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Fights broke out outside the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia after the final whistle confirmed the Three Lions' 2-1 defeat to Lionel Messi's side.

Cruz Beckham's girlfriend Jackie Apostel joined the Beckham family at the World Cup semi-final on Wednesday - amid mounting engagement rumors.

Karen was maintaining some specification tests that were flaky. Not extremely flaky, but three or four times out of a thousand, the tests would just fail. The tests were complicated, and some of the operations were timing sensitive, so it wasn't precisely surprising- but the problem was that they were actually generous with their timing windows. The unit tests passed consistently, it was only these functional, specification-based tests that failed.

So, for example, there were sections in the tests where they wanted to wait at least 2ms. Since the code and tests were in TypeScript, they used the setTimeout function, which per standard JavaScript documentation warns that it may wait longer. But again, Karen was fine with longer.

Unfortunately for Karen, the documentation for NodeJS is less specific, as it makes no guarantees about when the timeout function gets invoked. This means that it can fire the timeout before the time has elapsed.

After many, many hours of debugging, that was exactly the situation that Karen found herself in. Which is why her very simple wait function went from:

export const wait = (ms:number) => new Promise((complete) => setTimeout(complete, ms));

To the much more awkward:

export const wait = (ms: number) { const target = performance.now() + ms; return new Promise((complete) => { const checkReady = () => { if (performance.now() > target) { complete(); } else { setTimeout(checkReady, 1); } } setTimeout(checkReady, 1); }); }

This version of the function checks the time every millisecond, and only completes the operation if we've waited at least as long as our target duration. This ensures that the timeout never fires too soon and it fixes the janky tests. But it's also terrible. Terrible that it exists. Terrible that this is the best solution. Terrible that our functional tests need to be so time sensitive. And terrible that the Node runtime actually breaks the one consistent scheduling guarantee that pretty much every other scheduler does: that it'll wait at least as long as you asked, but might wait much longer.

At best, we can say, "at least it's only testing code."

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It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules

Tensions escalated early Thursday as Iran retaliated against US strikes by issuing drone attacks on military targets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

Essex County Council's plans are being discussed amid longstanding frustrations over the way many holiday prices are hiked during school holiday periods

All we've heard for days now is how important this game is. How much the Argentine fans loathe us. 

England last played Argentina at the World Cup in 2002. Back then, 13.3 million people tuned in to terrestrial television sets to watch David Beckham 's dramatic winning penalty.

Labour is to update 'archaic' marriage laws to allow far wider range of venues which will no longer have to be pre-approved.

Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion

She made multiple mistakes while caring for patients

Gedis Uka, 30, is believed to have travelled to the UK each winter between October and January to steal from properties across eight counties in the south of England.

The heartbroken England WAGs were seen consoling their partners in the stands as Argentina knocked the Three Lions out of the World Cup on Wednesday night.

Eleven gull chicks have been released back into the wild after weeks of care.

After almost 40 hours of walking, two Essex friends have completed a gruelling 100-mile challenge and raised more than £3,000 for two charities.

A car smashed into gates, fences and concrete posts with residents saying it was "unbelievable no one was killed"

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: A Reddit post making the rounds this week claims the U.S. has experienced at least one major power outage every month of 2026 -- but is it true? I dug into several outages, the extreme weather behind them, and what we can do to help keep the lights on. [...] The claim that hundreds of thousands of Americans were without power over extended periods at least once per month, every month of 2026 surprised be in two ways. First, because I had no idea if it was true -- and, second, because it felt true. We try to do better than writing about things that feel true around here, however, so I did a bit of research (translation: I Googled power outages by month) and came up with the following examples in about sixty seconds January: More than 296,000 customers still without power as winter storm freezes much of the US February: More than 380,000 customers without power as winter storm hits US Northeast March: Storms Cut Power to Over 1 Million Customers in U.S. Midwest, Mid-Atlantic; Ohio Hardest Hit April: At least 29 tornadoes touched down in Central Illinois on April 17th May: Energy Secretary Issues Emergency Order to Deploy Backup Generation in the Mid-Atlantic Amid Heatwave June: More than 373,000 U.S. customers without power due to extreme weather ... and that list is far from comprehensive, and how you feel about it might depend on what you consider a "major" outage, of course -- but consider that there are tens of thousands of Americans without power right now, and that's not making the news. [...] The lesson here is that weather-related grid outages -- whether they're caused by wildfires, mudslides, derechos, tornadoes, ice storms, hurricanes, heat waves, or some other disaster I'm lucky enough to have forgotten about -- read like statistics when they're happening over there, but get personal real quick when they're happening to you.

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Cara Delevingne has described what it was like shooting her raciest magazine cover to date for Playboy.

Fans were nervously gripping their pints at the half way mark when both teams remained goalless despite 19 fouls being committed.

Both Argentinian and England fans jeered their opponent's national anthems before kick-off for the World Cup semi-final.