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Break the August curse. That is the first job for Vitor Pereira and his Wolves players as they look to improve their wretched record at the start of the season.

Manchester United will open the doors to a new-look Carrington on Friday morning, the latest step in a revolution under Sir Jim Ratcliffe that has brought transformation and more than enough turbulence.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure -- as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world -- that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping. When the researchers publicly disclosed the issue in 2023, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which developed the algorithm, advised anyone using it for sensitive communication to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the flawed algorithm to bolster the security of their communications. But now the same researchers have found that at least one implementation of the end-to-end encryption solution endorsed by ETSI has a similar issue that makes it equally vulnerable to eavesdropping. The encryption algorithm used for the device they examined starts with a 128-bit key, but this gets compressed to 56 bits before it encrypts traffic, making it easier to crack. It's not clear who is using this implementation of the end-to-end encryption algorithm, nor if anyone using devices with the end-to-end encryption is aware of the security vulnerability in them. Wired notes that the end-to-end encryption the researchers examined is most commonly used by law enforcement and national security teams. "But ETSI's endorsement of the algorithm two years ago to mitigate flaws found in its lower-level encryption algorithm suggests it may be used more widely now than at the time."

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What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?

The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …

Royal biographer Andrew Lownie made the bombshell claim in his new 456-page tome 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York'.

NASA's rover on Mars has made an 'amazing' discovery that has sparked fresh claims about life on the Red Planet.

Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing to crack down on HBO Max password sharing by the end of 2025, with "aggressive" enforcement and messaging starting next month. Deadline reports: JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery said on the company's second-quarter earnings call that messaging to consumers is about to get more "aggressive." The media company looking to close the loopholes by the end of 2025, with the impact starting to appear in its financials by 2026. Several months of testing has enabled WBD to determine "who's a legitimate user who may not be a legitimate user," Perrette said. Once that is determined, he continued, the next step is to "turn on the more aggressive language around what needs to happen" in order to and make sure that "we are putting the net in the right place, so to speak." Asked about what "inning" the process is in, to use the baseball cliche, Perrette said only the first. By the fourth quarter, he said, the process will be happening "in a much more aggressive fashion." "The message language right now has been a fairly soft, cancel-able message," he said. It will "start to get more fixed and such that people have to take action as opposed to right now, sort of having to be a voluntary process." Once those directives are established, he said, "the real benefit will start probably in the fourth quarter and then kick in in 2026."

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Brad Pitt's bitter feud with ex Angelina Jolie hasn't only kept his kids away from him, but also from his mother Jane who died without seeing her grandkids for nine years.

After sacking me from my magazine editor's job, the managing director ran through the details of the exit deal. I had only one demand: I wanted to keep the company car for six months.

The Grade I-listed building on the edge of Hyde Park stages more than 390 shows a year in the main auditorium, including classical, rock and pop concerts.

The reality is that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's tax-and-spend agenda and the greed of disruptive unions in the public sector are gutting the British economy.

Youth worker John Davidson, who has been diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, has recalled the moment he met the late Queen Elizabeth II - and blurted out some rather choice words.

Katie Price condemned her daughter Princess Andre's upcoming ITV2 documentary as she broke her silence on reports of a 'feud'. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: In an interview, Lansweeper, an IT asset discovery and inventory company, revealed to ZDNET that, in its analysis of over 15 million identified consumer desktop operating systems, it found that Linux desktops currently account for just over 6% of PC market share. This news comes after several other studies have shown the Linux desktop is right around the 6% mark. Indeed, according to the US Federal Government Website and App Analytics count, the Linux desktop market share over the last 90 days has reached 6.3%, a new high. In July, according to StatCounter, the Linux desktop also set a record high by its metrics with 5.24%.

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Matthew Edward Cameron, 22, was arrested at the Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando on October 19.

Lauren McFarland, 30, lost control of her red Fiat Punto as she drove along the A66 near Keswick, in Cumbria, in January last year.

The famous thespian has had several big name roles in film and television with perhaps his work on highly-popular ABC series Lost being the biggest. His father has also starred in 2015's Insurgent.

Amy Bradley vanished while on a family holiday in 1998, and, despite potential sightings, the case has never been sold.

Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus

Several sections of the online annotated US Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress vanished recently due to what the Library maintains was a coding error. However, the content of the now-restored sections has raised suspicions that the move was political. …

Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans

Black Hat  Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…