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Last year, a total of £400million was paid to 4million Nationwide members, up from £385million for 3.85million members the year before.

An investigative consultant has now discovered a potential solution to the Zodiac killer's unsolved Z32 cipher - and found a striking, hidden connection to the murder of the Black Dahlia.

Far-left members of the Squad looked close to tears as their heckles were drowned out by chants of USA during Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday.

A New York Rangers icon who is now dating former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been diagnosed with cancer.

I've had the misfortune of working in places which did source-control via comments. Like one place which required that, with each section of code changed, you needed to add a comment with your name, the ticket number, and the reason the change was made. You know, the kind of thing you can just get from your source control service.

In their defense, that policy was invented for mainframe developers and then extended to everyone else, and their source control system was in Visual Source Safe. VSS was a) terrible, and b) a perennial destroyer of history, so maybe they weren't entirely wrong and VSS was the real WTF. I still hated it.

In any case, Alice's team uses more modern source control than that, which is why she's able to explain to us the story of this function:

public function calculateMassGrossPay(array $employees, Payroll $payroll): array { // it shouldn't enter here, but if it does by any change, do nth return []; }

Once upon a time, this function actually contained logic, a big pile of fairly complicated logic. Eventually, a different method was created which streamlined the functionality, but had a different signature and logic. All the callers were updated to use that method instead- by commenting out the line which called this one. This function had a comment added to the top: // it shouldn't enter here.

Then, the body of this function got commented out, and the return was turned into an empty array. The comment was expanded to what you see above. Then, eventually, the commented-out callers were all deleted. Years after that, the commented out body of this function was also deleted, leaving behind the skeleton you see here.

This function is not referenced anywhere else, not even in a comment. It's truly impossible for code to "enter here".

Alice writes: "Version control by commented out code does not work very well."

Indeed, it does not.

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The plans are due to be discussed this week

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts

Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…

No one expects balmy blue skies in January and February - and following weeks of rain and little sight of the sun we haven't been disappointed.

Previous plans for the site had also been refused

Anglian Water faces criticism after a 15-day sewage overflow in Bocking polluted the River Blackwater.

Anglian Water faces criticism after a 15-day sewage overflow in Bocking polluted the River Blackwater.

President Donald Trump is addressing the nation during his State of the Union speech from the US Capitol building tonight.

Chelsea, 28, been on probation in connection with arrests linked to alleged narcotics and child neglect offenses at the time of the incident, officials said.

Dani Bensky, who attended Donald Trump's State of the Union address as a guest of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said the government was behaving like Epstein himself.

The new mom looked radiant as she joined dad President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for the event.

Fans have been speculating who could step into Daniel Craig's shoes after he stepped down from the role in 2021, with Jacob Elordi the current bookmakers favourite.

Cambridge University student and keen athlete Clarissa Nicholls, 20, tragically died while hiking in the south of France in 2023 from an undiagnosed heart condition.

The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer's One Big Beautiful Bill. The figures come from a Solar Energy Industries Association report published Monday, which also projects the market will grow another 21% this year by adding 70 gigawatt hours in 2026 alone. Battery tax credits themselves survived the legislation largely intact, and the majority of last year's new installations were stand-alone systems not tied to specific solar projects. In Texas, solar met more than 15% of electricity demand throughout the summer and beat out coal for the first time, and the SEIA report predicts the state will overtake California this year in total deployed storage. Supply chain restrictions reinforced by the bill and project cancellations could slow the pipeline this year, the report cautions.

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Olena Kurylo, 56, is a Ukrainian nursery school teacher who suffered horrific eye damage and facial scars in an attack on her apartment in Chuhuiv in February 2022.

Gardai have now released the footage in the hopes of finding the man, who can be seen striking the woman in the face as she walks past him with her friends.