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Tech giants don't need smartphone mics to target adverts – your insurer just gives your data away, anyway

US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire, likely without these individuals' knowledge or consent.…

This one weird trick can stop Windows updates dead in their tracks

Turns out Microsoft's latest patch job might need a patch of its own, again. This time, the culprit is a mysterious inetpub folder quietly deployed by Redmond, now hijacked by a security researcher to break Windows updates.…

The actor, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman, shared the scathing remark under an Instagram post that was calling for a boycott of any future Harry Potter projects.

The singer, who is now engaged to Arsenal player Jorginho, 33, had a brief fling with the English actor in 2014, but they went their separate ways before Ada was born.

Demi Moore has revealed her most terrifying role years before she shocked fans by going fully naked in Striptease.

Authorities released chilling surveillance footage allegedly showing Tremonte Kirk, 17, stalking a woman in a parking lot in Milwaukee, as his brave victim spoke out to call for justice.

BRIAN VINER: As if to make up for arguably the most boring title of any film in the history of cinema, The Accountant 2 begins with a blaze of action, incongruously enough in a bingo hall.

An astonishing 516,971 offences were logged by forces last year, up 20 per cent from 429,873 in 2023.

Olivia Jade Giannulli sent temperatures soaring in a skimpy bikini during a solo Miami getaway - and fans were quick to question the status of her romance with Jacob Elordi.

US government agencies and Fortune 500 companies are turning to AI to modernize mission-critical systems built on COBOL, a programming language dating back to the late 1950s. The US Social Security Administration plans a three-year, $1 billion AI-assisted upgrade of its legacy COBOL codebase [alternative source], according to Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly stressed the need to overhaul government systems running on COBOL. As experienced programmers retire, organizations face growing challenges maintaining these systems that power everything from banking applications to pension disbursements. Engineers now use tools like ChatGPT and IBM's watsonX to interpret COBOL code, create documentation, and translate it to modern languages.

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Walking into the family home at 8pm one night after work, Mark Ross found his three kids - then aged 11, nine and seven - ready for bed but his wife, Hannah, 43, was nowhere to be seen.

The boy was celebrating his 12th birthday and had come out of a Zara store when he froze on the spot as he saw blood dripping out of 74-year-old James O'Neill's mouth and head.

The word from Montecito insiders is that Meghan's mean-girl friends are relentlessly gossiping behind her back.

Andrew Johnston, 30, allegedly gripped his victims' by the throat during sex and refused to wear a condom.

Matt Wrack, a hard-Left Jeremy Corbyn ally, was appointed uncontested as the General Secretary of the NASUWT despite being a former fireman with no teaching experience.

Freedom of Information requests have shown nearly 800 reports were made of abandoned vehicles in 2024

In an Instagram post, she said she had recently had 'keyhole heart surgery' at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. But she only received her diagnosis last year.

It was not even eight in the morning on Easter Monday, and already I was filled with an ungodly fury aimed at my husband.

One of his victims has spoken out since he was jailed

'Another year around the sun….and while the calendar might say 86, I like to think of it more as "68" with a few bonus chapters,' wrote the iconic Hollywood great.