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Elton John among stars who lose UK phone-hacking court case
Elton John, Prince Harry and a group of high-profile British public figures have lost their long-running High Court case against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, in a judgement handed down on Tuesday 7 July. The claimants alleged that the newspapers had unlawfully gathered information about them by…
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High Court reaffirms dismissal of Prince Harry’s £50m privacy claim against Associated Newspapers
The High Court has upheld its dismissal of the £50 million privacy claim brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other high-profile figures against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Mr Justice Nicklin threw out all the claims in full, handing a comprehensive defeat to the claimants, who had…
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Prince Harry defeated in privacy case against Mail publisher at High Court
Prince Harry has lost his privacy case against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, at London’s High Court. Justice Nicklin ruled against the Duke of Sussex and six fellow claimants — including Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost —…
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Prince Harry defeated in High Court phone-hacking case against Mail owner
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), the publisher of the Daily Mail, over allegations that it used unlawful methods to gather information for stories about them. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all the group’s claims in an emphatic 436-page ruling, finding that the claimants…
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Prince Harry and Doreen Lawrence lose High Court hacking claim against Mail publisher
The High Court in London has dismissed in full the £50 million phone hacking case brought by the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, Doreen Lawrence and five other claimants against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. The judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, accepted that every article the claimants complained about…
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Prince Harry defeated in privacy lawsuit against Mail publisher
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has lost his high-profile privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. He and fellow claimants, including Liz Hurley and Elton John, had accused the group of unlawful information gathering, alleging “abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy”. High Court judge…
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South Korean hacktivists deface US Army websites in protest against Trump
Two websites run by the US Army were defaced by hacktivists with pro-Kurdish messages and attacks on President Donald Trump, in the latest incident involving hackers compromising US federal government systems. The affected sites — the Open Innovation Lab and the AI Integration Center, which test and integrate AI and other emerging technologies — have…
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Trump halts release of OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model
OpenAI’s newest flagship artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is being released under an unusual restriction: access during its initial preview is limited to a small group of trusted partners approved by the Trump administration. According to the article, OpenAI previewed the model’s capabilities with the US government ahead of launch and, at the government’s request,…
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Suspected Sheffield paedophile detained under hospital order after breaching sex offender register
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Agentic ransomware operation JadePuffer still relied on human setup
Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what it calls the first known case of “agentic ransomware”, an extortion operation dubbed JadePuffer in which an AI agent, rather than a person, carried out the technical steps of a real-world cyberattack. The agent broke into a vulnerable server, stole credentials, moved through the network, encrypted files and…