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A routine bike ride through the Essex countryside turned into a life-altering chain of events for Simon Rogerson. He set off along trails - a route he had ridden countless times with his son.

Donald Trump's inner circle is privately panicking that the Iran war will trigger a midterm bloodbath, with sky-high fuel prices at the pump and airline tickets soaring.

Zahra Ahmad was the only one of four ISIS brides to walk free on Australian soil after touching down from the Middle East on Thursday night.

Ethan Cantrell, 18, passed away on August 20, 2025, after being treated at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, west Oregon. His family claims he did not receive proper care.

The actor, 57, and his younger sister, 56, are frequent collaborators, having published a number of best-selling children's books and appeared together on Celebrity Gogglebox.

The latest updates from the Essex County Council elections counts overnight taking place in Clacton, Braintree and Maldon.

The latest updates from the Essex County Council elections counts overnight taking place in Clacton, Braintree and Maldon.

Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies

Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings

An American bank employee hung up the phone on Pope Leo XIV when he called customer service because she thought it was a prank call.

joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability in question is tagged CVE-2026-31431 and, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), "This Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise." The distributions affected are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Amazon Linux. This could also affect any distribution based on those in the list, which means pretty much every Linux distro that isn't independent. The flaw is found in the Linux kernel cryptographic subsystem's algif_aead module of AF_ALG. The problem is that a particular optimization has led to the kernel reusing the source memory as the destination during cryptographic operations. What this means is that attackers can take advantage of interactions between the AF_ALG socket interface and a splice() system call. Until patches are released, Microsoft is advising that the affected crypto feature should be disabled, or AF_ALG socket creation should be blocked. The vulnerability is also known as "Copy Fail," which has been shared on Slashdot and detailed in a technical report. The vulnerability affects almost every version of the Linux OS and is now being exploited in the wild. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered all civilian federal agencies to patch any affected systems by May 15.

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The Nickelodeon alum, 40, has been experimenting with her appearance as of late, and on Wednesday debuted another trend she was not trying out for size.

After heading to Disneyland earlier in the week, the singer, 42, uploaded some photos on Instagram from their time at Universal Orlando.

Mr McSweeney phoned 999 to report that the device had been stolen in Westminster on October 20 last year.

Research by More in Common suggests Labour's dominance of Birmingham City Council will come to a shocking end after today's vote.

Not content with parallel career paths and a shared love interest, Olivia Attwood and Maura Higgins also have the same taste in designer bags.

Dog owners who feed their beloved pets 'like humans' have taken aim at older generations' views on nutrition and insisted the trend 'isn't just a fad'.

Norfolk Police arrested the suspect on suspicion of a public order offence in the village of Wolferton last night and he remained in custody in King's Lynn today.

TOWIE star Jake Hall was honoured by friends and fans following his tragic death from head injuries in Spain aged 35. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn't have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone's wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much as a clock. Google's newest wearable jumps on that trend: The Fitbit Air doesn't have a screen, but it does have a suite of health sensors that pipe data into the new Google Health app. And if you want, Google has a new AI-powered health coach in the app ready to tell you what that data means (maybe). The Fitbit Air itself is a small plastic puck about 1.4 inches long and 0.7 inches wide. It slots into various bands that hold the bottom-mounted sensors against your wrist. There's no display pointing upward, so the entire device is covered by the fabric or plastic of the band. It's a streamlined and potentially stylish look -- in uncharacteristic fashion, Google has plenty of colors and style options available, including a special-edition Steph Curry version. You may have heard chatter about Curry being seen teasing a new screenless Fitbit, and this is it. [...] The Fitbit app is getting a major makeover and a new name. An update in the coming weeks will transform that app into Google Health, featuring a new interface with a more extensive Material Expressive aesthetic and redesigned menus and tabs. You also won't see Fitbit branding in as many places -- the Fitbit Premium subscription will become Google Health Premium. Without a subscription, the app still does all the basic things, like tracking your health stats, automatically logging workouts, and showing it all in a pretty dashboard. With the Premium subscription, you get all the features from Fitbit Premium plus the new AI Health Coach. It's a chatbot, so you can ask it about any health or wellness topics, and the answers are grounded in your health data. The Fitbit Air launches May 26 for $99.99, includes a Performance Loop band, and comes with three months of the new Google Health Premium that replaces Fitbit Premium and adds Google's AI Health Coach. Meanwhile, Google Health Premium will cost $10 per month or $100 per year, though it's included with AI Pro or AI Ultra. Non-subscribers can still use basic tracking features. Ars also notes that when Google Fit shuts down later this year, users will need to migrate their data to Google Health.

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