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On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that tells your stories of tech support jobs performed under stress, duress, and all sorts of mess.…

Residents in Birmingham - where bills are up 17.5 per cent in two years - chased bin lorries down the street after a week-long strike left piles of rubbish sacks standing waist high, with rats running rampant.

Yesterday a 51-year-old half-sister emerged from the shadows complaining of neglect and launching a blistering attack on her famous sibling's character.

Maddie Borge, who lives in London, embarked on a long overnight flight to Sydney in economy class with Etihad Airways last month when she discovered the hack.

Vivian Wilson, 20, appeared on the latest cover of Teen Vogue after rising to notoriety in the last year for frequently bashing her estranged father over his politics .

Around 10,500 new cases of bladder cancer are recorded in the UK each year- about 29 people per day.

Days after reuniting with her teen daughter Suri Cruise for spring break, Katie Holmes was back to her Hollywood duties on Thursday.

Mike Fazakerley, the stepfather Adolescence star Graham adores - and calls simply 'pops' - has spoken for the first time about his pride and the profound bond they share.

Jordan had a rollercoaster ride of a life, not just within racing, and the former team owner's entrepreneurial instincts paired with his character brought him a whole host of success.

The “genteel” market town of Saffron Walden tops the list of 72 locations chosen by The Sunday Times. Here's why it got the crown for 2025.

The “genteel” market town of Saffron Walden tops the list of 72 locations chosen by The Sunday Times. Here's why it got the crown for 2025.

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI attempted to purchase hundreds of millions of arrest records including social security numbers, mugshots, and even email addresses to incorporate into its product, 404 Media reports. From the report: For years, Clearview AI has collected billions of photos from social media websites including Facebook, LinkedIn and others and sold access to its facial recognition tool to law enforcement. The collection and sale of user-generated photos by a private surveillance company to police without that person's knowledge or consent sparked international outcry when it was first revealed by the New York Times in 2020. New documents obtained by 404 Media reveal that Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase "690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos" from all 50 states from an intelligence firm. The contract further describes the records as including current and former home addresses, dates of birth, arrest photos, social security and cell phone numbers, and email addresses. Clearview attempted to purchase this data from Investigative Consultant, Inc. (ICI) which billed itself as an intelligence company with access to tens of thousands of databases and the ability to create unique data streams for its clients. The contract was signed in mid-2019, at a time when Clearview AI was quietly collecting billions of photos off the internet and was relatively unknown at the time.

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They are all unique and loved for different reasons

David Norris, 48, has always denied being involved in the 1993 murder of the teenager. But as he makes a bid for freedom ahead of a parole hearing, a ruling released revealed this has changed.

Today we have a whole batch of category errors, picked out from the rash of submissions and a few that have been festering on the shelf. Just for fun, I threw in an ironic off-by-some meta-error. See if you can spot it.

Adam R. "I'm looking for hotel rooms for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Most hotels haven't opened up reservations yet, except for ridiculously overprice hospitality packages. This search query found NaN facilities available, which equates to one very expensive apartment. I guess one is not a number now?"

 

Intrepid traveler BJH had a tough time at the Intercontinental. I almost feel sympathy. Almost. "I stare at nulls at home all the time so it made me feel comfortable to see them at the hotel when traveling. And what is that 'INTERCONTINENTAL W...' at the top? I may never know!"

 

Hoping to find out, BJ clicked through the mystery menu and discovered... this. But even worse, "There was no exit: Clicking Exit did nothing and neither did any of the buttons on the remote. Since I'd received more entertainment than usual from a hotel screen I just turned everything off."

 

Striking out for some streaming entertainment Dmitry NoLastName was silently stymied by this double-decker from Frontier.com.

 

No streaming needed for Barry M. who can get a full dose of fun from those legacy broadcast channels! Whatever did they do before null null undefined null? "Hey, want to watch TV tonight? NaN."

 

Hah! "That's MISTER Null, to you," declared an anonymous contributor.

 

And finally, another entirely different anonymous contributor clarified that there are apparently NaN cellphone towers in Switzerland. Personally, I'm intrigued by the existence of that one little crumb of English on an otherwise entirely German page.

 

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Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied

Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…

Freedman is representing the It Ends with Us director and leading man in the drawn-out litigation with Lively surrounding the stormy production of their summer hit.

Qubit awkward, you might say

GTC  Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…

It sets out how they will tackle homelessness in the district

The majority of surgeries in this area have already adopted the "total triage" system.