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Three victims had already been recovered dead on Saturday, while the bodies of two other missing people were found on Sunday morning.

"AI isn't just a tool anymore; it's an integral part of the development experience," argues GitHub's blog. So "Agents shouldn't be bolted on. They should work the way you already work..." So this week GitHub announced "Agent HQ," which CNBC describes as a "mission control" interface "that will allow software developers to manage coding agents from multiple vendors on a single platform." Developers have a range of new capabilities at their fingertips because of these agents, but it can require a lot of effort to keep track of them all individually, said GitHub COO Kyle Daigle. Developers will now be able to manage agents from GitHub, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI and Cognition in one place with Agent HQ. "We want to bring a little bit of order to the chaos of innovation," Daigle told CNBC in an interview. "With so many different agents, there's so many different ways of kicking off these asynchronous tasks, and so our big opportunity here is to bring this all together." Agent HQ users will be able to access a command center where they can assign, steer and monitor the work of multiple agents... The third-party agents will begin rolling out to GitHub Copilot subscribers in the coming months, but Copilot Pro+ users will be able to access OpenAI Codex in VS Code Insiders this week, the company said. "We're into this wave two era," GitHub's COO Mario Rodriguez told VentureBeat, an era that's "going to be multimodal, it's going to be agentic and it's going to have these new experiences that will feel AI native...." Or, as VentureBeat sees it, GitHub "is positioning itself as the essential orchestration layer beneath them all..." Just as the company transformed Git, pull requests and CI/CD into collaborative workflows, it's now trying to do the same with a fragmented AI coding landscape... The technical architecture addresses a critical enterprise concern: Security. Unlike standalone agent implementations where users must grant broad repository access, GitHub's Agent HQ implements granular controls at the platform level... Agents operating through Agent HQ can only commit to designated branches. They run within sandboxed GitHub Actions environments with firewall protections. They operate under strict identity controls. [GitHub COO] Rodriguez explained that even if an agent goes rogue, the firewall prevents it from accessing external networks or exfiltrating data unless those protections are explicitly disabled. Beyond managing third-party agents, GitHub is introducing two technical capabilities that set Agent HQ apart from alternative approaches like Cursor's standalone editor or Anthropic's Claude integration. Custom agents via AGENTS.md files: Enterprises can now create source-controlled configuration files that define specific rules, tools and guardrails for how Copilot behaves. For example, a company could specify "prefer this logger" or "use table-driven tests for all handlers." This permanently encodes organizational standards without requiring developers to re-prompt every time... Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support: VS Code now includes a GitHub MCP Registry. Developers can discover, install and enable MCP servers with a single click. They can then create custom agents that combine these tools with specific system prompts. This positions GitHub as the integration point between the emerging MCP ecosystem and actual developer workflows. MCP, introduced by Anthropic but rapidly gaining industry support, is becoming a de facto standard for agent-to-tool communication. By supporting the full specification, GitHub can orchestrate agents that need access to external services without each agent implementing its own integration logic. GitHub is also shipping new capabilities within VS Code itself. Plan Mode allows developers to collaborate with Copilot on building step-by-step project approaches. The AI asks clarifying questions before any code is written. Once approved, the plan can be executed either locally in VS Code or by cloud-based agents. The feature addresses a common failure mode in AI coding: Beginning implementation before requirements are fully understood. By forcing an explicit planning phase, GitHub aims to reduce wasted effort and improve output quality. More significantly, GitHub's code review feature is becoming agentic. The new implementation will use GitHub's CodeQL engine, which previously largely focused on security vulnerabilities to identify bugs and maintainability issues. The code review agent will automatically scan agent-generated pull requests before human review. This creates a two-stage quality gate. "Don't let this little bit of news float past you like all those self-satisfied marketing pitches we semi-hear and ignore," writes ZDNet: If it works and remains reliable, this is actually a very big deal... Tech companies, especially the giant ones, often like to talk "open" but then do their level best to engineer lock-in to their solution and their solution alone. Sure, most of them offer some sort of export tool, but the barrier to moving from one tool to another is often huge... [T]he idea that you can continue to use your favorite agent or agents in GitHub, fully integrated into the GitHub tool path, is powerful. It means there's a chance developers might not have to suffer the walled garden effect that so many companies have strived for to lock in their customers.

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Dayna Arnold, 48, boarded the train with partner, site manager Andy Gray, 37, before the incident began minutes later. The couple were in Coach J when she was separated from Andy.

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Shocking footage shows the moment a man walked down the train platform at Huntingdon - where the train driver was forced to make a diversion - only to be struck down by police with a taser.

The Black Country club parted ways with Vitor Pereira, 57, this morning following a dismal start the season.

Former President Bill Clinton was spotted in New York City on Sunday with a curious sight on his face.

An urgent warning has been issued after several deadly sea creatures were found washed up on a popular UK beach. The public have been urged to stay cautious and avoid touching the creatures.

Dominique Valdes's cat Rémi was found guilty of causing damage to the neighbour's property in the French town of Agde.

Big Brother fans have slammed the Essex star for her treatment of another housemate

There are few places where the public are more vulnerable than on a packed train. The terror and panic on the southbound LNER train on Saturday must have been appalling.

The 50-year-old's body was discovered between two parked cars in the town of Javea north of Benidorm.

Andrew Johnson, of Peterborough, rapidly diverted the London-bound train to Huntingdon station after being alerted to the mass stabbing, enabling emergency services to act fast.

Lily Allen turned heads in a white lace corset as she shared sizzling behind-the-scenes snaps from Halloween to Instagram on Sunday. 

The father-and-son duo - who share a known passion for football - looked in high spirits as they cheered on Celtic FC, their favourite team.

The happy couple shared the news on Instagram on Sunday, captioning an array of romantic photos with the caption 'Mr and Mrs Leclerc', which included their dog Leo.

Angelynn Mock, a former TV anchor was arrested in Wichita, Kansas on Friday in connection to the stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother Anita Avers.

Blair was PM when the sweetheart deal for him to move in was struck with the Crown Estate in 2003, effectively meaning the then prince was able to live there rent free.

Fiona Muir, of Ealing, West London, has told the Daily Mail she and her neighbours have been leaving their recycling on a grass verge for years as they live on a red route.