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Adverts posted on an A-list tutoring website show dozens of six-figure roles working for high-profile families with weird and wonderful requests.

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Mozilla is testing a new Firefox feature that delivers direct results inside the address bar instead of forcing users through a search results page. The company says the feature will use a privacy framework called Oblivious HTTP, encrypting queries so that no single party can see both what you type and who you are. Some results could be sponsored, but Mozilla insists neither it nor advertisers will know user identities. The system is starting in the U.S. and may expand later if performance and privacy benchmarks are met. Further reading: Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was killed in prison earlier this month, where he was serving 29 years for a string of child sex offences.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The number of victims paying ransomware threat actors has reached a new low, with just 23% of the breached companies giving in to attackers' demands. With some exceptions, the decline in payment resolution rates continues the trend that Coveware has observed for the past six years. In the first quarter of 2024, the payment percentage was 28%. Although it increased over the next period, it continued to drop, reaching an all-time low in the third quarter of 2025. One explanation for this is that organizations implemented stronger and more targeted protections against ransomware, and authorities increasing pressure for victims not to pay the hackers. [...] Over the years, ransomware groups moved from pure encryption attacks to double extortion that came with data theft and the threat of a public leak. Coveware reports that more than 76% of the attacks it observed in Q3 2025 involved data exfiltration, which is now the primary objective for most ransomware groups. The company says that when it isolates the attacks that do not encrypt the data and only steal it, the payment rate plummets to 19%, which is also a record for that sub-category. The average and median ransomware payments fell in Q3 compared to the previous quarter, reaching $377,000 and $140,000, respectively, according to Coveware. The shift may reflect large enterprises revising their ransom payment policies and recognizing that those funds are better spent on strengthening defenses against future attacks. The researchers also note that threat groups like Akira and Qilin, which accounted for 44% of all recorded attacks in Q3 2025, have switched focus to medium-sized firms that are currently more likely to pay a ransom. "Cyber defenders, law enforcement, and legal specialists should view this as validation of collective progress," Coveware says. "The work that gets put in to prevent attacks, minimize the impact of attacks, and successfully navigate a cyber extortion -- each avoided payment constricts cyber attackers of oxygen."

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As the clocks go back driving at night becomes a big issue. New research has found that 82 per cent of motorists are worried about being blinded by headlights. Here are our tips to avoid it.

Barack Obama was not pleased that Nancy Pelosi endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris the day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, a new book claims.

Coronation Street's Denise Black has revealed that she was told she was 'too fat and too disabled for TV' - after being born with a condition that affects the muscles in her right arm.

If at first you don’t succeed, patch and patch again

More threat intel teams are sounding the alarm about a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59287 and now under active exploitation, just days after Microsoft pushed an emergency patch and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.…

Monreith Estate boasts  six reception rooms, spread over four floors, as well as a number of cottages dotted across the 328.47 acres of woodlands that surround the property

Brendan Rodgers has sensationally quit as manager of Celtic - with the club's major shareholder Dermot Desmond accusing him of being 'divisive, misleading and self-serving'.

Apple is preparing to roll out a new Apple Wallet feature that lets U.S. users create digital IDs linked to their passports, usable at select TSA checkpoints. TechCrunch reports: The feature, previously announced as part of the iOS 26 release, comes on the heels of Apple's expansion of Wallet as more than a payment mechanism or ticket holder, but also a secure place to store a user's digital identity. Currently, support for government IDs in Apple Wallet has rolled out to 12 states and Puerto Rico, or roughly a third of U.S. license holders. However, the passport-tied Digital ID feature didn't arrive with the debut of iOS 26, as Apple said it would come in a future software update. [...] The coming launch of passport-associated Digital IDs was announced on Sunday by Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, at the Money 20/20 USA conference, where the exec also shared other stats about Wallet's adoption.

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Horrific footage shows the gang clambering out of a black van before rushing towards Mostovoy and another man, then sprinting back to their vehicle when their would-be victims got away.

It has been a month since four-year-old August 'Gus' Lamont vanished after playing in the yard of remote homestead in South Australian outback.

As Amazon MGM has taken over creative control of the iconic film series, it has been rumored that boss Jeff Bezos has been pushing for the 28-year-old blonde bombshell to be the next iconic protagonist.

The programme attracts an average 50,000 viewers per 70 minute show - significantly lower than competitor Jeremy Vine.

The ex-Bristol City star and England youth international was receiving end-of-life care after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of terminal cancer earlier this month.

The Swissman, 20, was airlifted to hospital yesterday following a collision with world champion rider Jose Antonio Rueda, 19, during a sighting lap on the day of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Kim was wear gray SKIMS pajamas with her long, dark hair clipped back as she was inside her Parisian hotel room. A bed could be seen in the background.

The 35-year-old actress welcomed her second baby, now six months old, in April with her husband, art gallery director Cooke Maroney, 41.

Qualcomm has entered the AI data center chip race with its new AI200 and AI250 accelerators, directly challenging Nvidia and AMD's dominance by promising lower power costs and high memory capacity. CNBC reports: The AI chips are a shift from Qualcomm, which has thus far focused on semiconductors for wireless connectivity and mobile devices, not massive data centers. Qualcomm said that both the AI200, which will go on sale in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, can come in a system that fills up a full, liquid-cooled server rack. Qualcomm is matching Nvidia and AMD, which offer their graphics processing units, or GPUs, in full-rack systems that allow as many as 72 chips to act as one computer. AI labs need that computing power to run the most advanced models. Qualcomm's data center chips are based on the AI parts in Qualcomm's smartphone chips called Hexagon neural processing units, or NPUs. "We first wanted to prove ourselves in other domains, and once we built our strength over there, it was pretty easy for us to go up a notch into the data center level," Durga Malladi, Qualcomm's general manager for data center and edge, said on a call with reporters last week.

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