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A Labour peer has sparked incredulity by appearing to suggest assisted dying could be a handy tool in tackling overpopulation and climate change, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

An increasingly common workplace habit is undermining trust between managers and employees.

Next time your bicycle has a flat tyre, find a coelacanth. These 'living fossils', dating back 400 million years to before the dawn of the dinosaurs, are an essential part of an African puncture repair kit.

Sir Big Ed arrived at his party conference with a marching band, writes QUENTIN LETTS, pretending to be a drummer. Soon he was dressing up to reflect his party conference 'buzz'...

Yet again, Fergie and Andrew land the Royal Family in scandal, writes A.N. WILSON. Yet again, the revolting figure of Jeffrey Epstein casts his sinister shadow over our public life.

There's a new breed of TikTok 'death-fluencers' - young, social media-savvy and very empathetic funeral directors and morticians, determined to lift the velvet curtain of their profession...

It all started with a text I got while waiting in an airport while hungover, writes JULIA POLLON. 'Hope you had a wonderful time,' and a smile emoji. Innocent enough… but already it felt transgressive

You know you're officially middle aged when you find yourself in pursuit of the perfect waterproof, writes SHANE WATSON. But we don't have to succumb to unglamorous outerwear. Here are my top choices...

A Sunday roast is, perhaps, one of the best-known examples of British cuisine. Across the country Brits gladly tuck into plates piled high with turkey, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and vegetables.

On the northern coast of the second largest Canary Island, Fuerteventura, the surreal-looking sands at Playa del Bajo de la Burra have become a tourist spectacle.

Charlie Kirk's widow Erika took the stage at his memorial service to deliver powerful remarks on his life and legacy,

The decision by Kent Police not to prosecute Charlotte Hayes has led to outrage online, including from author JK Rowling and shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Over at the Communications of the ACM, Bard College CS Prof Valerie Barr explains why she's Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education. Having seen CS education go through a number of we-have-to-teach-this moments over the decades — introductory programming languages, the Web, Data Science, etc. — Barr turns her attention to the next hand-wringing "what will we do" CS education moment with AI. "We're jumping through hoops without stopping first to question the run-away train," Barr writes... Barr calls for stepping back from "the industry assertion that the ship has sailed, every student needs to use AI early and often, and there is no future application that isn't going to use AI in some way" and instead thoughtfully "articulate what sort of future problem solvers and software developers we want to graduate from our programs, and determine ways in which the incorporation of AI can help us get there." From the article: In much discussion about CS education: a.) There's little interest in interrogating the downsides of generative AI, such as the environmental impact, the data theft impact, the treatment and exploitation of data workers. b.) There's little interest in considering the extent to which, by incorporating generative AI into our teaching, we end up supporting a handful of companies that are burning billions in a vain attempt to each achieve performance that is a scintilla better than everyone else's. c.) There's little interest in thinking about what's going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there's no more money to burn/spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we've perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers.

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Selma Blair has reached another career milestone and made a truly unforgettable entrance while doing it.

The party is also proposing what it calls a 'doomscrolling cap' to limit the time that children can watch TikTok-style videos to two hours a day.

Penny Lancaster gushed that her husband Rod Stewart is 'so youthful he's a machine' as she opened up about their relationship on Monday. 

The author, 54, met the actress, 48, in 2021 when she appeared as a guest on his BBC quiz show House of Games, going on to tie the knot in 2022.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will announce a major overhaul of decision-making to give locals more control of the shops on their high streets.

Erika Kirk has revealed whether she would like her husband's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, 22, to face the death penalty following Charlie Kirk's death on September 10 in Orem, Utah.

In the wake of Sir Keir Starmer's recognition of a Palestinian state, the Daily Mail answers the all-important questions: Why now, what prompted it and will it have an impact?