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The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch

Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…

As the first rays of sunshine stretch across spring skies, many of us will be clambering to get by the sea. And where better to enjoy brighter days than a coastal bolthole, all of your own?

George Goodayle, 47, is accused of killing his 49-year-old partner, Jayne Nicholson, with a hunting rifle on March 15.

Plans for petrol and diesel rationing are ready to be implemented by the government if the Middle East crisis continues to disrupt supplies, with fuel prices reaching 18-month highs of 141.5p for unleaded and 160.3p for diesel

Zara Tindall made a lasting impression at the Cheltenham Festival, stepping out in a chic John Lewis jumper and Reiss boots.

In echoes of the film Armageddon - when a team are sent to touch down on an asteroid and blow it up - scientists hope to send two 'landers' to explore the space rock during its flyby.

Mother-of-four Suzie Cavadino, of Aughton, Lancashire, spent £180,000 replacing her conservatory with a two-storey extension which the local council now says must be removed.

Attorney General Lord Hermer will defend playing by the rules as in the UK national interest tonight in the wake of a deepening transatlantic right between London and Washington.

All UK bank holiday dates for 2026 have been confirmed, including an extra bank holiday for one nation

While some nostalgic items like Yardley's sticky 'slickers' glosses are long gone, you can get your hands on Revlon's icy raspberry 'Cherries in the Snow' lipstick and Max Factor's trusty 'Pan Stik'.

Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it

NASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Houston, Texas.…

The US State Department issued an alert to Americans worldwide on Sunday to exercise increased caution as they also warned that travel may be disrupted.

Petrol prices are soaring and buying a used EV has never looked more tempting to keep costs down. So here are 10 second-hand EV buyers for less than £10k.

The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

feature  CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…

Exports of cars and parts from the EU to China fell 34% last year to €16bn (£13.85bn). At the same time, imports from China into the bloc rose 8% to €22bn (£19bn).

Investors are retreating after Trump's threats over the weekend to 'obliterate' Iran's power plants if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz by the end of today.

'Elizabethtown' and 'Attleetown' were named by the government and are set to see between 15,000 and 40,000 new homes built in each location.

Bee Gees star Maurice Gibb's 'secret son' has hit back at Lulu's claims her late former husband fathered him with during their six-year marriage.

Will there be an AI-optimized programming language at the expense of human readability? There's now been experiments with minimizing tokens for "LLM efficiency, without any concern for how it would serve human developers." This new article asks if AI will force source code to evolve — or make it extinct, noting that Stephen Cass, the special projects editor at IEEE Spectrum, has even been asking the ultimate question about our future. "Could we get our AIs to go straight from prompt to an intermediate language that could be fed into the interpreter or compiler of our choice? Do we need high-level languages at all in that future?" Cass acknowledged the obvious downsides. ("True, this would turn programs into inscrutable black boxes, but they could still be divided into modular testable units for sanity and quality checks.") But "instead of trying to read or maintain source code, programmers would just tweak their prompts and generate software afresh." This leads to some mind-boggling hypotheticals, like "What's the role of the programmer in a future without source code?" Cass asked the question and announced "an emergency interactive session" in October to discuss whether AI is signaling the end of distinct programming languages as we know them. In that webinar, Cass said he believes programmers in this future would still suggest interfaces, select algorithms, and make other architecture design choices. And obviously the resulting code would need to pass tests, Cass said, and "has to be able to explain what it's doing." But what kind of abstractions could go away? And then "What happens when we really let AIs off the hook on this?" Cass asked — when we "stop bothering" to have them code in high-level languages. (Since, after all, high-level languages "are a tool for human beings.") "What if we let the machines go directly into creating intermediate code?" (Cass thinks the machine-language level would be too far down the stack, "because you do want a compile layer too for different architecture....") In this future, the question might become 'What if you make fewer mistakes, but they're different mistakes?'" Cass said he's keeping an eye out for research papers on designing languages for AI, although he agreed that it's not a "tomorrow" thing — since, after all, we're still digesting "vibe coding" right now. But "I can see this becoming an area of active research." The article also quotes Andrea Griffiths, a senior developer advocate at GitHub and a writer for the newsletter Main Branch, who's seen the attempts at an "AI-first" languages, but nothing yet with meaningful adoption. So maybe AI coding agents will just make it easier to use our existing languages — especially typed languages with built-in safety advantages. And Scott Hanselman's podcast recently dubbed Chris Lattner's Mojo "a programming language for an AI world," just in the way it's designed to harness the computing power of today's multi-core chips.

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Gus and Emily Forrester's daughter Leni has Sanfilippo syndrome, a neurodegenrative disease that affects one in 70,000 children. There is no cure but a US trial is due to begin later this year.