Pro-Palestine activist who cost the taxpayer £92,000 when he scaled Big Ben in 17-hour stand-off with police is spared jail
Daniel Day, 30, triggered a major response and caused road closures around Westminster when he scaled the Elizabeth Tower - often referred to as Big Ben - on March 8 last year.
Andy Burnham raises fears of higher council tax for homeowners in the South as PM warns of 'unfairness'
The Prime Minister said ex-Chancellor Rachel Reeves was 'right to start' reforming council tax after she introduced a surcharge for higher-value homes - dubbed a 'mansion tax'.
Mother suffocated her son, nine, before taking her own life 'after finding her partner on a dating site', inquest rules
Tasmin Paterson, 31, and her son Hudson Paterson, nine, were found dead at a property in the Fletchersbridge area of Bodmin, Cornwall, in September 2024.
Teen's cliff jump goes horrifically wrong after he strikes rock on way down before plunging into ocean
A 17-year-old required rescue from lifeguards and firefighters after being severely injured in a cliff jumping accident in San Diego.
Coronation Street star turned millionaire fashion mogul Arianna Ajtar reveals she's engaged to her mystery fiancé after ditching soaps to launch brand beloved by The Kardashians
The actress, 30, previously played Olivia Radfield on the ITV soap, but has earned millions after launching her clothing brand Mars The Label.
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other 'AI' tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion that easily passed. The second motion was on disallowing projects whose code was substantially generated by LLMs like Claude, OpenAI Codex, and similar. This motion passed with 358 in favor versus 144 against.
In the earlier linked blog post the reasoning behind especially this second issue is expanded upon, covering not only "license whitewashing," but also the direct and indirect hardware costs, with the expanding 'AI' datacenter hyperscaling having massively increased hardware costs for Codeberg over the past years, as the costs have been largely externalized. Also covered is the aspect of these LLM-based tools destroying the OSS community, which is something that is backed up by recent studies.
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Home left uninhabitable as blaze spread to four gardens and two houses
A Clacton home has been left uninhabitable after a fire spread to four gardens and damaged two houses.
Home left uninhabitable as blaze spread to four gardens and two houses
A Clacton home has been left uninhabitable after a fire spread to four gardens and damaged two houses.
Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms
MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4
Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's disease and cancer diagnoses after disappearing from the spotlight
Legendary singer-songwriter Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
'Beautiful' mother-of-two, 29, dies after falling ill at home as man is arrested over 'unexplained' death
Hannah Fry, 29, became unwell on July 13 at her home in Longridge, Lancashire and was taken to hospital but died later that day.
Texas family who refused to let doctors declare daughter, 2, brain dead after drowning incident now insist toddler is 'doing better' after move to new hospital
Two-year-old Annelise Camp was celebrating Memorial Day on May 25 in Houston, Texas when she wandered into the pool after taking off her life jacket and drowned.
Pete Wicks reflects on hard-launching his romance with girlfriend Olivia Attwood as he shares fears he would 'embarrass' her with loved-up post
The former TOWIE star, 37, finally confirmed he was dating his longtime pal earlier this month, with a gallery of snaps on Instagram, after they enjoyed a 'wonderful' trip to Ibiza.
South Sudanese teenager denies piloting 'mega dinghy' with 167 people on board across the Channel
Chan Mathok Atak is charged with endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK after a crossing on Thursday.
Senior RAF officer, 51, took his own life while under investigation for 'misconduct', inquest hears
Russ Foster-Jones, 51, was found hanged in an Airbnb in June 2025 a year after a probe into his behaviour during his time in the RAF was launched.
The prehistoric 'mafia': 1.4 million-year-old footprints reveal our ancient relatives may have travelled in all-male gangs
A set of footprints that date back more than 1.4 million years reveals our ancient relatives may have travelled in all-male gangs.
China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom's Hardware reports: The Information didn't name the manufacturer, but its sources described the operation as having pulled DUV development teams from several Chinese companies, one of them the state-backed startup Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology. SMIC has been testing a Yuliangsheng immersion tool since September 2025. Most components in the new systems are domestic, though some critical parts still come from Japan, and delays at local suppliers have held back output this year.
[...] China accounts for around 20% of ASML's net sales this year, down from 33% in 2025, driven mainly by mainstream logic demand... Independent analysis from the AI Futures Project in June put commercial-scale Chinese immersion DUV in the mid-2030s, with ASML holding 98.7% of the immersion market. Qualifying the new machines for production lines could take many months, and they trail ASML's tools on performance and build quality. China's domestic EUV effort, which Reuters first reported as a working prototype in December, remains years away.
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World-famous Jodrell Bank observatory loses its funding and will close in months after 70 years sparking fury among scientists
The UNESCO World Heritage-listed Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the famous Lovell telescope, has lost its funding and is now peering down the barrel of insolvency.
Girl, eight, and her father are forced to have limbs amputated after quad bike and van crash, court hears
The van driver, Brannon Mullan, 36, appeared in court on Monday charged with causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.
Plumes of smoke seen across town as emergency services at house fire
Thick black smoke can be seen across Clacton as emergency services are responding to a "large" house fire this evening.