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UK weather – Brits hit by snow travel chaos with warnings to drivers as Met Office issue alerts for next three days
BRITS have been hit with snow travel chaos as yet another cold snap sweeps across the UK.
Forecasters have placed much of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland under a snow and ice yellow weather warning for the next three days.
Wintery snowy scenes in the North Yorkshire village of Goathland[/caption]
Snow falls in Tynemouth in the North East[/caption]
Snow on the Tommy statue on North Shields Fish Quay[/caption]
Wednesday’s alert covers most of southern England, including London and much of the North.
Meanwhile, Scotland could even see up to seven inches of snow in northern areas.
And another white stuff warning covers the entirety of Northern Ireland.
The Met Office warns: “Ice and some snow leading to difficult travel conditions in places.
“Some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services. Some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces.
“Probably some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.”
They say there is also a chance that rural communities could be cut off for several days.
And people should be prepared for long interruptions to power supplies, gas, water, telephone and mobile phone coverage.
The UK will be covered in warnings until Friday – and Brits up and down the country on Tuesday woke up to the first bout of snow.
The mercury is set to plunge minus 15C in some isolated Scottish glens this week.
People in southern England and South Wales can expect to wake up to snow on Wednesday but it is unclear whether it will settle, the Met Office said.
Snow is more likely to settle when it moves across much of northern England, Northern Ireland and much of Scotland on Thursday.
Met Office spokesman Stephen Dixon said snow should fall where cold Arctic air moving south towards the UK meets warmer air moving up from the South West.
He added: “As we move into the weekend as that low pressure has moved out from the East, there is a further band of rain likely to move from the South West, which could knock against cooler air and create sleet showers.
“Next week there will be a gradual warming back to something a little bit more typical for the time of year.”
Thursday’s weather warning covers much of the country[/caption]
Heavy snow in Aberdeen has left cars stuck[/caption]
Cars driving through snowfall in Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire[/caption]
Sink Your Teeth Into a Tale of Western Horror With West of Sundown’s Full First Issue
What’s better than a tale of vampiric horror? A tale of old-timey vampiric horror, and one of the hunter becoming the hunted—which is right where Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry, and Triona Farrell’s West of Sundown happily establishes its story of 19th century terror. Want to whet your appetite? Come read the…
Twitter was broken due to an API issue (updated)
Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company’s website and mobile apps. Clicking on a link brought up an error message that read “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.” As it happens, that link was broken for a while. A similar error message was appearing for some users when they tried to access TweetDeck.
Service gradually seemed to be coming back as of 12:43PM ET. Links seem to be working once again and images are popping back up in the timeline. TweetDeck is also back online.
Twitter’s last major outage was less than a week ago, just days after the company laid off dozens more employees. Twitter no longer has a communications department that can be contacted for comment. Oddly, enough, its API status page has a message reading “all systems operational.”
“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences,” Twitter managed to share on its Support account at 12:19PM ET. “We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.” It’s currently not possible to embed the tweet because of the busted API.
Twitter is in the midst of restricting its APIs, the tools that developers use to hook into the platform. The company said in early February that it would start charging for access to APIs.
Meanwhile, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has responded to the outage. “This platform is so brittle (sigh),” he wrote. “Will be fixed shortly.” He later added that “a small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.”
Many users and insiders feared that, after Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly fired thousands of employees and contractors, the platform would fall apart. Musk infamously demanded that to commit to an “extremely hardcore” vision where they’d work for “long hours at high intensity” or leave the company. It’s estimated that around 1,200 workers opted not to make the pledge, instead choosing to walk away from Twitter with the promise of three months’ severance pay.
Between Musk assuming control of Twitter and late January, it’s believed that some 80 percent of full-time workers left the company. Shortly after the mass departures started, one former employee told The Washington Post that they knew of six critical systems that “no longer have any engineers.” They added that Twitter would “continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.” While many expected the World Cup would be the straw the broke the camel’s back, it seems like a regular Monday morning was enough to tip Twitter over the edge.
Update 3/6 1:54PM ET: Added more comments from Musk.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/every-link-on-twitter-is-broken-right-now-165929931.html?src=rss
Elon Musk’s ‘lab leak’ tweets could be an issue for Tesla’s plans in China
CNBC reports The Global Times, a state-run paper in China, has warned Elon Musk about pushing the covid “lab leak” theory. Reporter Eunice Yoon said the social media post asked if Musk is “breaking the pot of China,” with a meaning similar to asking if he was biting the hand that feeds him.
Ever since Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter, it’s seemed certain that at some point, the service’s content would put him at odds with the Chinese Communist Party, as Nilay Patel wrote after the deal closed:
Are you excited for the Chinese government to find ways to threaten Tesla’s huge business in that country over content that appears on Twitter? Because it’s going to happen.
How fast we arrived at this most obvious sticking point is no…
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Apple-in-business use accelerates, but device management still an issue
Although 65% of managed service providers (MSPs) expect their business customers to increase the use of Macs over the next 12 months, many companies may not be managing their devices well, according to new survey data from Addigy.
Apple is the only vendor to see market share growth in both PC and mobile devices during the past year, which has translated into growing Mac market share even as the overall PC market declines.
Yet more proof of Apple’s growth in enterprise IT
Moving out of the current slump, Apple’s advantage is that next-generation employees already prefer the company, certainly in the US. Those born after 1996 now represent around 34% of US iPhone owners, which makes them far more likely to use a Mac.