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Christy Browne wasn't present at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Monday when the Irish sporting icon who conned him and so many others into believing he had cancer was led away to jail.

The broadcaster returned to BBC Breakfast on Tuesday where he opened up about the realities of living with stage four prostate cancer.

Speaking of Australia, its government has introduced content quotas on global streamers. From a report: The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure -- or 7.5% of their revenues -- on local originals, whether they are dramas, children's shows, docs, or arts and educational programs. Following the announcement, the legislation will be introduced into the Australian parliament. Australia's Labor government has long planned to being in the quotas as part of its Revive cultural policy, but months and months of delays had left the local industry wondering how committed their political leaders were to the plan. Global streamers have broadly rejected the necessity of quotas, claiming their local investment in content and jobs offsets them.

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Radnicki 1923 manager Mladen Zizovic collapsed on the side of the pitch after suffering a heart attack 22 minutes into the Serbian club's match with Mladost on Sunday.

Hundreds of 'out of control' teenagers gatecrashed a Halloween house party - with police called to deal with 'disorder' which spilled into the street outside.

The EastEnders star, 42, shocked fans in June when she spilled on her tough school days, claiming that her famous classmate Paloma had bullied her.

A woman has claimed doctors dismissed her fatigue and vision problems as being related to menopause - but after being bedbound for two years discovered she had a brain tumour.

Chip designs are busting out beyond the reticle limits of lithography machines, making chiplets and high-bandwidth, in-package die-to-die interconnects inevitable. …

Arista Modular Switches Aim At Scale Across Networks, Hit Scale Out, Too was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Chief Reporter Sam Greenhill among journalists who gave evidence to Parliament about how they brought the story to light after an unprecedented cover-up by the Government.

For years now, reams of extremely rich and very famous people have hot-footed it to The Cotswolds - or, as some locals call it, the Costsloads.

The hard-charging conservative served alongside Republican President George W Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009.

A mortgage rate war has fully erupted after Nationwide became the latest lender to announce it's slashing home loan prices.

The London mayor threw his support behind Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani in the battle to run America's largest city.

During Tuesday's episode of the early morning BBC One show, Sally Nugent and Jon Kay were joined by John Story, who has been campaigning for Lyla's Law following the tragic loss.

The superstar couple sent supporters wild back in August when they announced their engagement after some nine years together.

by George Whittaker

The Linux kernel, foundational for servers, desktops, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure, has been under heightened scrutiny. Several vulnerabilities have been exploited in real-world attacks, targeting critical subsystems and isolation layers. In this article, we’ll walk through major examples, explain their significance, and offer actionable guidance for defenders.

CVE-2025-21756 – Use-After-Free in the vsock Subsystem

One of the most alarming flaws this year involves a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s vsock implementation (Virtual Socket), which enables communication between virtual machines and their hosts.

How the exploit works: A malicious actor inside a VM (or other privileged context) manipulates reference counters when a vsock transport is reassigned. The code ends up freeing a socket object while it’s still in use, enabling memory corruption and potentially root-level access.

Why it matters: Since vsock is used for VM-to-host and inter-VM communication, this flaw breaks a key isolation barrier. In multi-tenant cloud environments or container hosts that expose vsock endpoints, the impact can be severe.

Mitigation: Kernel maintainers have released patches. If your systems run hosts, hypervisors, or other environments where vsock is present, make sure the kernel is updated and virtualization subsystems are patched.

CVE-2025-38236 – Out-of-Bounds / Sandbox Escape via UNIX Domain Sockets

Another high-impact vulnerability involves the UNIX domain socket interface and the MSG_OOB flag. The bug was publicly detailed in August 2025 and is already in active discussion.

Attack scenario: A process running inside a sandbox (for example a browser renderer) can exploit MSG_OOB operations on a UNIX domain socket to trigger a use-after-free or out-of-bounds read/write. That allows leaking kernel pointers or memory and then chaining to full kernel privilege escalation.

Why it matters: This vulnerability is especially dangerous because it bridges from a low-privilege sandboxed process to kernel-level compromise. Many systems assume sandboxed code is safe; this attack undermines that assumption.

Mitigation: Distributions and vendors (like browser teams) have disabled or restricted MSG_OOB usage for sandboxed contexts. Kernel patches are available. Systems that run browser sandboxes or other sandboxed processes need to apply these updates immediately.

CVE-2025-38352 – TOCTOU Race Condition in POSIX CPU Timers

In September 2025, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added this vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) launches Fund 100 Christmas appeal.

Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) launches Fund 100 Christmas appeal.

Readers have welcomed the Gazette’s ‘A120: Road to Safety’ campaign calling for more road safety measures and upgrades to one of the county’s most used roads.

Demand for affordable housing in Essex is on the rise while the housing market has recorded its first annual fall in new sales in two years.