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Suspects remain on the run nearly a month after an ATM was stolen from Halstead High Street, Essex Police has confirmed.

The owner knew a guy...

Celebrity Traitors producers have been forced to ditch cliffhanger plans for a future episode after an 'unthinkable' moment took place at the round table.

Kemi Badenoch rallied her troops for battle on Wednesday as she declared the Conservative Party 'back in fashion' and ready to fight for the 'soul of the nation'.

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The Scot says he cried in his office after telling his players and staff that he would be leaving the club after 27 years in 2013. Ferguson, now 84, won a 13th and final Premier League title that May.

A teenage boy has been arrested after reports from the public of a knife being seen. An arrest of a 17-year-old also took place.

A teenage boy has been arrested after reports from the public of a knife being seen. An arrest of a 17-year-old also took place.

M&S has launched a £22.50 perfume that smells seriously expensive. Here's our review of the new STUDIO Aura Ambrette fragrance.

As temperatures begin to dip, sightings of these eight-legged critters start to increase across the UK.

It's been revealed that the husband of former Spice Girls singer Geri Halliwell was handed an astonishing payout by Red Bull Racing.

Andy Burnham's pledge at the Labour conference that the UK 'could go all the way' to rejoining Europe was lustily applauded by the party faithful.

The King's niece, 45, said her Olympic gold medallist father Mark was such a hard taskmaster that she would struggle to ever win his approval.

The ALBATROSS has landed

OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either resolve or make substantial progress on open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company says almost all were generated by a single AI agent from a single prompt. "This would be a striking difference from OpenAI's earlier blockbuster solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which was produced through the collective efforts of a 10,000-strong agentic swarm that cost millions of dollars in computing power," reports Scientific American. From the report: OpenAI revealed the results in a GitHub repository at 6 P.M. EDT. The deluge will take mathematicians months to parse through and understand -- including to determine whether the proofs contain novel and important ideas or are mostly mash-ups of existing techniques. But many of the results have already been verified in Lean -- a programming language that validates a proof's logic -- and are therefore all but certain to be correct. Among the results claimed are a solution to the four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, improvements on some of the world's most important computer algorithms and actual progress toward math's scariest problem, the Riemann hypothesis.

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Dua Lipa and Callum Turner proved they were very much still in the honeymoon period as they packed on the PDA at a New York Yankees game at the Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

The beauty advent calendar frenzy seems to get bigger and bigger - and earlier and earlier - each year. Claire Coleman, a beauty editor for more than 20 years takes a look at the best ones to shop.

Dr Robert Redfield made the warning during an interview, saying the scale of the response from the Russian authorities 'doesn't make sense' for a standard plague infection.

The mother of a teenage girl Christa Pike brutally beat and killed in 1995 was left dejected when she learned her daughter's killer was once again conscious following a botched execution.

Robert G sends us a WTF from the outside, but I think we can come up with some hypotheses about what actually happened.

Robert was traveling by train. For complicated train reasons, the car he was seated on was not actually scheduled to continue with the train he was booked to ride, the replacement car missed its scheduled arrival, and the result was that Robert was left at a station needing to rebook his travel.

Now, given that this is in a region of the world with a fairly robust train network, this represented a hiccup of thirty minutes in a many hour trip. Not a particularly big deal. But Robert didn't want to get stranded any longer than he had to, so he took out his phone, fired up the train company's app, and made sure he had a reservation on the next train. He got the confirmation, and grabbed a coffee while he waited.

Not quite thirty minutes later, Robert boarded the train and went towards his reserved seat. Another passenger approached from the opposite direction, and they met at the seat. "Excuse me," Robert said, "but I reserved this one."

"No, I reserved this one."

Being reasonable people, they both pulled out their phones and pulled up their apps. Sure enough, each one of them was confirmed for that seat. Since the email confirmation had more details than the app provided, they both pulled up the email. Same seat. Both confirmed. The timestamp of the reservation? The same, down to the second.

"I don't think the conductor will let us sit in each other's laps," the other passenger said.

As it turned out, there was enough room on the train that no lap sitting was required. Everyone got a seat, even if it wasn't the one they reserved.

But the story stuck with Robert. A major transit provider had a reservation system that clearly had a race condition. It seemed like the most basic example of race conditions too, the kind you're shown in college to explain the basic concept.

"Check if the seat is reserved, and if it's not, reserve it." Because that sequence isn't atomic, two different threads could do the check, see it's not reserved, and then reserve it. I suppose it's at least something that one reservation doesn't overwrite the other, which at least indicates that a reservation is its own record.

The real question is this: this has to happen with some frequency, so how has nobody fixed it?

The real answer: they probably just don't care, either because they literally don't care, or because their software is such a trashfire that this doesn't even rise to the top ten bugs. It's likely a mix of both.

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