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Brown Honeyeater coming down low to get a drink from Snake Gully in Oxley Creek Common.
EUGENE (ANP) - Niels Laros heeft bij de Diamond League-meeting in het Amerikaanse Eugene een sensationele zege geboekt op de Engelse mijl. De Nederlandse atleet achterhaalde na een lange eindsprint de twee lopers vooraan en won de race in een Nederlands record van 3.45,94. Hij haalde bijna drie seconden af van de vorige nationale toptijd, die ook op naam stond van de 20-jarige atleet uit Oosterhout.
De Amerikaanse favoriet Yared Nuguse en de Fransman Azeddine Habz deden in de zogeheten Bowerman Mile een aanval op het wereldrecord van 3.43,13, in 1999 gelopen door de Marokkaan Hicham El Guerrouj. Het tweetal nam ruim afstand van de rest van het veld, maar hun tempo zakte in de laatste ronde in. Laros begon in de laatste omloop aan een versnelling die hem steeds dichter bij de twee vooraan bracht. Met een uiterste krachtsinspanning wist de jonge Nederlander beide lopers nog in te halen en de zevende tijd ooit te lopen.
Stefan Nillessen eindigde als dertiende in 3.49.53.
Jorinde van Klinken slaagde er net niet in op het podium te belanden bij het discuswerpen. De Nederlandse atlete eindigde als vierde met een afstand van 66,19 meter. De Amerikaanse Valarie Allman was de beste met 70,68 meter. De 25-jarige Van Klinken werd eerder tweede in Parijs en Stockholm en kwam dit seizoen al tot een afstand van 66,42. Ze haalde vorig weekeinde de zege binnen voor de Nederlandse ploeg op het EK atletiek voor landenteams in Madrid.
Jessica Schilder eindigde als vijfde bij het kogelstoten met 20,03 meter. De winst was voor Chase Jackson met 20,94 meter. Denzel Comenentia werd zesde bij het kogelslingeren met een afstand van 76,51. De Amerikaan Rudy Winkler won met 83,16, de beste wereldprestatie van het jaar.
ZAGREB (ANP) - In Zagreb zijn zaterdagavond 504.000 toeschouwers opgedaagd voor het concert van de omstreden rechts-nationalistische Kroatische band Thompson. Dat heeft de organisatie aan de publieke omroep HRT laten weten.
Leadzanger Marko Perković staat bekend om zijn nazisympathieën. De band is in meerdere landen verboden. In 2003 verbood Amsterdam een concert van Thompson.
Na het tweede nummer richtte Perković zich tot het publiek met een nationalistische toespraak: "Prijs Jezus en Maria, mijn lieve mensen. (...) Met dit concert tonen we eenheid. Europa moet terugkeren naar zijn traditie en christelijke wortels. Alleen zo wordt Kroatië weer sterk." Ook riep hij op tot eerbied voor de "helden die ons vaderland hebben geschapen".
Volgens Perković kwamen bezoekers niet alleen uit Kroatië, maar uit heel Europa.
De politie noemde de show de meest veeleisende politietaak ooit in Kroatië. Er werden 6500 agenten, bijna 5000 beveiligers en 70 brandweerlieden ingezet.
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This west Shinjuku landmark houses schools of fashion, technology, and design as well as a medical college.
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
"Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license," reports BleepingComputer.
This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding assistant, including the implementation of "agent mode," what contextual data is sent to large language models (LLMs), and the design of system prompts. The GitHub repository hosting the code also details telemetry collection mechanisms, addressing long-standing questions about data transparency in AI-assisted coding tools...
As the VS Code team explained previously, shifts in AI tooling landscape like the rapid growth of the open-source AI ecosystem and a more level playing field for all have reduced the need for secrecy around prompt engineering and UI design. At the same time, increased targeting of development tools by malicious actors has increased the need for crowdsourcing contributions to rapidly pinpoint problems and develop effective fixes. Essentially, openness is now considered superior from a security perspective.
"If you've been hesitant to adopt AI tools because you don't trust the black box behind them, this move opensources-github-copilot-chat-vscode/offers something rare these days: transparency," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli"
Now that the extension is open source, developers can audit how agent mode actually works. You can also dig into how it manages your data, customize its behavior, or build entirely new tools on top of it. This could be especially useful in enterprise environments where compliance and control are non negotiable.
It is worth pointing out that the backend models powering Copilot remain closed source. So no, you won't be able to self host the whole experience or train your own Copilot. But everything running locally in VS Code is now fair game. Microsoft says it is planning to eventually merge inline code completions into the same open source package too, which would make Copilot Chat the new hub for both chat and suggestions.
This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding assistant, including the implementation of "agent mode," what contextual data is sent to large language models (LLMs), and the design of system prompts. The GitHub repository hosting the code also details telemetry collection mechanisms, addressing long-standing questions about data transparency in AI-assisted coding tools...
As the VS Code team explained previously, shifts in AI tooling landscape like the rapid growth of the open-source AI ecosystem and a more level playing field for all have reduced the need for secrecy around prompt engineering and UI design. At the same time, increased targeting of development tools by malicious actors has increased the need for crowdsourcing contributions to rapidly pinpoint problems and develop effective fixes. Essentially, openness is now considered superior from a security perspective.
"If you've been hesitant to adopt AI tools because you don't trust the black box behind them, this move opensources-github-copilot-chat-vscode/offers something rare these days: transparency," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli"
Now that the extension is open source, developers can audit how agent mode actually works. You can also dig into how it manages your data, customize its behavior, or build entirely new tools on top of it. This could be especially useful in enterprise environments where compliance and control are non negotiable.
It is worth pointing out that the backend models powering Copilot remain closed source. So no, you won't be able to self host the whole experience or train your own Copilot. But everything running locally in VS Code is now fair game. Microsoft says it is planning to eventually merge inline code completions into the same open source package too, which would make Copilot Chat the new hub for both chat and suggestions.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Some of our basic assumptions about the biological process of aging might be wrong," reports the New York Times — citing new research on a small Indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon. [Alternate URL here.]
Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation — also known as "inflammaging" — is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging at all, or if it's linked to a person's lifestyle or environment instead. The study, which was published Monday, found that people in two nonindustrialized areas experienced a different kind of inflammation throughout their lives than more urban people — likely tied to infections from bacteria, viruses and parasites rather than the precursors of chronic disease. Their inflammation also didn't appear to increase with age.
Scientists compared inflammation signals in existing data sets from four distinct populations in Italy, Singapore, Bolivia and Malaysia; because they didn't collect the blood samples directly, they couldn't make exact apples-to-apples comparisons. But if validated in larger studies, the findings could suggest that diet, lifestyle and environment influence inflammation more than aging itself, said Alan Cohen, an author of the paper and an associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. "Inflammaging may not be a direct product of aging, but rather a response to industrialized conditions," he said, adding that this was a warning to experts like him that they might be overestimating its pervasiveness globally.
"How we understand inflammation and aging health is based almost entirely on research in high-income countries like the U.S.," said Thomas McDade, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University. But a broader look shows that there's much more global variation in aging than scientists previously thought, he added... McDade, who has previously studied inflammation in the Tsimane group, speculated that populations in nonindustrialized regions might be exposed to certain microbes in water, food, soil and domestic animals earlier in their lives, bolstering their immune response later in life.
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Chronic inflammation is thought to speed up the ageing process and contribute to various health conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes... However, other experts shared a word of caution before jumping to conclusions from the study. Vishwa Deep Dixit, director of the Yale Center for Research on Aging, told the New York Times it's not surprising that people less exposed to pollution would see lower rates of chronic disease.
Aurelia Santoro, an associate professor at the University of Bologna, also cautioned about the results, according to the Times. "While they had lower rates of chronic disease, the two Indigenous populations tended to have life spans shorter than those of people in industrialized regions, meaning they may simply not have lived long enough to develop inflammaging, Santoro said."
And Bimal Desai, a professor of pharmacology who studies inflammation at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, told the Times that the study "sparks valuable discussion" but needs more follow-up "before we rewrite the inflammaging narrative."
Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation — also known as "inflammaging" — is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging at all, or if it's linked to a person's lifestyle or environment instead. The study, which was published Monday, found that people in two nonindustrialized areas experienced a different kind of inflammation throughout their lives than more urban people — likely tied to infections from bacteria, viruses and parasites rather than the precursors of chronic disease. Their inflammation also didn't appear to increase with age.
Scientists compared inflammation signals in existing data sets from four distinct populations in Italy, Singapore, Bolivia and Malaysia; because they didn't collect the blood samples directly, they couldn't make exact apples-to-apples comparisons. But if validated in larger studies, the findings could suggest that diet, lifestyle and environment influence inflammation more than aging itself, said Alan Cohen, an author of the paper and an associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. "Inflammaging may not be a direct product of aging, but rather a response to industrialized conditions," he said, adding that this was a warning to experts like him that they might be overestimating its pervasiveness globally.
"How we understand inflammation and aging health is based almost entirely on research in high-income countries like the U.S.," said Thomas McDade, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University. But a broader look shows that there's much more global variation in aging than scientists previously thought, he added... McDade, who has previously studied inflammation in the Tsimane group, speculated that populations in nonindustrialized regions might be exposed to certain microbes in water, food, soil and domestic animals earlier in their lives, bolstering their immune response later in life.
More from The Independent:
Chronic inflammation is thought to speed up the ageing process and contribute to various health conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes... However, other experts shared a word of caution before jumping to conclusions from the study. Vishwa Deep Dixit, director of the Yale Center for Research on Aging, told the New York Times it's not surprising that people less exposed to pollution would see lower rates of chronic disease.
Aurelia Santoro, an associate professor at the University of Bologna, also cautioned about the results, according to the Times. "While they had lower rates of chronic disease, the two Indigenous populations tended to have life spans shorter than those of people in industrialized regions, meaning they may simply not have lived long enough to develop inflammaging, Santoro said."
And Bimal Desai, a professor of pharmacology who studies inflammation at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, told the Times that the study "sparks valuable discussion" but needs more follow-up "before we rewrite the inflammaging narrative."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.