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Former Chelsea and England footballers John Terry and Dennis Wise have joined a campaign to free notorious British prisoner Charles Bronson from prison.

An anonymous reader shares a report: This summer, Oslo's public-transport authority drove a Chinese electric bus deep into a decommissioned mine inside a nearby mountain to answer a question: Could it be hacked? Isolated by rock from digital interference, cybersecurity experts came back with a qualified yes: The bus could in theory be remotely disabled using the control system for the battery. The revelation, presented at a recent public-transport conference, has spurred officials in Denmark and the U.K. to start their own investigations into Chinese vehicles. It has also fed into broader security concerns across Europe about the growing prevalence of Chinese-made equipment in the region's energy and telecommunications infrastructure. The worry is the same for autos, solar panels and other connected devices: that mechanisms used for wirelessly delivering system updates could also be exploited by a hostile government or third-party hacker to compromise critical networks. [...] The Oslo transport authority, Ruter, said the bus's mobile-network connection via a Romanian SIM card gave manufacturer Yutong access to the control system for battery and power supply. Ruter said it is addressing the vulnerability by developing firewalls and delaying the signals sent to the vehicles, among other solutions.

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The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts

A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…

It's currently November's 'major find'

Renowned etiquette coach Myka Meier told the Daily Mail there are a myriad of rules that come with socializing, sharing the little known - and commonly forgotten - ones with the Daily Mail.

Smokey Robinson is facing new allegations from two additional former workers, who claim he engaged in repeated sexual misconduct during their employment.

The manner in which Donald Trump was forced, in the end, to agree this week to the publication of the Epstein files should worry the President far more than anything that might be in them.

Special Air Service veterans have declared they intend to launch legal action against the government over its mistreatment of soldiers who served in the Troubles

Lucy Mecklenburgh has undergone surgery to help relieve the 'awful' symptoms of endometriosis.

Johannes Radebe looked unrecognisable in drag as he arrived at London's Royal Albert Hall for the Royal Variety Performance on Wednesday evening. 

A new treatment for tuberculosis could boost cure rates and shorten the time needed to treat the disease by months, trial results suggest. The Guardian: Globally, an estimated 10.7 million people fell ill with TB last year and 1.23 million died from it. In its annual report on tuberculosis, launched last week, the World Health Organization said it remained a "major global public-health problem" and the leading infectious cause of death. [...] Sorfequiline, a new antibiotic, showed stronger action against the deadly bacteria than existing treatments, with a comparable safety profile, researchers from the TB Alliance told the Union Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen on Wednesday. The trial involved 309 people across 22 sites in South Africa, the Philippines, Georgia, Tanzania and Uganda, with different dose regimens. All participants had "drug-sensitive" tuberculosis, meaning a standard cocktail of drugs can safely treat them but researchers believe TB infections that are resistant to standard treatment could also be helped. The trial suggested a sorfequiline-based regimen could be used for anyone testing positive, said Dr Maria Beumont, vice-president of TB Alliance.

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Elon Musk, who spectacularly blew up his relationship with Donald Trump six months ago, has firmly returned to the president's good graces.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Plans to drastically expand Wimbledon have hit a fresh setback after a local campaign group won the right to appeal against a summer court verdict.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Commercial Sexual Exploitation has called the National Police Chiefs' Council's (NPCC) guidance 'harmful and inappropriate'.

Action is needed now to reduce ultra-processed food (UPF) in diets worldwide because of their threat to health, say international experts in a global review of research. From a report: They say the way we eat is changing - with a move away from fresh, whole foods to cheap, highly-processed meals - which is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression. Writing in The Lancet, the researchers say governments need "to step up" and introduce warnings and higher taxes on UPF products, to help fund access to more nutritious foods. [...] This review of evidence on the impact of UPFs on health, carried out by 43 global experts and based on 104 long-term studies, suggests these foods are linked to a greater risk of 12 health conditions. These include type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, depression and dying prematurely from any cause.

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The average sold house price is no longer over £1m

The massive display, which has appeared above the Côte Brasserie restaurant and several others, appears to have been hastily created using AI.

BORK is borked

Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…

After Trump welcomed Ronaldo during his speech at the glitzy event, the White House shared video of the two men walking side by side next to The Presidential Walk of Fame.

Charlene and Albert were joined by their twins, Crown Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, both 10, as the family waved to well-wishers from the palace balcony.