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For David Beckham, being handed a knighthood is even more of a precious honour than most.

Lawyers in England and Wales have been warned they could face 'severe sanctions' including potential criminal prosecution if they present false material generated by AI in court.

Every now and again, something happens which makes you realise that, beneath an apparently egalitarian surface, Britain is still riven with class division, says A.N. WILSON.

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: [Volvo] is debuting a new version of the three-point seatbelt that it believes is a major improvement over the original. The new design will be a smart belt that adapts to each occupant's body and adjusts the belt load accordingly. It uses data from interior and exterior sensors to customize protection based on the road conditions and the specific occupants. The technology will debut on the upcoming EX60 crossover. According to Volvo, the onboard sensors can accurately detect a passenger's height, weight, body shape, and seating position. Based on real-time data, the belts optimize protection -- increasing belt load for larger passengers or lowering it for smaller passengers. While the technology for customizing protection isn't new -- Volvo's current belts already use three load-limiting profiles- the new belts increase that number to 11. The belts should also get safer over time, too, as they are equipped to receive over-the-air updates. sinij adds: "Downloading patches for your seat belts from China. What could possibly go wrong?"

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When I boarded a flight for New York on Thursday, Donald Trump and Elon Musk were still sticking to the script: though the dizzy days of their bromance might be over, the separation was amicable.

The government is putting all its eggs in one basket as it lines up the Department for Health for a £30billion cash boost at next week's spending review.

MATTHEW LAMBWELL ON PHILIPPE CHARTRIER: In this French Open semi-final clash between the best in the world and the best of all time, the 23-year-old Sinner won 6-4, 7-5, 7-6.

Scores of dealers based in the UK and China are using social media to openly advertise their cut-price illegal fat jabs to vulnerable people.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will unveil plans to switch to a 'digital first' system, with almost all patient communications made via the NHS app.

Nick Knowles and his fiancée Katie Dadzie were spotted arriving at their wedding venue on Friday.

A convicted killer and former police chief's daring escape triggered a massive two-week manhunt across Arkansas. After days of fear and an intense multi-agency search he's been captured.

Akua Reindorf, who is drafting guidance on how to treat trans people following April's ruling on the definition of a woman, added that the blame lay with their lobbyists.

The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: The Linux Foundation on Friday introduced a new method to distribute WordPress updates and plugins that's not controlled by any one party, in a bid to "stabilize the WordPress ecosystem" after months of infighting. The FAIR Package Manager project is a response to the legal brawl that erupted last year, pitting WordPress co-creator Matthew Mullenweg, his for-profit hosting firm Automattic, and the WordPress Foundation that he controls, against WP Engine, a rival commercial WordPress hosting firm. [...] The Linux Foundation says the FAIR Package Manager, a mechanism for distributing open-source WordPress plugins, "eliminates reliance on any single source for core updates, plugins, themes, and more, unites a fragmented ecosystem by bringing together plugins from any source, and builds security into the supply chain." In other words, it can't be weaponized against the WordPress community because it won't be controlled by any one entity. "The FAIR Package Manager project paves the way for the stability and growth of open source content management, giving contributors and businesses additional options governed by a neutral community," said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, in a canned press statement. "We look forward to the growth in community and contributions this important project attracts." The FAIR Package Manager repo explains the software's purpose more succinctly. The software "is a decentralized alternative to the central WordPress.org plugin and theme ecosystem, designed to return control to WordPress hosts and developers. It operates as a drop-in WordPress plugin, seamlessly replacing existing centralized services with a federated, open-source infrastructure." In addition to providing some measure of stability, the Linux Foundation sees the FAIR Package Manager as advancing WordPress' alignment with Europe's General Data Protection Regulation by reducing automatic browser data transmission and telemetry sent to commercial entities, while also supporting modern security practices and strengthening the open source software supply chain.

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DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing

Security guru Bruce Schneier played the skunk at the garden party in a Thursday federal hearing on AI's use in the government, focusing on the risks many are ignoring.…

'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow Daybell, 51, is facing charges in Arizona for the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece.

The body of Samantha Murphy, 32, was found at a house in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Thursday morning.

Kamara, whose charisma earned him plenty of fans during his 24 years with Sky Sports, was diagnosed with the rare neurological condition that affects your ability to speak in 2022.

Newly-single Romeo Beckham cut a sombre figure on Friday night in the wake of his split from Kim Turnbull. 

As several civil servants continue to shun returning to the office, attendances fell or remained static in more than half of government departments over the first three-month quarter of this year.

Statins lower cholesterol to prevent heart attacks and strokes and are taken by around 5 million adults in the UK.