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Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been charged with conspiracy and smuggling, after authorities found the haunting toxic fungus in his backpack.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share news about her lifestyle venture on the official business page.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report: A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to his role in a "swatting" ring that targeted dozens of public officials, including a former US president. Going by the aliases "Plank," "Jonah" and "Cypher," 26-year-old Thomasz Szabo took part in a years-long conspiracy to place bogus 911 calls, claiming emergencies were taking place at the homes of top government officials, and make bomb threats against government buildings and houses of worship, according to the Justice Department. Szabo and a co-conspirator, 21-year-old Serbian national Nemanja Radovanovic, allegedly targeted about 100 people, including members of Congress, governors, cabinet-level executive branch officials and state officials. Szabo, who was extradited from Romania last November, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of making bomb threats. He is slated to be sentenced in a Washington, DC, federal court in October. [...] Charges against Radovanovic are still pending.

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An Irish woman who lived in Australia has revealed why she moved back home to Galway. She said the soap Home and Away inspired her to move but when she landed, it wasn't like she had envisioned.

One of the world's most famous psychic spies has revealed how he saw an alien colony hiding on the moon and was sworn to secrecy by the US government.

Elon Musk went nuclear on President Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill on Tuesday, calling it 'a disgusting abomination' and condemning lawmakers who voted for it.

Despite reportedly being worth an estimated $1 billion, MrBeast claims he has 'very little money' and needs his family's support to fund his upcoming wedding to his fiancée.

An investigation has been launched after a referee was punched following a junior football match in Switzerland.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his son Patrick blush while talking about watching him bare it all in season three of HBO's hit drama The White Lotus.

The OECD called for the Chancellor to target tax loopholes and even highlighted council tax re-evaluation as a potential way to raise revenue.

More than two in five spend as much as £100 on a date, a survey found. This means individuals who go on two dates a month pay £2,400 a year.

"It appears as though Meta (aka: Facebook's parent company) and Yandex have found a way to sidestep the Android Sandbox," writes Slashdot reader TheWho79. Researchers disclose the novel tracking method in a report: We found that native Android apps -- including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser -- silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes. These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets. As native apps access programmatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts. This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android's permission controls. Worse, it opens the door for potentially malicious apps eavesdropping on users' web activity. While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts and identifiers, both of them essentially misuse the unvetted access to localhost sockets. The Android OS allows any installed app with the INTERNET permission to open a listening socket on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1). Browsers running on the same device also access this interface without user consent or platform mediation. This allows JavaScript embedded on web pages to communicate with native Android apps and share identifiers and browsing habits, bridging ephemeral web identifiers to long-lived mobile app IDs using standard Web APIs. This technique circumvents privacy protections like Incognito Mode, cookie deletion, and Android's permission model, with Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts silently communicating with apps across over 6 million websites combined. Following public disclosure, Meta ceased using this method on June 3, 2025. Browser vendors like Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and DuckDuckGo have implemented or are developing mitigations, but a full resolution may require OS-level changes and stricter enforcement of platform policies to prevent further abuse.

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The music mogul, 55, could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is found guilty of using his wealth and fame to run a criminal enterprise.

The wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, the suspect who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israeli protestors in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, have been arrested by authorities.

A group of aggrieved bureaucrats at the Institute of Peace say their building was ravaged by billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE agents after retaking their headquarters from their control.

The president was photographed Friday holding up his iPhone as he got off Air Force One, revealing he continues to use an image of himself as a lock screen.

Colorado ranch owner, Kerri Higgs is investigating the mysterious death of 15 of their cows after they all died one day in early May.

The former top model died last year aged 88 and the total amount of money she bequeathed to her sons and daughter has now been revealed.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Latin Times: A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots. Builder.ai, a London-based company previously valued at $1.5 billion, marketed its platform as an AI-powered solution that made building apps as simple as ordering pizza. Its virtual assistant, "Natasha," was supposed to generate software using artificial intelligence. In reality, nearly 700 engineers in India were manually coding customer requests behind the scenes, the Times of India reported. The ruse began to collapse in May when lender Viola Credit seized $37 million from the company's accounts, uncovering that Builder.ai had inflated its 2024 revenue projections by 300%. An audit revealed the company generated just $50 million in revenue, far below the $220 million it claimed to investors. A Wall Street Journal report from 2019 had already questioned Builder.ai's AI claims, and a former executive sued the company that same year for allegedly misleading investors and overstating its technical capabilities. Despite that, the company raised over $445 million from big names including Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority. Builder.ai's collapse has triggered a federal investigation in the U.S., with prosecutors in New York requesting financial documents and customer records.

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When author Melissa Febos decided to stop having sex, it wasn't because of a breakup, a religious epiphany, or a viral celibacy challenge.