoing

fjo3 shares a report from The Times: More than two-thirds of babies under two use screens, a report has found, and some are exposed for up to eight hours a day. Nearly a third of newborns were found to be watching screens for more than three hours a day, while almost 20 percent of infants of four to 11 months used screens for more than an hour a day. The report comes after the government issued guidance that children under two do not use screens at all, apart from communal activities such as video-calling relatives. In a review of the current research, researchers found evidence linking screen time to poorer outcomes for children, including an increased risk of obesity, short-sightedness, sleep and behavioural difficulties, and later challenges with friendships. [...] The research also revealed why children and parents use screens, with families reporting children doing so for educational purposes, entertainment, play and to communicate and bond with others. Parents, meanwhile, used screens to occupy or distract children, which helped caregivers to complete domestic duties, paid employment and other caring responsibilities. Nearly a quarter of parents -- 23.6 percent -- either had no childcare or were not aware of the government's early years offer.

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The Middle East energy shock could plunge the UK into recession and wipe close to £70billion off the economy over the next two years, according to a doom-laden report.

She has built some of the world's most successful brands. Emma Grede is credited with being the brains behind the Kardashians' various fashion companies.

Donald Trump dotted in a few jokes about the Royal Family and his own while welcoming King Charles and Queen Camilla to the White House on Tuesday in a pomp-filled ceremony.

Matt Damon's glamorous wife Luciana set tongues wagging as she attended a glitzy San Francisco event with the handsome actor on Monday.

Petrol has only gone down by around 1p per litre, with diesel dropping by 2p per litre, new figures show.

King Charles delivered a speech to the US Congress on the second day of his historic state visit to the US. Read his speech in full.

Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw

Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…

Neighbours of a bungalow set to house migrants under a Government 'dispersal' scheme fear the street will be unsafe for their grandchildren.

From our Anonymous submitter:

Our company creates graphs to visualize data. We have many small fish customers, but we have one whale who uses our product that is 90% of company revenue. (WTF number 1.)

So if he is not happy, it's all-hands-on deck-mode.

He complained that our APIs and charts are loading slowly for him. For 3 weeks, we've tried a TON of optimizations, including WTF 2: spinning up a special server he alone can hit.

Today, we found out that he's always complaining when he's in his car, driving from home to the office. But since he "totally has the best wifi money can buy," that isn't worth investigating.

WTF 3: thinking wifi and data are always 100% reliable in a car driving around.

Our submitter highlights one of the major pitfalls of the so-called whale client: if they're a bad client, you're in for an extra-bad time.

As I lean harder into freelancing, I'm learning to scan the waters ahead of me for potential whales. My goal is to build up multiple small, diverse income streams, because I've had my own dangerous encounters with whales in the past.

At one employer of mine, there was Facebook, who acted as if they were our new owners rather than a new customer. They'd already produced flashy marketing videos of the sorts of solutions they planned to implement with our software, showing people delighted with the results. In meetings, these things were talked up as amazing game-changers. Meanwhile, I found all the things Facebook wanted to do horribly creepy and invasive.

Even worse, Facebook began dictating how our award-winning technical support should change to accommodate their whims, up to and including having a dedicated toady—er, support rep—who did nothing but field Facebook-related tickets, similar to a technical account manager (TAM).

That was the last straw for me. I left that company before I was forced to deal with any of Facebook's crap.

My second whale sighting occurred at a startup that'd landed Porsche, far and away their biggest client ever. All of a sudden, our timeline for adding new features and fixing bugs became Porsche's honey-do list. All of a sudden, the platform frequently crashed and became unusable for everyone because it couldn't handle the amount of traffic Porsche (and their clients) hurled at it.

On the other hand, there were several times in that startup's existence when a big wad of promised funding failed to materialize. Porsche kept the business afloat and literally kept my lights on.

I find it less than ideal to be at any company's mercy. I want a world that would neither spawn whales nor millions of startups named Sploink, Dink, and Twangle that promise to bring the power of AI to your dinner fork.

Have your own epic whaling adventures? Share with us in the comments!

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Amidst the floral elegance of a White House East Room transformed into a lush English garden, the evening's diplomatic focus shifted sharply toward global security.

A 16-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man have been seriously injured after being struck by a van in Essex

A 16-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man have been seriously injured after being struck by a van in Essex

When Serdar Ferit first discovered blood in his stool back in February 2022, he convinced himself that it was nothing to worry about.

The site is near several listed and historic buildings in the town

At a state dinner held hours later, Trump was welcoming King Charles and Queen Camilla before praising his speech and joking that the king got the Democrats to applaud in a way they refuse to for him.

The actress, 58, revealed purply-black marks on her hands as she posed for photos in a sleek black dress.

The Barmy Army has distanced itself from one of its best-known members after he announced he was standing for Reform in May's local elections.