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Hellbent on arrest, more than 360 activists of outlawed Palestine Action goad police to detain them - at cost of up to £3million for taxpayers
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UN holds crisis talks over Gaza occupation after Israel's plan for complete military takeover of Gaza sparks international backlash
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Man who put up 'hideous' 8ft privacy fence around his garden to block out Tesco shoppers finally loses war with council
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Parents refer more teen boys to Government's deradicalisation scheme Prevent after hit Netflix drama Adolescence
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Neurodivergent, By Nature by Joe Harkness: Why people with autism are at one with nature
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Carthage by Eve Macdonald: The day Hannibal slayed 20,000
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The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese: The husband SLAYERS
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Revealed, after 58 years... What Mick Jagger told police about Marianne Faithfull on night that sparked 'Mars bar' myth
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Brooklyn Beckham reveals he could 'renew vows every day' as he opens up on secret ceremony with wife Nicola Peltz amid ongoing feud with David and Victoria
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Insufferable Sarah Jessica Parker just got caught in a big fat lie. She's seething... but it couldn't be happening to a more deserving Mean Girl: MAUREEN CALLAHAN
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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17 For Being Late and 'Garbage'
"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix:
Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in the merge window especially with his international travels this week being known. And he's unhappy with some of the code included as part of this merge request. .
Here's the text of Torvalds' response...
> RISC-V Patches for the 6.17 Merge Window, Part 1
No. This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests because I'm traveling, and if you can't follow that rule, at least make the pull requests *good*.
This adds various garbage that isn't RISC-V specific to generic header files.
And by "garbage" I really mean it. This is stuff that nobody should ever send me, never mind late in a merge window.
Like this crazy and pointless make_u32_from_two_u16() "helper".
That thing makes the world actively a worse place to live. It's
useless garbage that makes any user incomprehensible, and actively
*WORSE* than not using that stupid "helper".
If you write the code out as "(a
In contrast, if you write make_u32_from_two_u16(a,b) you have not a
f%^5ing clue what the word order is. IOW, you just made things
*WORSE*, and you added that "helper" to a generic non-RISC-V file
where people are apparently supposed to use it to make *other* code
worse too.
So no. Things like this need to get bent. It does not go into generic
header files, and it damn well does not happen late in the merge
window.
You're on notice: no more late pull requests, and no more garbage
outside the RISC-V tree.
Now, I would *hope* there's no garbage inside the RISC-V parts, but
that's your choice. But things in generic headers do not get polluted
by crazy stuff. And sending a big pull request the day before the
merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care is not a
winning strategy.
So you get to try again in 6.18. EARLY in the that merge window. And
without the garbage.
Torvalds' message drew a conciliatory response from the submitter of the patches. "I'll stop being late, and hopefully that helps with the quality issues."
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Woman in her 60s dies after getting into trouble in the sea at Skegness beach
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Shopkeeper rebuked by police for putting up sign calling shoplifters 'scum bags' says officers have failed to arrest any of the thieves he caught this year - and now he plans to put up an even BIGGER sign
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Strictly rocked by fresh scandal amid 'drug probe' after staffer claims they were offered cocaine by show star during wild alcohol fuelled afterparty
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Boy, 14, is among five arrested after man in his 50s is hit and killed by a pick-up truck
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James Norton: I auditioned for Fifty Shades... but they said I was too grey!
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Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities
"Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software," reports TechCrunch:
Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company's AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team of hackers Project Zero, reported its first-ever vulnerabilities, mostly in open source software such as audio and video library FFmpeg and image-editing suite ImageMagick. [There's also a "medium impact" issue in Redis]
Given that the vulnerabilities are not fixed yet, we don't have details of their impact or severity, as Google does not yet want to provide details, which is a standard policy when waiting for bugs to be fixed. But the simple fact that Big Sleep found these vulnerabilities is significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if there was a human involved in this case.
"To ensure high quality and actionable reports, we have a human expert in the loop before reporting, but each vulnerability was found and reproduced by the AI agent without human intervention," Google's spokesperson Kimberly Samra told TechCrunch.
Google's vice president of engineering posted on social media that this demonstrates "a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery."
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I gave my daughter's pony to a zoo to be fed to lions - I have no regrets
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QUENTIN LETTS: How CAN today's kids experience the summers of adventure we did if Mum is spying on them with trackers in their trainers?
High August is when childhood's freedoms are forged. The school holiday stretches to the horizon, offering endless scope for adventure.