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The UK expert, 52, was speaking on an episode of his podcast when he pointed out that members of the public with 'a perfect credit score' are often baffled when they are 'rejected'.

The music mogul, 65, has amassed his own vast fortune thanks to his string of TV shows, but in a new interview has insisted he has nowhere near the £500 million he is estimated to be worth.

With her piercing azure eyes and long, honeyed blonde locks, it's not difficult to see how Kristina Pimenova, 19, from Moscow , Russia , claimed the coveted title at such a young age.

Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box

Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft. …

Kylie Jenner and boyfriend Timothee Chalamet displayed subtle signs of a dynamic shift in their relationship during their red carpet debut on Wednesday. 

If you've ever wondered why your Hinge or Tinder match suddenly stopped replying after what you thought was a 'great vibe', an Aussie dating coach might just have your answer.

Scientists have made a shocking discovery in Antarctica that has climate change deniers claiming there's now proof global warming is just a hoax.

A 'UFO' was recovered this year that has now been analyzed by a team of scientists who found what could be alien technology inside the spherical object.

The Girls Aloud star, 41, was granted the power of administration of the 31-year-old's estate after he fell to his death from a hotel balcony after a drink-drug binge on October 16 last year.

Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet have finally made their red carpet debut as they attended a photocall for 70th David di Donatello ceremony in Rome on Wednesday.

sciencehabit shares a repot from Science.org: Scientists have captured fungal spores cruising in the inhospitable environment of the stratosphere, much higher than commercial aircraft fly. When brought back to the lab, the researchers found that some of the spores -- including pathogens of plants and people -- had survived intercontinental trips and could be cultured in the lab. Although spores and microbes have been detected in the stratosphere before, the new results come from a cheap, homespun sampling device dangled from weather balloons, the project could help researchers figure out what traits and conditions allow spores to survive a swing through the stratosphere and how they get up there in the first place. The work could also be a first step towards an atmospheric monitoring system that could nip emerging fungal pathogens in the bud, the study's authors reported at a conference of the European Geophysical Union. After five preliminary flights, the team has already learned a lot. Based on DNA sequencing analysis, they identified spores from 235 genera, including fungi that infect blackberries and carrots in the United States and Japan, and one species, Naganishia albida, that can make immunocompromised people sick. In the lab, they were able to revive and culture spores from 15 different fungal species, among them several plant pathogens. Mostly, the results show that their sampler works. Now, the researchers want to set up regular flights to track airborne fungal biodiversity and seasonal variations. They also want to identify how events such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions inject spores into the stratosphere.

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Athos Salomé, 38, from Brazil, is often referred to as the 'Living Nostradamus' due to his numerous accurate predictions, spoke about what he believes will happen to Justin.

Now Lopez will be officially embarking on a summer tour, Up All Night: Live in 2025, where she plans to celebrate following years of growth.

Counterterrorism officers reportedly arrested a group of Iranian men over the weekend following fears that an attack on the embassy in Kensington was imminent.

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake

Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…

The former One Direction member's girlfriend has posted on social media for the first time since it was revealed Payne left a £24,280,000 legacy after tragically dying without a will.

Early in my career, I had the misfortune of doing a lot of Crystal Reports work. Crystal Reports is another one of those tools that lets non-developer, non-database savvy folks craft reports. Which, like so often happens, means that the users dig themselves incredible holes and need professional help to get back out, because at the end of the day, when the root problem is actually complicated, all the helpful GUI tools in the world can't solve it for you.

Michael was in a similar position as I was, but for Michael, there was a five alarm fire. It was the end of the month, and a bunch of monthly sales reports needed to be calculated. One of the big things management expected to see was a year-over-year delta on sales, and they got real cranky if the line didn't go up. If they couldn't even see the line, they went into a full on panic and assumed the sales team was floundering and the company was on the verge of collapse.

Unfortunately, the report was spitting out an error: "A day number must be between 1 and the number of days in the month."

Michael dug in, and found this "delight" inside of a function called one_year_ago:

Local StringVar yearStr := Left({?ReportToDate}, 4); Local StringVar monthStr := Mid({?ReportToDate}, 5, 2); Local StringVar dayStr := Mid({?ReportToDate}, 7, 2); Local StringVar hourStr := Mid({?ReportToDate}, 9, 2); Local StringVar minStr := Mid({?ReportToDate}, 11, 2); Local StringVar secStr := Mid({?ReportToDate}, 13, 2); Local NumberVar LastYear; LastYear := ToNumber(YearStr) - 1; YearStr := Replace (toText(LastYear),'.00' , '' ); YearStr := Replace (YearStr,',' , '' ); //DateTime(year, month, day, hour, min, sec); //Year + Month + Day + Hour + min + sec; // string value DateTime(ToNumber(YearStr), ToNumber(MonthStr), ToNumber(dayStr), ToNumber(HourStr), ToNumber(MinStr),ToNumber(SecStr) );

We've all seen string munging in date handling before. That's not surprising. But what's notable about this one is the day on which it started failing. As stated, it was at the end of the month. But which month? February. Specifically, February 2024, a leap year. Since they do nothing to adjust the dayStr when constructing the date, they were attempting to construct a date for 29-FEB-2023, which is not a valid date.

Michael writes:

Yes, it's Crystal Reports, but surprisingly not having date manipulation functions isn't amongst it's many, many flaws. It's something I did in a past life isn't it??

The fix was easy enough- rewrite the function to actually use date handling. This made a simpler, basically one-line function, using Crystal's built in functions. That fixed this particular date handling bug, but there were plenty more places where this kind of hand-grown string munging happened, and plenty more opportunities for the report to fail.

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When David Beckham revealed that he had taken two of his sons on a fishing trip to the Scottish Highlands, Brooklyn Beckham's wife Nicola Peltz must have jumped out of her skin.

Shannon Tremaine and her dad Vincent were forced to act fast when their Miniature Schnauzer, Chloe, fell into a pool in their Adelaide backyard.

The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip provided a much-needed lift to the nation in the aftermath of World War II.