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A Colorado jury on Wednesday returned a verdict of guilty in the murder trial of Dr James Craig, a dentist charged in the 2023 fatal poisoning of his wife, Angela.

Cash Isa providers are offering boosted rates that should allow you to beat the base rate over the next 12 months, even if the Bank of England makes a cut on 7 August.

For me, my big lesson came in the global financial crisis. I was young enough to be reckless, but old enough to have known better.

A developer has applied to build 'high-quality' homes on an Essex farm

It closed in June - but is now looking for new tenants

But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs

Chip design firm Qualcomm says it’s in “advanced discussions” with a hyperscale customer who wants its silicon to use in datacenters but may lose a major mobile customer to Samsung.…

Japan Airlines is offering international tourists the opportunity explore less-frequented areas of Japan at no extra cost - but there are a number of conditions in order to be eligible for the offer.

The former Man Show host said staff on Ellen 'were scared, real scared' during his two guest spots on the program, during a podcast appearance Tuesday.

This episode is part of a new podcast miniseries which explores how history's most wicked royals rival any fictional villain.

As the Mets took on the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, news broke that the franchise had finalized a trade with the Giants for three of their players.

Bin crews have asked motorists to be patient after experiencing dangerous driving far too often.

A woman ran 100 miles in 21 hours to support a youth mental health charity.

Those in cars will be paying an extra £1 per journey

The Arab world has called on Hamas to disband and surrender control of Gaza, in a dramatic shift that could pave the way for peace in the region.

Almost 40 per cent of people living in a house where not a single adult family member is employed is now out of work because they are sick or disabled.

Cherry Vann, originally from Leicester, has served as the Bishop of Monmouth for the past five years. She replaces Andrew John, who retired last month after three-and-a-half years in the role.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023 when independent journalist Jack Poulson reported on Maury Blackman's 2021 domestic violence arrest. Blackman, who was then the CEO of surveillance tech firm Premise Data Corp., took offense at the publication of his legal issues. The case did not lead to charges after Blackman's 25-year-old girlfriend recanted her claims against the 53-year-old CEO, but Poulson reported on some troubling details of the public arrest report. Blackman has previously used tools like DMCA takedowns and lawsuits to stifle reporting on his indiscretion, but that campaign now appears to have co-opted part of Google's search apparatus. The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) reported on Poulson's work and Blackman's attempts to combat it late last year. In June, Poulson contacted the Freedom of the Press Foundation to report that the article had mysteriously vanished from Google search results. The foundation began an investigation immediately, which led them to a little-known Google search feature known as Refresh Outdated Content. Google created this tool for users to report links with content that is no longer accurate or that lead to error pages. When it works correctly, Refresh Outdated Content can help make Google's search results more useful. However, Freedom of the Press Foundation now says that a bug allowed an unknown bad actor to scrub mentions of Blackman's arrest from the Internet. Upon investigating, FPF found that its article on Blackman was completely absent from Google results, even through a search with the exact title. Poulson later realized that two of his own Substack articles were similarly affected. The Foundation was led to the Refresh Outdated Content tool upon checking its search console. The bug in the tool allowed malicious actors to de-index valid URLs from search results by altering the capitalization in the URL slug. Although URLs are typically case-sensitive, Google's tool treated them as case-insensitive. As a result, when someone submitted a slightly altered version of a working URL (for example, changing "anatomy" to "AnAtomy"), Google's crawler would see it as a broken link (404 error) and mistakenly remove the actual page from search results. Ironically, Blackman is now CEO of the online reputation management firm The Transparency Company.

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Felix Winter, 18, has been jailed for six years for terrorism offences after plotting a 'Doomsday' mass shooting at his own secondary school in Edinburgh.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Beatles didn't invent the mystery tour. A century ago, holidaymakers were paying their pound for a ride to some surprise seaside town.

Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics

Analysis  Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…