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Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable

The US federal government employs tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals at a cost of billions per year – or at least it thinks it does, as auditors have found the figures are incomplete and unreliable. …

To lose one prime minister is unfortunate, but to lose six in eight years is downright negligent.

One of the most joyous pieces of television you'll see this year involves Sir Michael Palin, our most adventurous octogenarian, picking his way behind one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.

Last night, at the 2025 VMAs, Jessica Simpson arrived to the carpet with a dramatic new look, as she appeared looking younger and fresher than ever before - and a plastic surgeon is weighing in.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won't result. Speaking during the keynote address of the firm's Symposium event in Australia today, VP analyst Alicia Mullery said 81 percent of work is currently done by humans acting alone without AI assistance. Five years from now Gartner believes 75 percent of IT work will be human activity augmented by AI, with the remainder performed by bots alone. Distinguished VP analyst Daryl Plummer said this shift will mean IT departments gain labor capacity and will need to show they deserve to keep it. "You never want to look like you have too many people," he advised, before suggesting technology leaders consult with peers elsewhere in a business to identify value-adding opportunities IT departments can execute. Plummer said Gartner doesn't foresee an "AI jobs bloodbath" in IT or other industries for at least five years, adding that just one percent of job losses today are attributable to AI. He and Mullery did predict a reduction in entry-level jobs, as AI lets senior staff tackle work they would once have assigned to juniors. The two analysts also forecast that businesses will struggle to implement AI effectively, because the costs of running AI workloads balloon. ERP, Plummer said, has straightforward up-front costs: You pay to license and implement it, then to train people so they can use it. AI needs that same initial investment but few organizations can keep up with AI vendors' pace of innovation. Adopting AI therefore creates a requirement for near-constant exploration of use cases and subsequent retraining. Plummer said orgs that adopt AI should expect to uncover 10 unanticipated ancillary costs, among them the need to acquire new datasets, and the costs of managing multiple models. The need to use one AI model to check the output of others -- a necessary step to verify accuracy -- is another cost to consider. AI's hidden costs mean Gartner believes 65 percent of CIOs aren't breaking even on AI investments.

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Weight loss drugs currently on the market and in development target one, two, or even three hormone receptors, primarily the gut hormones.

Meanwhile the victim count grows

The Salesloft Drift breach that compromised "hundreds" of companies including Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, all started with miscreants gaining access to the Salesloft GitHub account in March.…

Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more

Infosec in brief  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz TP-Link are under active attack and need to be fixed – but there's another flaw being exploited as well.…

At least eight people have died and 45 injured after a train crashed into a double-decker bus. Authorities are at the scene.

The actress told Bryony Gordon how she and the Hollywood star would spend hours shopping together in Mexico, where DiCaprio's choice to wear dresses led to an awkward misunderstanding.

The Royal Family has paid tribute to the third year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Prince Harry, who arrived in the UK this morning for the start of a four-day visit, will return to Nottingham , a city which holds special significance for himself and wife Meghan Markle.

The Princess of Wales has unexpectedly joined Prince William on an engagement to mark the third anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death.

Grateful as I am to be getting older, I've recently become acutely aware of my neck collapsing, with a distinct turkey look appearing when I twist my head in the mirror.

An anonymous reader shares a report: In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising a maintainer's account in a phishing attack. The package maintainer whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that hosts a website impersonating the legitimate npmjs.com domain. In the emails, the attackers threatened that the targeted maintainers' accounts would be locked on September 10th, 2025, as a scare tactic to get them to click on the link redirecting them to the phishing sites.

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Sam Buchan, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, had travelled almost 600 miles to attend the popular three-part race held in Swansea.

The Mysterious Girl hitmaker, 52, opted for a sharp cream suit while his wife, 36, stunned in an elegant white dress with matching accessories.

I'm a fit 78-year-old but, since having sex aged 23, I've experienced very strong, painful itching in my genitalia. I'm desperate to rid myself of this suffering.

Hyundai used to be a cheap, clunky car company. Somehow, it's transformed into an EV pace-setter.

Tube workers marked the third anniversary of the King's accession to the throne by bringing London to a standstill. Meanwhile, London's two-bob chancer of a mayor, Genghis Khan, was missing in action...