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A hotel staff member working at a luxury five-star resort in Miami has been accused in a recently filed lawsuit of a disgusting act in a guest's room.

It follows months of disruption caused by loud noise, drug-related activity and serious nuisance behaviour

The police said it was a "completely mindless and reckless act"

President Donald Trump blamed former President Joe Biden for the U.S.'s current relationship with Iran - and denied that the new Iran nuclear deal would allow for uranium enrichment.

The Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee at St Paul's Cathedral, which took place on this day three years ago, came at a frosty time for Prince Harry and his family.

New simulations suggest that the long-assumed collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies is not guaranteed, with the odds now estimated at just over 50% within the next 10 billion years. Factoring in other massive galaxies like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud revealed that their gravitational influence significantly alters the likelihood of a merger. ScienceAlert reports: The Milky Way and Andromeda are not, however, alone in this little corner of the cosmos. They belong to a small group of galaxies within a radius of about 5 million light-years from the Milky Way known as the Local Group. The Milky Way and Andromeda are the largest members, but there are quite a few other objects hanging out that need to be taken into consideration when modeling the future. [Astrophysicist Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki] and his colleagues took the latest data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, and the most recent mass estimates for the four most massive objects in the Local Group -- the Milky Way, Andromeda, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Then, they set about running simulations of the next 10 billion years, adding and removing galaxies to see how that changed the results. Their results showed that the presence of M33 and LMC dramatically altered the probability of a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. When it is just the two large spiral galaxies, the merger occurred in slightly less than half the simulation runs. The addition of M33 increased the merger probability to two in three. Taking M33 back out and adding LMC had the opposite effect, decreasing the probability to one in three. When all four galaxies were present, the probability of a merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda within 10 billion years is slightly more than 50 percent. "We find that there are basically two types of outcomes," Sawala said. "The Milky Way and Andromeda will either come close enough on their first encounter (first 'pericenter') that dynamical friction between the two dark matter haloes will drag the orbit to an eventual merger, which very likely happens before 10 billion years, or they do not come close enough, in which case dynamical friction is not effective, and they can still orbit for a very long time thereafter." "The main result of our work is that there is still significant uncertainty about the future evolution -- and eventual fate -- of our galaxy," Sawala added. "Of course, as a working astrophysicist, the best results are those that motivate future studies, and I think our paper provides motivation both for more comprehensive models and for more precise observations." The research has been published in Nature Astronomy.

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Jamie Foxx has spoken out again about Diddy, making it clear what he thought of the disgraced rap mogul.

Diddy's former assistant, whose taken on a pseudonym, kicked off the fourth week of his sex trafficking trial with a bang as text messages and testimony name dropped multiple A-list celebrities.

We could all use a little less oil for healthier cooking, but a TikTok influencer's unusual alternative is said to have come from an 'Italian grandmother'.

No wonder those products always rated so highly

Australia’s Securities & Investments Commission has sued a product comparison website that it alleges only considered products from a related company.…

Taylor Swift looked dressed for revenge in a stunning head-to-toe Gucci ensemble after finally gaining ownership of the master recordings for her first six albums.

In the annals of high espionage, derring-do and successful madcap military schemes, Artem Tymofieiev surely deserves his place.

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

New details have emerged in the shock suicide of David Hasselhoff's ex-wife Pamela Bach, who was found dead at her Hollywood Hills home on March 5.

Russia is wounded, far more badly than the Kremlin ever believed possible. Ukraine's extraordinary special forces mission in enemy territory has done damage to Putin's war machine.

A recent code-review on a new build pipeline got Sandra's attention (previously). The normally responsible and reliable developer responsible for the commit included this in their Jenkinsfile:

sh ''' if ! command -v yamllint &> /dev/null; then if command -v apt-get &> /dev/null; then apt-get update && apt-get install -y yamllint elif command -v apk &> /dev/null; then apk add --no-cache yamllint elif command -v pip3 &> /dev/null; then pip3 install --break-system-packages yamllint fi fi find . -name '*.yaml' -exec yamllint {} \\; || true find . -name '*.yml' -exec yamllint {} \\; || true '''

So the goal of this script is to check to see if the yamllint command is available. If it isn't, we check if apt-get is available, and if it is, we use that to install yamllint. Failing that, we try apk, Alpine's package manager, and failing that we use pip3 to install it out of PyPI. Then we run it against any YAML files in the repo.

There are a few problems with this approach.

The first, Sandra notes, is that they don't use Alpine Linux, and thus there's no reason to try apk. The second is that this particular repository contains no Python components and thus pip is not available in the CI environment. Third, this CI job runs inside of a Docker image which already has yamllint installed.

Now, you'd think the developer responsible would have known this, given that this very merge request also included the definition of the Dockerfile for this environment. They'd already installed yamllint in the image.

Sandra writes:

This kind of sloppiness is also wildly out of character for him, to the point where my first thought was that it was AI-generated - especially since this was far from the only WTF in the submitted Jenkinsfile. Thankfully, it didn't pass code review and was sent back for intensive rework.

Finally, while the reality is that we'll always need to resolve some dependencies at build time, things like "tooling" and "linters" really belong in the definition of the build environment, not resolved at build time.

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Researchers may have reached a breakthrough over a cheap drug often discussed by podcaster Joe Rogan...

Shiloh choreographed a dance routine under her new name during a rare public appearance in Los Angeles last week.

Renée Zellweger looked gorgeous in an off-the-shoulder black dress at Monday evening's 2025 Gotham Television Awards in New York City.

A grieving father who unlocked his son's phone a year after his murder was left horrified after finding a video showing his alleged killer mocking the crime moments after it happened.