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Perhaps even Thomas Kingston - the charming, cool-headed former hostage negotiator who married - sometimes felt daunted by the intricate challenges presented by his commercial ventures.

Any corking spy thriller has an enigmatic, grey eminence, a shadowy controller figure to intrigue the reader. So it has proved with Parliament's 'Chinese spooks' saga.

The list from Purplebricks highlights the homes that attracted the most attention from online house-hunters, which currently has 7,451 properties for sale across the UK.

Hackers breached financial services firm Prosper, stealing the personal data of roughly 17.6 million people, including Social Security numbers, income details, and government IDs. "We have evidence that confidential, proprietary, and personal information, including Social Security Numbers, was obtained, including through unauthorized queries made on Company databases that store customer information and applicant data. We will be offering free credit monitoring as appropriate after we determine what data was affected," the company says. "The investigation is still in its very early stages, but resolving this incident is our top priority and we are committed to sharing additional information with our customers as appropriate." BleepingComputer reports: Prosper operates as a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that has helped over 2 million customers secure more than $30 billion in loans since its founding in 2005. As the company disclosed one month ago on a dedicated page, the breach was detected on September 2, but Prosper has yet to find evidence that the attackers gained access to customer accounts and funds. However, the attackers stole data belonging to Prosper customers and loan applicants. The company hasn't shared what information was exposed beyond Social Security numbers because it's still investigating what data was affected. Prosper added that the security breach didn't impact its customer-facing operations and that it has reported the incident to relevant authorities and is collaborating with law enforcement to investigate the attack. [...] The stolen information also includes customers' names, government-issued IDs, employment status, credit status, income levels, dates of birth, physical addresses, IP addresses, and browser user agent details. Have I Been Pwned revealed the extent of the incident on Thursday.

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As someone adopted and raised by a loving Jewish father, I've never been as appalled as I am by the decision of West Midlands Police to ban fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from visiting my club.

Ben Stiller's kids have accused the star of being absent during their childhood as he pursued his hugely-successful Hollywood career.

It was in 2013, over a decade after I'd got the implants, that I booked into hospital to have them removed. I was 56 years old, and I'd found a lump and endured troublesome investigations...

It was obvious from her appearance in Paris during this month's Fashion Week that Meghan was planning to place a dainty, size-six foot in the fashion world.

The actress, 28, made sure all eyes were on her as she attended the BFI London Film Festival on Friday.

Imagine paying more than £1,000 at a sporting event only to find that you don't actually have a seat. And after an hour of sitting on the floor, a near-naked 29-stone man suddenly lands on top of you.

Hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best returned to front the latest live show, which saw Sam and Nancy go head-to-head in the public vote.

As the Grand Sumo Tournament is held at Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, we reveal all about these Japanese wrestling superstars, and the secrets of hosting such a large tournament.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Hyperscale datacenters stateside will consume 22 percent more grid power by the end of 2025 than a year ago, and are forecast to need nearly three times as much electricity by the end of the decade. Warnings about datacenters' rising energy draw are coming thick and fast of late, and this latest one from 451 Research (now a part of S&P Global) comes with figures and cautions about how fast this change may occur and what grid resources will be required to meet it. The bit barn building boom is largely fueled by estimated demand for new machine learning models, which require highly configured servers packed with power-hungry GPUs to develop and train. The power and cooling infrastructure required also mean it is easier to build a new facility rather than attempt to retrofit an existing one. As a consequence, utility power to datacenters in America is estimated to jump 11.3 GW to 61.8 GW by the end of this year. 451 calculates this will rise again to 75.8 GW in 2026, then 108 GW in 2028, before hitting 134.4 GW by 2030. These figures also exclude enterprise-owned facilities, only considering those of the hyperscale tech giants such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, alongside leased and crypto-mining sites. The research identifies Virginia and Texas as the two states with by far the highest requirement for bit barn energy supplies in the US this year. 451 forecasts that Virginia's datacenter load, made up of leased and hyperscale facilities, will reach 12.1 GW in 2025, up from 9.3 GW last year. In Texas, demand is driven by cryptomining and leased capacity, and is slated to hit 9.7 GW this year, from less than 8 GW previously. However, the search for an optimum location is seeing datacenter operators explore emerging markets such as Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma and smaller cities in West Texas, looking for "stranded power" and alternative energy generation opportunities, the report says.

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A founding member of KISS was seen for the first time since he paid an emotional tribute to his late bandmate Ace Frehley, where he called the guitarist 'an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier.'

The Chancellor is considering scrapping tax breaks which spare Motability's 860,000 users from having to pay VAT or insurance premium tax on their leased vehicles.

Jennifer Cahill, 34, died shortly after giving birth to her second child at home. She suffered a repeat of the severe haemorrhaging she had experienced with her son the first time around.

Diego Gardino is a 32-year-old Deliveroo rider whose one-man campaign to expose the petty thieves plaguing London's tourist hotspots have turned him into a social media sensation.

For having persuaded supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons to sell his £8-a-pop bottles, the Take That frontman has had less success placing them in London's West End.

But even though she does enjoy smoking, Dame Joanna, 79, has revealed she doesn't really drink - only having one glass at Christmas - because she 'can't bear drunk people'.

Fans of the late Gene Hackman will soon have a chance to own some of his most prized possessions.