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Warnings have been stuck to the dashboards of hundreds of official vehicles used in the UK and overseas. Defence officials acted on the threat of spying by China on military vehicles.

The Spice Girl, 51, who went public with the Aussie model last year after months of speculation, matched the hunk in a stylish suit.

Diane Ladd's cause of death has been revealed, two weeks after the star's shock passing aged 89.

Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging into the backend, security researcher Cody Kociemba found that the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more. Kociemba made the discovery while participating in a bounty program created by FULU, a right-to-repair advocacy organization cofounded by electronics repair technician and YouTuber Louis Rossmann. FULU challenged developers to come up with a solution to restore smart functionality to Nest devices no longer supported by Google, and that's exactly what Kociemba did with his open-source No Longer Evil project. But after cloning Google's API to create this custom software, he started receiving a trove of logs from customer devices, which he turned off. "On these devices, while they [Google] turned off access to remotely control them, they did leave in the ability for the devices to upload logs. And the logs are pretty extensive," Kociemba tells The Verge. [...] "I was under the impression that the Google connection would be severed along with the remote functionality, however that connection is not severed, and instead is a one-way street," Kociemba says.

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VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…

Danny Masterson is pushing to overturn his rape convictions, claiming in new legal filings that a series of alleged missteps by his former attorney that cost him his freedom.

Danniella Westbrook is set to make her movie comeback in a new independent British film, Tales from the Trap. 

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

Interview  Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure's global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. The attack came from the Aisuru botnet, a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet using compromised home routers and cameras. The attack used massive UDP floods from more than 500,000 IPs hitting a single public address, with little spoofing and random source ports that made traceback easier. It highlights how attackers are scaling with the internet: faster home fiber and increasingly powerful IoT devices keep pushing DDoS attack sizes higher. "On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia," reads a report published by Microsoft. "The attack originated from Aisuru botnet." "Attackers are scaling with the internet itself. As fiber-to-the-home speeds rise and IoT devices get more powerful, the baseline for attack size keeps climbing," concludes the post. "As we approach the upcoming holiday season, it is essential to confirm that all internet-facing applications and workloads are adequately protected against DDOS attacks."

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The amount of cash that is protected if a bank or building society goes bust will rise for the first time in eight years, the Prudential Regulation Authority today confirmed.

Women with private pensions retire on £173,000 while men stop work with £286,000, representing a 32% gap between their funds.

Democrats are licking their lips at the idea of tearing down or repurposing President Donald Trump's gilded ballroom.

The incident was sparked by a massive downpour that caused the Torre river to overflow its banks and sent mud pouring through the streets.

The Irish comedy writer, 57, accused the actor, who played Father Dougal McGuire in the Channel 4 comedy, of being 'the latest colleague to smear' him.

The 64-year-old has apologised and issued a warning to drivers after being caught speeding four times, three of which were going over a 20mph limit.

Rapper Maxon Margiela - born Mason Reyes - has died at just 21. The rising star passed away in Miami on Sunday, one week after a reported suicide attempt.

fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers -- so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts. Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright believes the tool is proof that automation can make podcasting scalable, profitable and accessible without human writers, editors or hosts. "The price is now so inexpensive that you can take a lot of risks,â Wright told TheWrap. âoeYou can make a lot of content and a lot of different genres that were never commercially viable before and serve huge audiences that have really never had content made for them." At a cost of $1 an episode, Wright takes a quantity-over-quality approach. "I think very quickly we get to a place where AI is a default way that content is made, not just across audio, but across television and film and commercials and imagery, and everything. And then we will disclose when things are not made with AI instead of that they were made with AI," Wright said. "But for now, we are perfectly happy leading the way."

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Twice in my career as an MP, I tried to bring down the upper limit at which legal abortion can take place in the United Kingdom from 24 weeks to 20.

Geeth Sooriyapura claims to have made £230,000 running Facebook pages posting anti-migrant and Islamophobic disinformation about Britain.

The rapper, whose real name is Harrison James Armstrong, made his debut on I'm A Celebrity on Sunday evening's launch episode on ITV .