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Swift and Lively's relationship has cratered in recent months, with the singer left furious at being dragged into the case.

After 10 years of searching, scientists have finally found the universe's 'missing matter'.

The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector innovation to defense modernization, the move is pretty unusual. Gizmodo reports: The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI. The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army's Executive Innovation Corps. As Task & Purpose notes, the men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and they won't need to complete the Army Fitness Test. The Army didn't respond to questions emailed Tuesday but said in a statement published on its website that, "Their swearing-in is just the start of a bigger mission to inspire more tech pros to serve without leaving their careers, showing the next generation how to make a difference in uniform." Their role in the Army Reserve is to "work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems," as the Army puts it. The new reservists will serve for about 120 hours a year, according to the Wall Street Journal, and will have a lot of flexibility to work remotely. They'll work on helping the Army acquire more commercial tech, though it's not clear how conflict-of-interest issues will be enforced, given the fact that the people all work for companies that would conceivably be selling their wares to the military. In theory, they won't be sharing information with their companies or "participating in projects that could provide them or their companies with financial gain," according to the Journal. Silicon Valley has always benefited greatly from ties to the U.S. military. Silicon Valley companies were bringing in $5 billion annually from defense contracts during the Reagan administration, something that the average person may not remember about the 1980s. But it's always been an uneasy alliance for consumer-facing tech companies, especially over recent decades. That's all changing, according to many folks who align more with President Donald Trump, who was once considered a shameful person to represent in polite company. As Andrew Bosworth, the CTO at Meta, who is joining the Army Reserves, told the Wall Street Journal, "There's a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley."

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Bellingham shouted at the official amid an increased focus on his sometimes brash behaviour after England boss Thomas Tuchel admitted his mother sometimes finds his demeanour 'repulsive'.

Content creator Kalani Ghost Hunter, real name Kalani Smith, from Tennessee, admitted that he 'doubted' Brits who said the hot weather was unbearable at first, but was quickly humbled.

The chef, 26, and his wife Nicola Peltz have been in the midst of an escalating feud with his parents after the couple were absent from all of the former footballer's 50th birthday celebrations.

Over 5% of homes now come with a seven-figure price tag. We look at five that can be snapped up right now across the country.

Brit Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was sitting in seat 11A, said it was a 'miracle' he survived last Thursday's disaster that killed 279 people.

Doomed super yacht Bayesian will be seen for the first time on Saturday as a mammoth £20 million operation to bring her to the surface begins. 

Time is running out to curb climate change, scientists have warned in a major new report. With the remaining carbon budget only expected to last three years.

Researchers tracked more than 10,000 people aged over 50 and found those with higher levels were more likely to have better scores on memory tests.

If you write a lot of Java, you're going to end up writing a lot of getters and setters. Without debating the merits of loads of getters and setters versus bare properties, ideally, getters and setters are the easiest code to write. Many IDEs will just generate them for you! How can you screw up getters and setters?

Well, Dave found someone who could.

private ReportDatesDao reportDatesDao; @Resource(name = CensusDao.BEAN_NAME) public void setAuditDao(CensusDao censusDao) { this.reportDatesDao = reportDatesDao; }

The function is called setAuditDao, takes a CensusDao input, but manipulates reportDatesDao, because clearly someone copy/pasted and didn't think about what they were doing.

The result, however, is that this just sets this.reportDatesDao equal to itself.

I'm always impressed by code which given the chance to make multiple decisions makes every wrong choice, even if it is just lazy copy/paste.

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Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my

A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.…

Sydney socialite Dina Broadhurst might have some fresh competition in the 'nude artist' department - in the form of 21-year-old Angelina Censori. 

Lauren from Devon watched her fiancé have sex with another woman on national television - and cheered him on - telling Take A Break how swinging has restored his confidence.

Grandmother Yvonne Ford (pictured), 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, became ill two weeks ago and steadily deteriorated until her death this week.

The actress, 32, slipped into the eye-catching dress as she graced the red carpet at London's Odeon Luxe Leicester Square with co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson .

The Princess of Wales sparked concern as she pulled out of attending Royal Ascot yesterday, apparently at the last minute.

The Daily Mail's Spotlight has spoken to an insider who claims that the real reason Prince Harry is suddenly happy to see his children's faces shared online is a 'desperate' one.

Famous for her magnificent blonde hair, Willis was already a minor star when she took on the forecasting role and had presented her own show, Wincey's Pets, in 1982.