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The young and gifted software engineer had built a relationship over the past three years with a ChatGPT model that has been accused of being 'sycophantic' and encouraging suicides.

Rare £1m three-bedroom detached home for sale on Brentwood’s Homesteads Private Estate, Essex, with gardens overlooking the green and parking for four cars.

Rare £1m three-bedroom detached home for sale on Brentwood’s Homesteads Private Estate, Essex, with gardens overlooking the green and parking for four cars.

John Healey was accused of using 'made up numbers' to balance the books as the OBR admitted soaring energy prices meant its figures were already out of date.

Former President Barack Obama took the stage in Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff, with a fresh attack against President Donald Trump.

Jumpers are harder to style than you might think. The wrong cut can instantly make your outfit look frumpy.

Almost 100 residents object to the plans with fears about traffic, infrastructure and flooding

A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica reports that Ole Bielfeldt "beat out 1,802 other entries hailing from 69 different countries." From the report: Bielfeldt became interested in photomicrography during the COVID-19 lockdown after discovering an old microscope in his parents' attic. He figured out how to build an adaptor out of a tube and some wood to connect the microscope to his father's camera and taught himself the art through trial and error, building custom tools as needed. He documents how he captures transformative images of everyday objects with behind-the-scenes videos posted to macrofying, his photography and videography brand. It was Bielfeldt's curiosity about the inner workings of inkjet printers that inspired his winning entry, but capturing the action of ink drops being deposited on paper was a challenge, given that the process happens so quickly. The droplets, for instance, moved faster than the camera's shutter speed. Bielfeldt's solution was to deconstruct the printer so that the paper moved under a stationary (rather than moving) printhead, and then take the image in a dark room, using a flash to serve as the shutter, thereby freezing the ink drops mid-air. There was no need for pricey equipment. Bielfeldt does not use AI in his images, preferring to rely on traditional techniques. "Ole Bielfeldt's winning image embodies what makes Nikon Small World so powerful: the intersection of microscope imaging, ingenuity, and artistry," said Eric Flem, a spokesperson for Nikon Instruments. "By using a microscope objective in a different way, he transformed a familiar object into something altogether new and previously unseen. It is a reminder that the microscope is not only a scientific tool but also a creative one, capable of expanding how we see and imagine the world around us." The full list of winners can be found here.

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Compared to the two previous (damaging) tax raising Budgets, today's Budget was somewhat gentler on our household finances and our long-term wealth.

The amount that can be funnelled into a tax-free cash Isa every year will now stay at £20,000 instead of being slashed to £12,000 from April.

Chancellor John Healey kicked off his first Budget by getting his excuses in first. The wars in the Gulf and Ukraine, he began, were creating global storms which could knock the UK economy for six.

Lawrence Johnson, 26, was remanded in custody last week after being charged with the murder of 26-year-old Alisha Samuels and the attempted murder of another man.

Pierre found this cry for help:

for (j = 0; j < DISTRICT_CARDINALITY; j++) { /* * A poor way to work around some sort of memory * violation. k gets clobbered, so I buffer l with it. * Help? */ for (k = 0, l = 0; k < customers; k++, l++) { /* c_id */ FPRINTF(output, "%d", l + 1); METAPRINTF((output, "%c", delimiter));

Honestly, I'm always a little worried in C-like languages when the loop variable isn't scoped to the loop and declared in place. Always concerning, so when there's concerns with clobbering, I'm not surprised.

This iterates across a set of "districts", and then iterates across a list of customers. Standard output functions are replaced with macros, and honestly, I don't know that I want to know what happens in METAPRINTF.

But fine, this iterates across a bunch of stuff and generates output. It's the comment that we're really curious about. "Some sort of memory violation", so we duplicate our loop variable. What on earth could be happening here?

Well, Pierre found the "memory violation", which is probably what you expected:

k = strlen(someOutputString) - 8;

k is used elsewhere in the loop as a variable. That's not a memory violation, that's just how variables work.

This leaves us with one possible conclusion: the developer who wrote the comment couldn't find this bug. And given the weird use of macros here, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's not the developer's fault; I strongly suspect the loop is so long, so complicated, and so obfuscated that very few developers could find that.

My earlier complaint about scoping the variable to the loop wouldn't fix this, which I guess is on me. They still should really scope the variable to the loop.

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Amber Gayle, 32, allowed murderer Rickcarlo Williams, 24, to video their sex sessions in a therapy room at HMP Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire, a court heard.

In video from April 15, Adrian Thompson is seen running up to an employee at the school while struggling to breathe, before bolting down the corridors in a panic.

The M25 has become synonymous with endless tailbacks, roadworks, variable speed limits and degrading condition, earning its reputation as the nation's most hated stretch of road.

There are set to be rail replacement services across Essex this November

Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO

Dubbed 'sunshine in bricks and mortar' the historic city of Chichester has been named one of the best places to live in Britain but now locals fear there is a racism problem after an actor's experience.

It is amazing what is legal. For example, politicians are free to tell flat lies in their campaigns, and nothing will happen to them. But it is sometimes just as astounding to find out what is illegal.