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If you're planning on wearing coloured contact lenses to elevate your Halloween outfit this weekend, an expert has urged you to reconsider.

Generation Z appears to be turning up it's collective nose at avocado on toast in favour of an old classic.

Fire crews rushed to the scene on Thursday (October 30)

The officer gave chase after spotting Gazza Vinyard, 34, from Ipswich, Suffolk, travelling through the town at more than double the 30mph limit at around 10pm on September 9.

Luigi Mangione has reportedly been hailed as an 'ambassador' at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he is awaiting trial on both federal and state charges.

Wearing a sage-coloured gown and clutching a bouquet of white roses and eucalyptus, Sophie Hinchliffe gazed adoringly at the bride as she got ready to walk down the aisle.

Yesterday in a bombshell statement, Buckingham Palace confirmed Andrew, 65, would no longer be a prince and would be leaving the Royal Lodge nestled on the grounds of Windsor Castle.

Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet

NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.…

The Duchess of Sussex has unveiled her first Christmas collection with As Ever in a festive Instagram video. But it wasn't just the products that caught our attention.

At the request of King George V, Prince Louis changed the family name from Battenberg to the anglicised version Mountbatten.

Princess Margaret claimed her decision not to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend was an act of her choosing duty over love. However, royal observers say there's much more to the story.

On Wednesday, the Daily Mail revealed the Chancellor failed to obtain a selective licence when she placed her family home in Dulwich, south London, on the rental market last year.

Barclays is the latest lender to announce it will be cutting its mortgage rates across its fixed rate deals aimed at home buyers.

These communal heating systems aren't regulated - so we're paying over the odds but simply have to grin and bear it.

Nearly half of UK savers keep savings in a current account rather than a savings account that pays a top rate.

Santander says its customers have lost thousands to weight loss drug fraud, and the number of people falling for fake online ads is rising.

schwit1 shares a report from Behind the Black: SpaceX is going to land this spaceship manned on the Moon, whether or not NASA's SLS and Orion are ready. And even if those expensive, cumbersome, and poorly designed boondoggles are ready for those first two Artemis landings, SpaceX is likely to quickly outmatch them with numerous other private missions to the Moon, outside of NASA. It has the funds to do it, and it knows it has the customers willing to buy the flights. The news comes from a detailed update SpaceX released today on the Starship lunar lander. Here's the section where SpaceX "made it clear that it sees Starship and Superheavy as its own space effort, irrelevant of NASA": "To return Americans to the Moon, SpaceX aligned Starship development along two paths: development of the core Starship system and supporting infrastructure, including production facilities, test facilities, and launch sites -- which SpaceX is self-funding representing over 90% of system costs -- and development of the HLS-specific Starship configuration, which leverages and modifies the core vehicle capability to support NASA's requirements for landing crew on and returning them from the Moon. SpaceX is working under a fixed-price contract with NASA, ensuring that the company is only paid after the successful completion of progress milestones, and American taxpayers are not on the hook for increased SpaceX costs. SpaceX provides significant insight to NASA at every stage of the development process along both paths, including access to flight data from missions not funded under the HLS contract. Both pathways are necessary and made possible by SpaceX's substantial self-investments to enable the high-rate production, launch, and test of Starship for missions to the Moon and other purposes. Starship will bring the United States back to the Moon before any other nation and it will enable sustainable lunar operations by being fully and rapidly reusable, cost-effective, and capable of high frequency lunar missions with more than 100 tons of cargo capacity."

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When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary

On Call  Happy Halloween, dear reader! The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day. To kick things off, we’ve twisted On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column about keeping computers alive despite the best efforts of zombie coworkers and demonic bosses, to bring tales of times tech support turned spooky.…

"Getting ready to!" anticipated richard h. but then this happened. "All I want are the CLI options to mark the stupid TOS box so I can install this using our Chef automation. "What are the options" is too much to ask, apparently. But this is Microsoft. Are stupid errors like this really that unexpected?"

 

Followed immediately by richard's report: "Following up my error'd submission a few minutes ago, I clicked the "Accept TOS" box, and the "Something unexpected happened" box lit up, so I clicked the button to let the unexpected do what the something wanted to do. Now I have successfully Something unexpected happened. smh Microsoft. "

 

An anonymous griper snickered "It's a made up word, but I just wanted to check the spelling before writing it in a slack comment as a joke referencing the show("that's a nice tnetennba"), but the first thing I saw was the AI preview with the first sentence incorrectly claiming it's "basketball" spelled backwards(which it's clearly not, backwards it would be "abnnetent" which is also not a word). " I have to differ, though. Spelled backwards it would be llabteksab.

 

And a different anonymous griper (I assume they're different, but they're anonymous so who can really know?) needed some help doing a quite trivial computation. "On which planet?" we all wonder together.

 

Finally, a recurring theme from a recurring reader, B.J.H. keeps buying stuff. "This screen shot was captured the morning of 26 October. I'm not sure what bothers me more, that the package was picked up twice (once in the future), or that "Standard Transit" (when the package should be expected) is a day before the pick-up. Or maybe they just lie about the pickup to cover for not meeting the standard delivery date. "

 

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