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Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting

Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…

Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers

Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…

Throughout this series of The Celebrity Traitors, the British public has fallen in love with what rugby fans knew long before: the charm, wit, and irrepressible mayhem of Joe Marler.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services, including the very popular web building and hosting platform WordPress.com," Jim Davis, an intellectual property attorney representing Automattic, wrote in a letter dated Oct. 30. "Automattic is also well-known for its longtime and extensive contributions to the WordPress system. Our client owns many trademark registrations for its Automattic mark covering those types of services and software," Davis continued. "As we hope you can appreciate, our client is concerned about your use of a nearly identical name and trademark to provide closely related WordPress services. Automattic and Automatic differ by only one letter, are phonetically identical, and are marketed to many of the same people. This all enhances the potential for consumer confusion and dilution of our client's Automattic mark."

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Monisha Rajesh, who is now an author in her own right, was one of the earliest critics of Clanchy's award-winning 2020 book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.

The 35-year-old, who is 12th in line to the throne, was photographed laughing with her husband Jack Brooksbank, 39, in Notting Hill this week.

Much like the famed Lillie Langtry, it seems Meghan Markle might be using her royal association to make a major comeback to Hollywood. But how will her husband feel?

In a speech to the global gathering in Belem, Brazil , the Prime Minister vowed the UK under his Government would be 'doubling down' on its climate commitments.

Jota, 28, and his brother Andre Silva, 26, both tragically passed away on July 3 when their Lamborghini veered off a Spanish motorway in news which shocked the world of football.

YouTuber Chunkz has sparked controversy after he said he would disown his child if they left the religion of Islam.

A super-fit grandmother has revealed the simple lifestyle change which makes her feel 'ageless'-and helped her sculpt her middle-aged midriff into washboard abs.

After four nail biting weeks of drama, deception and ultimate betrayal the Celebrity Traitors will conclude in Thursday's grand finale. 

The Queen paid her respects to fallen soldiers in a poignant ceremony at Westminster Abbey's Field of Remembrance today.

William, 43, is representing King Charles at the COP30 United Nations Climate Summit in Belém, the gateway to Brazil 's Amazon rainforest.

King Charles today formally stripped his brother Andrew of his prince title. The monarch has also stripped him of his HRH by issuing a rare Letters Patent.

For months now I've had terrible itchy ears. I've tried moisturising them but that doesn't help. What could be the cause?

by George Whittaker

AMD has officially confirmed a high-severity security vulnerability in its new Zen 5–based CPUs, and it’s a nasty one because it hits cryptography right at the source: the hardware random number generator.

Here’s a clear breakdown of what’s going on, how bad it really is, and what you should do if you’re running Zen 5.

What AMD Just Confirmed

AMD’s security bulletin AMD-SB-7055, now tracked as CVE-2025-62626, describes a bug in the RDSEED instruction on Zen 5 processors. Under certain conditions, the CPU can:

• Return the value 0 from RDSEED far more often than true randomness would allow

• Still signal “success” (carry flag CF=1), so software thinks it got a good random value

The issue affects the 16-bit and 32-bit forms of RDSEED on Zen 5; the 64-bit form is not affected.

Because RDSEED is used to feed cryptographically secure random number generators (CSPRNGs), a broken RDSEED can poison keys, tokens, and other security-critical values.

AMD classifies the impact as:

Loss of confidentiality and integrity (High severity).

How the Vulnerability Works (In Plain English) What RDSEED Is Supposed to Do

Modern CPUs expose hardware instructions like RDRAND and RDSEED:

• RDRAND: Gives you pseudo-random values from a DRBG that’s already been seeded.

• RDSEED: Gives you raw entropy samples suitable for seeding cryptographic PRNGs (it should be very close to truly random).

Software like TLS libraries, key generators, HSM emulators, and OS RNGs may rely directly or indirectly on RDSEED to bootstrap secure randomness.

What’s Going Wrong on Zen 5

On affected Zen 5 CPUs:

• The 16-bit and 32-bit RDSEED variants sometimes return 0 much more often than a true random source should.

• Even worse, they simultaneously report success (CF=1), so software assumes the value is fine rather than retrying.

In cryptographic terms, this means:

• Entropy can be dramatically reduced (many key bits become predictable or even fixed).

• Keys or nonces derived from those values can become partially or fully guessable.

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Some of the underground cabling would be located through the Dedham Vale - an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Greater Anglia recognised volunteer station adopters in Braintree and Witham at the Station Adoption Awards.