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Mohammed Anwar Zeb, 51, was found dead in a ditch at the back of his home in the remote rural village of Shingardar, in the north of the country.

The Property Ladder legend, 53, appeared on the show - which aims to raise funds for cancer patients and treatments - alongside Roman Kemp, Maxine Peake and Amelia Dimoldenberg .

Maryann Taylor, 52, was abroad last September when she noticed something unusual on her security footage, which she'd checked to see how her dogs were doing in her absence.

He burst onto the scene last week as he made his debut in the critically-acclaimed Netflix series Adolescence. And now fans have got an insight into 15-year-old Owen Cooper's audition tape.

March Madness fans have criticized CBS for focusing too much on one female fan during Florida's thrilling win over UConn.

University of Georgia student Lily Stewart, 20, whose glamorous mugshot went viral last week was arrested for a second time on Sunday.

Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World: : AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule configuration files, Pillar Security researchers reported Tuesday. Rules files are used by AI coding agents to guide their behavior when generating or editing code. For example, a rules file may include instructions for the assistant to follow certain coding best practices, utilize specific formatting, or output responses in a specific language. The attack technique developed by Pillar Researchers, which they call 'Rules File Backdoor,' weaponizes rules files by injecting them with instructions that are invisible to a human user but readable by the AI agent. Hidden Unicode characters like bidirectional text markers and zero-width joiners can be used to obfuscate malicious instructions in the user interface and in GitHub pull requests, the researchers noted. Rules configurations are often shared among developer communities and distributed through open-source repositories or included in project templates; therefore, an attacker could distribute a malicious rules file by sharing it on a forum, publishing it on an open-source platform like GitHub or injecting it via a pull request to a popular repository. Once the poisoned rules file is imported to GitHub Copilot or Cursor, the AI agent will read and follow the attacker's instructions while assisting the victim's future coding projects.

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis seemed unbothered by the swirling 'marriage drama' rumors as they jetted off to Rome for a family getaway. The couple were spotted with their two children.

Rachel Zegler has been through a lot since she was cast as the lead in Disney's new Snow White film, which debuted at number one after its Friday opening.

The Geordie Shore star, 29, flaunted her honed curves in the lilac and pink two-piece while dancing around for a recent Snapchat clip.

Lauren Sánchez is keeping fans guessing. The journalist posted a cryptic message on Instagram just as news broke that she and Jeff Bezos reportedly sent out wedding invites.

The collision was reported at 2.48am on the northbound carriageway between junctions 24 and 23 near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Her character, consultant Connie Beauchamp, suffered trials including a helicopter crash and drug dependency - and it seems Amanda Mealing's off-screen tribulations have been just as tragic.

Just weeks after Spencer Matthews attended the Spanish wedding of his close friend Jamie Laing alone, his glamorous wife was uncharacteristically silent on their five-year anniversary in 2023.

The Canadian comedian, 41, revealed on Friday that she's battling melanoma for the second time, after having a mole on her arm removed.

For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now "Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative," according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht University community): Employees of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) were recently advised to switch to Signal. Avans University of Applied Sciences has also been discussing a switch...The National Student Union is concerned about privacy. The subject was raised at last week's general meeting, as reported by chair Abdelkader Karbache, who said: "Our local unions want to switch to Signal or other open-source software." Besides being open source, Signal is a non-commercial nonprofit, the article points out — though its proponents suggest there's another big difference. "HU argues that Signal keeps users' data private, unlike WhatsApp." Cybernews.com explains the concern: In an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Meredith Whittaker [president of the Signal Foundation] discussed the pitfalls of WhatsApp. "WhatsApp collects metadata: who you send messages to, when, and how often. That's incredibly sensitive information," she says.... The only information [Signal] collects is the date an account was registered, the time when an account was last active, and hashed phone numbers... Information like profile name and the people a user communicates with is all encrypted... Metadata might sound harmless, but it couldn't be further from the truth. According to Whittaker, metadata is deadly. "As a former CIA director once said: 'We kill people based on metadata'." WhatsApp's metadata also includes IP addresses, TechRadar noted last May: Other identifiable data such as your network details, the browser you use, ISP, and other identifiers linked to other Meta products (like Instagram and Facebook) associated with the same device or account are also collected... [Y]our IP can be used to track down your location. As the company explained, even if you keep the location-related features off, IP addresses and other collected information like phone number area codes can be used to estimate your "general location." WhatsApp is required by law to share this information with authorities during an investigation... [U]nder scrutiny is how Meta itself uses these precious details for commercial purposes. Again, this is clearly stated in WhatsApp's privacy policy and terms of use. "We may use the information we receive from [other Meta companies], and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings," reads the policy. This means that yes, your messages are always private, but WhatsApp is actively collecting your metadata to build your digital persona across other Meta platforms... The article suggests using a VPN with WhatsApp and turning on its "advanced privacy feature" (which hides your IP address during calls) and managing the app's permissions for data collection. "While these steps can help reduce the amount of metadata collected, it's crucial to bear in mind that it's impossible to completely avoid metadata collection on the Meta-owned app... For extra privacy and security, I suggest switching to the more secure messaging app Signal." The article also includes a cautionary anecdote. "It was exactly a piece of metadata — a Proton Mail recovery email — that led to the arrest of a Catalan activist." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader united_notions for sharing the article.

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Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz put on a very loved-up display while enjoying a horse ride by the beach.

The female comics, who star in Amazon Prime's Last One Laughing UK, made the admission in an interview with The Sunday Times.

Vladimir Putin inflicted a night of drone terror on Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing a girl aged five and her father.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been handed the dubious accolade just days before she is due to deliver a critical Spring Statement.