Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent BBC Dr Susan Gilby was forced out of her chief executive role at the Countess of Chester NHS Trust A former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m in damages after suing the health service for unfair dismissal. Dr Susan Gilby took the Countess of Chester NHS Trust to court after…
New feature Persistent language and formats You can now save your language, keyboard layout, and formats from the Welcome Screen to the USB stick. These settings will be applied automatically when restarting Tails. If you turn on this option, your language and formats settings are saved unencrypted on the USB stick to help you type…
Jen Easterly, a longtime public- and private-sector cybersecurity practitioner who led the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for more than three years, has been appointed CEO of RSA Conference, known as RSAC. The organization puts on the prominent annual gathering of cybersecurity experts, vendors, and researchers that started in 1991 as a small cryptography…
Getty Images Dr Sayed Mia carried out a liposuction procedure he was not registered to perform, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard A plastic surgeon who performed liposuction without proper registration and lied to inspectors from the health watchdog has been suspended for 12 months. Dr Sayed Mia, who was based at a private Harley…
[This is a Guest Diary by Matthew Presnal, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Cryptojacking and botnets can pose a greater threat than a simple drain of resources. These organizations have been known to engage in “DDoS for Hire” or even selling off footholds, acting as Initial Access Brokers (IABs). To…
Outside of the United States, Canada and Europe, the global public echoes student and teachers’ positive attitudes about AI for education: In emerging markets, people believe AI is more likely to improve student outcomes by supporting personalized learning (63%) than worsen student outcomes by eroding critical thinking (37%). In South Korea, Japan and Singapore —…
Facebook The doctors shown in this video shared on Facebook do not work at the hospital, and it’s believed they have been AI generated. We have blurred their faces in case their likeness has been stolen from other healthcare professionals online A hospital trust in south London has issued an alert after fraudulent videos were…
George Torrand Angela Rafferty,East Midlands BBC Lucy Buckle praised the staff and commended their professionalism during immense pressure A woman who was told to go to A&E during a critical incident at Nottingham’s hospitals said she saw people “in beds in every corridor” she came across. Lucy Buckle, 38, said the scenes inside the Queen’s…
Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Chloe Hayward Getty Images One in 10 patients who attended major A&E units in England last year spent more than 12 hours there, a BBC analysis shows. During 2025, 1.75 million patients waited that long to be treated and discharged or found a bed on a ward – only marginally better than…
Chris YoungLocal Democracy Reporting Service Getty Images The customer had a nut allergy and was served a dessert with a chocolate hazelnut topping instead of Belgian chocolate A business is under investigation by trading standards officers after a woman was hospitalised when the firm used a chocolate hazelnut dessert topping instead of chocolate. West Yorkshire…
