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An Essex soldier who died during the First World War has finally been laid to rest more than 100 years after his death.

An Essex soldier who died during the First World War has finally been laid to rest more than 100 years after his death.

The Radio 5 Live presenter (pictured) has 'stepped back' after being named in a BBC Panorama investigation into the newspaper's billionaire co-founder David Sullivan.

This is why you don’t let junior staff ‘save the company a few dollars’

Got a diary full of weddings this season? It's not as delightful as it sounds. From what to buy the bride and groom to how quickly should you RSVP, there's a myriad of questions to consider.

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The fighter claimed earlier this month that he had been banned from the historic MMA event over his comments about Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The American singer died at the age of 32 on Sunday morning while visiting Brazil on a leg of his world tour.

"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs — refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews — but companies are much more picky these days. The tech jobless are rethinking their lives. Some are taking pay cuts, others are leaving tech. Some are going back to study or launch startups. Some have retired.... Since 2022, more than 815,500 tech workers have been laid off, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job cuts. The tsunami of pink slips surged in 2023, when companies that had gone on hiring sprees during the COVID-19 pandemic began to cut back. From January to April, U.S. tech employers announced 85,411 job cuts this year, up 33% from the same period last year, according to global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that the number of information jobs — which includes jobs in hard-hit Hollywood as well as tech — tumbled 17% between the middle of 2022 and this February. The San Francisco Bay Area has been hardest hit, the institute said in a recent report, with the number of jobs declining by 0.4%, compared with 7.5% growth over a similar time span before COVID-19 slammed into the U.S. economy. Tech layoffs are also spilling over into other industries. Automaker General Motors laid off roughly 600 workers in its information technology department, and Walmart is reportedly laying off or relocating roughly 1,000 workers in its technology and products teams. Recruiters say companies have become much more selective, requiring AI skills, combining different positions and interviewing more people for each job. "You're seeing elongated hiring cycles," said Robert Lucido, senior director of strategic advisory at Magnit, a California company that helps tech giants and other businesses manage contractors, freelancers and other contingent workers. "There's more opportunity to fill the need that they truly want." Paul Flaharty, district president at staffing firm Robert Half in Los Angeles, said companies are laying off workers, but also creating new roles tied to AI initiatives. "For individuals that are displaced, it's really important that they find ways to upskill themselves so that they can make themselves as attractive as possible for these new jobs that are being created," he said. Kira Martins was already taking on more work in a small team at Snap — the parent company of disappearing messaging app Snapchat — when she was laid off in April. The company said the layoffs were to cut costs as it focuses on profitability, noting how employees are using AI to "reduce repetitive work, increase velocity, and better support our community, partners, and advertisers...." Martins, a 36-year-old Los Angeles resident, views AI as a tool and is optimistic about finding her next role. People still need to decide how to use AI and check the work it generates, she said. "In tech, you want to be a first adopter, because if you don't move quickly, it's very easy to become irrelevant," she said. "Everyone's kind of hopping on the AI train." A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out." But when 64-year-old product manager Bruce Bowers lost his job at Oracle — along with thousands of others — he just started his retirement early.

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Ed Sheeran told fans he was stepping back from music to 'do the dad thing' for a while on stage during the first date of his U.S. tour.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, fell to her death in Brazil after workers made a glaring mistake during a bungee-jumping incident, and then fled the scene.

Ofsted has said the measure of attendance and behaviour needs “urgent improvement”

In what one source described as a 'huge exercise', the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) will next month write to scheme members.

For all his efforts to reinvent himself as a well-intentioned protector of the British way of life, Tommy Robinson invariably ends up revealing his true nature as a bigoted and deeply sinister hoodlum.

The Restore Britain leader said that if the far-Right rabble-rouser and convicted thug wanted to sign up, that was 'up to him'.

He caused £100K damage by using a plank and a vacuum cleaner to batter the windows of vehicles parked near his home after an argument with his partner

US President Donald Trump has announced that America and Iran have reached an agreement to end the conflict after just under three and a half months.

I have two children. Their grandparents are in their 70s, and want to open Premium Bonds for the grandchildren, putting in the full £50,000 for each.

Daniel recently started a new job. His first task was to fetch some data from the database and render it to the user. Easy enough, and there were already wrapper functions around the database to make it easy. He called execute_read, passed it a query, and checked the results.

There were no results. But the query definitely should have returned results. What was going on?

def execute_read(conn, query, params, only_one=False): result = None cursor = None try: start_time = time.time() cursor = conn.cursor() cursor.execute(query, params) if only_one: result = cursor.fetchone() else: result = cursor.fetchall() end_time = time.time() time_taken = end_time - start_time if env.is_production(): if time_taken > 0.4: logger.critical("long query", query=query, time_taken=time_taken) else: if time_taken > 0.2: logger.warning("long query", query=query, time_taken=time_taken) except Exception as err: # pragma: no cover logger.exception("execute_read exception", exception_msg=err, query=query) finally: logger.debug("execute_read debug", query=query, params=params, only_one=only_one) if not result: if only_one: result = {} else: result = [] if cursor: cursor.close() return result

There are a lot of things I don't like about this function. The only_one parameter, for starters. Note how the database library actually breaks that behavior out as different functions- that's a much more appropriate model, especially since you have wildly different return types depending on how that flag is set.

Similarly, checking env.is_production() to check a timing threshold is itself pretty awful. I can sympathize with wanting different timing constraints based on what environment you're in- but if that's the case, the timing constraint is the parameter. env.long_query_threshold should be the configuration parameter. Also, your database should be able to alert you to these kinds of things, so that it doesn't live in your code anyway.

But the WTF here is the promiscuous exception handler, which catches all errors and simply logs them. This created a situation where Daniel sent a query to the database and got no results. He didn't go straight to the logs and tried to debug it more directly, so it took him quite some time to find the execute_read exception log line which told him what was wrong: his SQL query had a syntax error.

Daniel writes: "I can't imagine the disaster that this causes if there's a network hiccup in production." Failing silently and returning empty results sets definitely is inviting a lot of confusion.

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Essex Police are investigating the assault