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Liverpool-born Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales since 2009.

Women, scientists say, can tell if they're going to be friends with another woman within just four minutes of meeting them - and they're guided by smell as much as any other sense.

Monika Solerska, Tomasz Reczycki, and Adam Czerwinski, who all pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in 2022 by burying Tomasz Dembler's body, have been sent back to Poland.

Police in Liverpool linked Joshua Caldwell to the major drugs conspiracy after having previously found images of firearms on a confiscated phone.

Lucy Grant, 17, was already 'blue and quite stiff' by the time paramedics arrived and was declared dead at her family home in Johnstone, Scotland.

Researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack called Slopsquatting, where threat actors exploit hallucinated, non-existent package names generated by AI coding tools like GPT-4 and CodeLlama. These believable yet fake packages, representing almost 20% of the samples tested, can be registered by attackers to distribute malicious code. CSO Online reports: Slopsquatting, as researchers are calling it, is a term first coined by Seth Larson, a security developer-in-residence at Python Software Foundation (PSF), for its resemblance to the typosquatting technique. Instead of relying on a user's mistake, as in typosquats, threat actors rely on an AI model's mistake. A significant number of packages, amounting to 19.7% (205,000 packages), recommended in test samples were found to be fakes. Open-source models -- like DeepSeek and WizardCoder -- hallucinated more frequently, at 21.7% on average, compared to the commercial ones (5.2%) like GPT 4. Researchers found CodeLlama ( hallucinating over a third of the outputs) to be the worst offender, and GPT-4 Turbo ( just 3.59% hallucinations) to be the best performer. These package hallucinations are particularly dangerous as they were found to be persistent, repetitive, and believable. When researchers reran 500 prompts that had previously produced hallucinated packages, 43% of hallucinations reappeared every time in 10 successive re-runs, with 58% of them appearing in more than one run. The study concluded that this persistence indicates "that the majority of hallucinations are not just random noise, but repeatable artifacts of how the models respond to certain prompts." This increases their value to attackers, it added. Additionally, these hallucinated package names were observed to be "semantically convincing." Thirty-eight percent of them had moderate string similarity to real packages, suggesting a similar naming structure. "Only 13% of hallucinations were simple off-by-one typos," Socket added. The research can found be in a paper on arXiv.org (PDF).

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A 'British' man has been killed in a Costa del Sol street shooting.

The teenager was a passenger on the Pendulum 360 ride when the incident took place.

A manager has been criticised by thousands after screenshots of a shocking exchange between him and his employee were revealed.

As the world united in mourning, manoeuvring began in Rome over the contest to shape the Church over the next decade and guide its billion-plus adherents.

Gracelynn Vick, 6, was reported missing on April 13 when her family could not find her for hours after she went to play in their Saucier farm's yard.

Vice President JD Vance is getting trolled online after being the last major figure to meet with Pope Francis before his passing on Monday.

MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live updates and reaction as the Vatican announces the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88.

The branch gives prisoners the chance to use Monopoly-style money to stock up on groceries, including branded products like Chicago Town pizzas and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

A day after the former Pentagon press secretary wrote about 'dysfunction' inside the building, a Republican Armed Services Committee member called for Hegseth to go.

Ten days ago at HMP Frankland, Hashem Abedi, one of the most dangerous prisoners in the country used an improvised stabbing weapon and hot oil to attack three officers.

Airbnb is rolling out a global update that displays the total cost of a stay upfront in search results. The only fee that won't be included are taxes. The Verge reports: The company first started showing the full price of its listings in some locations in 2019 after facing scrutiny from the European Union over how it displays its fees. It later launched a toggle in the US and hundreds of other countries that shows the total cost of a stay across Airbnb's search results, individual listings pages, and other areas of the platform. Airbnb says nearly 17 million people have used the toggle since its launch in 2022, and now, you won't have to worry about turning the option on when making a search. Instead, you'll now see a banner at the very top of your search results that says, "Prices include all fees."

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Microsoft is intensifying performance scrutiny through new policies that target underperforming employees, according to an internal email from Chief People Officer Amy Coleman. The company has introduced a formalized Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) system that gives struggling employees two options: accept improvement targets or exit the company with a Global Voluntary Separation Agreement. The policy establishes a two-year rehire blackout period for employees who leave with low performance ratings (zero to 60% in Microsoft's 0-200 scale) or during a PIP process. These employees are also barred from internal transfers while still at the company. Coming months after Microsoft terminated 2,000 underperformers without severance, the company is also developing AI-supported tools to help managers "prepare for constructive or challenging conversations" through interactive practice environments. "Our focus remains on enabling high performance to achieve our priorities spanning security, quality, and leading AI," Coleman wrote, emphasizing that these changes aim to create "a globally consistent and transparent experience" while fostering "accountability and growth."

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John Lennon's youngest son Sean Ono Lennon is speaking out in the face of rumors of a feud with his half-brother Julian Lennon that have circulated for decades.

The new dress is on sale now in all Primark stores