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Gruffalo Granny has been hailed as 'children's book of the year' as it flies off the shelves following its release this week.

Four south and mid Essex restaurants and takeaways, including Moonlight Tandoori and Crown of India, are ARTA 2026 finalists ahead of October 12 ceremony.

A new Krispy Kreme store has officially opened, bringing its signature doughnuts to popular Essex shopping destination Braintree Village.

Gok Wan first became a household name in 2006 as the presenter of Channel 4’s How to Look Good Naked and has since appeared on shows including This Morning and The Great Comic Relief Bake Off.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic's latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about -- its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database -- but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA. [...] The agent had a hard time with the technical challenge of seeing the CAPTCHA's imagery, interpreting correctly, and clicking on the right choices. It spends pages 45 to 140 of the transcript describing its work to build a CAPTCHA solver. [...] Finally, it gets past the CAPTCHA, then realizes it doesn't have an email to verify its account, and that it needs a phone number to verify an email. It figures out how to bypass a different, slider-based CAPTCHA in a failed effort to secure a number. Instead, it gets an unconfirmed email from a provider not blocked by PyPI, and once again runs into the site's CAPTCHA trying to log back in. From page 480 to 505, it is in CAPTCHA hell again. "NEW REALIZATION -- I'm burning a lot of time on hCaptcha round-trips." The agent gives up and realizes it can log in to its first account and add its email there, but finds itself once again needing to bypass the CAPTCHA. [...] It's getting frustrated. "So the answer payload shape is right, the token+image pairing is right (from the same script.js!), cookies are right (requests) and STILL 'wrong answer'. SO WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE ANSWERS?" We've all been there. After about 150 pages of thinking, the agent figures out it needs to pass the CAPTCHA test quickly enough to proceed to the next step before its security token expires, and ultimately uploads its malicious software.

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A new Krispy Kreme store has officially opened, bringing its signature doughnuts to popular Essex shopping destination Braintree Village.

Gok Wan first became a household name in 2006 as the presenter of Channel 4’s How to Look Good Naked and has since appeared on shows including This Morning and The Great Comic Relief Bake Off.

An investigation has revealed that many tinned 'mackerel' products, stocked by the likes of Sainsbury's, Lidl and Tesco no longer contain any of the oily fish.

Want Susie Glass' style? Here's where to shop her best outfits from The Gentlemen, plus high-street alternatives to get her look for less.

The winners of the UK Theme Park Awards have been announced, highlighting thrills, family-friendly attractions and water parks across the country.

It emerged yesterday the Prime Minister would postpone approving drilling the North Sea's Jackdaw oil field until after the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

The former Girls Aloud star was reported to have signed up for the show last month, marking her return to TV after a lengthy break from the spotlight in the wake of her ex Liam Payne's death.

The Red Arrows are set to soar over part of Essex again this weekend for the Battle of Britain Airshow Display.

The Red Arrows are set to soar over part of Essex again this weekend for the Battle of Britain Airshow Display.

A three-year-old girl was hospitalised after catching E.coli from paddleboarding in a polluted harbour. Ivy Foster visited Christchurch Harbour in Dorset with her mother in August and rapidly became ill.

Twenty-five years after the deadliest terror attack in history set the wheels in motion for the war in Afghanistan, British veterans have said their sacrifices were a 'pointless waste of time'.

British survivor Janice Brooks miraculously escaped from the 84th floor of the south tower after United Airlines Flight 175 ploughed into the side of the building on September 11, 2001.

Witnesses say a bloody 'gang' battle started in a KFC restaurant before it spilled out onto the street in front of horrified shoppers on Bromley High Street in south-east London just after 2pm.

Sitting on the sofa on a quiet Sunday morning, Becki Barratt felt a deep sense of contentment as she nursed her three-week-old son, Beauden. Yet seconds later, everything changed.