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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Internet access has started to be restored in Iran after being cut off almost three months ago, the country's first vice-president has said. "The first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken," Mohammad Reza Aref wrote on X on Tuesday. Internet monitoring groups Netblocks and Kentik reported "partial" restoration around 13:00 GMT, though the latter warned most networks were still down. The Iranian government cut internet access following the launch of US and Israeli attacks on February 28. Officials suggested the aim was to prevent surveillance, espionage and cyber-attacks. It is one of the longest-running national internet shutdowns ever recorded worldwide. A content creator from Tehran told the BBC that he had been able to connect to the internet using his home WiFi on Tuesday. "The main point is, some of my income will come back," he said. Netblocks said it was unclear whether the internet return would be sustained, and told the BBC it was consistent with what it had seen when previous blackouts were lifted -- where restoration could take hours. "Access is not universally back to its original state, with some regional variation," said the global internet tracker's research director Isik Mater on Tuesday. She added that there were signs of "more extensive filtering" than prior to January -- when a similar blackout was imposed during the regime's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests -- "including additional restrictions to messaging apps like WhatsApp."

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The boss of Next has blasted Labour's 'disastrous' tax and workers' rights policies for causing a 'dramatic fall' in job opportunities for young people.

Families being squeezed by rising prices face a fresh blow today as the energy regulator is set to announce a £200 rise in annual bills.

The Greens announced that Sarah Wakefield would contest the Greater Manchester seat next month despite growing numbers of members urging the party to stand aside and let Labour win.

'I'm not the most beautiful girl in the world, I'm not the skinniest girl in the world - I'm chubby, I know it,' Francesca said in a TikTok video.

A stranger got hold of my debit card details and keeps ordering takeaways to their address on the app Uber Eats. Uber will not help me to block my card or address.

The ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has the potential to deliver the most devastating blow to global aviation of our lifetime.

Savings rates are rising - but you wouldn't know it. The top rates on most easy-access accounts have barely budged in recent weeks.

The 49-year-old, from Higher Broughton, Salford, has been taken into custody for questioning under the Terrorism Act, Greater Manchester Police said.

Kelly Brook stunned in a patterned bikini as she posed for Instagram photos during a lavish South of France getaway celebrating husband Jeremy Parisi birthday.

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security firms, and 1,726 have been confirmed, including over 1,000 rated "high" or "critical" severity. The findings are still being reviewed, and Anthropic estimates that nearly 3,900 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities will be confirmed based only on current findings. As the scans are ongoing, the company believes the number of severe vulnerabilities may reach 6,200. Anthropic says more than 1,100 unverified findings have been reported to vendors, and 75 issues with a critical or high severity rating have been patched. Vendors have published 65 security advisories. "The number of patches is still relatively low for three reasons. First, we're still early in the 90-day window that's set out in our Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policy: we expect many more patches to land soon," the AI company explained. "Second, we are likely to be undercounting patches because some vulnerabilities are patched without a public advisory: in those cases, we're reliant on scanning for the patches ourselves using Claude. Third, the low volume of patches reflects a genuine problem: even at our relatively slow pace of disclosures, Mythos Preview is adding to an already-overloaded security ecosystem," it added.

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Brad Pitt's estranged son Knox debuted a dramatic new hair color this week - days after stunning fans with his resemblance to the actor.

For the best part of 30 years, Coronation Street character Tyrone Dobbs has had a rocky time finding love. And the same could be said for the actor who plays him, Alan Halsall.

Spending just several hours breathing in polluted air can change the way your brain and lungs function, a new study from researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK has found.

This post comes 22 years after she posed nude for Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine in a shoot by Russell James. The Angel and Charmed actress was also on the cover of FHM.

Married At First Sight UK star Amy Kenyon had to have therapy after feeling 'sexually degraded' on and off camera by her husband, Luke Debono.

Two people were arrested as teenage mobs stole from shops and skirmished with police along the beachfront in Essex in the latest 'linkup'.

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Spain has temporarily blocked Polymarket and Kalshi while it investigates whether the prediction-market platforms are violating gambling laws by operating without a license. Engadget reports: The country's ministry in charge of consumer affairs said it blocked the websites as a precautionary measure pending an official investigation. This investigation will determine if the platforms violate Spain's gambling laws. It's set to complete within the next four months and could mandate that these companies require specific administrative licenses to operate.

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Job hunting is never easy. Stories abound of job hunters with good degrees from top-flight universities, applying for more than 500 roles and not even getting a single interview.