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The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation should provide people of all creeds with cause for deep contemplation.

Dr Vincenzo Giordano (pictured), a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh , was charged with assaulting his victim to her injury.

While it was already the most common form of the disease in men, it has now overtaken breast cancer following a massive effort to find 'missing' cases from the pandemic.

A study of people starting their first job got an extra 28 minutes a day of moderate physical activity, such as walking or cycling.

The head of the Catholic Church called for greater media literacy and critical thinking, particularly among young people, in an address last weekend.

A boss has sparked fury after refusing to let an employee take the day off to attend her uncle's funeral over a bizarre reason.

CRAIG BROWN:Back in 2008, a man entered the Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds and decapitated the waxwork of Adolf Hitler.

Not long after her disastrous Budget last October, Rachel Reeves declared that she was 'not coming back with more borrowing and more taxes'.

Adele moved into Lock House in 2012 but soon left, claiming it was 'too scary'.

chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru's STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report published Thursday researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah revealed a now-patched flaw in Subaru's STARLINK connected vehicle service that allowed them to remotely control Subarus and access vehicle location information and driver data with nothing more than the vehicle's license plate number, or easily accessible information like the vehicle owner's email address, zip code and phone number. (Note: Subaru STARLINK is not to be confused with the Starlink satellite-based high speed Internet service.) [Curry and Shah downloaded a year's worth of vehicle location data for Curry's mother's 2023 Impreza (Curry bought her the car with the understanding that she'd let him hack it.) The two researchers also added themselves to a friend's STARLINK account without any notification to the owner and used that access to remotely lock and unlock the friend's Subaru.] The details of Curry and Shah's hack of the STARLINK telematics system bears a strong resemblance to hacks documented in his 2023 report Web Hackers versus the Auto Industry as well as a September, 2024 discovery of a remote access flaw in web-based applications used by KIA automotive dealers that also gave remote attackers the ability to steal owners' personal information and take control of their KIA vehicle. In each case, Curry and his fellow researchers uncovered publicly accessible connected vehicle infrastructure intended for use by [employees and dealers was found to be trivially vulnerable to compromise and lack even basic protections around account creation and authentication].

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Kelly Brook made the candid confession over the weekend about why she eventually chose to not have children. 

Wynne was comforted by his co-stars on his 53rd birthday on Monday, as they're mindful of his fragile low spirts.

The Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary told MPs that building a third runway at Europe's busiest airport 'must be justified within carbon budgets'.

Chinese startup DeepSeek rolls out open LLMs to rival Meta, OpenAI at fraction of cost

Share prices for some of the biggest American tech brands that crested the AI hype waves crashed this morning on the rocks of DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that last week released LLMs that challenges US dominance.…

Donald Trump has hinted at sending repeat American offenders to prisons abroad, even if they aren't in the country illegally.

West Sussex County Council is using up to $31 million from the sale of capital assets to fund an Oracle-based transformation project, originally budgeted at $3.2 million but now expected to cost nearly $50 million due to delays and cost overruns. The project, intended to replace a 20-year-old SAP system with a SaaS-based HR and finance system, has faced multiple setbacks, renegotiated contracts, and a new systems integrator, with completion now pushed to December 2025. The Register reports: West Sussex County Council is taking advantage of the so-called "flexible use of capital receipts scheme" introduced in 2016 by the UK government to allow councils to use money from the sale of assets such as land, offices, and housing to fund projects that result in ongoing revenue savings. An example of the asset disposals that might contribute to the project -- set to see the council move off a 20-year-old SAP system -- comes from the sale of a former fire station in Horley, advertised for $3.1 million. Meanwhile, the delays to the project, which began in November 2019, forced the council to renegotiate its terms with Oracle, at a cost of $3 million. The council had expected the new SaaS-based HR and finance system to go live in 2021, and signed a five-year license agreement until June 2025. The plans to go live were put back to 2023, and in the spring of 2024 delayed again until December 2025. According to council documents published this week [PDF], it has "approved the variation of the contract with Oracle Corporation UK Limited" to cover the period from June 2025 to June 2028 and an option to extend again to the period June 2028 to 2030. "The total value of the proposed variation is $2.96 million if the full term of the extension periods are taken," the council said.

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The This Morning presenter, 49, has teamed up with her son Aidan, 19, to star in her new BBC series Alison Hammond's Florida Unpacked.

Ahead of a major speech tomorrow, Ms Reeves told MPs tonight that the only way to relieve working people of cost of living pressures is through economic growth.

A display at Piccadilly Circus read 'Remembering the past for a better future' as a hopeful but poignant tribute to the millions who lost their lives in the WWII genocide.

Officers told 75-year-old Gary Hugh to relocate his three rifles and four shotguns after burglars ransacked his home in the raid and stole items including a white diamond ring worth £102,000.