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Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has been forced to cancel the majority of her October engagements due to her chronic lung disease - just one month after her son was charged with rape.

The beautiful historic church is a perfect setting for the candlelight event

Some of the most notable road closures coming up across north and mid Essex in the coming weeks.

I visited Sanctuary Lodge, in Halstead, Essex, on one sunny September morning to find out more about the work they do.

I visited Sanctuary Lodge, in Halstead, Essex, on one sunny September morning to find out more about the work they do.

The age gap couple were all smiles as they walked the carpet for the Icon Awards, which took place at the Troxy in the east end of London.

Steve Holbrook-Sishton, a former teacher and college tutor, died unexpectedly in October 2021 when he developed sepsis after catching Covid-19.

Jaclyn Fieberg, 40, from New York, and her husband, Greg Fieberg, 46, went through years of heartbreak to start a family.

Writing in Communications of the ACM, former Go tech lead Russ Cox warns we need to keep improving defenses of software supply chains, highlighting "promising approaches that should be more widely used" and "areas where more work is needed." There are important steps we can take today, such as adopting software signatures in some form, making sure to scan for known vulnerabilities regularly, and being ready to update and redeploy software when critical new vulnerabilities are found. More development should be shifted to safer languages that make vulnerabilities and attacks less likely. We also need to find ways to fund open source development to make it less susceptible to takeover by the mere offer of free help. Relatively small investments in OpenSSL and XZ development could have prevented both the Heartbleed vulnerability and the XZ attack. Some highlights from the 5,000-word article: Make Builds Reproducible. "The Reproducible Builds project aims to raise awareness of reproducible builds generally, as well as building tools to help progress toward complete reproducibility for all Linux software. The Go project recently arranged for Go itself to be completely reproducible given only the source code... A build for a given target produces the same distribution bits whether you build on Linux or Windows or Mac, whether the build host is X86 or ARM, and so on. Strong reproducibility makes it possible for others to easily verify that the binaries posted for download match the source code..." Prevent Vulnerabilities. "The most secure software dependencies are the ones not used in the first place: Every dependency adds risk... Another good way to prevent vulnerabilities is to use safer programming languages that remove error-prone language features or make them needed less often..." Authenticate Software. ("Cryptographic signatures make it impossible to nefariously alter code between signing and verifying. The only problem left is key distribution...") "The Go checksum database is a real-world example of this approach that protects millions of Go developers. The database holds the SHA256 checksum of every version of every public Go module..." Fund Open Source. [Cox first cites the XKCD cartoon "Dependencies," calling it "a disturbingly accurate assessment of the situation..."] "The XZ attack is the clearest possible demonstration that the problem is not fixed. It was enabled as much by underfunding of open source as by any technical detail." The article also emphasized the importance of finding and fixing vulnerabilities quickly, arguing that software attacks must be made more difficult and expensive. "We use source code downloaded from strangers on the Internet in our most critical applications; almost no one is checking the code.... We all have more work to do."

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The Daily Mail tested the van to find out to see if it kept its iconic status.

The 55-year-old Oscar winner - who shares three children with the Brazilian-American model - opened up about the topic in his new book titled Poems & Prayers which hit shelves on September.

The Welsh ballroom professional has returned to the BBC show on a full time basis after injury curtailed her original return in 2024, for which she was paired with JLS star JB Gill .

Hackers who targeted Collins Aerospace, a tech firm that provides services for several airlines at multiple airports across the world, caused chaos yesterday.

A Porsche-driving businessman who bulldozed a modest home and replaced it with a hulking 'monster mansion' has been ordered to tear it down.

When you set yourself a mission to get a clear, glowing, complexion, a frantic dash around your local branch of Boots can seem like the quickest way to get there.

James Middleton, brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has shared a joyful photograph of son Inigo to mark the toddler's second birthday.

The British actor will play John Lennon in an ambitious four-part anthology of films  that will chart the lives of each individual member of The Beatles.

Deep underneath a granite hill in southern China, an enormous detector is sniffing out the secrets of the universe.

Edward Enninful, the former editor of British Vogue, bluntly dismissed the possibility that onetime friend Meghan Markle might appear on the pages of his new magazine in an interview with The Times.

Last month, a senior Hamas official described the decision to recognise a Palestinian state as 'one of the fruits of October 7'. Pictured: A Palestinian boy with an Israeli car on October 7, 2023