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A primary school in Witham has thrown a party in honour of Sir David Attenborough’s birthday and used it to deepen pupils’ love for the natural world.

The little boy died aged just two in the arms of his parents after developing a rare and aggressive cancer

Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list. But he also highlighted "documentation updates" to address a new problem. "The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools." (The new documentation says the security team has found "bugs discovered this way systematically surface simultaneously across multiple researchers, often on the same day.") TORVALDS: People spend all their time just forwarding things to the right people or saying "that was already fixed a week/month ago" and pointing to the public discussion. Which is all entirely pointless churn, and we're making it clear that AI-detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved — and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can't even see each other's reports. AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience. The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am, but that's the core gist of it. The new documentation offers this overview. "It turns out that the majority of the bugs reported via the security team are just regular bugs that have been improperly qualified as security bugs due to a lack of awareness of the Linux kernel's threat model." "So just to make it really clear," Torvalds said at the end of his post. "If you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too. "If you actually want to add value, read the documentation, create a patch too, and add some real value on *top* of what the AI did. Don't be the drive-by 'send a random report with no real understanding' kind of person. Ok?"

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McIlroy mishit a delicate chip shot on the 16th hole, which ended up dribbling into a bunker, and turned out to call out the man who had shouted.

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Over the next month, we're going to hear a lot from Andy Burnham about his role in rooting out the Asian grooming gangs and getting justice for the countless children who were their victims.

Dear Matt, welcome to the BBC. Director general should be one of the best jobs in the world and plenty of people will be rooting for you to prove that it is.

The medic was taken to the High Consequence Infectious Diseases unit in Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust on Saturday after developing hantavirus symptoms on Ascension Island.

America's Library of Congress "is preserving a little piece of Hell," jokes Engadget, "by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry." The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer's self-titled debut album (colloquially known as "The Blue Album"), Taylor Swift's "1989," Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) and the original "Mambo No. 5." "Doom" was created by Bobby Prince, a freelance composer who worked on lots of id Software games, and also scored Doom's '90s rival Duke Nukem 3D. The soundtrack draws clear inspiration from metal bands, but also touches on techno and ambient music throughout its track list, making for an eclectic soundscape for tearing through enemies. That it all fits together is also impressive in its own right: All of the music for Doom was written before the game had completed levels to play through, according to Prince. The official announcement from the Library of Congress says Doom "brought a heavy metal energy to MS-DOS systems across the globe," while also pioneering first-person shooter videogames. "Key to Doom's popularity was the adrenaline-fueled soundtrack created by freelance video game music composer Bobby Prince. Prince, a lifelong musician and practicing lawyer, was fascinated by the MIDI technology that rose in prominence in the mid-1980s as a means for instrument control and composition... For "Doom," Prince took inspiration from a pile of CDs loaned by the game's chief designer, John Romero, including seminal works by Alice in Chains, Pantera and Metallica. Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers, Prince composed the perfect riff-shredding accompaniment for the game's demon-slaying journey to hell and back. Taking advantage of his knowledge of MIDI, Prince even worked to ensure that the sound effects he created could cut through the music by assigning them to different MIDI frequencies.

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The pony-tailed crook licked his lips as he emptied out the Treat Street Bake Shed in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and calmly walked away without paying a penny.

Kemi Badenoch has warned that Britain will pay a 'Burnham premium' if the mayor of Greater Manchester becomes Prime Minister.

She was the ultimate symbol of Nineties glamour before quitting full-time modelling in 2000.

Gandalf had lived with his companion, named Ryan after the actor Gosling, in Basted Millpond near Borough Green for two years.

Fiona, 53, can vividly remember the moment when she felt her first marriage was over.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: LIV bosses believe Bryson DeChambeau is sticking around despite the thick rug of Saudi money being yanked from beneath their feet.

More than a third of people told a recent survey that they encounter venues that are too loud, with under half admitting they probably would not return to a restaurant that is excessively noisy.

Bride Amal Fashanu (right) patched up a bitter feud with her father (left) on the eve of her wedding that will see him walk her up the aisle when she marries Ghanaian tycoon Mohamad Odaymat.

The middle classes are falling out of love with Farrow & Ball. So, with spring cleaning and home makeover season here, how can you ensure your interiors impress the neighbours?

Kemi Badenoch's Tories relishing of Sir Keir Starmer's mounting humiliation hides an uncomfortable truth: the Conservatives remain perilously vulnerable themselves.

Ben's mother Kerry Needham has been searching for her toddler son since he vanished on the Greek island of Kos while playing at his grandparents' farmhouse in July 1991.