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The new Reform UK leadership at Essex County Council has told staff not to promote the inclusive events

The new Reform UK leadership at Essex County Council has told staff not to promote the inclusive events

The My Heart Will Go On hitmaker, 58, took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday writing that she was 'heartbroken' by the news.

Just days after Mr Tumble actor Justin Fletcher confirmed his relationship with 34-year-old co-star Samantha Dorrance, her father - only nine years older than Justin - has spoken to the Daily Mail...

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation's $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves, fisheries, coastal flooding, and climate change. The NSF said it would send ships in June to begin the removal of the instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea. The New York Times reports: The ocean observation system began operating in 2016 and was expected to continue for 25 years. Jim Edson, a marine meteorologist who led the Ocean Observatories Initiative, called it "the world's most advanced continuously operating ocean observing systems." When it was first proposed, the science foundation said it was important to have a long-term presence at scientifically important sites in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Removing the instruments could take 15 months. Seismic instruments positioned around an active underwater volcano off Oregon will continue operating until 2028. Each observation station consists of several moorings that secure long arrays of devices connected to wires. The devices measure ocean currents as well as chemical and biological conditions from the water's surface down thousands of feet. The instruments were hardened to resist the pressure of the deep ocean, corrosive seawater as well as marine plants and animals that can foul electronics. Remotely controlled robotic vehicles and gliders around the moorings collect and transmit data to research laboratories. It cost $48 million annually to operate the network. The Trump administration repeatedly tried to shutter it, proposing to cut its funding by 80 percent in both 2025 and again in 2026. Congress pushed back, restoring the money. To try to reduce costs, managers turned off some of the instruments and collected less data, according to a December 2025 presentation about the observatories at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, a nonprofit organization of scientists. Still, the science foundation moved ahead to decommission the observatory network.

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The Tory leader compared the stabbing of the 18-year-old university student to the murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years ago.

The Trump administration has proposed a 12.5 per cent tariff on all Australian exports to the United States, in a move aimed at cracking down on goods linked to forced labour.

A terrifying giant scorpion measuring 3.2 feet (one metre) long roamed Britain 415 million years ago, a new study has found.

He has gone missing from Southend but may be in the Basildon area

Chancellor Rachel Reeves' main hope for survival has been the fear that moving her on from the Treasury would cause ructions on the nervy gilts market.

Frank suspected something odd when he spotted a use of React's useMemo function in some JavaScript code. Now, there's nothing wrong with using that method, in and of itself. It watches some variables and recalculates a callback if they change for any reason. It's a great tool for when you want to avoid recalculating expensive things over and over again.

But in this case, the calculation in question was isAuthorized, which wasn't an expensive calculation; it was just checking if certain values are set. The code looked like this:

const isAuthorized = useMemo(() => { return (session && token && !group) === false; }, [session, token, group]);

session, token and group are all either going to be null, or be an object. To be authorized, all three must be set to non-null values. A rational person, knowing this, might choose to return session && token && group, and exploit JavaScript's truthiness. Or, if you really wanted to coerce it to a boolean, you could return !!(session && token && group).

So why on Earth are they negating group? How would this even work? If the check is "all three must be set" what is this doing?

Well, if you do a && b && c, JavaScript will return the last value you looked at. The && operator short circuits, so that means it either returns the first falsy value you encounter, or the very last value in the chain.

So in this scenario: (session && token && !group), if session or token is null, the expression evaluates to null. Otherwise, if group is null, then !group will evaluate to true. Because they use the === operator, JavaScript won't do any type coercion, and that means null === false is false, as is true === false.

I can't believe that this code works as intended. I mean, it works, it gives the correct output, but I think that's an accident. Happenstance of someone with no clue gradually throwing operators into an expression until it does what they want. Perhaps it's LLM generated code- who can even guess anymore? It certainly seems like it was generated through a stochastic process; whether that's a bumbling developer or a bunch of math, there's definitely no intelligence involved, artificial or otherwise.

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Violence has erupted between police and protestors in Southampton over the death of Henry Nowak.

Violence has erupted between police and protestors in Southampton over the death of Henry Nowak.

They both admitted using threatening or abusive words, or disorder

The murder of Henry Nowak has disturbed me for so many reasons. First, there is the cruelty and callousness of the crime itself. Then there is the shocking behaviour of the murderer's family...

Lulu had a reunion with Take That on Monday to perform their hit track Relight My Fire at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The Prime Minister said he 'felt sick' after watching bodycam footage of the teenager pleading unsuccessfully for help from officers after he was brutally attacked by Vickrum Digwa.

Discussing how the grieving process has been for their family, Felicity, 79, said she tries to focus on the 'wonderful times rather than the sad'.

Brighton and Hove City Council launched a push against the use of stoves and open fires in homes in December 2024 amid concerns they produce deadly air pollution.

Kristin Cavallari called out a 'very famous man' who exposed himself during their second date.