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Samir Xaud, 42, is alleged to have flown a woman to New York before traveling to Mexico City where he met his wife for the World Cup opening ceremony last week.

While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need." Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotten good enough to surface real vulnerabilities in open source code quickly and at scale. That is useful, and several large Rust projects have already received and fixed credible issues found this way. The same tooling has also made it trivial to generate vulnerability reports that look plausible and are worthless. Maintainers across the ecosystem are losing real hours sorting these from the reports that matter, and the noise tends to bury the signal. So, with funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, the Rust Foundation is bringing on a full-time AI Security Engineer in Residence dedicated to the Rust ecosystem. This position is being funded with part of the $12.5M in open source security funding that the Linux Foundation announced in March. The role exists to take pressure off maintainers. The person in this position will use a mix of human-led and AI-assisted methods to proactively review Rust itself and the crates the ecosystem leans on most and help us separate real, exploitable issues from false positives and low-signal noise before anything reaches a maintainer... This role will run full-time for six months to start, with room to extend depending on what we learn and the funding available. Methods, playbooks, and prompts will be documented so the work doesn't end with the contract. We are grateful that Rust is not embarking on this work in isolation. Several other ecosystems have received parallel Alpha-Omega grants for the same kind of work (e.g., the PHP Foundation and the Drupal Association) and we plan to share tooling, triage practices, and what we learn rather than duplicating work A statement from Rust's new AI Security Engineer in Residence acknowledges that "One of our next challenges is the wave of bugs discovered by the next generation of AI-powered developer tools."

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Footage shows the manosphere influencer's pal, known only as Amo, flinching and yelping in terror as he comes within millimetres of being struck by a bus.

When a senior Westminster figure finally succumbs to political mortality there is a long-standing parliamentary convention not to speak ill of the dead.

According to the New York Police Department, officers responded to reports of a fall inside the arena and found the man unconscious and unresponsive at 9.51pm.

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As part of the 250th‑anniversary celebrations, Bonhams are auctioning off collectibles from one of the most respected private holdings of presidential items in the country.

Police are appealing after a motorcyclist was left seriously injured following a collision in Harlow. BMW driver flees the scene.

His dad made him who he is, but for Jon Harvey, 46, it's a complicated legacy. Now, with two children of his own, he is wrestling with what Father's Day really means

Ivanka, 44, showed off her toned physique in a tiny black dress as she enjoyed an evening out with her pals on Saturday.

Essex Police are looking for a man in his 20s in connection to an assault at The Hollybush Pub in Loughton.

This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware." "Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well." More details from the blog It's FOSS: For Ubuntu 26.10, the initial version of Myna is expected to be a desktop dictation tool built around GNOME on Wayland with a push-to-talk mechanism gatekeeping when your microphone accepts input. Using it means holding a hotkey, speaking, and letting go. A small activity indicator shows while it is listening, and the transcribed text lands wherever the cursor was sitting when dictation started. Recognition itself happens inside a sandboxed component called the Canonical Inference Snap, while a Speech Orchestrator manages the session and an Audio Adapter handles whatever the microphone picks up, denoising and chunking it before it ever reaches the model... Speech recognition will happen locally, and an internet connection is not needed once the appropriate model is installed... The audio data won't be sticking around either, being stored in a small in-memory buffer that gets discarded the moment the session ends. Features like dictation into password fields, wake words, continuous listening, voice assistants, voice commands, translation, speaker identification, and automatic language detection are all off the table... You should also know that Canonical is looking for feedback before the specs for Myna are finalized, especially from people who already rely on dictation or assistive tools on Linux.

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Around 20,000 people gathered on Sunday to the neolithic site, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, to watch sun-up on the year's longest day to mark the astronomical phenomenon.

Kelly Osbourne has honoured her dad Ozzy in a sweet tribute post on her first Father's Day without him following his death last July.

Activists charged into the restaurant in Westminster on June 14 as surprised customers looked on awkwardly and staff attempted to handle the disruption.

A book that appeared to predict many of the political and social upheavals gripping America is drawing fresh scrutiny over its warning that a historic turning point will arrive by 2026.

This year Father's Day is not just another excuse for chocolates and Clintons Cards sentimentality, but a moment of authentic reflection. My father, Roger, passed away in the early hours of Wednesday.

Tiana Krasniqi was a dental nurse raising her daughter in London when she logged on to writeaprisoner.com and met her husband death row killer James Broadnax

Dave Day 2026 - The Last Ride Home saw more than 40,000 motorcyclists make their way Barrow-on-Furness, the late TV chef's hometown yesterday.

Three teenagers have died after a 'drunk driver' carrying nine people in his car crashed into a canal in Milan.