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Strictly Come Dancing's Motsi Mabuse made an awkward gaffe when scoring during Saturday night's live show.

The beloved Back to the Future star, 64, was diagnosed with the progressive neurological disorder in 1991 at just 29 years old and went public with his condition seven years later.

I still remember the day my dad walked into the house dressed head to toe in black. Black shirt, black trousers, black shoes. He looked like a priest.

The Register reports: Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models. The deluge prompted project maintainer Daniel Stenberg to publish several blog posts about the issue in an effort to convince bug bounty hunters to show some restraint and not waste contributors' time with invalid issues. Shoddy AI-generated bug reports have been a problem not just for curl, but also for the Python community, Open Collective, and the Mesa Project. It turns out the problem is people rather than technology. Last month, the curl project received dozens of potential issues from Joshua Rogers, a security researcher based in Poland. Rogers identified assorted bugs and vulnerabilities with the help of various AI scanning tools. And his reports were not only valid but appreciated. Stenberg in a Mastodon post last month remarked, "Actually truly awesome findings." In his mailing list update last week, Stenberg said, "most of them were tiny mistakes and nits in ordinary static code analyzer style, but they were still mistakes that we are better off having addressed. Several of the found issues were quite impressive findings...." Stenberg told The Register that about 50 bugfixes based on Rogers' reports have been merged. "In my view, this list of issues achieved with the help of AI tooling shows that AI can be used for good," he said in an email. "Powerful tools in the hand of a clever human is certainly a good combination. It always was...!" Rogers wrote up a summary of the AI vulnerability scanning tools he tested. He concluded that these tools — Almanax, Corgea, ZeroPath, Gecko, and Amplify — are capable of finding real vulnerabilities in complex code. The Register's conclusion? AI tools "when applied with human intelligence by someone with meaningful domain experience, can be quite helpful." jantangring (Slashdot reader #79,804) has published an article on Stenberg's new position, including recently published comments from Stenberg that "It really looks like these new tools are finding problems that none of the old, established tools detect."

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Nigel Farage voiced interest in schemes reserving some new builds for those who are 'genuinely local' - although he stressed it was not Reform policy.

Just a little over a year after her husband of nearly six decades died at the age of 82, it was revealed what he left her in his will.

For Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's two daughters, it's a rare occasion for them to find themselves in the spotlight.

After almost 20 years fronting a chat show which garners some of the most famous faces in the world, Graham Norton must have had his fair share of ropey interviews.  

Toilets of the Word is the Lonely Planet's second guide to some of the most unusual and ostentatious places you can use the facilities.

It was once the case that a single royal appearance in Windsor-approved attire could propel a label into the global spotlight overnight, flooding it with orders and cementing its place in the style pages.

The iconic cocktail is made with vodka, vermouth and ice, garnished with 'large thin slice of lemon peel' - but a scientist suggest it's better stirred than shaken.

The Morning Show actress, whose eggs have faced more scrutiny than Faberge's finest over the years, has been getting candid over her childlessness.

Marcus Pollett, 65, who lives in Brighton, says he's spent his adult life trying to find peace after he was subjected to horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his boarding school teachers.

John Swinney was booed by a furious crowd as he spoke at an event at Holyrood to mark the second anniversary of the October 7 atrocities.

It's truly a unique thing to do as we head into the festive season

Obesity rates have soared in the last decade and is now a leading cause of disease according to a landmark new study as experts call for tougher measures to tackle the crisis.

Dramatic footage shows the Chinese ship using its cannon and chasing the Philippine boat, the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, moments before smashing into it near Thitu Island at 9.15am on Sunday.

Tickets are being sold online

Former talk show host DeGeneres and her actress wife have traded their glamorous lives in southern California for a more sedate way of life in the Cotswolds.

California's Privacy Protection Agency "issued a record fine earlier this month to Tractor Supply," according to an EFF Deeplinks blog post — for "apparently ducking its responsibilities under the California Consumer Privacy Act." Under that law, companies are required to respect California customers' and job applicants' rights to know, delete, and correct information that businesses collect about them, and to opt-out of some types of sharing and use. The law also requires companies to give notice of these rights, along with other information, to customers, job applicants, and others. The CPPA said that Tractor Supply failed several of these requirements. This is the first time the agency has enforced this data privacy law to protect job applicants... Tractor Supply, which has 2,500 stores in 49 states, will pay for their actions to the tune of $1,350,000 — the largest fine the agency has issued to date. Specifically, the agency said, Tractor Supply violated the law by: - Failing to maintain a privacy policy that notified consumers of their rights; - Failing to notify California job applicants of their privacy rights and how to exercise them; - Failing to provide consumers with an effective mechanism to opt-out of the selling and sharing of their personal information, including through opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control; and - Disclosing personal information to other companies without entering into contracts that contain privacy protections. In addition to the fine, the company also must take an inventory of its digital properties and tracking technologies and will have to certify its compliance with the California privacy law for the next four years. The agency's web site says it "continues to actively enforce California's cutting-edge privacy laws." It's recently issued decisions (and fines) against American Honda Motor Company and clothing retailer Todd Snyder. Other recent actions include: Securing a settlement agreement requiring data broker Background Alert — which promoted its ability to dig up "scary" amounts of information about people — to shut down or pay a steep fine. Launching the bipartisan Consortium of Privacy Regulators to collaborate with states across the country to implement and enforce privacy laws nationwide. Partnering with the data protection authorities in Korea, France, and the United Kingdom to share information and advance privacy protections for Californians. The agency has secured more than half a dozen successful enforcement actions against unregistered data brokers following an investigative sweep launched late last year to assess compliance with the Delete Act.

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