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Youth unemployment is at its highest level in more than a decade. Over a million young people aged 16-24 fall into the Neet category - not in education, employment or training. This is a crisis.

Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year

Today, we look at a "representative comment" from Mark W. This particular comment appears on a function:

/// <summary> /// Does something wonderful. /// </summary>

Well, I'm glad it's wonderful, but are we talking "Christmas magic" wonderful? Or sarcastically droll "Oh, how wonderful for you." wonderful? Tone doesn't get conveyed in text very well, so you've really got to be precise with your wording if you want us to get it.

Mark writes:

This comment is not really a 'representative' line; it exists in an otherwise very well written 100k+ line codebase.

Maybe it's not representative of the codebase as a whole, but it clearly represents this section of the codebase wonderfully.

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There have been plenty of smiles at BBC Breakfast recently, mainly on the faces of the programme's editor Richard Frediani and his 'boys' club' - since they learned that Naga Munchetty was leaving.

The 93-year-old was famously born and raised in the small rural city of Abbott, Texas, which is just 0.6 square miles and has a reported population of 352 people.

Kim Kardashian looked somber as she joined the rest of her mourning family at her late grandmother Mary Jo Campbell's celebration of life over the weekend.

'You wouldn’t make your family walk barefoot on the pavement in the burning conditions'

The Trump administration has banned newly authorized foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots, along with power inverters, citing "unacceptable risks" to the country's national security. FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the agency was doing its part "to secure America's critical supply chains." The BBC reports: The FCC has added the items to its Covered List -- a register of goods and services that are deemed a risk to US national security. The ban applies to new foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and power inverters and does not prevent the sale or import of any existing models that had been previously authorized by the FCC. The FCC cited concerns that the use of foreign-made inverters could allow overseas firms to turn them off, steal data, facilitate remote access and surveillance by "foreign government actors, or be otherwise exploited through a cyberattack." It added that the use of robots made outside the US could allow "malign actors to surveil Americans, enhance the capabilities of foreign intelligence services, or to remotely commandeer the robots."

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What happened when Green Party leader Zack Polanski shared a post on Monday that showed a guillotine, along with the disgusting phrase: 'We're only making plans for Nigel'? Nothing.

Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay

It is largely because of measures introduced under Labour that young people are finding it difficult to get a job in the first place

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd, 38, has admitted two violent assaults on his girlfriend, including striking her with barbecue tongs as well as pinning her down and punching her.

Residents should put their bins out in time to avoid disappointment

A woman says her black bin has not been emptied for seven weeks since Braintree’s new waste collection scheme launched.

Mr Polanski, 43, said he made an 'inadvertent mistake' but will not apologise for the post, which he shared to his 713,000 followers on Instagram on Monday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity. What started as tech industry-fueled springtime hype over squeezing as much AI-generated work as possible out of products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude has shifted to a summertime backlash. [...] Just a few months ago, Silicon Valley executives were promoting high token consumption as a signal of high-performing employees. The stereotypical tokenmaxxer was staying up late -- perhaps ignoring their significant other -- while orchestrating an army of 24-hour AI agents performing work on their behalf. [...] The trend boosted revenue for leading AI large language model developers like Anthropic and OpenAI, but it fizzled as it became apparent it wasn't necessarily the best strategy for everyone else. [...] Bain & Company management consultant Jue Wang said many of the big businesses her firm advises have been taking a closer look at returns on their AI investments. "The token cost for them has been doubling, almost every other month," she said. "Let's say $200 per developer per month. Multiply that by 20,000 developers, which is often what we're dealing with at these companies, and that quickly gets you to a number that is not a line item that any general manager has planned for." Sometimes that just means not using the AI equivalent of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. "Not everything needs a Claude Opus 4.6," she said of one of Anthropic's more capable models suited to software engineering or deep research. "And yet you see so many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails." That's led to a search for tools that do AI "model routing" -- in which easier queries get automatically sent to cheaper and more efficient AI systems and more complex tasks go to more powerful models. [...] At the same time, those who favor racking up as many tokens as possible are having a field day with new open-source models from Chinese startups like Moonshot's Kimi or Zhipu's GLM, which nearly match the capabilities of top U.S. models at a fraction of the price. "There is some validity to the theory that this could push tokenmaxxing a little bit further," said Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla. "But if we look at the industry overall, I think it's realizing that tokenmaxxing is a dumb thing." It's similar, Krikorian said, to how software companies once considered how many lines of code a programmer wrote to be a good metric of productivity. That later fell out of favor. "I think tokenmaxxing is moving through the exact same pattern," he said. "I think this is going to be an interesting blip that we're all going to look back to laugh at in a year."

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Hau-Yu Tam, cabinet member at Lewisham Council, shared a map on her social media accounts showing the precise location of a Met Police van using facial recognition technology.

Docs point to China’s Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: When Oasis star Liam Gallagher bought Tony Adams's Cotswolds home for £4million, there was confusion about why the former England footballer had decided to sell up.