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It's been 18 months since the first blockbuster adaptation of Jilly Cooper's favourite book in her Rutshire Chronicles hit our screens. Now the 80s are back again in all their hyper-chromatic glory.

Generational divides have long existed. But new research suggests young people are more misunderstood than ever by older generations.

Taylor Swift sent fans into a meltdown when a countdown clock briefly appeared on her official website on Thursday, but vanished just minutes later.

Mr Rand, 34, said some of his friends are 'scared to walk in the street' for fear of suffering violent anti-Semitism.

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Updated  Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.…

Footage circulating on social media shows plumes of smoke rising from a building on Cazenove Road in Stamford Hill.

Discussions over Iran's place in the international soccer tournament - set to be held across the US, Canada and Mexico - have been rife amid the ongoing conflict out in the Middle East.

She is, as cinematic history records, a strong swimmer - which was just as well in the Titanic role which made her name

The award is the Academy's highest honour, recognising an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television.

Headteachers want every school to have two more Inset days per year to cope with Labour's landmark special needs reforms.

Labour's long-heralded Renters' Rights Act comes into force today, scrapping no-fault evictions, limiting landlords to yearly rent rises and giving tenants more time to fall into arrears.

The Tory leader said ministers should formally abandon the Chagos deal, which has been blocked by Donald Trump - and use the savings to shore up Britain's creaking defences.

Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware

The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.…

Wilfredo Gomez, 10, was reportedly forced to represent himself in immigration court last week, months after his mother was taken into custody.

Experts have said consumers are prioritising their spending on essentials as the war in Iran threatens to push up food and energy bills - placing the High Street under more pressure.

Gen Z are finally putting their phones down and turning their attention to the skies instead, a new study reveals.

The presenter, 51, has been announced as the face of game show, Name That Tune, which is based on the US format of the same name.

A report by Internet Matters has revealed the crafty techniques under-18s are using to get around online age restrictions.

It has emerged that seven people, plus an unknown number of security officials, found out before the Prime Minister that red flags had been raised during background checks on the US Ambassador.

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw dubbed "Copy Fail" can let a local, unprivileged attacker gain root access on major Linux distributions, with researchers claiming the bug affects kernels shipped since 2017. "The POC exploit works out of the box today, but a future version that can escape from containers like Docker is promised soon," writes Slashdot reader tylerni7. "Technical details are available here." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) allows an unprivileged user to gain root access using a tiny 732-byte script, and it works with unsettling consistency across major distributions. Unlike older exploits that relied on race conditions or fragile timing, this one is a straight-line logic flaw in the kernel's crypto subsystem. It abuses AF_ALG sockets and splice to overwrite a few bytes in the page cache of a target file, such as /usr/bin/su. Because the kernel executes from the page cache, not directly from disk, the attacker can inject code into a setuid binary in memory and immediately escalate privileges. What makes this especially concerning is how quiet it is. The file on disk remains unchanged, so standard integrity checks see nothing wrong, while the in-memory version has already been tampered with. The same primitive can also cross container boundaries since the page cache is shared, raising the stakes for multi-tenant environments and Kubernetes nodes. The underlying issue traces back to an in-place optimization added years ago, now being rolled back as part of the fix. Until patched kernels are widely deployed, this is one of those bugs that feels less like a theoretical risk and more like a practical, reliable path to full system compromise.

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