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A Texas mother of two is now facing attempted murder charges after she allegedly attacked her husband and young children with a knife before sunrise.

ASOS says hackers gained unauthorized access to third-party platforms it uses and sent an "ASOS HACKED" push notification directly to customers, apparently as part of an extortion attempt. The clothing and beauty store says some basic personal information may have been accessed but does not believe payment-card data or passwords were affected. The BBC reports: In an email to customers on Tuesday night, the company apologized and urged customers not to engage with the notification. And it said the website and app are "operating as usual" promising customers they can "shop with confidence" while it investigates the incident. The company has not as of yet informed the UK's data watchdog, the Information Commission's Office (ICO), about any breach. Exactly how many Asos customers received the notification on Tuesday remains unclear, but Google's Play store says the ASOS app has been downloaded to android devices more than 10 million times. The British retailer has a substantial global footprint -- serving around 17 million customers each year across more than 150 markets. Some Asos app users in Australia, France, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland had also received the notification, according to local reports on Tuesday. [...] Users of the Asos app appeared to have received the alarming notification at around 10:00 BST on Tuesday. Headlined "ASOS HACKED" and addressed to the company's data protection officer and IT teams, it said: "We have fully compromised the Snowflake instance." "Engage with us, or we will leak it," it added, before linking to a Telegram channel. The message left many ASOS customers confused. [...] Meanwhile Snowflake -- whose tools are used by dozens of firms to collect, analyze and store data -- told the BBC its investigation was ongoing, but it had so far found "no compromise" of its platform.

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When Amol Rajan became the first star to be murdered on Celebrity Traitors, the cheer from my CT super-fan club was so loud you could hear it from my north London home to Wembley Stadium.

A veteran of the Royal Navy has accused people of using the St George’s Cross and Union Jack to promote “xenophobic nationalism”.

Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiance Wladimir Klitschko has alleged a 'non-family member' pawned some of the late star's jewelry in an explosive new filing.

The actress, 30, tends to skip New York, London and Milan Fashion Weeks entirely to save her rare appearances exclusively for Paris.

IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across widely used Java libraries. Phoronix reports: They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their customers to submit open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation. From today's announcement: "The milestone addresses a growing business risk. As autonomous AI agents become capable of combining several lower-risk software weaknesses into a more serious attack, companies need to do more than identify vulnerabilities. They need a practical way to develop, test and deploy fixes in the software that supports critical applications."

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Nicholas Cash, 26, sobbed as he was sentenced to almost ten years after subjecting Olivia Croft to ten months of vile abuse.

A forensics student has pleaded guilty to stabbing a woman to death in a 'kill room' inspired by US TV drama Dexter. Benjamin Day, 20, changed his plea part way through his trial.

Made In Chelsea star David Templer presents his long-term girlfriend Abi Luffman with a ring in the upcoming episode of the E4 show.

Maria Virgelina Taborda Henao, 71, is said to have stolen jewellery from a Jordanian princess living in London which was later sold at auction in England.

Darrell Lambert, 40, had just been let out of jail after serving little over half of a 34-month term for offences including actual bodily harm when he and two accomplices broke into a Spar store.

Jayden Swift punched the innocent man after he came to the aid of another poor victim who the 19-year-old had 'punched 20 times' and left unconscious just moments earlier.

PC Stephen Smith, 52, and PC Rachel Comotto, 37, were dismissed following a disciplinary hearing into their treatment of Donald Burgess, a single-leg amputee.

The judge called Trump's fines 'exorbitant' and said they would hurt migrants, who already 'live in an economically precarious position.'

Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its "2026 IT Virtualization Survey -- What's Next for VMware Users." The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use VMware. Notably, Rimini sells third-party support for VMware and other software, including Oracle and SAP. That means there's an incentive for Rimini to portray VMware users as experiencing obstacles. However, the survey was also conducted by a third-party research company, Unisphere Research, and the results align with other recent reports about VMware customers. For example, 90 percent of participants in Rimini's survey said they're exploring VMware alternatives due to VMware's higher licensing costs, while 54 percent pointed to Broadcom killing support for perpetual license holders. Since Broadcom took over VMware, customers have said that their VMware costs increased by as much as 1,000 percent, with many more pointing to more modest price hikes of around 100 to 300 percent. In Rimini's survey, 73 percent of participants pointed to cost savings as a top priority in their virtualization roadmap decisions. In today's announcement, Rimini pointed to "significant barriers to progress" for organizations exploring virtualization options, with the most cited barriers being operational complexity (named by 40 percent of respondents), multi-vendor management challenges (38 percent), securing the increased attack surface (37 percent), and team skills requirements (37 percent). "These findings suggest that while organizations are actively pursuing change, they are also looking for ways to reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption," Rimini's announcement said. [...] Rimini reported that 60 percent of the organizations it surveyed are considering a multi-hypervisor strategy, which is indicative of "growing interest in more flexible, mixed environments that support both operational and financial goals." "In addition, 47 percent are favoring a hybrid IT virtualization environment consisting of hypervisors and containers for 'best of both worlds' workload placement," the announcement said. Rimini noted that 48 percent of respondents aren't planning to move any of their assets to VMware's hybrid cloud platform, Cloud Foundation.

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Donald Trump hauled his ever-present aide Natalie Harp on stage at a Nebraska rally on Monday night and likened her to a game show model in front of a roaring crowd.

FKA Twigs had sued her ex after he sought money for an alleged violation of their previous settlement agreement.

Former Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker said Reform UK's education spokesperson Suella Braverman was wrong despite her justification that her parents were born abroad.