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Richard Horne said it is 'highly likely' countries such as Russia and China will increase their use of AI to carry out ransomware attacks and exploitation.

The 46-year-old actor has played ruthless Rupert across two seasons of the raunchy Disney+ show based on Dame Jilly's 1988 novel.

The star, 27, is set to receive the Film Actress award at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards, and ahead of the honour, she spoke to Harper's Bazaar UK about her life-changing year.

Police have urged parents not to buy their children e-bikes or e-scooters this Christmas as officers demand more powers to tackle masked-up yobs running riot with the vehicles.

Zion split from Jesy earlier this year, shortly after she announced that their twins Ocean and Story had been diagnosed Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 (SMA).

Stacey Solomon says media intrusion into her family’s privacy is “outrageous” and should be illegal, as Stacey And Joe returns to BBC One on November 10.

Joe Swash says ADHD diagnosis helped him understand himself, but he is struggling more as he gets older. Stacey And Joe returns to BBC One on November 10.

Stacey Solomon says media intrusion into her family’s privacy is “outrageous” and should be illegal, as Stacey And Joe returns to BBC One on November 10.

Joe Swash says ADHD diagnosis helped him understand himself, but he is struggling more as he gets older. Stacey And Joe returns to BBC One on November 10.

Snap has settled a lawsuit brought by two teenagers who alleged Snapchat was deliberately designed to be addictive and contributed to their mental health problems, avoiding a trial that was scheduled to begin this week. Snap was the last defendant to settle after Meta, Alphabet and TikTok resolved claims in the same case. CBS News reports: The teenage plaintiffs, identified in court documents as S.J. and K.D.B., had alleged in the suit that Snapchat was designed to be addictive and that using the platform from a young age contributed to their mental health issues. "We are glad to reach resolution for our clients," Mark Lanier, founder of The Lanier Law Firm and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said in a statement to CBS News. "We believe this jury would have found the companies' conduct reprehensible." Snap was the last social media company named in the lawsuit to settle the case, which was set for opening arguments this week. Meta resolved claims last week, while Alphabet and TikTok, the other defendants, each also resolved the allegations. Terms of the Snap settlement were undisclosed [...]. Earlier this year, a jury found Meta and Google-owned YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit, awarding $6 million in damages to a young woman who alleged the platforms' addictive features harmed her mental health. In August, Meta also agreed to pay up to $18 billion in settlements and introduce new child-safety measures to resolve claims from dozens of U.S. states that it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children while misleading the public about their risks.

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Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Recently, reports emerged that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly "off." Some of those voice commands were then stored in plain text and uploaded to the internet. LG's response? To deny everything. [...] That latter point is central to a new study out of Northeastern that conducted 5,943 experiments across twelve commercial "smart" TV devices. The researchers found that most smart TVs utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a technology that captures audio or video snapshots of viewed content and then monetizes that data to help build personalized profiles of viewers. TV makers insist that users are supposed to be able to opt out, but the choice simply doesn't work across a large segment of TVs. Companies like Vizio simply ignored the consumer requests entirely more often than not: "We find that the advertised ACR opt-out fully suppresses ACR-attributable traffic on only four operating systems; on Samsung Tizen traffic consistent with ACR activity persists in more than 60% of evaluated scenarios, and on Vizio SmartCast a content correlated endpoint hosted on Amazon Kinesis continues to receive traffic in 100% of opted-out scenarios." [...] The researchers say since they can't see the precise scope of what's being collected due to encryption, they're unsure whether Vizio is technically violating its FTC agreement (not that we have a current FTC that would care if they were): "The opt-out setting has no observable effect on traffic sent to this endpoint; however, we cannot inspect the payload due to encryption so we cannot confirm whether this violates the FTC settlement." Results of whether opting out of ACR tracking actually stopped ACR tracking were all over the map. Roku, for example, ignores opt-out requests when users are watching Roku's own channels. None of the smart TV vendors track Netflix viewing for fear of violating agreements with the streaming giant. Samsung's opt out function was more likely to actually work when a user was watching antenna broadcasts. On two Smart TV platforms, personal viewing data collected by ACR remains unencrypted, despite years of bad press and scandal on the subject. Many appear to be violating the law, but because U.S. regulatory oversight has been gutted, they see no meaningful accountability. That includes smart TV OS' like VIDAA, which is most prominently found on Hisense and Toshiba smart TVs: "VIDAA OS sends ACR data to servers run by Unruly over MQTT without encryption, so anyone on the network path between the TV and those servers can read it. Each message carries a Client ID, a permanent identifier for the TV that can't be reset, along with the time zone, the app name, the input (antenna, HDMI), the antenna channel and an audio fingerprint."

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The Scottish actor, 36, was the subject of his Slow Horses co-star Gary Oldman's speculation on the role

Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!

Danielle Brown, 31, was seven months pregnant when her daughter Maisie died following a string of medical blunders at Newcastle's Royal Infirmary in early 2023.

John Goodman has hit back at critics of his latest film Digger.

Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly ignored the vulnerable teenager's repeated pleas as they abused her on a mid-afternoon Southeastern service.

Calvin Klein put his best foot forward as he stepped out in New York City this week. 

Why Lord Fellowes, the mastermind behind Downton Abbey, decided to permit his show to be used as a toy for a couple of Hollywood celebs is anyone's guess.

According to The Information, Apple is developing a $1,000 HomeView Ultra smart home hub with a 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a motorized arm that can follow users around a room and autonomously respond to its surroundings. It's also said to be experimenting with more ambitious home robots, including a wheeled robot that follows people, a smart home drone and a machine capable of folding laundry. Notebookcheck reports: According to the report, HomeView Ultra will feature a larger 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a robotic arm. This arm can automatically turn the screen toward the user. With a camera and several sensors, this smart home hub is said to be "fully aware" of its surroundings and capable of acting autonomously. This autonomy ranges from turning on the lights when someone enters the room to shooing a cat away when it jumps onto a table. These sensors are also intended to prevent the arm from hitting nearby objects with the display. Apple is reportedly currently planning to announce this smart home hub in 2027 for around $1,000, but according to The Information, its launch could be delayed until 2028. The reason is allegedly the software, which has not yet been finalized, while the hardware is said to be ready for market already.

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