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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Password manager 1Password's 2025 Annual Report: The Access-Trust Gap exposes how everyday employees are becoming accidental hackers in the AI era. The company's data shows that 73% of workers are encouraged to use AI tools, yet more than a third admit they do not always follow corporate policies. Many employees are feeding sensitive information into large language models or using unapproved AI apps to get work done, creating what 1Password calls "Shadow AI." At the same time, traditional defenses like single sign-on (SSO) and mobile device management (MDM) are failing to keep pace, leaving gaps in visibility and control. The report warns that corporate security is being undermined from within. More than half of employees have installed software without IT approval, two-thirds still use weak passwords, and 38% have accessed accounts at previous employers. Despite rising enthusiasm for passkeys and passwordless authentication, 1Password says most organizations still depend on outdated systems that were never built for cloud-native, AI-driven work. The result is a growing "Access-Trust Gap" that could allow AI chaos and employee shortcuts to dismantle enterprise security from the inside.

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Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly stepped down from her presenting role to 'spend more time with family' amid her marriage woes to husband Vernon Kay .

Locals on a windswept Scottish island claim they are under siege from thousands of anti-social tourists every year with the situation so stark that visitors who are caught short are now defecating.

Thomas Waller, 18, who was newly-qualified to work with children, preyed on his young victims in the toilets.

Three people have been arrested after women's rights groups and trans rights activists clashed 199 days after the Supreme Court's transgender ruling. 

Justin and Hailey Bieber's son Jack is already stealing the spotlight at just 1 year old, and his Halloween costume this year was nothing short of iconic. 

British war heroes will be able to travel from Hull to the war memorial in London and back for the annual commemoration.

Nine people have been arrested after England's second city descended into a 'war zone' as unruly yobs launched fireworks at a packed double-decker bus. 

They have been keeping fishermen warm for hundreds of years - but Fair Isle jumpers have now become this winter's hottest trend.

My guess is that the British monarchy is now finished. The end is only a matter of time. This may possibly have been the case before Thursday. But it became certain that evening.

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: [C]iting delays in Starship's development and competitive pressure from China, NASA asked SpaceX and Blue Origin — which holds a separate lunar lander contract with the space agency — to submit plans to expedite development of their respective spacecraft by October 29. Both companies have responded. But the space agency is also asking the broader commercial space industry to detail how they might get the job done more quickly, hinting that NASA leadership is prepared to sideline its current partners. CNN spoke with half a dozen companies about how they plan to respond to NASA's call to action, which the agency will formally issue once the government shutdown ends, according to a source familiar with the matter. One possibility is Lockheed Martin... Notably, as a legacy NASA contractor, the company built the $20.4 billion Orion spacecraft that astronauts will ride when they take off from Earth... Now, Lockheed says it can piece together a two-stage lunar lander that uses spare parts harvested from Orion. The company would make use of Space Shuttle-era OMS-E engines — which are also used on Orion — to serve as the propulsion for an "ascent stage" of the lunar lander, providing the thrust for the vehicle to lift off the moon after a mission is completed. But the vehicle also needs a descent stage to get down to the lunar surface in the first place... Other commercial space companies contacted by CNN — including Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman — said simply that they were "ready to support" NASA in its endeavor to find a faster way to complete the Artemis III mission. They did not confirm whether they would formally respond to the space agency's anticipated request for companies to submit proposals. The more important goal, argue some experts, is to pave the way for a permanent lunar base where astronauts can live and work... [P]erhaps the true winner will be the country that is able to build lasting infrastructure, experts say. "It makes great press fodder to frame this as competition," said one space policy source, who was among several that spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity to discuss controversial issues. "But this is about the long game and the sustainability."

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Alan Carr's 'genius game plan' has been revealed by his dumped co-star Kate Garraway.

Harry Potter star Jessie Cave has detailed how her OnlyFans career came to be after she struggled to get by as an actress and writer. 

Dulcie White, 66, fell overboard and died on October 22, 2024 while on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas Taylor Swift-themed cruise.

Harriet Green searches for ways to ditch her lifelong caffeine addiction and is surprised by what she discovers

A teacher has been struck off after falsely claiming to have cancer as part of an extraordinary web of lies that ended with her faking her own death.

Raquels nightclub in Basildon was the place to be in the 1970s and 1980s, but it has been left abandoned for more than two decades - and the interior is largely untouched

An anonymous reader shared this report from NPR: It's known as the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil: A triceratops and a tyrannosaur, skeletons entangled, locked in apparent combat right up until the moment of their mutual demise... That discovery in 2006 now appears to have overturned decades of dinosaur dogma about Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome giant long thought to be the sole top predator stalking the late Cretaceous. In a paper in the journal Nature, paleontologists Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli conclude that some of the bones from that specimen belong not to a teenage T. rex, but to a fully grown individual of a different tyrannosaur species — Nanotyrannus lancensis.... One of the first of those red flags in the new specimen was the arm bones. They looked completely different than T. rex's puny appendages... "These are powerful arms with large claws, large hands. They were using them for prey capture." Contrast that with T. rex, "an animal that's a mouth on legs." There were additional clues. The animal had fewer tail vertebrae and more teeth than T. rex. Zanno and Napoli considered other lines of evidence. They created 3D models of numerous purported T. rexes against which they compared their specimen. They looked at the growth stages of the cranial nerves and sinuses of close living relatives of dinosaurs, features that were visible in the fossilized skeleton. "But maybe the most important and damning thing that we did was we were able to figure out that our animal is not a juvenile at all," she says. This conclusion was based on slicing through the fossil's limb bones to examine the growth rings. That work demonstrated that this animal was mature and done growing when it died around the age of 20. "That means it's half the size and a tenth of the mass of a full grown Tyrannosaurus rex," says Zanno... In addition, while making models of all those other alleged T. rex skeletons, Zanno says they identified another new species of tyrannosaur, one they're calling Nanotyrannus lethaeus... "It tells us that these end-Cretaceous ecosystems right before the asteroid hit were flourishing," says Zanno. "They had an abundance of different predators. And refutes this idea that dinosaurs were in decline before the asteroid struck."

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The TV farmer, 51, took to social media to share the heartbreaking update with her loyal fan base this week.

It is just one of hundreds of schemes funded through the ICF which will spend a staggering £11.6bn in foreign aid on behalf of the British taxpayer by the end of this financial year.