Aviva paid up when my car was stolen but lease firm claims I still owe it £3,500: SALLY SORTS IT
My lease car was stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night of November 24, 2025. I reported it to the police and then contacted my insurer, Aviva.
Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026
Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing
Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. …
AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t
What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.…
Cosmetic surgeon reveals how old celebrities' faces REALLY look before and after having their fillers dissolved - and it will make you think twice about going under the needle
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Ross Perry, Medical Director of Cosmedics skin clinics, has analysed the face ages of stars before and after filler.
Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox
Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue posted a now-viral account on X describing how an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting through her overstuffed email inbox went rogue, deleting messages in what she called a "speed run" while ignoring her repeated commands from her phone to stop.
"I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb," Yue wrote, sharing screenshots of the ignored stop prompts as proof. Yue said she had previously tested the agent on a smaller "toy" inbox where it performed well enough to earn her trust, so she let it loose on the real thing. She believes the larger volume of data triggered compaction -- a process where the context window grows too large and the agent begins summarizing and compressing its running instructions, potentially dropping ones the user considers critical.
The agent may have reverted to its earlier toy-inbox behavior and skipped her last prompt telling it not to act. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent designed to run as a personal assistant on local hardware.
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Should ministers release all the Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor files now? Have your say in our Morning Poll
With Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson both arrested in recent days, calls are growing for the government to make public all files on the two men.
At least four people killed by knife-wielding maniac running through quaint waterfront Washington suburb
The suspect was seen stabbing people on a street in Gig Harbor, on Puget Sound, Tuesday morning shortly before 9am local time.
Donald Trump welcomes Team USA men's hockey heroes into the Oval Office for gold medal celebration... after women's team turned down offer
Neither a historic blizzard nor a late night of drinking in Miami could stop Team USA from getting to Washington DC to celebrate their Olympic gold medal.
The glamorous model at heart of Mexico chaos as she denies being the mistress who led soldiers to El Mencho's door and launched a thousand machine guns
A banner hung from a bridge in Zapopan, Jalisco, called the Mexican influencer a 'b***h' and claimed that she 'sent the marine' after the cartel.
Missing chapter of human history revealed in 40,000-year-old symbols
For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.
New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain's Electricity Use, Regulator Says
The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity -- 5GW more than the country's current peak demand.
The figure was revealed in an Ofgem consultation on demand for new connections to the power grid. It pointed to a "surge in demand" for connection applications between November 2024 and June last year, with a significant number coming from datacentres. This has exceeded even the most ambitious forecasts.
Meanwhile, new renewable energy projects are not being connected to the grid at the pace they are being built to help meet the government's clean energy targets by the end of the decade. Ofgem said the work required to connect surging numbers of datacentres could mean delays for other projects that are "critical for decarbonisation and economic growth." Datacentres are the central nervous system of AI tools such as chatbots and image generators, playing a vital role in training and operating products such as ChatGPT and Gemini.
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Pregnant care worker called 'unreliable' by colleague after going to hospital fearing a miscarriage wins £23,000 payout
The colleague responded to Miss Aris' absences for medical leave by calling her 'unreliable' and messaging her: 'You have been constantly called in sick since you find out you were pregnant.'
Brad Pitt's ex Juliette Lewis, 52, goes public with first new romance in seven years
Brad Pitt's former flame Juliette Lewis has revealed she is in a new relationship - seven years after splitting from Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk.
Did you know these 10 celebrities were from Essex? Some might surprise you
Essex is home to some of the nation’s favourite and most recognisable celebrities.
Did you know these 10 celebrities were from Essex? Some might surprise you
Essex is home to some of the nation’s favourite and most recognisable celebrities.
Shamima Begum 'plots return to Britain using people smugglers': Texts from ISIS bride's 'fixer' 'beg for cash so she can flee Syria and force deportation to UK'
Begum, who was stripped of her British citizenship after leaving London to join the terror group in 2015, is currently held at al-Roj - a filthy, violent camp in north-east Syria .
Peter Mandelson condemns police for arresting him over 'baseless suggestion he was planning to leave the country' to live in the British Virgin Islands
The peer was held for around nine hours following his arrest on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Oldest New Testament fragments reveal 2,000-year-old words of Jesus
A scholar has revealed how first-century papyrus fragments containing 24 lines from the Gospel offer an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest written record of Jesus' words.
CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes
An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-states increasingly relied on predictable tactics to evade detection by exploiting trusted systems.
The average breakout time -- how long it took financially-motivated attackers to move from initial intrusion to other network systems -- dropped to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% increase in speed from the year prior. "The fastest breakout time a year ago was 51 seconds. This year it's 27 seconds," Adam Meyers, head of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, told CyberScoop. Defenders are falling behind because attackers are refining their techniques, using social engineering to access high-privilege systems faster and move through victims' cloud infrastructure undetected.
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Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP
SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of
If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.…