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Brooklyn Beckham snubbed his dad David on Sunday by ignoring Father's Day, but he did celebrate the 'best father-in-law' on Wednesday with a gushing birthday post.

A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) is now in force for at least three years across the entire Braintree district

The Met Office warn that adverse health effects are likely to be experienced by those vulnerable to extreme heat

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover's Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, "a dried-up river that carried water into the planet's Jezero crater billions of years ago," notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living organisms. Geological processes can also produce the material, meaning its detection does not amount to proof of past Martian life. Dr Ashley Murphy at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona said MMC can be found in different settings and types of rocks. "It may originate from biological sources such as fossilized organic matter found in microbial mats and coal," she said, but could also form in reactions between rocks and water or arrive on impacting meteorites. The mudstone rocks from the Bright Angel outcrop caused a stir in 2024 when the Perseverance rover discovered intriguing surface spots and nodules that resemble features produced by fossilized microbes on Earth. When the scientific details were published last year, Sean Duffy, the former acting head of Nasa, said: "This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars." [...] The discovery means Nasa rovers have now found organic-bearing mudstones more than 2,000 miles apart on Mars. The others were reported by the Curiosity rover which is exploring the planet's Gale crater. It "indicates that the habitability of Mars, and the availability of organics, may have been widespread across the planet billions of years ago," the authors write in Science Advances.

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The former Bayern Munich and Manchester United star's comments have sparked debate across the country.

Several schools have closed either fully or partially today following an 'extreme heat' weather warning

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT MIAMI STADIUM: If Steve Clarke's worst fear was a drubbing, then he ought to avoid seeking anything positive from the fact Scotland suffered a mere 3-0 defeat in Miami.

TOWIE star Lydia Bright has criticised her daughter's primary school for announcing a last minute closure due to the UK heatwave.

Brazilian-born Raphaella Richer Martins Burns, based in a small village in east County Cork, had been warned she could face an 18-month prison sentence if convicted.

The agony was etched across the faces of those in the Tartan Army who had watched Brazil run rings around their Scotland side on Wednesday night. 

Essex is set to face continued disruption throughout today, with schools closed and many disrupted due to the red heat alert.

I start every morning with porridge to stabilise my blood sugar and give me energy. I don't tolerate dairy and gluten very well anymore, so I have gluten-free oats with almond milk.

This week as high temperatures send Britons flocking to beaches, parks and beer gardens, thoughts turn to the most famous heatwave of all - the Summer of 1976.

The front page of yesterday's Mail carried the headline: 'Don't put the economy at mercy of "Red Ed"', a reference to Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

When Gary was called in for a meeting with a few of his managers- because of course he had several- he thought it was going to be for an "attaboy", because things had been going really well for the past few months.

Gary had inherited a mess, and taken over a nightmare application. It was the kind of application that should be a simple CRUD-style data-driven app, but somehow despite only having 20ish entities it managed, someone had generated 500+ controllers for managing them. Most of those controllers were copy/pasted code with minor changes in the WHERE clause of a SQL query.

And that was just the code. The infrastructure was similarly a mess, with duplicate resources provisioned in their cloud host. There was no CI/CD, no unit tests to speak of, no deployment process that wasn't "manually copy these files and pray". And uptime? You've heard about "five nines", but this product was lucky to get even one nine. Especially because the manual deployment process meant a few hours of downtime.

And that was just the infrastructure. The backlog was similarly messy. There were lots of tasks- many thousands- but not a single one had a priority. Most of the tasks were something like, "Fix database timeouts", or "Bug 531" with no description to explain what they were. At best, some of the "new feature" tasks linked to a Google Doc that explained a software roadmap that had been last updated in 2020.

So with no guidance, Gary and the rest of his team got to work. Cloud costs were massive. Just cutting the duplicate resources would help, but with actual planning it wasn't hard to find even bigger wins. In total, Gary got the cloud costs down 60%- essentially saving the company a small multiple of his salary every year.

With that out of the way, getting a CI/CD pipeline running was next. Within a few weeks, manual deployments were gone. Everything was automated. Downtime nearly vanished. And now, with all the cost savings in cloud resources, for a fraction of what they were paying, it was easy to automate provisioning test environments for each new feature.

So Gary was very ready for some congratulations when he sat down with management. He was prepared to discuss all the wins he and the rest of the developers on the project had gotten over the past few months.

"I'm sure you know why we're sitting down," Manager the First said when they settled into the conference room.

"I'm sure," said Manager the Second.

"We have some concerns about your performance," Manager the Third said.

"My performance?" Gary asked.

"Yes," said Manager the First. "Let me pull up the backlog."

"And the roadmap," said Manager the Second.

"Yes, I'm getting that up too, thank you." The trio of managers struggled with pulling up the appropriate pages, and after about 15 minutes, gave up. Instead, they discussed their complaint without visual aids. "You haven't completed any of the tasks on the roadmap. Bug 673 has been open since you started on the team. None of the roadmap milestones have been touched. There's absolutely no progress."

"Okay, but that document was wildly out of date," Gary said. "Instead I put cycles into solving the actual problems we're having. I've saved the company a huge amount of money. I've gotten our development cycle time down to a fraction of what it was. And we have basically no downtime!"

"That's all very nice, I'm sure," said Manager the Third. "But none of that was on our roadmap."

"Well, maybe we should set up a meeting to go over the roadmap," Gary said. "Because a lot of the tasks on there don't make much sense right now-"

"I don't think that's a good use of time," Manager the Second said. "Large meetings are expensive. Just stick to the roadmap, please."

With that, the meeting ended. Gary went back to work…

… updating his resume.

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