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Wild claims that an alien-like species has emerged from a tiny meteorite have taken the internet by storm.

She was a 'down-to-earth Yorkshire woman who knew how to serve and be part of the Royal Family, without ever losing that care for people who were worse off and in difficulties'.

Today's representative line is almost too short to be a full line. But I haven't got a category for representative characters, so we'll roll with it. First, though, we need the setup.

Brody inherited a massive project for a government organization. It was the kind of code base that had thousands of lines per file, and frequently thousands of lines per function. Almost none of those lines were comments. Almost.

In the middle of one of the shorter functions (closer to 500 lines), Brody found this:

// }

This was the only comment in the entire file. And it's a beautiful one, because it tells us so much. Specifically, it tells us the developer responsible messed up the brace count (because clearly a long function has loads of braces in it), and discovered their code didn't compile. So they went around commenting out extra braces until they found the offender. Code compiled, and voila- on to the next bug, leaving the comment behind.

Now, I don't know for certain that's why a single closing brace is commented out. But also, I know for certain that's what happened, because I've seen developers do exactly that.

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Three ambulance vehicles were sent to the scene

The first Tory MP has defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Danny Kruger is a thoughtful, cerebral MP and is a huge loss. Is the Conservative Party facing a big crisis?

The Eritrean man took his case to the High Court, claiming he would be 'destitute' if the Home Office sends him back to France.

Six months after the Grenfell Tower travesty, Meghan Markle began paying 'secret visits' to a community kitchen run by survivors.

It has been prioritised over other car parks in the area

Thirty seconds into my interview with Vivian Wilson, trans activist and daughter of Elon Musk, she got emotional. We spoke backstage ahead of her fourth and final New York Fashion Week Show.

Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware

Researchers from Google and Swiss university ETH Zurich have found a new class of Rowhammer vulnerability that could allow attackers to access info stored in DDR5 memory.…

The plans include three new junctiones along the road

A remarkable story unfolded at a Glasgow theatre last weekend: two giants of Scottish popular culture vying with each other to see who was held most fondly in the country's heart.

Police are appealing for further information

This summer was the UK's hottest on record, with four separate heatwaves and endless hours of sunshine. Experts have now calculated how many people died thanks to climate change.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master's degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China's ascendant space program. He came away impressed by the country's growing ambitions. Now a full-time research analyst at the university, Roll was recently asked to take a deeper dive into Chinese space plans. "I thought I had a pretty good read on this when I was finishing grad school," Roll told Ars. "That almost everything needed to be updated, or had changed three years later, was pretty scary. On all these fronts, they've made pretty significant progress. They are taking all of the cues from our Western system about what's really galvanized innovation, and they are off to the races with it." Roll is the co-author of a new report, titled "Redshift," on the acceleration of China's commercial and civil space activities and the threat these pose to similar efforts in the United States. Published on Tuesday, the report was sponsored by the US-based Commercial Space Federation, which advocates for the country's commercial space industry. It is a sobering read and comes as China not only projects to land humans on the lunar surface before the US can return, but also is advancing across several spaceflight fronts to challenge America. "The trend line is unmistakable," the report states. "China is not only racing to catch up -- it is setting pace, deregulating, and, at times, redefining what leadership looks like on and above Earth. This new space race will not be won with a single breakthrough or headline achievement, but with sustained commitment, clear-eyed vigilance, and a willingness to adapt over decades." "The key takeaway here is that there is an acceleration," said Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. "The United States is still ahead today in a lot of areas in space. But the Chinese are advancing very quickly and poised to overtake us in the next five to 10 years if we don't do something." "There's other things along the lines of budget battles," Cavossa said. "We don't want to see the US government scaling back its reliance on commercial satellite communications. We don't want to see them scaling back commercial remote sensing data buys, which is what they've been doing, or at least threatening to do. We want to make sure that there's a seamless transition from the ISS to commercial LEO destinations, and then a transition away from old programs of record to commercial transportation alternatives. That's what the US government can do and Congress can do here in the next couple of years to make sure that we stay ahead."

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ABC News reporter Matt Gutman is being slammed for describing texts from Charlie Kirk 's suspected assassin to his transgender lover as 'very touching.'

Kate, 43, remembered the Duchess, who became the oldest living member of the British Royal Family when Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, alongside other members of the Royal Family on Tuesday.

The Princess of Wales paid a poignant tribute to the late Queen as she attended the Duchess of Kent's funeral on Tuesday, alongside her husband William.

From the UK's biggest cities to the valleys of Pontypridd - these criminals began targeting every pocket of the country within days of the legitimate Pop Mart toys going viral.

Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off

Australia’s eSafety commissioner has told social media operators it expects them to employ multiple age assurance techniques and technologies to keep children under sixteen off social media, as required by local law from December 10th.…