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Owen Jenner, 21, and Shane Richardson, 29, lost their lives following a devastating multi-bike collision that saw eleven riders go down at the very first turn of Monday's race at Oulton Park.

On what is considered to be fashion's biggest night, the 2025 Met Gala is being slammed as 'boring' and 'underwhelming' after failing to deliver the star power and glamour of years past.

Loading times for web pages is one of the key metrics we like to tune. Users will put up with a lot if they feel like they application is responsive. So when Caivs was handed 20MB of PHP and told, "one of the key pages takes like 30-45 seconds to load. Figure out why," it was at least a clear goal.

Combing through that gigantic pile of code to try and understand what was happening was an uphill battle. Eventually, Caivs just decided to check the traffic logs while running the application. That highlighted a huge spike in traffic every time the page loaded, and that helped Caivs narrow down exactly where the problem was.

$first_image = ''; foreach($images as $the_image) { $image = $the_image['url']; if(file_exists($config->base_url.'/uploads/'.$image)) { if($first_image=='') { $first_image = $image; } $image_dimensions = '&w=648&h=432'; $get_dimensions = getimagesize('http://old.datacenter.ip.address/'.$config->base_url.'/uploads/'.$image); if($get_dimensions[0] < $get_dimensions[1]) $image_dimensions = '&h=432'; echo '<li>'.$config->base_url.'/timthumb.php?src='.$config->base_url.'/uploads/'.$image.'&w=125&h=80&zc=1'), 'javascript:;', array('onclick'=>'$(\'.image_gallery .feature .image\').html(\''.$config->base_url.'/timthumb.php?src='.$config->base_url.'/uploads/'.$image.$image_dimensions.'&zc=1').'\');$(\'.image_gallery .feature .title\').show();$(\'.image_gallery .feature .title\').html("'.str_replace('"', '', $the_image['Image Description']).'");$(\'.image_gallery .bar ul li a\').removeClass(\'active\');$(\'.image_gallery .bar ul li\').removeClass(\'active\');$(this).addClass(\'active\');$(this).parents(\'li\').addClass(\'active\');sidebarHeight();curImg=$(this).attr(\'id\');translate()','id'=>$img_num)).'</li>'; $img_num++; } }

For every image they want to display in a gallery, they echo out a list item for it, which that part makes sense- more or less. The mix of PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, and HTML tags is ugly and awful and I hate it. But that's just a prosaic kind of awful, background radiation of looking at PHP code. Yes, it should be launched into the Kupier belt (it doesn't deserve the higher delta-V required to launch it into the sun), but that's not why we're here.

The cause of the long load times was in the lines above- where for each image, we getimagesize- a function which downloads the image and checks its stats, all so we can set $image_dimensions. Which, presumably, the server hosting the images uses the query string to resize the returned image.

All this is to check- if the height is greater than the width we force the height to be 432 pixels, otherwise we force the whole image to be 648x432 pixels.

Now, the server supplying those images had absolutely no caching, so that meant for every image request it needed to resize the image before sending. And for reasons which were unclear, if the requested aspect ratio were wildly different than the actual aspect ratio, it would also sometimes just refused to resize and return a gigantic original image file. But someone also had thought about the perils of badly behaved clients downloading too many images, so if a single host were requesting too many images, it would start throttling the responses.

When you add all this up, it meant that this PHP web application was getting throttled by its own file server, because it was requesting too many images, too quickly. Any reasonable user load hitting it would be viewed as an attempted denial of service attack on the file hosting backend.

Caivs was able to simply remove the check on filesize, and add a few CSS rules which ensured that files in the gallery wouldn't misbehave terribly. The performance problems went away- at least for that page of the application. Buried in that 20MB of PHP/HTML code, there were plenty more places where things could go wrong.

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The Open Document Format reached its 20th anniversary on May 1, marking two decades since OASIS approved the XML-based standard originally developed by Sun Microsystems from StarOffice code. Even as the format has seen adoption by several governments including the UK, India, and Brazil, plus organizations like NATO, Microsoft Office's proprietary formats remain the de facto standard. Microsoft countered ODF by developing Office Open XML, eventually getting it standardized through Ecma International. "ODF is much more than a technical specification: it is a symbol of freedom of choice, support for interoperability and protection of users from the commercial strategies of Big Tech," said Eliane Domingos, Chair of the Document Foundation, which oversees LibreOffice -- a fork created after Oracle acquired Sun.

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The individual, a man believed to be in his 70s, drove into Aniston's property while the Friends star was home.

Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, on May 6, 1960, in a grand ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

The Cabinet Office is reviewing whether to update Britain's 'homeland defence plan' that sets out how the Government responds to a declaration of war, according to The Telegraph.

Good news for royal fashion fans: the Princess of Wales' beloved Boden jumper has returned in a range of spring-ready hues.

Crowning the monarch is one of the most poignant moments during a Coronation, so it comes as no surprise that the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was worried about it. 

In contrast to royal tradition, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to keep the birth of their son, Prince Archie, private.

The star, 42, who has been at the center of plastic surgery rumors as of late, displayed her smooth visage as she attended fashion's biggest night.

Riot Games has reduced cheating in Valorant to under 1% of ranked games through its controversial kernel-level anti-cheat system Vanguard, according to the company's anti-cheat director Phillip Koskinas. The system enforces Windows security features like Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot while preventing code execution in kernel memory. Beyond technical measures, Riot deploys undercover operatives who have infiltrated cheat development communities for years. "We've even gone as far as giving anti-cheat information to establish credibility," Koskinas told TechCrunch, describing how they target even "premium" cheats costing thousands of dollars. Riot faces increasingly sophisticated threats, including direct memory access attacks using specialized PCI Express hardware and screen reader cheats that use separate computers to analyze gameplay and control mouse movements. To combat repeat offenders, Vanguard fingerprints cheaters' hardware. Koskinas admits to deliberately slowing some enforcement: "To keep cheating dumb, we ban slower." The team also employs psychological warfare, publicly discrediting cheat developers and trolling known cheaters to undermine their credibility in gaming communities.

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Sydney Sweeney's 2025 Met Gala look has been dubbed 'boring' and 'not on theme'

Hailey Bieber cut a somber figure as she made her return to the Met Gala on Monday without husband Justin, four years after she was heckled by fans of his ex Selena Gomez.

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood appeared to do her best to steer clear of her former costar Walton Goggins on the Met Gala red carpet - even as she hung out with another of her cast mates.

Met Gala 2025 delivered a goldmine of hilarious memes on Monday. Fashion's biggest night, held at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute in New York City , explored Black dandyism.

Madonna debuted a stunning new natural look as she attended the 2025 Met Gala on Monday - with fans quipping her 'face lift had disappeared'.

Sabrina Carpenter had an awkward run-in with ex Barry Keoghan a t the 2025 Met Gala on Monday - one year after they first confirmed their romance at the same event.

A young beautician has been stabbed to death in the streets of the Iranian city of Islamshahr by her father, after she was accused of revealing that he was having an affair. 

Pamela Anderson embraced a more understated style while appearing at the Met Gala 2025 in New York City on Monday.