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Given the way we handle migrant crossings, we can hardly complain if new arrivals treat us with disdain.

Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was among nine who were killed in Sunday's plane crash.

The Morning Poll: When is the right time to put up your Christmas decorations?

Her ex-husband Lachie Neale flaunted his new romance with Emma Field at Derby Day. 

When writing Perl, it's not unusual to want to die. The die function ends your Perl program with an error string, and you'll often see code like: die "My error" unless $i > 5 or die "Other error" if check(), because Perl just loves the backwards conditionals. What's even more fun with die is how it behaves with eval blocks, so it doesn't always kill your program, sometimes it is how you pass error strings back out of sections of your program.

And poor Bobby has inherited some Perl that just really loves to die.

public function store() { echo 'Hello'; die; if (Auth::attempt(Input::only('email', 'password'))) { echo 'done'; die; // return "welcome ".Auth::user()->username } echo "Oops! Fails"; die; return Redirect::back()->with_input(); }

Bobby didn't send the source control history here, but I have a sense of what it likely was like, once. If they authenticate successfully, print a welcome message. If they don't, redirect back to the logon page and let them try again. I suspect they wanted to disable the route. So first they disabled the success path, only to discover that the failure path kept redirecting, so they disabled that too. Finally, they added the Hello at the top to disable the whole thing.

Why? Why did they do any of this? No idea. It feels like debugging code, but you'd expect more echos and fewer dies if that were the case. And you wouldn't expect it to leak into production and sit there for years, which is what happened here.

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Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part

Scotty Henniker, 14, had not seen a professional in the 12 months before his death

Children could move to less-regulated social media platforms if the upcoming social media ban is not consistently applied across all platforms.

Children could move to less-regulated social media platforms if the upcoming social media ban is not consistently applied across all platforms.

OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale

A number of glamorous stars gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Monday for the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards.

Adorable pictures show the moment a first-time mother cleans one of her five cubs.

Russell Brand's barrister today claimed the actor is not a 'psychopath that rapes people and thinks that is normal'.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: The world's leading EV maker is showing no signs of slowing down. BYD sold 490,168 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in October, up 11% from the prior year and the company's highest monthly total in 2026. BYD's battery electric vehicles drove the growth, with a record 305,743 units sold, up 37% year over year and marking the first time its EV sales have crossed the 300,000 mark. To put that into perspective, just over 262,500 EVs were sold in the US in the entire third quarter combined, according to Kelley Blue Book estimates. By the end of the year, BYD expects overseas shipments to reach about 2 million vehicles. "In 2027, that number is expected to rise to more than 2.5 million vehicles," adds Electrek.

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Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut

The house price prophet who predicted the last two market downturns years before they happened says a new house price crash has already begun.

The couple visited Government House, the home of the monarch's representative in Antigua and Barbuda, once regarded as a symbol of British colonialism.

Some 300 soldiers from the British Army's 7 Brigade are heading to Poland to rehearse how they could one day support Ukraine if and when the war ends.

Forget mice. What elephants really don't like is a honey bee.

This week, Parliament's Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee delivered a damning verdict on Britain's relationship with Beijing.