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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.…

A property owner who bought a crumbling house has laughed all the way to the bank after revamping the abode during an episode of Homes Under The Hammer.

President Trump is set to sign an executive order opening up 401(k) retirements plans to alternative assets, like private equity, real estate, and cryptocurrency. The move has the potential to unlock trillions in new investment for asset managers outside of stocks, bonds, and cash, "though critics say it also could bring too much risk into retirement investments," reports Reuters. From the report: "The order directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to facilitate access to alternative assets for participant-directed defined-contribution retirement savings plans by revising applicable regulations and guidance," the White House official said on condition of anonymity. The order directs the Labor Secretary to consult with her counterparts at the Treasury Department, the SEC, and other federal "regulators to determine whether parallel regulatory changes should be made at those agencies," the official said. [...] The new investment options carry lower disclosure requirements and are generally less easy to sell quickly for cash than the publicly traded stocks and bonds that most retirement funds rely on. Investing in them also tends to carry higher fees. In defined contribution plans, employees make contributions to their own retirement account, frequently with a matching contribution from their employer. The invested funds belong to the employee, but unlike a defined benefit pension plan, there is no guaranteed regular payout upon retirement. Many private equity firms are hungry for the new source of cash that retail investors could offer after three years in which high interest rates shook their time-honored model of buying companies and selling them at a profit. Whatever results may come from Trump's order, it likely will not happen overnight, private equity executives say. Plaintiffs' lawyers are already preparing for lawsuits that could be filed by investors who do not understand the complexity of the new forms of investments.

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Eating this kind of food may increase your chances of developing lung cancer , a study suggests.

Andrew Lownie has given an extraordinary first broadcast interview about his book : 'Entitled, the Rise and Fall of the House of York' to the Daily Mail's unmissable Palace Confidential show.

Abeer Rizvi, the wife of Salman Iftikhar, 37, who threatened to gang rape a Virgin Atlantic air stewardess, has defended her husband saying: 'Behind every story there is pain you don't see.'