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TV presenter Noel Edmonds has sparked a backlash after buying live lobsters from a farm shop before releasing them into the sea.

Leandro Paredes was back antagonising opponents on a football pitch at the weekend with some of his antics, but this time at club level.

The 38-year-old mother-of-three oozed sexiness as she donned a thong bodysuit to promote her Savage X Fenty lingerie label.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking, according to new security research published on Monday. Some of these apps claim to have been installed on hundreds of millions of smart TVs in people's homes, per the app developers. At least one of the smart TV apps was a simple Pac-Man game that Samsung had endorsed and prominently featured in its "Editor's Choice" section on customers' TV screens. These apps contain software that funnels outsiders' web traffic through ordinary home and office internet connections, known as residential proxy networks (or "resproxies"), which are increasingly being linked to cybercrime. When opened, apps with resproxy code can turn the smart TV into an always-on tunnel for outsiders to funnel their web traffic through, known as an exit node -- even when the app is no longer open. The security research by Norwegian cybersecurity company Mnemonic describes a perfect storm of problems that allows low-quality apps to proliferate across Samsung's app store, containing code that puts users at risk of having their internet connections tapped by a rogue app. Many of these apps are bare-bone shells, made from only a few lines of code, and are designed solely to load content from another website, such as a game. While such smart TV apps load content from another server, any review of these apps sees only the few lines of code within, and not necessarily the content itself. "What was reviewed is not necessarily what is running," wrote Harrison Sand, an offensive security consultant at Mnemonic. After TechCrunch contacted Samsung with a request for comment about the research, the electronics giant said in an emailed statement that it was banning apps that share their users' internet connections, and will remove apps that contain the functionality. "We have already restricted new app registrations that incorporate such proxy functionalities on our Smart TV platform," said a Samsung spokesperson. "We are currently implementing strict platform-wide developer policies explicitly banning residential proxy SDKs, and we are working to identify and remove all apps currently available in our store that contain these components." LG also recently announced plans to suspend apps containing ResProxy software after a security firm found that roughly 42% of apps in its TV app store allowed unknown third parties to route internet traffic through users' televisions without their knowledge.

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The Reform leader used a press conference in Westminster to unveil his party's 'Operation Fortress' plan to deploy the Royal Navy to return Channel migrants.

Scientists have uncovered the gruesome secret behind Antarctica's infamous Blood Falls - it's alive with the descendants of ancient sea creatures.

Jennifer Garner and her boyfriend John Miller made a surprise appearance on Sunday in what marked their first public sighting as a couple in just over a year.

A rare trinity of cosmic events appearing this month has sparked fears of an ominous turning point. All three are set to unfold within hours of one another.

Samantha Adele Collins, 32, died at Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, on July 26, alongside her father John Peter Collins, 66.

MATTHEW LAMBWELL: Emma Raducanu will miss the US Open as she continues to recover from the stress fracture which forced her to pull out of Wimbledon on the eve of the Championships.

What is the ­biggest challenge facing our country over the next quarter of a century? For the answer to that, you need look no further than the Spanish enclave Ceuta, bordering Morocco.

Police are said to be analysing footage of the mass border breach and combing the streets of Spain's North African enclave to try to identify possible jihadists.

With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue

The TV and radio personality, 55, was filming a dog food adverts with her beloved pooches - Rudie, Minnie and Dolly - which she shared to her Instagram.

Severe delays are causing disruption on a busy road in Braintree.

He took it from a retailer at Chelmer Village Retail Park

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews for summarizing publishers' content without delivering the traffic benefits of traditional search, arguing that users increasingly value Reddit's human perspectives and firsthand experiences. Ars Technica reports: First, there was a letter to investors (PDF), wherein Huffman spun his narrative about Reddit's value proposition and general strategic direction amid the proliferation of AI tools. He wrote: "As the internet becomes flooded with synthetic content, people are craving real human perspective. We are the antidote to an automated web. AI compresses the internet into summaries. Reddit delivers the opposite: deep discussions, passionate debates, and lived experiences. People don't want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit." The letter also said: "As AI makes information more abundant, the challenge is no longer finding content -- it's finding context, personal opinion, and first-hand accounts. Everything online feels flat, polished, generated, or sponsored, so consumers are overwhelmed and increasingly skeptical. We've never had more information, but we've never trusted it less." And then, in comments around the earnings report, he added: "What we see is, 10 blue links has driven tremendous value and growth to the broader ecosystem... from where we sit, AI Overviews has yet to make a similar level of positive impact, and I think that's consistent across the broader landscape, right? As businesses, publishers, retailers, we're still looking for that win-win." Reddit shares nevertheless fell more than 20 percent as investors worried that unstable Google referrals could undermine its growth, even after a strong earnings report.

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Fire crews are at the scene

All traffic has been held on a major Essex route due to an incident near Harlow.

All traffic has been held on a major Essex route due to an incident near Harlow.