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To start off Hospice Care Week, we interviewed the new co-chief executives Kate Heslegrave and Karen Chumbley, who started their roles in August this year.

As the shutdown entered its fifth day on Sunday, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNN that he still saw a chance that Democrats would back down.

Mizzy, the notorious TikTok troublemaker, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, has turned his life around after becoming a father-of-two and getting a job in construction.

Scientists have discovered that the specific way an aging brain changes shape, such as its overall structure shifting and regions pulling apart, can serve as an early warning sign for dementia.

If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica. That's according to Darren McKnight, lead author of a paper presented Friday at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, which calculated the objects most likely to collide with other fragments and create more debris. (Russia and the Soviet Union lead with 34 objects, followed by China with 10, the U.S. with three, Europe with two, and Japan with one.) Even just the top 10 were removed, the debris-generating potential drops by 30%. "The things left before 2000 are still the majority of the problem," he points out, and "76% of the objects in the top 50 were deposited last century." 88% of the objects are post-mission rocket bodies left behind to hurtle through space. "The bad news is, since January 1, 2024, we've had 26 rocket bodies abandoned in low-Earth orbit that will stay in orbit for more than 25 years," McKnight told Ars... China launched 21 of the 26 hazardous new rocket bodies over the last 21 months, each averaging more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds). Two more came from US launchers, one from Russia, one from India, and one from Iran. This trend is likely to continue as China steps up deployment of two megaconstellations — Guowang and Thousand Sails — with thousands of communications satellites in low-Earth orbit. Launches of these constellations began last year. The Guowang and Thousand Sails satellites are relatively small and likely capable of maneuvering out of the way of space debris, although China has not disclosed their exact capabilities. However, most of the rockets used for Guowang and Thousand Sails launches have left their upper stages in orbit. McKnight said nine upper stages China has abandoned after launching Guowang and Thousand Sails satellites will stay in orbit for more than 25 years, violating the international guidelines. It will take hundreds of rockets to fully populate China's two major megaconstellations. The prospect of so much new space debris is worrisome, McKnight said. "In the next few years, if they continue the same trend, they're going to leave well over 100 rocket bodies over the 25-year rule if they continue to deploy these constellations," he said. "So, the trend is not good...." Since 2000, China has accumulated more dead rocket mass in long-lived orbits than the rest of the world combined, according to McKnight. "But now we're at a point where it's actually kind of accelerating in the last two years as these constellations are getting deployed." A deputy head of China's national space agency recently said China is "currently researching" how to remove space debris from orbit, according to the article. ("One of the missions China claims is testing space debris mitigation techniques has docked with multiple spacecraft in orbit, but U.S. officials see it as a military threat. The same basic technologies needed for space debris cleanup — rendezvous and docking systems, robotic arms, and onboard automation — could be used to latch on to an adversary's satellite.")

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Employees are being told to fill in screen skills passports 'designed to create a better, more welcoming and safe place to work' as part of the latest package of measures.

Prosecutors said on Sunday they had opened a 'war crimes' investigation after a drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in war-torn eastern Ukraine.

Pensioners in their 90s have been admitted to hospital for taking cocaine as the number needing treatment has soared by a third in just two years.

Leading Jewish figures gave defiant speeches in Trafalgar Square before the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel, where they warned they face their biggest threat in a generation.

Aiden Minnis, 38, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, posted footage online of himself setting the crucial travel document alight in front of a large Russian flag.

The three men were stranded in 'appaling conditions' for 42 hours in the Dowber Gill Passage, near Grassington, North Yorkshire, from Thursday until Saturday morning.

The comedian, 49, has confessed his strategy to not using comedy and honing in on his former days of working in a call center in a bid to win the popular BBC game show.

"Recent attacks show that hackers keep using the same tricks to sneak bad code into popular software registries," writes long-time Slashdot reader selinux geek, suggesting that "the real problem is how these registries are built, making these attacks likely to keep happening." After all, npm wasn't the only software library hit by a supply chain attack, argues the Linux Security blog. "PyPI and Docker Hub both faced their own compromises in 2025, and the overlaps are impossible to ignore." Phishing has always been the low-hanging fruit. In 2025, it wasn't just effective once — it was the entry point for multiple registry breaches, all occurring close together in different ecosystems... The real problem isn't that phishing happened. It's that there weren't enough safeguards to blunt the impact. One stolen password shouldn't be all it takes to poison an entire ecosystem. Yet in 2025, that's exactly how it played out... Even if every maintainer spotted every lure, registries left gaps that attackers could walk through without much effort. The problem wasn't social engineering this time. It was how little verification stood between an attacker and the "publish" button. Weak authentication and missing provenance were the quiet enablers in 2025... Sometimes the registry itself offers the path in. When the failure is at the registry level, admins don't get an alert, a log entry, or any hint that something went wrong. That's what makes it so dangerous. The compromise appears to be a normal update until it reaches the downstream system... It shifts the risk from human error to systemic design. And once that weakly authenticated code gets in, it doesn't always go away quickly, which leads straight into the persistence problem... Once an artifact is published, it spreads into mirrors, caches, and derivative builds. Removing the original upload doesn't erase all the copies... From our perspective at LinuxSecurity, this isn't about slow cleanup; it's about architecture. Registries have no universally reliable kill switch once trust is broken. Even after removal, poisoned base images replicate across mirrors, caches, and derivative builds, meaning developers may keep pulling them in long after the registry itself is "clean." The article condlues that "To us at LinuxSecurity, the real vulnerability isn't phishing emails or stolen tokens — it's the way registries are built. They distribute code without embedding security guarantees. That design ensures supply chain attacks won't be rare anomalies, but recurring events."BR> So in a world where "the only safe assumption is that the code you consume may already be compromised," they argue, developers should look to controls they can enforce themselves: Verify artifacts with signatures or provenance tools. Pin dependencies to specific, trusted versions. Generate and track SBOMs so you know exactly what's in your stack. Scan continuously, not just at the point of install.

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Celine Dion made a rare appearance with her sons at Paul McCartney's Las Vegas concert on Saturday night amid her health battle. 

Meghan Markle made a surprise appearance at Paris Fashion Week - and has now shared with her Instagram fans some glimpses of how she prepped, in more ways than one, for her big night.

Libby Cohen Meguri, described by her mother as 'the happiest person this world has ever known,' was one of the 1,200 victims murdered during Hamas' attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

Frankie Bridge has admitted that she squandered the fortune from her early pop star days after finding fame at the age of 12 with S Club Juniors.

Big Brother's Zelah Glasson was accidentally 'outed' as transgender in front of all the housemates on Monday night's episode - after he narrowly avoided eviction.

The scandal at Charing Cross police station has been described as 'indefensible' by the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents 145,000 rank and file officers.