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When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce first got together, fans came up with several combinations of their names, such as Tayvis, Traylor or Swelce as a moniker for the couple.

Mickie Austen Rollins - who was born Mickie Lettuce - shared her thoughts on unusual names after US influencer Trisha Paytas revealed her very divisive choice for her newborn son.

Since 2010 Stack Exchange has run all its sites on physical hardware in New Jersey — about 50 different servers. (When Ryan Donovan joined in 2019, "I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet.") But this month everything moved to the cloud, a new blog post explains. "Our servers are now cattle, not pets. Nobody is going to have to drive to our New Jersey data center and replace or reboot hardware..." Over the years, we've shared glamor shots of our server racks and info about updating them. For almost our entire 16-year existence, the SRE team has managed all datacenter operations, including the physical servers, cabling, racking, replacing failed disks and everything else in between. This work required someone to physically show up at the datacenter and poke the machines... [O]n July 2nd, in anticipation of the datacenter's closure, we unracked all the servers, unplugged all the cables, and gave these once mighty machines their final curtain call... We moved Stack Overflow for Teams to Azure in 2023 and proved we could do it. Now we just had to tackle the public sites (Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network), which is hosted on Google Cloud. Early last year, our datacenter vendor in New Jersey decided to shut down that location, and we needed to be out by July 2025. Our other datacenter — in Colorado — was decommissioned in June. It was primarily for disaster recovery, which we didn't need any more. Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters or offices; we are fully in the cloud and remote...! [O]ur Staff Site Reliability Engineer, got a little wistful. "I installed the new web tier servers a few years ago as part of planned upgrades," he said. "It's bittersweet that I'm the one deracking them also." It's the IT version of Old Yeller. There's photos of the 50 servers, as well as the 400+ cables connecting them, all of which wound up in a junk pile. "For security reasons (and to protect the PII of all our users and customers), everything was being shredded and/or destroyed. Nothing was being kept... Ever have difficulty disconnecting an RJ45 cable? Well, here was our opportunity to just cut the damn things off instead of figuring out why the little tab wouldn't release the plug."

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Justin Bieber offered tribute to the late rocker Ozzy Osbourne on social media Saturday morning.

Kelly Osbourne has paid a moving tribute to her dad Ozzy who died just four days ago.

A French rally event has been rocked by tragedy for the second year in a row after three spectators - including two brothers - were killed when a car veered off the road and crashed into the crowd.

The ex-Premier League star, 42, is said to be dating recruiter Farran Tomlin - 11 years his junior

In the black-and-white photo, the mum-of-three, 44, sizzled in a strapless bikini that highlighted her toned figure.

The 27-year-old British actor and model, who has starred in a string of hit movies, is accused of two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

Gisele Bündchen was spotted on a rare outing with her baby on Friday. The model, kept her and the little one's looks low-key as she strolled around her neighborhood in Surfside, Florida .

Drinking a beer and cracking jokes with colleagues, he seemed like any co-worker enjoying a night out after a busy day in a Manhattan office.

The world's best human chess player beat ChatGPT, reports Time magazine. Magnus Carlsen posted on X.com earlier this month that "I sometimes get bored while travelling," and shared screenshots of his conversations with ChatGPT after he beat the AI chatbot "without losing a single piece." ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. ChatGPT resigned the match... "That was methodical, clean, and sharp. Well played!" ChatGPT said to him, according to the screenshots Carlsen posted. Carlsen told the AI bot that he thought it "played really well in the opening," but ultimately "failed to follow it up correctly." He went on to ask ChatGPT for feedback on his performance. "Your play showed several strong traits," ChatGPT told him... About a week after Carlsen posted that he beat ChatGPT in the online chess match, he lost the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Las Vegas to teenage Indian grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

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The 37-year-old MMA star bought The Black Forge Inn for around £2million and the latest fire is not the first time it has been seen fully ablaze in the years he has owned it.

It has been his dream for years to return to his beloved Turnberry course - one he describes as 'probably the best in the world' -for a quiet 18 holes in beautiful surroundings.

In a post to X, Dan Bongino said that in his short time in office he has discovered matters that has 'shocked me down to my core'.

The Gunners had been locked in negotiations for the former Coventry City frontman for several days, with Mikel Arteta's side finally nearing the addition of an out-and-out goal-scoring No 9.

JFK's twisted romantic life might have turned about so very different had his father allowed his charming, quietly intelligent middle son to marry his first love.

High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) were first provided to Ukraine in June 2022 to stem the tide of Vladimir Putin's advances in the Donbas.

This strange image shows two girls sitting in a field, but there is a third hidden face that only 10 per cent of people will be able to see at first.

Anton Du Beke has opened up on his wife Hannah Summers' 'cruel and inexplicable' health condition that left them fearing they'd be unable to have children.