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Am alarming viral TikTok trend has seen teenagers boasting about shooting birds with catapults across the UK.

Three major red flags during the war in Iran may one day mark the start of the third world war, a respected professor warned.

The Government has announced the creation of an official definition of 'anti-Muslim hostility' and the country's first tsar to tackle it in a £4million drive.

Three women complained about 'sexual' comments by a Metropolitan Police worker, and he was sacked - but he is now due compensation because the force ignored his ADHD disability

The demure singer, 53, looked worlds away from her cheeky Spice Girls days as she supported the King at the  annual Commonwealth Day Service on Monday.

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest developments and fallout from the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict enters a new week.

Maisie Almond was a 'fit and healthy' 14-year-old with no underlying health conditions. However she died just days after complaining of 'tummy ache'.

Frank Ilett - better known as The United Strand - has been growing out his now-mop-like hair since October 2024, a period during which United have failed to win five consecutive times.

It's the latest change to the once nightclub hotspot in the town

Emma Thynn has joined the reboot cast of the Hayu show, which follows socialites on the London scene, alongside the mother of Princess Beatrice's stepson, Dara Huang.

A new report has found that working from home is the most effective way to boost Britain's birth rate.

New red tape agreed by Brussels bureaucrats would ban vegetarian product labels from using 'meaty' terms like 'chicken', 'bacon' or 'beef' to describe their flavour.

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream

The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…

"We appreciate our current picture isn’t the clearest, but we’re worried about Christopher and urgently need to find him to make sure he’s okay"

The hotel was evacuated while firefighters tackled the fire

A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch thousands of mirror-bearing satellites to reflect sunlight onto Earth at night and "power solar farms after sunset, provide lighting for rescue workers and illuminate city streets, among other things," reports the New York Times. From the report: It is an idea seemingly out of a sci-fi movie, but the company, Reflect Orbital of Hawthorne, Calif., could soon receive permission to launch its first prototype satellite with a 60-foot-wide mirror. The company has applied to the Federal Communications Commission, which issues the licenses needed to deploy satellites. If the F.C.C. approves, the test satellite could get a ride into orbit as soon as this summer. The F.C.C.'s public comment period on the application closes on Monday. "We're trying to build something that could replace fossil fuels and really power everything," Ben Nowack, Reflect Orbital's chief executive, said in an interview. The company has raised more than $28 million from investors. [...] Reflect Orbital's first prototype, which will be roughly the size of a dorm fridge, is almost complete. Once in space, about 400 miles up, the test satellite would unfurl a square mirror nearly 60 feet wide. That would bounce sunlight to illuminate a circular patch about three miles wide on the Earth's surface. Someone looking up would see a dot in the sky about as bright as a full moon. Two more prototypes could follow within a year. By the end of 2028, Reflect Orbital hopes to launch 1,000 larger satellites, and 5,000 of them by 2030. The largest mirrors are planned to be nearly 180 feet wide, reflecting as much light as 100 full moons. The company said its goal was to deploy the full constellation of 50,000 satellites by 2035. How much does it cost to order sunlight at night? Mr. Nowack said the company would charge about $5,000 an hour for the light of one mirror if a customer signed an annual contract for 1,000 hours or more. Lighting for one-time events and emergencies, which might require numerous satellites and more effort to coordinate, would be more expensive. For solar farms, he envisions splitting revenue from the electricity generated by the additional hours of light.

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Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that JD Vance - a veteran of the US war in Iraq - has a different 'philosophy' than the President when it comes to the Iran war.

Every once in awhile, we get a bit of terrible code, and our submitter also shares, "this isn't called anywhere," which is good, but also bad. Ernesto sends us a function which is called in only one place:

/// /// Shutdown server /// private void shutdownServer() { shutdownServer(); }

The "one place", obviously, is within itself. This is the Google Search definition of recursion, where each recursive call is just the original call, over and over again.

This is part of a C# service, and this method shuts down the server, presumably by triggering a stack overflow. Unless C# has added tail calls, anyway.

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Local activists fear the impact of huge plans by the council

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…