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Officers used chainsaws to smash their way into the disused Aspers casino in Northampton town centre at around 9am yesterday.

OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous agent that scans, reasons about, and patches code like a human security researcher. "By embedding itself directly into the development pipeline, Aardvark aims to turn security from a post-development concern into a continuous safeguard that evolves with the software itself," reports InfoWorld. From the report: What makes Aardvark unique, OpenAI noted, is its combination of reasoning, automation, and verification. Rather than simply highlighting potential vulnerabilities, the agent promises multi-stage analysis -- starting by mapping an entire repository and building a contextual threat model around it. From there, it continuously monitors new commits, checking whether each change introduces risk or violates existing security patterns. Additionally, upon identifying a potential issue, Aardvark attempts to validate the exploitability of the finding in a sandboxed environment before flagging it. This validation step could prove transformative. Traditional static analysis tools often overwhelm developers with false alarms -- issues that may look risky but aren't truly exploitable. "The biggest advantage is that it will reduce false positives significantly," noted Jain. "It's helpful in open source codes and as part of the development pipeline." Once a vulnerability is confirmed, Aardvark integrates with Codex to propose a patch, then re-analyzes the fix to ensure it doesn't introduce new problems. OpenAI claims that in benchmark tests, the system identified 92 percent of known and synthetically introduced vulnerabilities across test repositories, a promising indication that AI may soon shoulder part of the burden of modern code auditing.

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Men and women were asked how much they spend across price ranges from less than £10 to over £250 a year - and men were found to outspend women in the top range. Pictured: File photo

Their paths crossed for just 22 fleeting seconds in Lloyds Bank one afternoon in Derby city centre.

One man tells his story of how he managed to survive being frontline in a Russia-Ukraine war zone after suffering a grueling 15 days scavenging food and water from died soldiers.

Molecular biologist Alessandro Coatti was reported missing on April 4 after arriving in the coastal city of Santa Marta, Columbia for a holiday.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been deleted entirely from the official Royal Family website just a day after he was sensationally stripped of his Prince title and booted out of the Royal Lodge. 

On November 1, 2003, Charlene, 14, spent the day wandering around town with her sister, Becky.

Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball is the UK's biggest Christmas party - and every year A-list stars take to the stage to perform their biggest hits for a sold-out crowd. 

The sadistic fighter is one of several paramilitaries accused of abuses during the capture of the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Britpop legends Liam and Noel Gallagher kicked off the Australian leg of their world tour with a literal bang on Friday night.

As falls from grace go, it's been pretty dizzying - a plunge during which he's forfeited a beautiful house in Ireland, a £6million townhouse in Kensington and a £25million estate in Shropshire.

To have Andrew's indiscretions continually plastered across front pages here and abroad was debasing the monarchy. There could be no compromise; he had to be isolated.

Before he was stripped of his royal titles, William and Kate backed the King, saying they also wanted him kicked out of Windsor.

The FCC plans to repeal a Biden-era ruling that required ISPs to secure their networks under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, instead relying on voluntary cybersecurity commitments from telecom providers. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the ruling "exceeded the agency's authority and did not present an effective or agile response to the relevant cybersecurity threats." Carr said the vote scheduled for November 20 comes after "extensive FCC engagement with carriers" who have taken "substantial steps... to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses." Ars Technica reports: The FCC's January 2025 declaratory ruling came in response to attacks by China, including the Salt Typhoon infiltration of major telecom providers such as Verizon and AT&T. The Biden-era FCC found that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), a 1994 law, "affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications." "The Commission has previously found that section 105 of CALEA creates an affirmative obligation for a telecommunications carrier to avoid the risk that suppliers of untrusted equipment will "illegally activate interceptions or other forms of surveillance within the carrier's switching premises without its knowledge,'" the January order said. "With this Declaratory Ruling, we clarify that telecommunications carriers' duties under section 105 of CALEA extend not only to the equipment they choose to use in their networks, but also to how they manage their networks." A draft of the order that will be voted on in November can be found here (PDF).

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Alec Baldwin's years-long Rust shooting saga continued this week after the gun supplier for the doomed production sued him and other key figures on the film.

The Chancellor failed to obtain the correct permission to let her home in Dulwich, south-east London, despite it being her responsibility.

We live in a political age in which the 'unlikely' increasingly becomes the 'likely', with a rapidity similar to Hemingway's description of going bankrupt - gradually, then suddenly... very suddenly.

Andrew may have lost his beloved house, along with all his styles and honours. But Charles is determined that his brother's punishment is not without humanity.

Scientists have found that a popular cold-weather beverage can counteract the damage that prolonged sitting inflicts on blood vessels.