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Boy, 8, phones his nan from capsized kayak to save his grandad

An eight-year-old boy and his grandad drifted more than two miles off the Vale of Glamorgan coast.

Boy, 8, phones his nan from capsized kayak to save his grandad

An eight-year-old boy and his grandad drifted more than two miles off the Vale of Glamorgan coast.

2 Taiwan air force pilots die in T-34C crash, spurring probe and debate over aircraft

2 Taiwan air force pilots die in T-34C crash, spurring probe and debate over aircraft Lieutenant Colonel Kuo Chun-nan and Lieutenant Colonel Lu Chi-yu were killed when aircraft went down at Gangshan Air Base A Taiwanese air force aircraft crashed during a training mission on Tuesday, killing two experienced pilots and prompting renewed scrutiny of the island’s ageing fleet of T-34 basic trainers. Both pilots on board, Lieutenant Colonel Kuo Chun-nan and Lieutenant Colonel Lu Chi-yu, were...

Pursuit Of Jade star Zhang Linghe to reimburse fans after viral overcrowding incident in China

Pursuit Of Jade star Zhang Linghe to reimburse fans after viral overcrowding incident in China Zhang Linghe's team has apologised to fans, following a recent incident that saw the cancellation of his in-person appearance at an eyewear brand event in China. Chinese actor and Pursuit Of Jade star Zhang Linghe and his studio will reimburse fans for travel and accommodation expenses after an in-person promotional event in Nanning, China, was cancelled amid safety concerns due to overwhelming...

Look Before You Leap: Checking in on Type Tag Checking

arXiv:2606.05466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tagging of generic dynamic values is important in symbolic-computation and dynamic-language systems, but the trade-offs change as machine architectures and workloads evolve. In particular, old folklore about boxed values, immediate values, and type tags must be recalibrated from time to time. We revisit the performance of badged object headers, low-bit tagging, and two NaN-boxing layouts on a range of platforms in use today, including AArch64...

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This chip was highly influential, and today most processors use the floating-point standard introduced by the 8087. The 8087 uses complicated algorithms to accurately compute functions such as square roots, tangents, and exponentials.

Novel Aspects of IEEE SA P3109 Arithmetic Formats for Machine Learning

Announce Type: new Abstract: The IEEE P3109 draft standard defines a parameterized family of binary floating-point formats and associated operations, with a focus on facilitating machine learning. These formats allow efficient and consistent representation of values in a small number of bits. The defined formats are parameterized over width and precision in bits, signedness, and the presence of infinities.

A Book I Wish I’d Read at 22

A Sydney mother asked police to lock her up. 11 days later, she was dead

The last holding place Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 4:59am Tammy Shipley walked into a police station and asked to be arrested. She just wanted to be safe. Within days she was under 24-hour surveillance.

Port React Compiler to Rust

[compiler] Port React Compiler to Rust#36173 This is an experimental, work-in-progress port of React Compiler to Rust. Key points: - Work-in-progress - we are sharing early, prior to testing internally at Meta, to get feedback from partners in parallel with continued development.