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The badge is designed to commemorate those killed in the conflict with Israel, and according to its backers adapts the Palestinian flag as a symbol of 'solidarity'.

Terrified families living in a neighbourhood in Guildford, fear 'disaster will strike' and their 1930s homes will collapse due to subsidence, with many facing demolition.

TechRepublic reports: The TIOBE Index is a monthly indicator of programming-language popularity based on factors including skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. The October 2026 rankings show a largely stable top 10, with R overtaking SQL and Julia returning to the top 20 for the first time in three years. [SQL has risen to #9 from #10 in October of 2025 — back when R ranked only #13.] Python remains No. 1, followed by C, C++, Java, C#, and JavaScript, while Rust holds its No. 10 position. [A year ago Rust ranked only #16.] Outside the top 10, Julia climbs from No. 21 to No. 18, and TIOBE introduces Mandarin Chinese search terms into its methodology to broaden the index's geographic representation. Dropping out of the top ten is Go, which fell from #8 in October of 2025 to #11. And Delphi/Object Pascal has plummeted from #9 to #19. TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen argues that Julia's growing popularity "is largely driven by the demand for modern programming languages that combine high performance with ease of learning, particularly for numerical computing." Python offers an accessible, high-level approach to numerical computing, but performance can become a bottleneck. C++, on the other hand, delivers excellent performance but comes with a steeper learning curve and a lower level of abstraction. Julia aims to bridge this gap by combining the best of both worlds... Apart from Julia, two other languages are knocking on the door of the TIOBE top 20: Dart and OCaml. Dart jumps from #41 to #27 this month. Thanks to its popular UI toolkit Flutter, Dart has been hovering around the edge of the top 20 for quite some time. OCaml, on the other hand, might come as a surprise. It jumps from #38 to #26 this month, driven in part by its growing use in real-time trading systems and parsing technology.

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With Chinese food officially the nation's second favourite foreign cuisine, two top Chinese chefs have revealed their biggest industry 'red flags' and the dishes they'd never order.

And owners are racking up the hours, with the average boss putting in 45 hours a week on their business - on top of whatever time they commit to a second job.

A mum who had fled a violent relationship was among those thrust before the courts

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as Leeds entertain Man United in the Premier League at Elland Road.

Locals in Fillongley, Warwickshire, have also assembled their own squad of knitted traffic cops by using life-size RAF mannequins, in a crafty bid to fool reckless drivers.

Brighton star Diego Gomez has scored a remarkable goal of the season contender as the Premier League's surprise package move up to second in the table in a first half thumping.

The nationwide poll of 2,000 foodies asked Brits what three traditional regional dishes were their favourite, and half of them (50 per cent) said Yorkshire puddings.

David Cameron is calling for a dedicated dementia drug fund to help thousands of Alzheimer's patients get access to treatments that could slow the disease's progression.

Long-time Slashdot reader ardiri remembers his days writing applications for the Palm OS. And he's now released approximately 1.5 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, "accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years... to preserve the tools and knowledge that helped define an important era of personal computing." The collection includes historical SDKs, developer conference presentations, technical documentation, programming examples, limited source code, and development utilities. (ROM images, commercial applications, and simulator binaries have deliberately been excluded....) Making a broader collection of development resources available to the retrocomputing community, the archive is available at GitHub.com/ardiri/dev-palmos and is intended for historical preservation, education, and research, particularly as enthusiasts continue working to maintain, emulate, and revive the platform... Ardiri has also written an auto-biography and has started explored the engineering principles behind these systems in his books. And somewhere along the way, Ardiri rediscovered the original source code for "The Palm OS Virus That Never Was — Lost for 25 Years, Found in 2026." Lurking on a CompactFlash card containing files dated June 2001, he found the self-replicating Palm OS virus that he'd developed and tested in June 2001, months before the planned PalmSource developer conference in San Jose. Named 'Virii,' the virus intercepted Palm OS system calls to progressively infect legitimate applications while preserving their original functionality. Infected applications could then spread between handheld devices through infrared beaming, potentially allowing an infection to propagate among hundreds of developers exchanging software at the conference. The virus also included a date-triggered payload designed to interfere with system time reporting between October 23 and 27, 2001, potentially causing erratic clocks, unreliable alarms, and missed appointments. He promises the functional source code and binaries will remain private.

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Eubha Akilade, 28, pictured centre - best known for her role in crime drama Shetland - and sibling Eilidh, who are of Nigerian descent, were sent the vile material by Gary Summers, 57.

Paratroops of the Royal Canadian Air Force were seen responding to the catastrophic explosion at Base Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday.

Tommy Fury was reportedly asked to leave a Halloween event after he 'intimidated' staff during a 'boozy' night out with friends last Saturday (October 10). 

You don't need to run a marathon to do your blood sugar a favor. If you spend most of the day parked at a desk, maybe even eating lunch over your keyboard, something as simple as a two-minute stroll can help.

A former world No 2 heavyweight boxer once primed to fight Tyson Fury has died aged just 40, after 11 years of care following an 'attack' in which the perpetrators were never found.

The day before Kim Kardashian was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris, she got a text saying someone had broken into her house in Los Angeles.

Essex Police appeal for witnesses after man in his 20s suffers head injury in Chelmsford High Street assault on October 1; 23-year-old on bail.