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Henry Arundell, Marcus Smith and Bristol injury crisis – Prem talking points

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Is this the start of a new sort of unexpected at The Stoop this season?Eight minutes gone, snappy ball off the top of the line-out, and fly-half Marcus Smith attacks just inside Saracens' 10m line.In seasons past, it might have been a twinkle of the toes from Smith or a pop to a bludgeoning run from inside centres Andre Esterhuizen or Lennox Anyanwu.This time though, Smith punted an old-school up-and-under into the autumnal sun. Max Malins spilled it, Chandler Cunningham-South seized upon the ball and five phases later Smith himself was plunging over.In total, Harlequins kicked 32 times for 923…

Two Paths to Memory Safety: CHERI and OMA in the Fight Against Cyber Threats

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The last year has been brutal for businesses globally. Taking examples from my home country, the UK, the cost is over £1B and still rising, as well as the loss of at least one life due to cybercrime. These aren’t isolated incidents - they’re symptoms of a systemic vulnerability in how we build computer systems. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, credential abuse and exploitation of vulnerabilities continue to dominate as attack vectors, accounting for 22% and 20% of breaches respectively. The exploitation of vulnerabilities saw a 34% surge year-over-year, creating what Verizon describes as a “concerning…

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks | Film

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Keira Knightley said that she was “not aware” of demands to boycott JK Rowling prior to joining the cast of the new audiobook versions of the Harry Potter series.Knightley was speaking to Decider to promote her new Netflix movie The Woman in Cabin 10 (in which she plays a Guardian reporter), and was asked if she knew that “some fans are calling for a Harry Potter boycott”.Knightley said: “I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure…

Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up

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Salesforce announced Monday the latest version of its AI agent platform as the company looks to lure enterprises to its AI software in an increasingly crowded market. The customer relations manager giant unveiled the new platform, branded Agentforce 360, ahead of its annual Dreamforce customer conference that kicks off October 14. This newer version of Agentforce includes new ways to instruct AI agents through text, a new platform to build and deploy agents, and new infrastructure for messaging app Slack, among others. A notable aspect of Agentforce 360 is its new AI agent prompting tool, called Agent Script, which will…

The Ashes: England’s Ben Stokes and Mark Wood ‘raring to go’, says Bryson Carse

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Ben Stokes and Mark Wood will be "raring to go" in time for the Ashes, according to England pace bowler Brydon Carse.Talismanic England skipper Stokes missed the final Test against India in July because of a shoulder injury, while express paceman Wood has not played a Test since August 2024 as a result of elbow and knee problems.Both are looking to be fit for the first Test in Perth on 21 November, a series opener that Australia captain Pat Cummins has said he is "less likely than likely" to feature in because of a back injury.Carse, a Durham team-mate of…

How to Keep ‘Mr. Market’ from Controlling Your Investments

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Key Takeaways Warren Buffett has often drawn on the concept of a "Mr. Market," as created by his mentor, Benjamin Graham. The "Mr. Market" metaphor is intended to teach you to view market volatility more like a manic partner's mood, rather than as a guide to the real value of stocks. Successful investing often means doing the opposite of the crowd: buying quality businesses when fear drives prices down and selling when fear of missing out (FOMO) pushes them too high. Buffett's most important investment advice often involves a peculiar character investors need to understand: "Mr. Market is there to…

What is Six Kings Slam? And how much will Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz receive for playing?

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Exhibitions are meant to promote the sport and take it to new audiences. Organisers want the best players in the world to feature because they will sell more tickets. Roger Federer played Rafael Nadal in Cape Town in 2020 in front of 51,954 fans - a reported record, external for a tennis crowd at the time, albeit not an official match.Alcaraz - a gifted, highly entertaining shot-maker - plays a lot of exhibitions. He faced Americans Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe in New York and North Carolina respectively at the start of the yearAlcaraz and Tiafoe also took part in…

Matrices can be your Friends.

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Matrices can be your Friends. By Steve Baker What stops most novice graphics programmers from getting friendly with matrices is that they look like 16 utterly random numbers. However, a little mental picture that I have seems to help most people to make sense of what's going on. Most programmers are visual thinkers and don't take kindly to piles of abstract math. Take an OpenGL matrix: float m [ 16 ] ; Consider this as a 4x4 array with it's elements laid out into four columns like this: m[0] m[4] m[ 8] m[12] m[1] m[5] m[ 9] m[13] m[2] m[6]…

Mitsuko Uchida review – enthralling and exhilarating late Beethoven | Classical music

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Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas are a gift for a pianist as adept at balancing the playful and the profound as Mitsuko Uchida. Each is potentially a work of astonishing individual impact, yet they can come together to form something even greater than the sum of their parts.Perhaps it’s in the way that each sonata seems to pick up on and amplify the conflicts, beauties and struggles of the one before. Op 109 came to its close above a low rumble that Uchida made sound like an earthquake – Beethoven must have thought of sound as something to be felt…

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

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Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the janitors mopping in their wake)—deep down at the level of the code, you saw craftsmanship so obsessive that it bordered on insane. Chris Sawyer, the game’s sole developer, wrote the whole thing in assembly.Certain programming languages, like Python or Go or C++, are called “high-level” because they work sort of like human language, written in commands and idioms that might fit in at a poetry slam. Generally speaking,…