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The musician was one half of the duo behind Optimo Espacio, a weekly Sunday-night club in Sun Club in Glasgow, alongside music producer Jonnie Wilkes, also known as JG Wilkes.

Long-time Slashdot reader robinsrowe shared this report from the Register: The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety. "The Safety and Security working group voted to prioritize Profiles over Safe C++. Ask the Profiles people for an update. Safe C++ is not being continued," Sean Baxter, author of the cutting-edge Circle C++ compiler, commented in June this year. The topic came up as developers like Simone Bellavia noted the anniversary of the proposal and discovered a decision had been made on Safe C++. One year ago, Baxter told The Reg that the project would enable C++ developers to get the memory safety of Rust, but without having to learn a new language. "Safe C++ prevents users from writing unsound code," he said. "This includes compile-time intelligence like borrow checking to prevent use-after-free bugs and initialization analysis for type safety." Safe C++ would enable incremental migration of code, since it only applies to code in the safe context. Existing unsafe code would run as before. Even the matter of whether the proposal has been abandoned is not clear-cut. Erich Keane, C++ committee member and co-chair of the C++ Evolution Working Group (EWG), said that Baxter's proposal "got a vote of encouragement where roughly 1/2 (20/45) of the people encouraged Sean's paper, and 30/45 encouraged work on profiles (with 6 neutral)... Sean is completely welcome to continue the effort, and many in the committee would love to see him make further effort on standardizing it." In response, Baxter said: "The Rust safety model is unpopular with the committee. Further work on my end won't change that. Profiles won the argument." He added that the language evolution principles adopted by the EWG include the statement that "we should avoid requiring a safe or pure function annotation that has the semantics that a safe or pure function can only call other safe or pure functions." This, he said, is an "irreconcilable design disagreement...."

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Sir Keir Starmer is ploughing ahead with plans to introduce the scheme in line with efforts to overhaul the country's asylum and immigration system and reduce crossings in the Channel.

The managers of this £250million fund do things rather differently, and it seems to be working rather well...

Nato planes were scrambled in Poland early on Saturday after Russia launched airstrikes targeting neighbouring Ukraine. 

Queen Camilla made a joke about an 'infamous' scene from a TV adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice while attending her annual literary festival in Derbyshire on Friday.

Laura Whitmore and Jodie Kidd proved themselves to be the ultimate fashionistas as they took to the runway at London Fashion Week.

The treasure is said to be impossible to take because of the magic

In  September 1997, Mr Wood spent half an hour with influential Black Sabbath vocalist and solo artist Ozzy Osbourne for The Daily Star, who died last July aged 76.

In  September 1997, Mr Wood spent half an hour with influential Black Sabbath vocalist and solo artist Ozzy Osbourne for The Daily Star, who died last July aged 76.

The Manchester United legend is co-owner of the fourth division club alongside former team-mate Neville, and recently revealed he helped save the club from a serious situation.

The historic artefact is set to go on display in London next year for nine months on loan from France, with Emmanuel Macron announcing the loan during his state visit to Britain in June.

Froome, 40, was left with a collapsed lung, five broken ribs, and a broken back and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Toulon after a crash near Saint-Raphael in France.

I have developed red bumps on my upper arms. They feel a bit rough to touch but I have no other symptoms. How can I get rid of them? Dr Ellie Cannon replies...

Micro- and nanoplastic particles "infiltrate all systems of the body, including the brain," notes the University of Rhode Island, "where they can accumulate and trigger Alzheimer's-like conditions, according to a new study by researchers in the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy." ScienceDaily shares the announcement: After a previous study that showed how microplastics can infiltrate all systems of the body — including the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from harmful substances as small as viruses and bacteria — University of Rhode Island pharmacy assistant professor Jaime Ross expanded the study to determine the brain health impacts of the plastic toxins. Her findings indicate that the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the brain can lead to cognitive decline and even Alzheimer's disease, especially in those who carry genetic risk factors. Ross' latest study, published recently in the journal Environmental Research Communications, examined mice that had been genetically modified to include the naturally occurring gene APOE4, a strong indicator of Alzheimer's risk making people 3.5 times more likely to develop the disease than those who carry the APOE3 variant of the gene that is passed from parents to offspring... Ross and her team exposed two groups of mice — one with the APOE4 variant and one with APOE3 — to micro- and nanoplastics in their drinking water over a period of three weeks. The tiny particles from polystyrene — among the most abundant plastics in the world, found in Styrofoam take-out containers, plastic cups and more — infiltrated the mice' organs, including the brain, as expected... Ross' team then ran the mice through a series of tests to examine their cognitive ability, beginning with an open-field test, in which researchers put a mouse in a chamber and allow it to explore at will for 90 minutes. Ordinarily, a mouse will hug the walls, naturally attempting to hide from potential predators. However, after microplastic exposure, the APOE4 mice — especially the male mice — tended to wander more in the middle of the chamber and spend time in open space, leaving themselves vulnerable to predators... The results are concerning enough to warrant further study into the cognitive decline caused by exposure to micro- and nanoplastics, which are among the most prominent environmental toxins to which people are routinely exposed... Ross is continuing to expand her research into the topic and encourages others to do so, in the hope of leading to better regulation of the toxins.

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Police searching for a British man who went missing on the Costa del Sol last month have found a body believed to be his.

Many residents are concerned about where small children will play is the proposal was successful

An 'extreme security alert' was raised after the suspected devices were discovered in the suspect's checked bag, senior security sources have claimed. Dublin Airport has since reopened.

Tensions flared during a Regional School Unit 67 meeting on Wednesday night when Tim Bodnar, a social media personality, targeted a teacher.

Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76, arrived at London Heathrow airport from Qatar, which played a major role in negotiating their release.