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When BBC chiefs were searching for the perfect candidate to replace Strictly's departing hosts, they were keen to find a wholesome star who was unlikely to cause them a headache.

Is Britain's first plug-in hybrid supermini a good buy? Freda Lewis-Stempel reviews the £24k BYD Dolphin G DM-i B-segment car to see if it good value for money.

"Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli AI has transformed bug discovery from "a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine," notes Canonical's blog, leading to a "recent explosion in the volume of CVEs". Additionally, the upstream kernel community became its own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and assigned CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifiers to thousands of bugs, arguing that at the kernel level, almost any type of bug that can affect a running system, could potentially be classified as a vulnerability. As a result, the volume of CVEs has skyrocketed exponentially, creating a massive backlog of alerts and forcing defenders to drastically increase the speed of their fixes to close the window of risk. To address the growing volume of CVEs and the demand for faster security fixes, we are transitioning to a unified, 2-week release cycle... While a patch is being prepared, Canonical aims to provide safe workarounds where applicable, so users aren't left exposed in the meantime. Where no safe workaround exists, Canonical will say so clearly and point users toward general hardening steps instead. The goal is to get environments into a defensible, safer state within 24 to 48 hours of public disclosure — well before a patch ships. This doesn't replace the patch; it buys the time needed to fix the vulnerability properly, without sacrificing security. "Linux did not suddenly become wildly insecure overnight," notes the blog Nerds.xyz. "We are getting much better at finding and cataloging problems that may have previously gone unnoticed." There is something almost ironic about all of this. AI is routinely pitched as a tool that will make software development faster, but it is also making vulnerability discovery faster. That means maintainers now have to accelerate the other side of the equation too. For Ubuntu users, that should ultimately be good news. More bugs being discovered is preferable to vulnerabilities sitting unnoticed in the Linux kernel.

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The US company which created ChatGPT said it had now alerted those affected including the financial regulator the SEC, the Census Bureau and the US Department of Education.

The sixties saw many wonderful things like the Beatles, shorter skirts, but Wilson's government and the dictatorship of city planners turned the country on it's head

One day last autumn, I looked down and saw that my hands had turned into my grandmother's. Veiny, bony and covered in sunspots, they looked at least a decade older than my face...

Was Queen Anne a lesbian? What was Anne Boleyn's catchphrase. Delightful nuggets of history from Lucy Worsley.

Discover Colchester in autumn, from Colchester Castle and Roman history to independent shops, cafés, green walks, markets, pubs and live entertainment in Essex.

This hidden gem was the only Essex spot to make the list!

Discover Colchester in autumn, from Colchester Castle and Roman history to independent shops, cafés, green walks, markets, pubs and live entertainment in Essex.

It was dramatically revealed earlier this week that the retired explorer and author has been staying in various care facilities under a false name

Victoria Beckham showed off her huge bouquet of flowers gifted from her supportive husband David after Katherine Ryan apologised to her for making a 'stupid joke'.

After telling fans to 'stop moaning' on the first day of sales, Liam has continued to hit out at critics, taking to X/Twitter with a flurry of tweets on Saturday.

MIKE KEEGAN: The club supremo has warned that while some have been 'quick to reach their own conclusions' after it emerged they had been found guilty on the 'vast majority' of 115 charges,

Catastrophic flooding and winds are expected to threaten over one million Americans as a growing hurricane approaches the US.

Teachers are investigated by a watchdog agency if accused of misconduct

Both men sustained injuries to their hand in the incident

City and their fans, despite an almost-certain appeal, are nervously awaiting punishment after they were found guilty on the vast majority of their 115 charges around financial irregularities.

The pasty-faced coward is going to limp on, without a mandate, for three more years - when it is becoming clearer with every passing day Labour simply cannot and will not rise to the challenge.

Of East Marsh and Port's 3,492 working-age residents, 48.9 per cent are unemployed Universal Credit claimants.