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As someone who doesn't mince her words, Olivia Attwood shocked fans this week by admitting she finds her marriage to Bradley Dack 'f***ing hard.'

Vivien Saunders accused the tenants of breaching the conditions of their leases, which could have led to the forfeiture of their properties. They claimed she wanted the land for a £20 million development.

England fans have hit back at Thomas Tuchel with some sarcastic chants at their World Cup qualifier against Latvia.

A new study shows that common baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can survive Mars-like conditions, including meteorite shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts found in Martian soil. Phys.org reports: Published in PNAS Nexus, Purusharth I. Rajyaguru and colleagues subjected Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is a widely used model yeast, to shock waves and perchlorates. The authors chose the yeast in part because it has already been studied in space. When stressed, yeast, humans, and many other organisms form ribonucleoprotein (RNP) condensates, structures made of RNA and proteins that protect RNA and affect the fates of mRNAs. When the stressor passes, the RNP condensates, which include subtypes known as stress granules and P-bodies, disassemble. The authors simulated Martian shock waves at the High-Intensity Shock Tube for Astrochemistry (HISTA) housed in the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India. Yeast exposed to 5.6 Mach intensity shock waves survived with slowed growth, as did yeast subjected to 100 mM sodium salt of perchlorate (NaClO4) -- a concentration similar to that in Martian soils. Yeast cells also survived exposure to the combined stress of shock waves and perchlorate stress. In both cases, the yeast assembled RNP condensates. Shock waves induced the assembly of stress granules and P-bodies; perchlorate caused yeast to make P-bodies but not stress granules. Mutants incapable of assembling RNP condensates were poor at surviving the Martian stress condition. Transcriptome analysis identified specific RNA transcripts perturbed by Mars-like conditions.

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A full breakdown of the number of Essex Police officers who have been dismissed since 2020/21 compared with the rest of the UK.

A full breakdown of the number of Essex Police officers who have been dismissed since 2020/21 compared with the rest of the UK.

Requests to release a key witness statement by the deputy national security adviser have been rejected after the Crown Prosecution Service said it would be 'inappropriate' outside of a courtroom.

The pair were both in attendance to support Australian skinscare brand The Breakout Hack at their UK Boots launch.

He posted a video threating to kill he Reform UK leader on TikTok

A stark report from IMF warned that inflation in the UK will be the highest for any advanced economy this year, with Britain also facing the worst growth in living standards in the West.

It follows a full summer of protests after an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault

Previous plans for 150 homes and care home thrown out by Government planners

Epping Forest Council are taking legal action against Somani Hotels, the owners of the Bell Hotel over their use of it to house asylum seekers.

Epping Forest Council are taking legal action against Somani Hotels, the owners of the Bell Hotel over their use of it to house asylum seekers.

Dear Third-Party API Support,

You're probably wondering how and why your authorization server has been getting hammered every single day for more than 4 years. It was me. It was us—the company I work for, I mean. Let me explain.

I’m an Anonymous developer at Initech. We have this one mission-critical system which was placed in production by the developer who created it, and then abandoned. Due to its instability, it received frequent patches, but no developer ever claimed ownership. No one ever took on the task of fixing its numerous underlying design flaws.

About 6 months ago, I was put in charge of this thing and told to fix it. There was no way I could do it on my own; I begged management for help and got 2 more developers on board. After we'd released our first major rewrite and fix, there were still a few lingering issues that seemed unrelated to our code. So I began investigating the cause.

This system has 10+ microservices which are connected like meatballs buried deep within a bowl of spaghetti that completely obscures what those meatballs are even doing. Untangling this code has been a chore in and of itself. Within the 3 microservices dedicated to automated tasks, I found a lot of random functionality ... and then I found this!

See, our system extracts data from your API. It takes the refresh token, requests a new access token, and saves it to our database. Our refresh token to this system is only valid for 24 hours; as soon as we get access, we download the data. Before we download the data, we ensure we have a valid access token by refreshing it.

One of our microservice's pointless jobs was to refresh the access token every 5, 15, and 30 minutes for 22 of the 24 hours we had access to it. It was on a job timer, so it just kept going. Every single consent for that day kept getting refreshed, over and over.

Your auditing tools must not have revealed us as the culprit, otherwise we should've heard about this much sooner. You've probably wasted countless hours of your lives sifting through log files with a legion of angry managers breathing down your necks. I’m writing to let you know we killed the thing. You won’t get spammed again on our watch. May this bring you some closure.

Sincerely,

A Developer Who Still Cares

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They have shared concerns regarding how the high street has been closed off

The Daily Mail revealed the unlikely relationship with pictures showing the new couple kissing and cuddling on the deck of her 24-meter yacht, the Caravelle, off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.

One of the conditions of the peace deal is that Hamas hand over the remains of all the hostages who died - or were murdered - during the fighting. But this is easier said than done.

The couple were cruelly ripped apart from each other on October 7, 2023, and taken hostage by Palestinian militants, were pictured on Monday embracing for the first time in two years.