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THREE men have been convicted of murder and manslaughter following the death of a 30-year-old in Essex.

THREE men have been convicted of murder and manslaughter following the death of a 30-year-old in Essex.

The former head of security for WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Meta of ignoring major security and privacy flaws that put billions of the messaging app's users at risk, the latest in a string of whistle-blower allegations against the social media giant. The New York Times: In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Northern California, Attaullah Baig claimed that thousands of WhatsApp and Meta employees could gain access to sensitive user data including profile pictures, location, group memberships and contact lists. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, also failed to adequately address the hacking of more than 100,000 accounts each day and rejected his proposals for security fixes, according to the lawsuit. Mr. Baig tried to warn Meta's top leaders, including its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, that users were being harmed by the security weaknesses, according to the lawsuit. In response, his managers retaliated and fired him in February, he claims. Mr. Baig, who is represented by the whistle-blower organization Psst.org and the law firm Schonbrun, Seplow, Harris, Hoffman & Zeldes, argued in the suit that the actions violated a privacy settlement Meta reached with the Federal Trade Commission in 2019, as well as securities laws that require companies to disclose risks to shareholders.

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Amber Cunningham-Rogan, from St Andrews in Scotland, contacted her dentist in 2020 after she began suffering bleeding gums.

Three men chased Kieran before stabbing him to death

The singer, 34, is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but revealed in a podcast interview that he would be 'settling' in the States with his family while on tour.

Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running

Microsoft's policy of inserting Copilot into every corner of its portfolio is on brief hiatus, at least in the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.…

Security guards were seen patrolling in front of a screen concealing the mural now confirmed as being by the guerilla graffiti artist as his latest creation.

The route connecting Dorset village of Corfe Mullen with tranquil nature reserve Happy Bottom has been used by walkers for decades - but is now at the centre of a bitter dispute.

Hello and welcome to this Live Blog. Here we will update you on the A12, where a collision has left the road partially blocked.

Last weekend I could have sworn I saw the teenage boy who would, had things worked out differently, have been my adopted son. We locked eyes as I put my groceries through the supermarket till...

Newly-released footage showed the moment Iryna Zarutska, 23, was brutally stabbed by Decarlos Brown, 35, as she sat unsuspectingly in her seat on the train last month

Katharine, the Duke of Kent's wife, passed away aged 92 last Thursday, with Buckingham Palace announcing that she died 'peacefully' at Kensington Palace, surrounded by her family.

PART of the A12 is blocked near Hatfield Peverel due to a crash.

University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT-5 could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates, a previously unaddressed problem in the Malliavin-Stein framework. The September 2025 experiment, prompted by claims GPT-5 solved a convex optimization problem, revealed the AI made critical errors requiring constant human correction. GPT-5 overlooked an essential covariance property easily deducible from provided documents. The researchers compared the experience to working with a junior assistant needing careful verification. They warned AI reliance during doctoral training risks students losing opportunities to develop fundamental mathematical skills through mistakes and exploration.

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Skoda really is putting the boot in with a new vision for future estate models that proves there's life in the station wagon beyond the combustion engine.

There will also be raffle with prizes donated by individuals and companies including golf days, hampers, and overnight hotel stays.

Protesters from Braintree and surrounding villages donned Union Jacks and St George’s flags to protest an asylum seeker centre in the district.

Each year in the East of England, around 380 new cancer cases are identified in those under 25.