Rachel Reeves plans to help struggling households in the Budget 'by cutting VAT on fuel bills'
Rachel Reeves (pictured) said she was planning 'targeted action to deal with cost of living challenges' as she battles to reduce soaring inflation while balancing the books.
Trump issues chilling threat to Hamas as Gaza descends into bloody civil war: 'We will have no choice'
President Donald Trump issued a stern warning Thursday to Hamas, as the Palestinian terror group has been caught executing fellow Palestinians amid the ceasefire with Israel.
Kevin Federline's latest shock claim: Britney Spears did cocaine while still breastfeeding her sons... which was 'final straw'
The 47-year-old dancer made the bold allegation about his 43-year-old pop star ex-wife - who blasted him on social media Tuesday night - in his upcoming memoir You Thought You Knew.
Open Source GZDoom Community Splinters After Creator Inserts AI-Generated Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you've even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you've probably encountered one of the hundreds of gameplay mods, WAD files, or entire commercial games based on GZDoom. The open source Doom port -- which can trace its lineage back to the original launch of ZDoom back in 1998 -- adds modern graphics rendering, quality-of-life additions, and incredibly deep modding features to the original Doom source code that John Carmack released in 1997. Now, though, the community behind GZDoom is publicly fracturing, with a large contingent of developers uniting behind a new fork called UZDoom. The move is in apparent protest of the leadership of GZDoom creator and maintainer Cristoph Oelckers (aka Graf Zahl), who recently admitted to inserting untested AI-generated code into the GZDoom codebase.
"Due to some disagreements -- some recent; some tolerated for close to 2 decades -- with how collaboration should work, we've decided that the best course of action was to fork the project," developer Nash Muhandes wrote on the DoomWorld forums Wednesday. "I don't want to see the GZDoom legacy die, as do most all of us, hence why I think the best thing to do is to continue development through a fork, while introducing a different development model that highly favors transparent collaboration between multiple people." [...] Zahl defended the use of AI-generated snippets for "boilerplate code" that isn't key to underlying game features. "I surely have my reservations about using AI for project specific code," he wrote, "but this here is just superficial checks of system configuration settings that can be found on various websites -- just with 10x the effort required."
But others in the community were adamant that there's no place for AI tools in the workflow of an open source project like this. "If using code slop generated from ChatGPT or any other GenAI/AI chatbots is the future of this project, I'm sorry to say but I'm out," GitHub user Cacodemon345 wrote, summarizing the feelings of many other developers. In a GitHub bug report posted Tuesday, user the-phinet laid out the disagreements over AI-generated code alongside other alleged issues with Zahl's top-down approach to pushing out GZDoom updates.
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Claudia Winkleman reveals she was scolded by BBC bosses for glaring mistake during filming of Celebrity Traitors and shares her favourite contestant
Speaking to the Daily Mail in association with the National Lottery ahead of Thursday night's episode, the presenter, 53, admitted that hosting a celebrity edition has tested her discipline.
Eric Dane's ALS decline laid bare as he appears visibly frail while struggling into wheelchair with aide's help
Grey's Anatomy heartthrob Eric Dane made a rare public appearance amid his battle with ALS, spotted in a wheelchair at Toronto Pearson Airport on Thursday.
I'm a 100-year-old competitive bodybuilder... here is how I've stayed fit and healthy for a century
He's 100 years old, and still lifting weights. But the centenarian credits a surprising feature for helping him live this long.
Sweet moment Prince William reassures Kate with secret gesture during Northern Ireland trip
A video clip has shown how the Prince of Wales used a subtle gesture to reassure his wife while attending one of their outings during their recent Northern Ireland trip.
Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement
Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp
Updated Axiom Space has ousted its CEO after just six months, hiring Jonathan Cirtain to replace Tejpaul Bhatia.…
Mother, 34, who died along with her newborn baby after opting for home birth against medical advice shouted 'I am a warrior!' as she struggled to deliver her daughter
Jennifer Cahill, 34, an international export manager, had made it clear she wanted a completely 'physiological' birth for baby Agnes Lily, with no drugs and minimal outside interference.
Europe's economic woes could set off more riots, warns top insurance executive
Clarisse Kopff, a board member at German insurer Munich Re, said lower rates of growth in Europe, were already triggering increased 'social tensions'.
More 'punitive' tax hikes would wreck economy: BT and Whitbread in stark warning ahead of Budget
Telecoms giant BT and Premier Inn owner Whitbread warned rising costs are taking their toll on business and the wider economy.
Wealthy pay a heavy price: Reeves's failure to cut the benefits bill is costing Britain dear, says ALEX BRUMMER
Rachel Reeves may only be attending her second annual meeting of the top IMF and G7 finance ministers. But the Chancellor already is a veteran.
Gold on track for $5,000 as precious metal hits new record high to nudge $4,300 for first time
Analysts suggested gold could be on the way to $5,000 as nervous investors look for somewhere safe to park their cash.
Little cheer for Pernod as Chinese property crisis sends cognac sales plunging
Pernod Ricard, which owns Absolut Vodka (promoted by Paris Hilton (pictured), said sales in the three months to the end of September came in at £2bn.
The Mounjaro mums are finally ditching the jabs. Not because of their ageing faces or the usual side effects, but something far more personal that I've been warning about for months
'It's a bit like an alcoholic ditching the booze but not working on the reasons why they drank. It's a recipe for relapse - and I would know.'
'I heard a loud bang in our sitting room, and then our lives changed forever': Influencer recalls the moment her three-year-old daughter tragically died while playing at home
Annabel was airlifted to Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, immediately after the accident to receive treatment for the 'severe trauma to her head'.
Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1 Billion From Those Annoying Texts
The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. From a report: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations. The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details. The gangs behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing and cosmetics.
Criminal organizations operating out of China, which investigators blame for the toll and postage messages, have used them to make more than $1 billion over the last three years, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Behind the con, investigators say, is a black market connecting foreign criminal networks to server farms that blast scam texts to victims. The scammers use phishing websites to collect credit-card information. They then find gig workers in the U.S. who will max out the stolen cards for a small fee. Making the fraud possible: an ingenious trick allowing criminals to install stolen card numbers in Google and Apple Wallets in Asia, then share the cards with the people in the U.S. making purchases half a world away.
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Mitch McConnell collapses inside Senate
The 83-year-old was being asked a question by a reporter when he lost his footing inside the basement of the Russell Senate Office Building on Thursday.
Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns
Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power
Everything is bigger in Texas and that includes the GPU bit barns at the heart of the AI boom.…