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'The words I would say have no meaning.' It was perhaps the truest words that Rex Heuermann could have spoken as he was faced by the families of the eight young women who he murdered.

The US Federal Reserve yesterday left interest rates on hold in its first meeting under new boss Kevin Warsh - after he was installed by Donald Trump.

James Graham is a brilliant playwright who has made stage hits out of such unlikely subjects.

President Donald Trump turned on the charm Wednesday night as he arrived at the Palace of Versailles for a lavish dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte.

Today's anonymous submitter has spent a long time toiling through many, many tickets. Their effort has been an attempt to "save" their employer from the disaster left behind by by a highly-paid consultant. As one does, our submitter started with the highest priority tickets with the highest severity. Eventually, they whittled down that list, and had some bandwidth to start looking at the pieces of the code which clearly weren't exploding right now (because there were no tickets), but were likely to explode at some point in the future (creating a storm of tickets).

Scanning through the JavaScript, our submitter found a sort function. That was automatically concerning- why was that particular wheel being reinvented?

The first line of the sort function was this:

obj[x._id.account_id] = x.count_total

In this case, x._id is meant to be the unique identifier from their Mongo DB. That, uh, should be not precisely a UUID (Mongo does its own weird version), but it definitely shouldn't have an account_id field on it. They are storing an arbitrary object as their unique identifier in the database. Which, I'm no Mongo expert, but I don't need to be Flash Gordon to know that's a bad idea.

But setting aside the choice of using random objects as unique identifiers, there's also the other question: how is this furthering the goal of sorting? Why on Earth am I building an object in the form: {"id0": 5, "id1": 7, "id2": 11}? Or am I even doing that? This is the first line of the function, so we're not even doing a loop, it's just {"id0": 5}.

This isn't just an unexploded bomb, it's a mystery: the primary mystery being why hasn't this exploded already? The second mystery is: what's going to happen when your luck runs out?

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In a stunning departure from decades of established US foreign policy, President Donald Trump revealed that a forthcoming peace agreement with Iran will likely allow the regime to retain its conventional ballistic missiles, arguing that a complete ban is unrealistic because 'they got to have some.'

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Residents say it will a “high level of harm” to the area

Around 9am on June 18, 2023, Titan's hatch was sealed tight and slowly lowered into the Atlantic. Onboard OceanGate's 22ft submersible were five passengers hoping to see the Titanic wreck.

Last week, influencer Elle Darby sat down in front of the camera for a video simply titled: 'The Truth'. The video's thumbnail showed the lifestyle vlogger clutching her head in her hands

The UK’s longest-running temporary traffic lights could finally disappear this year as a timeline to reinstate two-way traffic is finally in place.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK's High Court against Broadcom alleging breach of contract last year. According to a September report from The Register, the lawsuit claimed that in January 2021, Tesco bought perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation, a subscription to VMware Tanzu, plus support services until 2026, with the option to extend support for four additional years. But when Broadcom took over VMware in November 2023, it would not honor the deal and instead tried to get Tesco to pay "excessive and inflated prices for virtualization software for which Tesco has already paid" and would not allow it to buy support services for its perpetually licensed software without buying "duplicative subscription-based licenses for those same Software products," the initial complaint read, The Register reported at the time. Tesco, which reported 73.7 billion pounds (about $98.7 billion) in revenue in its fiscal year 2026, has since started migrating away from VMware and Broadcom's mainframe products, according to late-May court filings reported on by The Register today. In January, Broadcom stopped supporting Tesco's VMware products, Tesco said, and Tesco has been paying for third-party support since. In its initial filing, Tesco also said that Broadcom refused to upgrade software or provide all security updates to customers without subscriptions. One of Tesco's recent filings, per The Register, reads: "Faced with Broadcom's abusive conduct, and given the criticality of virtualization and mainframe software and services to its business, Tesco has been forced to incur material costs to procure alternative solutions with reduced functionality, and to migrate to that software in a manner, and on a timeframe, that creates very significant risks to its business." If it works "at exceptional pace," Tesco will be completely off VMware by the end of 2027 at the earliest. However, "the timeframe in which that migration must be undertaken has created and continues to create operational and commercial risk, and at material ongoing cost and disruption to the business," Tesco reportedly noted. Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds (about $133.6 million) in damages each from Broadcom, VMware, and reseller Computacenter, plus interest. In its recent filings, Tesco said it turned down at least four offers from Broadcom to continue using VMware and Broadcom's mainframe tech. [...] The case is expected to go to court between November 1, 2027, and February 25, 2028, The Register reported. Afterward, it could go to trial. Further reading: HPE Tempts VMware Users, Partners With Year of Free Virtualization Software

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WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Eden Mander, 19, was driving a Toyota Yaris when he collided with the bike just after 1am on Epsom High Street in Surrey.