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Tehran has attacked US military ships in the Gulf of Oman with drones, following the daring American raid on an Iranian tanker on Sunday.

I'm A Celeb South Africa hosts Ant and Dec have blasted David Haye in rare comments about the show.

Revealing new details of its pledge to tighten Britain's border controls, Reform UK said all illegal migrants who arrived in the five years prior to the next election would be locked up.

One word was repeated by almost everyone: 'Duty.' The present Queen, Camilla, expressed it most emphatically: 'I think duty has overridden everything.'

Zoom "has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), " reports Digital Trends, "to add real-time human verification inside meetings." Zoom is now inviting organizations to join the beta version of the rollout, which Digital Trends says "lets hosts confirm that every face on the call belongs to a real person, not an AI-generated imposter. " For those wondering how World's Deep Face technology works, it includes a three-step process. It cross-references a signed image from a user's original Orb registration, a live face scan from the device, and the frame of the video that's visible to the other participants in the meeting. Only when the three samples match does a "Verified Human" badge appear next to the user's name... Hosts can also make Deep Face verification mandatory for joining meetings, preventing unverified participants from joining entirely. Mid-call, on-the-spot checks are also possible...

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Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident

Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.…

Graham Norton's new ITV show The Neighbourhood will see families living on a real street compete in a series of ruthless, backstabbing challenges for a £250,000 prize.

The move comes as Brussels presses ahead with its Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires all non-EU visitors to give biometric data at airports and border crossings.

A buy route near Stansted Airport on the Essex - Hertfordshire border is being affected by traffic lights not working.

Also known as the Burngarth Cockerel after the 18th century Grade II-listed cottage to which it belonged, the sculpted yew - which once reached 30ft tall - was visited by tourists.

A man has been crushed to death after being trapped beneath 300 kilograms of glass.

Horrifying footage has emerged showing the moment a car ploughed into pedestrians in central London - leaving one woman fighting for her life.

The gunman accused of shooting eight young children dead in Louisiana on Sunday morning has been identified as Shamar Elkins, 31.

You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom

Who, Me?  Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects.…

So just who is Mr Pike? The Daily Mail set out to answer this question and found that for one who has so doggedly avoided the limelight Robie Uniacke is quite the colourful character.

So just who is Mr Pike? The Daily Mail set out to answer this question and found that for one who has so doggedly avoided the limelight Robie Uniacke is quite the colourful character.

"Here, you're a programmer, take this over. It's business critical."

That's what Felicity's boss told her when he pointed her to a network drive containing an Excel spreadsheet. The Excel spreadsheet contained a pile of macros. The person who wrote it had left, and nobody knew how to make it work, but the macros in question were absolutely business vital.

Also, it's in French.

We'll take this one in chunks. The indentation is as in the original.

Public Sub ExporToutVersBaseDonnées(ClasseurEnCours As Workbook) Call AffectionVariables(ToutesLesCellulesNommées) Call AffectationBaseDonnées(BaseDonnées) BaseDonnées.Activate

The procedures AffectionVariables and AffectationBaseDonnées populate a pile of global variables. "base de données" is French for database, but don't let the name fool you- anything referencing "base de données" is referencing another Excel file located on a shared server. There are, in total, four Excel files that must live on a shared server, and two more which must be in a hard-coded path on the user's computer.

Oh, and the shared server is referenced not by a hostname, but by IP address- which is why the macros were breaking on everyone's computer; the IP address changed.

Let's continue.

'Vérifier si la ligne existe déjà. If ClasseurEnCours.Sheets("DATA").Range("Num_Fichier") = 0 Then Num_Fichier = BaseDonnées.Sheets(1).Range("Dernier_Fichier").Value + 1 Insérer_Ligne: '(étiquette Goto) insérer une ligne Application.GoTo Reference:="Dernière_Ligne" Selection.EntireRow.Insert 'Copie les cellules (colonne A à colonne FI) de la ligne au-dessus de la ligne insérée. With ActiveCell .Offset(-1, 0).Range("A1:FM1").Copy 'Colle le format de la cellule précédemment copiée à la cellule active puis libère les données du presse papier .PasteSpecial .Range("A1:FM1").Value = "" 'Se repositionne au début de la ligne insérée. .Range("A1").Select End With Application.CutCopyMode = False

Uh oh, Insérer_Ligne is a label for a Goto target. Not to be confused by the Application.GoTo call on the next line- that just selects a range in the spreadsheet.

After that little landmine, we copy/paste some data around in the sheet.

That's the If side of the conditional, let's look at the else clause:

Else Cherche_Numéro_Fichier: ' Chercher la ligne ou le numéro de fichier est égale à NumFichier. While ActiveCell.Value <> Num_Fichier If ActiveCell.Row = Range("Etiquettes").Row Then GoTo Insérer_Ligne End If ActiveCell.Offset(-1, 0).Range("a1:a1").Select Wend 'Vérifier le numéro d'indice de la ligne active. If Cells(ActiveCell.Row, 165).Value <> ClasseurEnCours.Sheets("DATA").Range("Dernier_Indice") Then ActiveCell.Offset(-1, 0).Range("A1:A1").Select GoTo Cherche_Numéro_Fichier End If ActiveCell.Offset(0, 0).Range("A1:FM1").Value = "" End If

We start with another label, and… then we have a Goto. A Goto which jumps us back into the If side of the conditional. A Goto inside of a while loop, a while loop that's marching around the spreadsheet to search for certain values in the cell.

After the loop, we have another Goto which will possibly jump us up to the start of the else block.

The procedure ends with some cleanup:

'----- ' Do some stuff on the active cell and the following cells on the column .----- BaseDonnées.Close True Set BaseDonnées = Nothing End Sub

I do not know what this function does, and the fact that the code is largely in a language I don't speak isn't the obstacle. I have no idea what the loops and the gotos are trying to do. I'm not even a "never use Goto ever ever ever" person; in a language like VBA, it's sometimes the best way to handle errors. But this bizarre time-traveling flow control boggles me.

"Etiquettes" is French for "labels", and it may be bad etiquette but I've got some four letter labels for this code.

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Martin Clunes has shut down claims of a Men Behaving Badly return in a new interview.

Essex Police are appealing for information

I am a 76 year old pensioner. I receive a private pension from the civil service pension scheme, as well as my state pension. I'm now overpaying tax.