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A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.

Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi continued their romantic trip across Europe with a stop in Paris on Monday evening when they were spotted heading out on a date night.

Residents reported hearing a loud bang

The L'Oréal Paris Runway Show is one of the glitziest catwalks in the Paris Fashion Week calendar.

Too frail to attend as many public engagements these days, Princess Alexandra was determined to make it to a concert celebrating the life of her beloved sister-in-law, Katharine, Duchess of Kent.

The decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, is likely to raise alarm bells on Wall Street.

Lila Moss led the nepo baby pack as she joined Amelia Gray Hamlin and Iris Law at the Elie Saab and H&M Paris Fashion Week party at the Palais Brongniart in Paris on Monday.

New research suggests Enceladus may be an especially promising place to search for extraterrestrial life: microbes similar to those found near Earth's hydrothermal vents survived in lab conditions designed to mimic the Saturnian moon's subsurface ocean. A separate study also found that material blasted from Enceladus' plumes may naturally separate and concentrate salts, organics and potential biosignatures into individual ice grains, potentially making them easier for future spacecraft to detect. "That is great news in the search for life," Frank Postberg, lead author of one and co-author of the other of these new studies and professor at Freie Universitat Berlin, said in a statement. "Future spacecraft will have to analyze many individual ice particles in the plume. But if they come across one with microbial material in it, they could identify biosignatures in the particle relatively easy with already available technology." Space.com reports: Enceladus isn't the only place in our solar system with water -- so, why is it so exciting in the search for life? Well, it has to do with the seafloor of its extensive, liquid ocean. Down deep at the bottom of this body of water, scientists think hydrothermal processes, or movement or reactions with hot water under the surface, are taking place. The plumes shooting upward from the ocean also contain trace amounts of salts and organic compounds. NASA's Cassini spacecraft found these traces when it flew through the plumes over a decade ago. Between the hydrothermal activity and the organics and minerals in the water, this moon's ocean has a number of aspects that could be involved in supporting life. What's more, using a combination of Cassini data, theoretical models and laboratory experimentation, in Postberg's new study the team found that the plume's water droplets blasting out into space at up to 621 miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per hour) don't freeze as quickly as expected. Before, scientists thought the freeze would happen instantaneously once the droplets reached space, but Postberg and fellow researchers say they found the freezing would actually happen much slower. They also found that during this freezing process, the salt, organic compounds (and maybe possible signs of life) in the water droplets separate from one another. Not only that, but the team says that as the particles are blasted out into space, they should often collide with the icy cracks of the planet's surface. This ultimately would leave behind tiny shards of frozen droplets with individually separated out components. Essentially, it's like the planet has organized its oceanic ingredients into tiny, frozen particle fragments. This work is described in two new studies published in the journal Science Advances here and here.

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He said he'd "rather be criticised for taking... action than be forced to explain, after a serious incident, why we ignored the warnings and did nothing.”

The sitcom was a huge success when it first landed on the box in September 1996 and ran for seven incredible years. So what became of the cast 30 years on?

Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles

Nikolai M's team had a flaky CI/CD build. About 0.5% of the time, one of their tests would fail: frequent enough to be annoying, but not so frequent that it motivated management to assign anybody to investigate. Nikolai eventually dug in, taking the initiative.

Microsoft's implementation of UUIDs calls them GUIDs. The GUID is, per the docs, really just a wrapper around UUID algorithms, and supports a variety of different UUID variants. I'm sure at some historical point, this wasnt't true, and Microsoft had some weird internal algorithm. That's not really here nor there, but the test that was failing was failing because of an assertion relating to GUIDs.

Assert.DoesNotContain("000", transactionId.ToString());

transactionId is a GUID. This line converts it to a string and checks if it contains "000". They're attempting to check if it's an empty UUID, and they've assumed that three sequential zeroes in the output would be an impossible event. This is untrue. Nikolai measured it, and found it happens 0.5527% of the time- 1-in-181.

So this is a bad test, and could be made better with a more thorough check. Or it could leverage the built in constant GUID.Empty, which is a UUID where every bit is zero.

And it's that which really bugs me, honestly. Even if you didn't know about the constant, the idea of constructing an empty GUID seems like the obvious choice. Though I suppose you'd have to check the docs to find out how to construct a GUID directly, and if you're already reading the docs, the chances of you seeing the built-in constant are probably higher than 0.5527%.

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M25 lorry fire causes severe anticlockwise delays between Junctions 29 and 28, with two lanes closed, 45-minute queues and recovery work ongoing.

M25 lorry fire causes severe anticlockwise delays between Junctions 29 and 28, with two lanes closed, 45-minute queues and recovery work ongoing.

As each new speaker sauntered on to the stage at Labour's party conference yesterday, the dire implications of Andy Burnham's coup became clearer.

There are certain heart health rules we all know well - stay away from butter and bacon for one, cook with olive oil and eat more salmon.

The suspects, all from London, remain under investigation, Counter Terrorism Policing said today, as Tehran 'categorically' denied any involvement in the alleged plot.

In the most Left-wing speech delivered by a modern British prime minister, Mr Burnham will tell Labour's party conference it is time for the state to take 'more control of the basics'.

The 32-year-old hitmaker had on a black workout jacket with sweatpants as he added black sneakers and sunglasses. The 37-year-old Big Little Lies actress wore a long black velvet jacket.

Senior figures have told the Daily Mail that the Government should not press ahead with the plan to phase in the huge hike from January at a time of soaring fuel prices.