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A group of Britain's most popular tourist attractions has hit out at weather apps after complaining they are costing them millions by putting off visitors.

Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might not

Opinion  The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…

Potentially explosive materials were found at an address

As the four-day racing event in Gloucestershire kicked off, drinks were flowing freely as punters placed their bets on different horses.

The arts and crafts style mansion house was built in 1888 and is located in the village of Howwood, ten miles from Glasgow Airport.

Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound (600 kg) NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth's radiation belts, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this week. While most of it is expected to burn up during descent, "some components may survive," reports the BBC. "The space agency said there is a one in 4,200 chance of being harmed by a piece of the probe, which it characterized as 'low' risk." From the report: The spacecraft is projected to re-enter around 19:45 EST (00:45 GMT) on Tuesday the U.S. Space Force predicted, according to Nasa, though there is a 24-hour margin of "uncertainty" in the timing. [...] The spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, were on a mission to gather unprecedented data on Earth's two permanent radiation belts. It was not immediately clear where in Earth's atmosphere the satellite is projected to re-enter. NASA and the U.S. Space Force has said it will monitor the re-entry and update any predictions. [...] Van Allen Probe B is not expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere before 2030.

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Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job

Atlassian has admitted that the tools it developed to move Jira users into the cloud were actually slower than older code that did the same job, and that its efforts to speed things up also had speed problems.…

The carrier Charles de Gaulle and an allied armada of ships have allowed French president Emmanuel Macron to rub British noses in the dirt.

Aankhen has a peer who loves writing Python scripts to automate repetitive tasks. We'll call this person Ernest.

Ernest was pretty proud of some helpers he wrote to help him manage his Docker containers. For example, when he wanted to stop and remove all his running Docker containers, he wrote this script:

#!/usr/bin/env python import subprocess subprocess.run("docker kill $(docker ps -q)", shell=True) subprocess.run("docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)", shell=True)

He aliased this script to docker-stop, so that with one command he could… run two.

"Ernest," Aankhen asked, "couldn't this just be a bash script?"

"I don't really know bash," Ernest replied. "If I just do it in bash, if the first command fails, the second command doesn't run."

Aankhen pointed out that you could make bash not do that, but Ernest replied: "Yeah, but I always forget to. This way, it handles errors!"

"It explicitly doesn't handle errors," Aankhen said.

"Exactly! I don't need to know when there are no containers to kill or remove."

"Okay, but why not use the Docker library for Python?"

"What, and make the software more complicated? This has no dependencies!"

Aankhen was left with a sinking feeling: Ernest was either the worst developer he was working with, or one of the best.

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The deranged comments from the head of Iran's football federation were echoed by an official from the country's foreign ministry.

The film has released to near universal critical acclaim, with Irish actress Jessie Buckley widely tipped to take home the Oscar for her stirring portrayal of the Bard's grieving wife.

Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books

Oracle says AI code generation tools have become so efficient, and it is so good at using them, that it will dodge the SaaSpocalypse and watch smaller rivals suffer.…

Australia's safe house for Iranian female athletes has been compromised after one of the women reversed her decision to seek refuge and contacted the Iranian Embassy.

Plans submitted to Braintree District Council could see The Gym Group convert a disused showroom on Rayne Road into a 24-hour gym with upgraded parking.

Senior nurse Jane Barker struck off by NMC for stealing fentanyl and misconduct at Nuffield Health Brentwood Hospital, Essex.

The new branch will open at a hospital site

The woman accused of shooting at Rihanna's home while she and her family were inside was hit with 14 charges, including for attempted murder, on Tuesday.

The 60-year-old man, from London, who is understood to have been on holiday, was taken into custody on Monday. Pictured: File photo of strike on Dubai