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The Conservative leader will pledge to 'bring down the taxes stifling our economy' and reverse Labour's 'borrowing and tax doom loop'.

Dolly Parton's sister has updated fans on the country music legend's condition amid a mystery health battle.

Engineering works scheduled to complete overnight took longer than expected forcing the closure of lines between Romford and Maryland.

EXCLUSIVE: Alban Gjidiaj, 28, is wanted by prosecutors in his home country in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle a terrifying haul of weapons and ammunition from Albania to the UK.

After stern words about the 'anti-British' attorney general Lord Hermer, Mr Jenrick turned to the audience and said, 'now you might be wondering what I have in this box'.

A broken down vehicle is blocking one lane on the London-bound A12 prior to J18 for the A414 at Sandon, causing significant tailbacks.

A broken down vehicle is blocking one lane on the London-bound A12 prior to J18 for the A414 at Sandon, causing significant tailbacks.

Brits are sitting on a hidden goldmine of old forgotten tech devices that may be gathering dust in the attic, according to a new report from Gumtree.

Henrik spent too many hours, staring at the bug, trying to understand why the 3rd party service they were interacting with wasn't behaving the way he expected. Henrik would send updates, and then try and read back the results, and the changes didn't happen. Except sometimes they did. Reads would be inconsistent. It'd work fine for weeks, and then suddenly things would go off the rails, showing values that no one from Henrik's company had put in the database.

The vendor said, "This is a problem on your side, clearly." Henrik disagreed.

So Henrik went about talking over the problem with his fellow devs, working with the 3rd party support, and building test cases which could reproduce the results reliably. It took many weeks of effort, but by the end, he was confident he could prove it was the vendor's issue.

"Hey," Henrik said, "I think these tests pretty convincingly show that it's a problem on your side. Let me know if the tests highlight anything for you."

The bug ticket vanished into the ether for many weeks. Eventually, the product owner replied. Their team had diagnosed the problem, and the root cause was that sometimes the API would get confused about record ownership and identity. It was a tricky problem to crack, but the product owner's developers had come up with a novel solution to resolve it:

Actually we could add a really unique id instead which would never get repeated, even across customers, it would stay the same for the entity and never be reused

And thus, the vendor invented primary keys and unique identifiers. Unfortunately, the vendor was not E.F. Codd, the year was not 1970, primary keys had been invented already, and in fact were well understood and widely used. But not, apparently, by this vendor.

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Jihad Al-Shamie's reign of terror at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue lasted eight minutes. But the roots of last week's frenzied attack almost certainly stretch back years.

Georgia Harrison, of TOWIE fame, has campaigned on violence against women and girls in recent years

This country's most senior prosecutor sensationally blamed Labour's national security advisers yesterday for the failure of a case against two men accused of spying for Beijing.

However while the youngest Beckham son's bold fashion choice may have appeared out of the blue, it seems instead he could be hinting at his upcoming music venture.

One under-the-radar friendship Meghan Markle has with a certain Kardashian has been quietly simmering away unnoticed.

These men, grey-suited or not, stand in the way of Harry and his father Charles's chance of a reconciliation, he reckons. It's all their fault, not his.

His partner played her part in the network by selling cocaine and laundering money

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays. And yet for all the millions of words he's published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: Enshittification. The term, which Doctorow, 54, popularized in essays in 2022 and 2023, refers to the way that online platforms become worse to use over time, as the corporations that own them try to make more money. Though the coinage is cheeky, in Doctorow's telling the phenomenon it describes is a specific, nearly scientific process that progresses according to discrete stages, like a disease. Since then, the meaning has expanded to encompass a general vibe -- a feeling far greater than frustration at Facebook, which long ago ceased being a good way to connect with friends, or Google, whose search is now baggy with SEO spam. Of late, the idea has been employed to describe everything from video games to television to American democracy itself. "It's frustrating. It's demoralizing. It's even terrifying," Doctorow said in a 2024 speech. On Tuesday, Farrar Straus & Giroux will release "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Doctorow's book-length elaboration on his essays, complete with case studies (Uber, Twitter, Photoshop) and his prescriptions for change, which revolve around breaking up big tech companies and regulating them more robustly. Further reading: The Enshittification Hall of Shame

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Rob Mason, who embarked on the dangerous expedition to raise money for a charity in memory of his daughter Kezia, said his group were 'so lucky' to have survived the unexpected blizzard.

Yoni Finlay, 39, was left injured when police shot at Islamic terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, who attacked Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in Manchester, last Thursday.

Young Berra Dizi was spotted floating motionless in the pool at the nursery in the Suleymaniye neighbourhood of Inegol in Bursa Province, Turkey, on August 12.