Parents 'fighting' to keep 'lifeline' children's nursery open as petition launched
A petition currently has 489 signatures
Canva Now Requires Use of LLMs During Coding Interviews
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process. [...] Canva's hiring process previously included an interview focused on computer science fundamentals, during which it required candidates to write code using only their actual human brains. The company now expects candidates for frontend, backend, and machine learning engineering roles to demonstrate skill with tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude during technical interviews, Canva head of platforms Simon Newton wrote in a Tuesday blog post.
His rationale for the change is that nearly half of Canva's frontend and backend engineers use AI coding assistants daily, that it's now expected behavior, and that the tools are "essential for staying productive and competitive in modern software development." Yet Canva's old interview process "asked candidates to solve coding problems without the very tools they'd use on the job," Newton admitted. "This dismissal of AI tools during the interview process meant we weren't truly evaluating how candidates would perform in their actual role," he added. Candidates were already starting to use AI assistants during interview tasks -- and sometimes used subterfuge to hide it. "Rather than fighting this reality and trying to police AI usage, we made the decision to embrace transparency and work with this new reality," Newton wrote. "This approach gives us a clearer signal about how they'll actually perform when they join our team." The initial reaction among engineers "was worry that we were simply replacing rigorous computer science fundamentals with what one engineer called 'vibe-coding sessions,'" Newton said.
The company addressed these concerns with a recruitment process that sees candidates expected to use their preferred AI tools, to solve what Newton described as "the kind of challenges that require genuine engineering judgment even with AI assistance." Newton added: "These problems can't be solved with a single prompt; they require iterative thinking, requirement clarification, and good decision-making."
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Chris Pratt and Anna Faris reunite for first time in SEVEN years for son's graduation after shock divorce
Jurassic Park star Pratt, 45 and actress Faris, 48, were both in attendance for the sixth grade graduation for their 12-year-old son Jack in Santa Monica on Monday.
Over-sexed Sabrina Carpenter roasted over 'pathetic' new album cover
Sabrina Carpenter announced her new album Man's Best Friend on Wednesday, but the cover art for the upcoming release sparked fierce criticism from fans.
Abandoned Subdomains from Major Institutions Hijacked for AI-Generated Spam
A coordinated spam operation has infiltrated abandoned subdomains belonging to major institutions including Nvidia, Stanford University, NPR, and the U.S. government's vaccines.gov site, flooding them with AI-generated content that subsequently appears in search results and Google's AI Overview feature.
The scheme, reports 404 Media, posted over 62,000 articles on Nvidia's events.nsv.nvidia.com subdomain before the company took it offline within two hours of being contacted by reporters. The spam articles, which included explicit gaming content and local business recommendations, used identical layouts and a fake byline called "Ashley" across all compromised sites. Each targeted domain operates under different names -- "AceNet Hub" on Stanford's site, "Form Generation Hub" on NPR, and "Seymore Insights" on vaccines.gov -- but all redirect traffic to a marketing spam page. The operation exploits search engines' trust in institutional domains, with Google's AI Overview already serving the fabricated content as factual information to users searching for local businesses.
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Primark's new inclusive bra collection that fans 'can't wait' to get their hands on
The brand has expanded their bra sizing to fit more people
Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson dead at 82: Musician passes away after battle with dementia
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, one of the most acclaimed and influential songwriters of the 20th century, has died aged 82.
Peeling The Covers Off Germany’s Exascale “Jupiter” Supercomputer
The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. …
Peeling The Covers Off Germany’s Exascale “Jupiter” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Bodybuilder teenager, 15, who jumped off pier in celebration of finishing exams may not have drowned if a lifeguard was present, coroner rules - as he warned of future deaths
David Ejimofor, 15, died after getting into trouble during a 'coming of age ceremony' in the water off Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot.
Moment terraced home EXPLODES in 'gas blast' as debris is sent flying into residential street
Emergency services were first called to reports of a possible gas explosion at a terraced property in Eden Street, Derby, at around 7.24pm on Tuesday, June 10.
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
The abstract of a study featured on NBER: We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25,000 workers, 7,000 workplaces), linked to matched employer-employee data in Denmark.
AI chatbots are now widespread -- most employers encourage their use, many deploy in-house models, and training initiatives are common. These firm-led investments boost adoption, narrow demographic gaps in take-up, enhance workplace utility, and create new job tasks. Yet, despite substantial investments, economic impacts remain minimal. Using difference-in-differences and employer policies as quasi-experimental variation, we estimate precise zeros: AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%. Modest productivity gains (average time savings of 3%), combined with weak wage pass-through, help explain these limited labor market effects. Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI.
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Russia moves its $500million planes to a remote base as far away from Ukraine as possible after drone attacks destroyed fleets across different airfields
Satellite images show that the pair of supersonic Tu-160 strategic bombers - each carrying a $500m price tag - have been relocated more than 4,000 miles from the warfront to Anadyr.
PETER HITCHENS: The private school pupils refused NHS care show we're becoming a People's Republic by stealth - ruled by blank-eyed bureaucrats
We are becoming a People's Republic by stealth. The warnings are increasingly urgent, but is anyone listening?
The man who invented the Sound of Summer: He was the genius behind The Beach Boys, but his abusive father drove him to years of ruinous drug addiction - until he was saved by the love of his second wife, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
From his brutal childhood - beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear - to his decades of paranoid, drug-addled seclusion, he fought a constant battle against the world.
Beach Boys' Brian Wilson's torture at the hands of his rotten father and the deep turmoil before his death
'It was hard to feel happy and light when there were sad things in my head,' Wilson wrote in his 2016 autobiography I Am Brian Wilson. 'It was hard to feel free when I was tied down.
M&S 'flattering' dress perfect for holidays 'doesn't cling in all the wrong places'
'So comfortable, flattering style and superb quality'
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
On your marks, get set... bork!
updated Microsoft set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…
ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's claim to be 'investing in Britain's renewal' is delusional drivel in a class of its own - even for a Government that's a stranger to the truth
'Our first job was to stabilise the economy and public finances,' Keir Starmer tweeted yesterday morning, a few hours before Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's spending plans.
How to wear five of this summer's hottest Gen Z fashion trends - when you're over 50: DINAH VAN TULLEKEN
From jelly shoes to Bermuda shorts, you may remember wearing many of this summer's trends the first time they were cool.
The anti-vax conspiracy theorists driving the deadly new outbreak of measles in America: TOM LEONARD visits a Texas town where parents are turning their backs on vaccines - with fatal consequences
Next to the Reinland Mennonite Church on the outskirts of Seminole in Texas is a plain grass field surrounded by a chain-link fence that serves as the devout congregation's graveyard.