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Datacenter build slowdown hurt storage sales but Korean giant sees bit barn rebound

Samsung yesterday posted results a little better than it forecast, and attributed some of its record revenue and strong profit to customers rushing to buy kit before the USA raises tariffs on imports.…

Tasha's Artisan Coffee Shop is returning to Wickham Bishops to host an Artisan Market to "support local businesses".

A number of postcodes across Essex won thousands of pounds in the People's Postcode Lottery in April 2025.

Essex RSPCA centres and Danaher Animal Home have plenty of pets that are looking to find new owners

A number of postcodes across Essex won thousands of pounds in the People's Postcode Lottery in April 2025.

Essex RSPCA centres and Danaher Animal Home have plenty of pets that are looking to find new owners

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista's annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves. Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem at the time: if they set a single-color image as the background, their Windows 7 PC always took 30 seconds to start the operating system and switch from the welcome screen to the desktop. In a recent blog post, Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains the exact reason for this. According to him, a simple programming error meant that users had to wait longer for the system to boot. After logging in, Windows 7 first set up the desktop piece by piece, i.e. the taskbar, the desktop window, icons for applications, and even the background image. The system waited patiently for all components to finish loading and received feedback from each individual component. Or, it switched from the welcome screen to the desktop after 30 seconds if it didn't receive any feedback. The problem here: The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. The result: the logon system waited in vain for the message that the background has finished loading, so Windows 7 never started until the 30 second fallback activated and sent users to the desktop. The problem could also occur if users had activated the "Hide desktop icons" group policy. This was due to the fact that such policies were only added after the main code had been written and called by an If statement. However, Windows 7 was also unable to recognize this at first and therefore took longer to load.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A Brisbane woman claims to have cracked the recipe for McDonald's McChicken burger sauce using affordable supermarket items - and she believes it tastes just like the 'real thing'.

Simon Patterson has entered the witness box to give evidence against his former wife Erin. 

The team from the University of Edinburgh used the healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients and exposed it to a protein linked to Alzheimer's, from patients who passed away from it.

Basharat Hussain was part of a grooming gang who were jailed in 2017 for the sexual abuse of girls in Rotherham, their list of victims included Sammy Woodhouse who gave evidence against the men.

The new dresses are now available in all Primark stores

Charles met Alistair and Heather James at Buckingham Palace before moving into the ballroom to join 500 guests who had been invited to a reception to celebrate people within the cancer 'community'.

Jade is one of hundreds of girls who were trafficked, groomed and raped by gangs across the UK and one who is still fighting for justice while living with the horrors of her abuse on a daily basis.

Three young boys were freed, having apparently lived solely in the house for four years since the Covid crisis.

David Redman, 62, says he was left with a missing tooth after the alleged confrontation with a developer outside Singleton Gardens in Torquay, Devon.

It will be the second time the royal hasn't been present on the special day after he skipped the festivities to attend the coronation of his father, King Charles, in 2023.

The victim, a woman in her 30s, had been on a pedestrian crossing when she was struck by the vehicle in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, on September 29 last year.

Chips @ No 8 in Prestwich has regularly been hailed as one of the best fish and chip shops in Greater Manchester and has made it into national lists too, often drawing in big crowds during the day.

'We thought it was a really obvious way to build a processor and everybody would be doing it'

It is 40 years since the first Arm processor was powered up, and the UK's Centre for Computing History (CCH) celebrated in style, with speakers to mark the event, hardware on show, and a countdown to the anniversary.…