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French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old suspected of using the alias "breach3d" in connection with a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the state agency that handles passports, ID cards, and other secure documents. The breach allegedly involved 12 million to 18 million lines of data offered for sale online, potentially affecting up to a third of France's population if the records are unique. The Register reports: It formally opened (PDF) a judicial investigation on April 29, covering alleged fraudulent access to a state-run automated data processing system and the extraction of data from it. Each offense carries a potential prison sentence of seven years and a maximum ~$350,000 fine. Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau has requested that the minor, whose pronouns, like their name, were also not specified, be formally charged and placed under judicial supervision. [...] France's approach to punishing minors via its legal system is typically geared toward re-education and rehabilitation rather than prison time. While those aged between 13 and 16 can face time in juvenile detention, it is often used as a last resort measure. The maximum sentences and fines for the charges the 15-year-old in this case faces are upper limits imposed on adult offenders, and would likely be lowered substantially in cases involving a minor, like this one.

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D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, 21, was arrested earlier this month on murder charges. His alleged victim's death certificate has now been updated following an extensive investigation.

More than a dozen earthquakes have struck near Nevada's highly classified base in the past 24 hours, fueling speculation about possible underground testing.

KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start

Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it'll change the landscape, if KnowBe4's latest phishing trends report is accurate.…

The actress, 36, who plays brash Sarah Stratton in the TV show, wore a chic, satin top which she tucked into a pair of black trousers.

RightsCon, one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and "thematic issues," while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent meeting with the government. 404 Media reports: Minister of Technology and Science Felix Mutati first announced the postponement on April 28, saying that Zambia needed more time to ensure the conference "fully [aligns] with national procedures, diplomatic protocols, and the broader objective of fostering a balanced and consensus-driven platform for dialogue." "In particular, certain invited speakers and participants remain subject to pending administrative and security clearances, which have not yet been concluded," he added, according to the Lusaka Times. [...] On a popular listserv for academics, many of whom are attending RightsCon, a board member of Access Now wrote "I am told I can leak that RightsCon has been canceled. Message from [Access Now] following shortly" in a thread about what attendees were planning on doing. And in an email, AccessNow wrote: "It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online. We understand this news is deeply upsetting for our community and while we know everyone has questions, our goal right now is to notify you of the event's status because many of you have imminent travel plans. We do not recommend registered participants travel to Lusaka for RightsCon. Over the last 48 hours we have experienced an overwhelming surge of support from civil society, government representatives, sponsors, and our community as a whole. For this, we wholeheartedly thank you. We'll communicate more information soon."

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On the day Yasir Al-Rumayyan stepped away from the ill-fated LIV Golf, the Titleist clubs unloaded from his chauffeur-driven Mercedes at Matfen Hall suggested his love for the sport remains.

The Blue Lagoon star, 60, was stylishly edgy in a black leather dress and sleek mules while the aspiring journalist, 22, matched her in a black studded maxi dress and black heels

A worldwide hunt is under way to find a historic trophy worth £500,000 which has been stolen from a flagship Scots museum.

The Coronation Street legend, 69, was given news of her diagnosis just after she relocated to Dublin, having scooped a role on Irish soap opera Fair City.

The 65-year-old could be seen in a clinic having a procedure on her face as a professional applied white numbing cream to her entire face.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook are not interested in buying the Super Bowl-champion Seahawks despite a Front Office Sports report claiming exactly that.

Keir Starmer's sister-in-law has told of her terror after arsonists firebombed the Prime Minister's home where she was living with her family.

A family has told of their agony after a report uncovered a litany of failings over the death of their five-year-old son at a hospital where treatment was branded 'chaotic and ineffective'.

The man suspected of stabbing two Jewish people in Golders Green has been named as Essa Suleiman.

Video footage captured Camilla transporting Roo, a replica of a missing toy that belonged to Christopher Robin Milne, son of AA Milne who wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh to the US.

One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend

China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.…

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…

Elaine Wilson claimed she was being personally attacked when Glyn Williams posted a picture of the costume - which included the pretend race number '666' - on a work group chat.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back than ever, releasing "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" along with other documentation and notes from its developer. Today's source release is so old that it predates the MS-DOS branding, and it includes "sources to the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, several development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, and some well-known utilities such as CHKDSK," write Microsoft's Stacey Haffner and Scott Hanselman in their co-authored post about the release. [...] This source code is old enough that it hadn't been stored digitally. "A dedicated team of historians and preservationists led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini," calling itself the "DOS Disassembly Group," painstakingly transcribed and scanned in code from paper printouts provided by Paterson. This process was made even more difficult because modern OCR software struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout.

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