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Adverts for 'rosacea and acne curing' LED face masks have been banned for making unsubstantiated health claims.

With a six-figure City job, I convinced myself that because I binged only on 'good wine' and cocktails there was nothing to worry about.

The total for 2024/25 is up 27 per cent from 6,922 referrals the year before - pushing it to the highest figure since the UK Home Office began recording data in 2015.

The Health Secretary hit out at the British Medical Association (BMA) ahead of their planned five-day strikes later this month.

Bianca Censori turned more than a few heads when she stepped out in Melbourne with family this week.

Dashcam footage, taken by lorry driver Lee Flower,  shows a truck travelling down the M5 when a red car towing a caravan comes speeding down the motorway.

The 54-year-old billionaire has been candid about using Mounjaro to slim down, jokingly referring to himself as 'Ozempic Santa' last Christmas.

Britain's latest knight of the realm David Beckham was treated to his favourite food and drink as he celebrated his investiture on Tuesday with a lavish bash.

It's arguably one of the more memorable tracks on Lily Allen 's new album, an unsweetened and often unsavoury account of her turbulent marriage to David Harbour.

Villagers in Pilning, Gloucestershire, say a new 'stadium-sized' warehouse which has sprung up behind their properties has devalued their homes and is blighting their lives.

Over the last 12 months, countless headlines have detailed plane incidents - some fatal and many not. 

Coca Cola's AI-made holiday ad may be merry, but it's not too bright. 

Gavin Prodger, 55, ploughed into Lily Lockwood in his speeding Audi as she made her way to buy sweets in Dartford, Kent, in 2021.

It is set to open at a former Debenhams

The 36-year-old wrote on the UK-based parenting website Mumsnet that she had been feeling 'awful' about her appearance, adding that she hardly recognises herself in the mirror.

Justice Secretary David Lammy is struggling to contain a mounting backlash after stonewalling repeated questions about bungles in the Commons yesterday.

Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen

Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…

A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer -- something he hadn't consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device. He sent it to the service center multiple times, wherein the technicians would turn it on and see nothing wrong with the vacuum. When they returned it to him, it would work for a few days and then fail to boot again. After several rounds of back-and-forth, the service center probably got tired and just stopped accepting it, saying it was out of warranty. Because of this, he decided to disassemble the thing to determine what killed it and to see if he could get it working again. [...] So, why did the A11 work at the service center but refuse to run in his home? The technicians would reset the firmware on the smart vacuum, thus removing the kill code, and then connect it to an open network, making it run normally. But once it connected again to the network that had its telemetry servers blocked, it was bricked remotely because it couldn't communicate with the manufacturer's servers. Since he blocked the appliance's data collection capabilities, its maker decided to just kill it altogether. "Someone -- or something -- had remotely issued a kill command," says Harishankar. "Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of 'compliance,' the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner." In the end, the owner was able to run his vacuum fully locally without manufacturer control after all the tweaks he made. This helped him retake control of his data and make use of his $300 software-bricked smart device on his own terms. As for the rest of us who don't have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to "Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices" and to "Treat them as strangers in your home."

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This cat language test challenges you to look at seven interactions between humans and cats and guess whether it is positive or negative.

It started with exhaustion. Not the kind that goes away with a nap or a night of decent sleep, but the kind that seeps into your bones and makes even breathing feel heavy.