A13 live traffic updates as major road shuts near Pitsea due to crash
Drivers should avoid the area where possible
Live: Traffic updates after A12 crash on Londonbound carriageway
A crash is causing mile-long delays on the northbound A12 this morning.
A12 live updates as crash causes queueing traffic for three miles near Kelvedon
Drivers should avoid the area where possible
Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data describing cyber-dramas and saves
Doubles parameters to over 17 billion, to detect threats and recommend actions
Exclusive Cisco is working on a new AI model that will more than double the number of parameters used to train its current flagship Foundation-Sec-8B.…
A12 partially blocked by crash with traffic backing up for miles
Motorists on the A12 are experiencing mile-long delays following a crash.
Olly Murs shares favourite restaurant with 'probably the best food on the planet'
Olly Murs has shared his favourite restaurants, including a high-end Chinese spot and a Turkish eatery that he claims serves 'the best food on the planet'
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
In the dialup age, small mistakes could cost big money
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The beautiful Essex commuter village that once made 'the most expensive jam in the world'
Its jam was rather expensive, and no, it isn't Tiptree,
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to "shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work" that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative "to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust programming language possible."
It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors to ensure funding decisions are made openly and with accountability."
In the months ahead, we'll define the fund's structure, secure contributions, and work with the Rust Project and community to bring it to life. This work will build on lessons from earlier iterations of our grants and fellowships to create a lasting framework for supporting Rust's maintainers... Over the past several months, through ongoing board discussions and input from the Leadership Council, this initiative has taken shape as a way to help maintainers continue their vital development and review work, and plan for the future...
This initiative reflects our commitment to Rust being shaped by its people, guided by open collaboration, and backed by a global network of contributors and partners. The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund will operate within the governance framework shared between the Rust Project and the Rust Foundation, ensuring alignment and oversight at every level... The Rust Foundation's approach to this initiative will be guided by our structure: as a 501( C)(6) nonprofit, we operate under a mandate for transparency and accountability to the Rust Project, language community, and our members. That means we must develop this fund in coordination with the Rust Project's priorities, ensuring shared governance and long-term viability...
Our goal is simple: to help the people building Rust continue their essential work with the support they deserve. That means creating the conditions for long term maintainer roles and ensuring continuity for those whose efforts keep the language stable and evolving. Through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, we aim to address these needs directly.
"The more companies using Rust can contribute to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, the more we can keep the language and tooling evolving for the benefit of everyone," says Rust Foundation project director Carol Nichols.
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Senate votes to END longest government shutdown in US history as gang of rogue Democrats cave and join GOP
Lawmakers were locked in tense negotiations during a rare Sunday session in an effort to find a solution to the shutdown
Getting ready for that jungle shower! Vogue Williams strips down to a bikini for the last weekend with her loved ones in Scotland before jetting to Australia for I'm A Celebrity
The presenter, 40, appeared to be bracing herself for the chilly jungle shower as she took a plunge in a lake in Scotland.
Reeves wants to hit Middle England with 14 council tax bands, Tories claim... as shadow housing secretary accuses Labour of 'Left-wing plot' to take more of your money
The Conservative housing spokesman accused Labour of a 'Left-wing plot for higher council tax' that could leave households in the top band forking out almost nine times more than those in the lowest.
Two 'would-be copycats' of the Southport killer are arrested after police 'found plots to attack dance school and Taylor Swift-themed event'
It comes as referrals to the Prevent de-radicalisation programme with 'no ideology' have soared over the past year to make up more than half of all cases, although only 7 per cent were offered intervention.
Man accused of rape tells jury complainant said no 'in a green stop sign kind of way'
Alfie Wilson, 20, had developed a secret relationship with a girl when he and the complainant were 16. He denies rape and sexual assault.
Essex's oldest city with once bustling high street has 'boarded up' shops
With several prominent buildings lying empty and Colchester high street continuing to evolve, residents offered their thoughts on decline.
The ‘lovely’ Essex commuter town voted as one of ‘happiest’ places to live in UK
The town has luxurious homes and is described as a 'peaceful' place to live
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression," according to the university, and classic blues recordings or tracks by Fiddlin' John Carson and his daughter Moonshine Kate "would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory."
Launched in 1999 by Lance and April Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital focused on preserving hard-to-find music. Originally a commercial label producing high-quality box sets (along with CDs, records, and books), it established a nonprofit foundation in 2010, working closely with collectors to digitize and preserve record collections. And there's an interesting story about how they became familiar with library curator David Seubert...
Once a relationship is established, Dust-to-Digital sets up special turntables and laptops in a collector's home, with paid technicians painstakingly digitizing and labeling each record, one song at a time. Depending on the size of the collection, the process can take months, even years... In 2006, they heard about Seubert's Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project getting "slashdotted," a term that describes when a website crashes or receives a sudden and debilitating spike in traffic after being mentioned in an article on Slashdot.
Here in 2025, the university's library already has over 50,000 songs in a Special Research Collections, which they've been uploading it to a Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) database. ("Recordings in the public domain are also available for free download, in keeping with the UCSB Library's mission for open access.") Over 5,000 more songs from Dust-to-Digital have already been added, says library curator Seubert, and "Thousands more are in the pipeline."
One interest detail? The bulk of the new songs come from Joe Bussard, a man whose 75-year obsession with record collecting earned him the name "the king of the record collectors and "the saint of 78s".
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
When I told Earl Spencer the BBC had accused HIM of helping Bashir produce forged documents, he exploded in fury: ANDY WEBB reveals how Diana's brother, with the help of the Mail, exposed the Beeb's 25-year cover up
Did BBC deliberately try to mislead me? Did they lie to me, just as their reporter lied to Princess Diana to get her to pour her heart out to the nation in the now notorious Panorama programme back in 1995?
Huw Edwards, Gaza and Gregg Wallace: A full timeline of the BBC scandals that occurred on former director-general Tim Davie's watch
Less than a year into his role, BBC director-general Tim Davie was forced to apologise.
Beau Biden should have been president, heartbroken father Joe says as concerns for his health mount
Joe Biden astonishingly admitted his son, Beau, should have been president instead of him as concerns mounted over the former commander-in-chief's health.