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The Princess of Wales joked about needing to pick up some tips for stress management as she visited a child services group in Windsor.Kate spoke to parents at a drop-in health visitors clinic and a baby massage session at the Windsor Family Hub on Tuesday morning.She also joined a stress management course with mothers from the Punjabi community, and upon learning about the course said: I'll come here and pick up some tips!

Rishi Sunak has made a big mistake by blocking the release of Boris Johnson's WhatsApps, giving the former prime minister a chance to enjoy a divisive row, a senior Tory peer has warned.Gavin Barwell, former No 10 chief of staff, said Mr Sunak was wrong to take legal action against the Covid inquiry because it had invited suspicion about the government's true motives for protecting the messages.

Meta is choosing to allow predators to operate with impunity by rolling out encrypted messaging despite an epidemic of child abuse, security minister Tom Tugendhat has said.He urged the social media giant which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to introduce robust safety measures before extending end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct later this year to avoid a significant risk to child safety.

Tambo & Bones is a bold and funny satire by the American playwright Dave Harris.I remember laughing out loud one moment and holding my breath the next when I first read it and wanted to put it on for an audience here in the UK.Harris explores race, including the exploitation of Black culture, with mischief and wit.

T wo twin brothers who exploited children to sell drugs in a county lines operation have been jailed.Omar and Malik Aziz, 24, from Streatham, were jailed for three years and two months and nine years respectively on Tuesday at Kingston Crown Court.The brothers were arrested by officers investigating county lines drugs who raided an address in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and found two missing London boys, aged 14 and 15.

A high-flying Scotland Yard officer who was allowed to keep his job despite using prostitutes has a key role helping recruit women to the force, the Standard can reveal.Payments of hundreds of pounds to sex workers were uncovered when anti-corruption officers from the Met's Professional Standards unit seized his phone over an unrelated matter, which was later dropped.

There has been a significant uptick in interest in e2e encryption as the UK Government tries to establish "back doors" for messaging apps through the controversial Online Safety Bill.Now at the committee stage in the House of Lords, it remains to be seen what the outcome will be.What is certain is that the legislation has stoked the fire that is the privacy versus protection debate.

A vulnerability discovered in the official website of luxury sports car maker Ferrari could have exposed potentially sensitive information, according to a cybersecurity firm.The issue was discovered in March by researchers at Char49, a company that provides penetration testing, auditing and training services.

This year's graduations, universities claim, will be indistinguishable from those of previous years.Except there's one glaring problem: as a student there isn't much to celebrate.Currently, a marking and assessment boycott is affecting 145 British universities and, like many of the thousands of students graduating this summer, I am set to leave without a formal classification.

Plans to stop UK public bodies boycotting foreign countries and British companies that trade with them represent a further attack on the right to freedom of expression, civil society groups have said.Officials from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have said the boycotts, divestment and sanctions bill, announced in last year's Queen's speech and designed to stop actions against Israel, will be tabled soon.

Every once in a while there is a novel that enters the literary zeitgeist and requires discourse but it feels like there is nothing that can be written or said that will ever do it justice.This is the feeling R.F.Kuang's new novel Yellowface evokes.The highly immersive satirical novel takes us on a thrilling journey through the eyes of a writer who struggles to make her own way in the cut-throat world of publishing.

The FBI is warning people of predators targeting children online using a tactic called "group grooming." San Francisco's FBI field office issued an announcement Thursday, after it reported trends in sexual predators working together to expose children to explicit content and exploit them.

Which name or person strikes your mind first when I ask you to think about a personality that is charming, assured, flattering, and intellectual?Have you ever noticed the other side of them?Are they self-obsessed, cruel, or manipulative at the same time?If your answer is yes, you might be dealing with a Machiavellian personality.

1. The ZDI identified three different attack methods for exploiting the Sonos One speaker, including a cross-site scripting vulnerability, an authentication bypass vulnerability, and a command injection vulnerability.
2. The vulnerabilities were exploited during the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition, showcasing the serious security risks posed by

Apple on Thursday released security updates for its operating systems to patch dozens of vulnerabilities that could expose iPhones and Macs to hacker attacks, including three zero-days affecting the WebKit browser engine.Two of the actively exploited vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373, have been reported to the tech giant by an anonymous researcher.

By Dr. Bill Lipsky-
In her groundbreaking A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction (1960), the author Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote that We Too Are Drifting was "probably the major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians" and "perhaps the best of all time."

Threat actors have been offering access to energy sector organizations, including industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) systems, according to a new report from Searchlight Cyber.The UK-based threat intelligence company has conducted an analysis of posts published between February 2022 and February 2023 on cybercrime forums, dark web sites, and marketplaces, and found many offers for initial access into the environments of energy sector organizations, including oil and gas and renewable energy firms in the US, Canada, UK, Italy, France and Indonesia.

Threat actors were seen adopting public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields WordPress plugin only two days after a patch was released, Akamai reports.Tracked as CVE-2023-30777, the high-severity vulnerability could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts and other payloads into vulnerable websites.

The Chinese embassy in the Central African Republic had a stark warning for its compatriots in the landlocked nation: Do not leave the capital city of Bangui.Kidnappings of foreigners were on the rise, and any Chinese person outside of Bangui was to leave those areas immediately.Less than a week later, on March 19, a group of gunmen stormed a remote gold mine far away from Bangui and killed nine Chinese workers.

On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the Great, who went on to even greater posthumous fame as a seductress, immortalized by Shakespeare and Hollywood.Beyond that, many of the details are fuzzy which is how one of the world's dominant streaming services ended up in an imbroglio with modern-day Egypt recently, called out by online commenters and even the Egyptian government for casting a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series African Queens, which airs on Wednesday.

Industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty on Thursday disclosed the details of five vulnerabilities that can be chained in an exploit potentially allowing threat actors to hack certain Netgear routers.The vulnerabilities were first presented at the 2022 Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition, where white hat hackers earned a total of nearly $1 million for exploits targeting smartphones, printers, NAS devices, smart speakers and routers.

On a significantly lighter Patch Tuesday than of late, a publicly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Secure Boot security feature looks set to cause an ongoing headache for administrators and security teams.Tracked as CVE-2023-24932 - and one of two exploited zero-days in Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday drop - successful exploitation of this security feature bypass vulnerability, credited to ESET's Martin Smolár and SentinelOne's Tomer Sne-or, is considered particularly dangerous.

Owners of Ruckus access points (APs) have been warned that a DDoS botnet named AndoryuBot has been exploiting a recently patched vulnerability to hack devices.The vulnerability in question is tracked as CVE-2023-25717 and it was patched by Ruckus in February in many of its wireless APs.The vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code and take complete control of a targeted Ruckus device.

There is a critical security flaw in a Cisco phone adapter, and the business technology giant says the only step to take is dumping the hardware and migrating to new kit.In an advisory, Cisco this week warned about the vulnerability in the SPA112 2-Port Adapter that, if exploited, could allow a remote attacker to essentially take control of a compromised device by seizing full privileges and executing arbitrary code.

Rage Against the Machine have responded to this morning's news that they are among the inductees in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 's Class of 2023.The groundbreaking band cited "a surprising trajectory" while thanking their "passionate fans" and others for their inspiration over the years.

A subgroup of the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as APT41 has been observed using a new denial-of-service (DoS) technique to disable security software, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro reports.Tracked as Earth Longzhi, the APT41 subgroup is known for the targeting of organizations in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Apple on Monday pushed to some iPhones and Macs its first-ever rapid security fix.This type of patch is supposed to be downloaded and applied automatically and seamlessly by the operating system to immediately protect devices from exploitation, thus avoiding the usual system update cycle that users may put off or miss and thus leave their stuff vulnerable to attack.