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Essex Police have launched an investigation after a banner outside Lyons Hall Primary School on Deerleap Way in Braintree was subject to racist criminal damage.

He's missing for a couple of days

The woman easily could have died

John McCormack has been reported missing from Colchester after last being seen leaving home with a suitcase.

John McCormack has been reported missing from Colchester after last being seen leaving home with a suitcase.

Meghan, 45, was reported by a Hollywood website last Friday to be in preliminary talks over a possible role in a third season of the gangster series.

Middle class grocer Waitrose has joined hundreds of locals in a Georgian spa town fighting a £100m redevelopment by a property developer close to the Prime Minister.

Concerns were raised after an apparent ongoing discharge was reported near a village in north Essex, with the incident believed to have been going on for days.

Concerns were raised after an apparent ongoing discharge was reported near a village in north Essex, with the incident believed to have been going on for days.

Emily Atack has shared an insight into her wedding day with her husband Alistair Garner after the couple married in an intimate UK ceremony at the weekend.

A throng of balaclava-clad youths set off flares and fireworks on Monday afternoon to remember the five A66 'joyriders' who died when they smashed into a police car.

This is basically a riff on ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ and means only the human league can have a hit

The child had bought the red Kia with a group of friends for £250 earlier in the day before taking it on a 50-mile joyride along the M6 in Cheshire and Staffordshire.

CCTV footage shows the moment Israeli mafia boss Yanis Yushvaev, 40, is shot dead outside a petrol station at point-blank range on Sunday.

Luke Warner, 35, plunged two knives into his victim – one into her eye and another into the back of her head – in a horrific attack.

A developer says AliExpress is using the browser's WebAudio API to help fingerprint users by playing inaudible audio and measuring tiny differences in how their devices process it. CyberNews reports: The developer, "laserphile," wrote on their blog that they recently ran into some weird issues with their Bluetooth headphones. They couldn't play music via their phone when, at the same time, the AliExpress website was open on their PC. The headphones, laserphile explained, support multipoint Bluetooth audio so they can be connected to the PC and phone at the same time, for instance, playing music on the phone and announcing notifications through the PC. "Shortly after loading the AliExpress homepage, audio from my phone would stop playing. Closing the AliExpress tab fixes it immediately," the developer said in the blog post. "Muting the tab/Firefox/Windows does not help, and there is no visible video, music, or other media playing on the page. This seemed suspicious enough to investigate." It turns out that Alibaba has been secretly leveraging AliExpress users' audio systems to track them and build detailed fingerprints of them. [...] The AliExpress site was using the browser's WebAudio API to run invisible sound waves at zero volume. By measuring tiny hardware differences in how each PC processed those signals, the site created a unique digital fingerprint to track devices -- without user knowledge or consent. The secret audio path froze the developer's Bluetooth connection while covertly scraping hardware memory, screen dimensions, and network data in the background. The data collection extends beyond audio. Further inspection revealed that the same scripts also measure canvas, WebGL, hardware specs, WebRTC, mouse/touch events, and automation indicators. All of these form a broad device fingerprint that is sent back to Alibaba's telemetry servers. The simplest fix is to use a privacy-focused browser such as Firefox or Brave, which can limit or block this kind of fingerprinting. Brave goes further by randomizing fingerprint data and blocking the AliExpress tracking scripts involved.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The 54-year-old actor was joined by Violet, 20, and Fin, 17, as they dined at the Santa Monica restaurant Fia, where his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 54, recently enjoyed a date night with John Miller.

The actress, 36, has been candid about her romance woes, often finding herself unlucky in love, struggling with 'miserable' bouts of loneliness and comparing herself to antiheroine Bridget Jones.

Ministers have been warned that 'tinkering' with Britain's hated business rates system is not enough as the government launched a consultation on reform.

There are many cases where some sort of debugging block sneaks by, especially cases where we see preprocessors or templates working, which leave us with nonsense like if (true == false) running in production. But Codemonkey found a new twist on that sort of thing, in a SQL query being run in production.

WHERE (some conditions) AND (1 = 0 OR (1 = 1 AND (other conditions)))

The OR means that by twiddling the first equality check, we can toggle "always return rows" with "return based on condition". Toggling the second we can make it "never return rows", which I'm not certain is actually useful. I can see how these likely did start life as debugging flags, but they're still weird, still unnatural. They point to some other problem in observability in the code. And, as all "good" flags go, they're not documented anywhere, this seems like it started life as a query an analyst was running until it got turned into stored procedure to be run again and again. The flags have never been changed since the code was released, as far as anyone can tell.

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