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Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock – a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive.Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (£17m) – and the 63-year-old says he’s ready to start cashing them as soon as he can.”Every chance I get going forward, I’ll sell a little bit more,” he tells the BBC. “The shares have been going up so radically it keeps messing up my life plans – you really can’t know the…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said: “Nobody should be left to struggle with their mental health alone. But every day, thousands of people are waiting months for help, then finding the only door open to them is a busy A&E.”These new centres will be a lifeline for so many,” he said.”They will bring NHS services closer to home, making it easier to get support before problems get worse and ensuring those in crisis get the right care in the right place.”Health Secretary Yvette Cooper added: “This is how we can turn the tide on mental ill health – preventing more people…

Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX tumbled after the company’s first-ever earnings report revealed a huge jump in spending on artificial intelligence, spooking investors.While the firm’s quarterly revenue had nearly doubled to $7.8bn (£5.8bn) from a year earlier, its spending ballooned to $18.3bn, more than six times what it was a year ago, the bulk of which was for AI.The firm builds space rockets and Starlink internet satellites as well as owning the social media platform X. It began trading on the US stock market in June.Its stock fell nearly 9% in after-hours trading. Musk said during an investor call after…

He said: “This investment in access, wellbeing and nature means more people can enjoy everything Saltram has to offer. “Whether you’re walking, wheeling, cycling, spending time with family or simply taking a moment to enjoy the views, we hope Saltram East becomes a place that people return to for generations to come.”The trust said investments had been made to “boost the diversity” of nature and wildlife in the area and that it had planted new wildflower hay meadows across the site to create homes for wildlife.It said it also planned to create a community forest by planting up to 12,000…

Will Venters, Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems at the London School of Economics, said companies can be caught out as they experiment with or implement AI internally, as staff burn through tokens.”People are finding it really hard to manage that cost… it’s a non-deterministic output, so it’s a non-deterministic value,” he said.Companies are finding ways to work around this.Oliver King-Smith, founder of engineering software firm smartR AI, says smaller organizations can “can fly under the radar and use [flat fee] personal accounts which I am sure the big vendors don’t like.”But, he says, “This has to end…

Apsana Begum, Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse in east London, said she had written to the trust to express her fears.”At this moment, the focus could have been on how NHS funding is restored and how there can be parity between the quality and level of care for physical health and mental health,” she said.”I am concerned that these cuts are particularly targeted towards mental health care services that are of equal importance to patients.”More from Bedfordshire:The trust has a strong national reputation, being one of a small number of NHS organisations to hold the highest rating from the…

More than 1,150 cases have been referred to the National Crime Agency (NCA)’s Cyber Choices scheme in the last eight years – nearly 600 of those were in the last three years.Authorities warn teenage hacking groups are playing an increasingly prominent role in serious cyber-attacks.Young, English-speaking hackers have been linked to attacks on major organisations including Transport for London (TfL) and MGM Grand in 2024, and Marks & Spencer and the Co-op in 2025.Individuals are also being increasingly targeted in hacks for their cryptocurrency holdings.”It certainly has become more of a problem,” said Paul Foster, who leads cyber prevention work…

The meningitis outbreak that happened in Kent in March has been described as unprecedented and explosive. Within weeks, in Kent, there were 29 confirmed or suspected cases and two deaths. That’s why the new, one-off campaign is being launched – to help protect those at greatest risk and hopefully prevent something like this from happening again. Students in their first year of university have a risk that is about seven times higher than that of young people of a similar age who do not go to university, says NHS England.Meningitis infections can be spread through close contact – for example…

The boss of one of the companies recently hacked by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) says bot makers must be accountable for cyber attacks carried out by their creations.Clement Delangue’s company Hugging Face was breached by a rogue OpenAI bot that broke out of a test environment and autonomously attacked his firm earlier this month.Hugging Face had to rebuild around a third of its IT network after the unprecedented incident.He told CNN his company – which is a small start-up – will not be taking legal action against OpenAI, but added that these types of hacks are illegal and should remain…

“Tom the Young Farmer” tells BBC Radio Shropshire how it’s important to check in on his friends.