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A British mother has claimed doctors 'wrongly removed her appendix during a holiday to Egypt. 

Belgium were denied by a string of impressive saves by goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand and had defender Nathan Ngoy sent off in a disappointing outing.

Callum's dad is Laurence Coles who moved to Australia when the star was a toddler, married a businesswoman - and had two more children, Callum's half-siblings.

From today, councils across England will gain the power to issue hefty penalties for serious hazards in private renters' homes.

Johnny Depp's ex Amber Heard offered a rare glimpse at her five-year-old daughter Oonagh after completing a 10k in Madrid over the weekend.

The actor and comedian (pictured) said he had been too 'consumed' by his feelings for the pop singer - to whom his stormy marriage lasted 14 months - for the allegations to be true.

The former Duke of York enjoyed what has been described as a relaxing weekend break in rural Brittany as the VIP guest of a horse breeding tycoon from the UAE.

Police guidelines on dealing with incidents involving race 'need to be revisited' to end 'two-tier' policing accusations, one of Britain's most senior officers has urged.

Lillith was integrating some new tools into an existing Ruby on Rails API. The existing API allowed you to send a dry_run flag along with the request, so that you could have the service calculate its changes without applying them.

The problem was, the new tool Lillith was integrating could send, in the body of the request, {"dry_run": false}, but the service would see it as true. Consistently.

The helper method which checked for "true" parameters looked like this:

def param_true?(param_name) param_value = params[param_name] params.key?(param_name) && (!param_value || param_value.to_s.downcase == 'true') end

The purpose of this function is to handle stringy or nil inputs gracefully. And there's one thing I can say about the function: it will always identify a true value correctly. If your false value is a string, "false", it also works. But that pesky !param_value mean that any actual boolean false value will be seen as true.

This function has been in wide use through the application. Lillith's best guess is that up to this point, no one had set the dry run flag on anything but GET requests, where everything was strings. On POST/PATCH/PUT requests, where the data was passed in the body as JSON, it got parsed into actual boolean values, and thus failed.

That's the WTF, certainly, that this function was lurking and waiting to cause this confusion. But the annoying thing in this function is that it fetches the value from the associative array, then calls params.key? to see if the key exists. That's fine, since Ruby just returns a nil if a key doesn't exist, it's just annoying. I hate to see it. This is, admittedly, more of a "me" problem, but I hate it.

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Rigid workplace cultures and youthful ambition do not mix

'Shocking morning. Not much of Viva Dominicus Beach Resort left,' one Briton wrote after the blaze ripped through the complex. 'Still burning six hours later.'

Mel Stride , the shadow chancellor, claimed Reform's 'numbers never add up' as he criticised their 'irresponsible' promises and 'unfunded' spending commitments.

It will open later this year and will offer significantly reduced prices for locals

The 49-year-old is the broadcaster's tactical expert for the World Cup - but took a moment away from her analysis to remember Sid on what would have been his 85th birthday.

When Jeremy Clarkson told the world he had cancer, he did it in the most Clarkson way imaginable. Halfway through harvest, he turned to the people around him and said: 'I've got cancer.'

The singer, 35, revealed in January that her now one-year-old twins had been diagnosed with SMA Type 1, a rare muscle-wasting condition.

Jake Stracey, 33, was having a mental health episode last year when he rammed his Jeep into a Range Rover on the A120 at Coggeshall.

"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube." The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran the same fresh-account test on YouTube and found that 104 of the first 500 Shorts, or 21%, were AI slop. On TikTok, 294 of 500 For You videos hit that threshold... Of the 2,000 videos Kapwing reviewed in TikTok's Kids category, 57% were AI slop. That was the highest rate of any category in the analysis. The highest-rate tag was #cartoonkids, where 97 of 100 featured videos were AI-generated. Tags like #cartoons and #babysong both reached 83%, and #forkids came in at 79%. After Kids, the next highest AI slop rates were in Science and Education (35%), Health (33%), and History (33%). All three are categories where visual illustration and voiceover narration make up much of the content. On the other end, categories where on-camera presence or physical demonstration are central had the lowest rates. Fashion came in at 1.3%, Music at 1.5%, and Fitness at 1.6%. The article notes that by last November, TikTok "had already labeled 1.3 billion videos as AI-generated, according to the report."

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JD Vance arrived in Switzerland with his pregnant wife Usha Vance on Sunday and was also accompanied by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for Sunday's talks.

A primary school teacher sacked for hiding her whirlwind romance with a convicted paedophile married him just five months after losing her job, the Daily Mail can reveal.