NHS Scotland waits of more than two years on the rise

BBC Tracey Meechan says she feels “forgotten” after 100 weeks on an “urgent” NHS waiting list for surgery Waits of more than two years for NHS specialist appointments and treatment in Scotland have grown in the past year, according to new figures. Public Health Scotland said the waiting list for those referred to an outpatient…

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Chinese beauty brands explore foreign M&A to spur growth

By Reuters Published June 11, 2025 ​Some of China’s top beauty brands such as Proya and S’Young are exploring acquisitions of smaller foreign rivals to expand their portfolios and replicate the success of global leaders like L’Oreal or Estée Lauder amid slowing growth at home. Proya While still relatively unknown internationally, these Chinese brands have…

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WordPress Frontend Login and Registration Blocks Plugin 1.0.7 – Privilege Escalation

# Exploit Title: WordPress Frontend Login and Registration Blocks Plugin 1.0.7 – Privilege Escalation # Google Dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks/ # Date: 2025-05-12 # Exploit Author: Md Shoriful Islam (RootHarpy) # Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks/ # Software Link: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks.1.0.7.zip # Version: <= 1.0.7 # Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04 + WordPress 6.5.2 # CVE : CVE-2025-3605 import requests …

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Scientists just took a big step toward the quantum internet

A Danish-German research collaboration with participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to develop new quantum light sources and technology for scalable quantum networks based on the rare-earth element erbium. The project EQUAL (Erbium-based silicon quantum light sources) is funded by the Innovation Fund Denmark with 40 million Danish crowns (about 5.3 million euros). It…

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Impel enhances automotive dealership customer experience with fine-tuned LLMs on Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-written with Tatia Tsmindashvili, Ana Kolkhidashvili, Guram Dentoshvili, Dachi Choladze from Impel. Impel transforms automotive retail through an AI-powered customer lifecycle management solution that drives dealership operations and customer interactions. Their core product, Sales AI, provides all-day personalized customer engagement, handling vehicle-specific questions and automotive trade-in and financing inquiries. By replacing their…

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