Natural for humans to focus on bad things as that could keep them alive

Miserable to stay there full time though.

Good news is good for humans

All the way around Basingstoke. Cool.

Top Man Marcus !
- again

Marcus Rashford brings food brand giants together to tackle child food poverty

The group of supermarkets, businesses and charities - including Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Deliveroo, FareShare, Food Foundation, Iceland, Kellogg's, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose - have formed a taskforce and backed proposals from the National Food Strategy, an independent review of UK food policy.

Good people step up into the space left by guvmunt

Top man Robert Smalls !

Brilliant
Zen and the art of Snoopy

Marcus Rashford 'disappointed' by government response on food poverty

Well done Marcus. Bite their legs !

"The footballer said a letter from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson showed "a lack of empathy... towards protecting our most vulnerable".

"I didn't have the education of a politician, I have never claimed to have all of the answers - but I have a voice and I will continue to use it for the millions who are not being heard.

"I have no interest in party politics. Letting millions of children in the UK go hungry at night is only an issue of humanity.

"We need to do better."

This is excellent news for me as I use it a lot for pure text news articles.


BBC reverses decision to end Red Button text services

The BBC has reversed its decision to bring an end to its Red Button TV text services.

The corporation had planned to remove the service due to "financial pressure".

However, following a campaign on behalf of people with disabilities, the elderly and those without online access, it has suspended the plan.

Basic key news services will now remain, although the platform will be reduced from next year.

In November 2019, the BBC announced its intention to remove the text and data element of the red button service.

But in January, the corporation halted the planned closure, in order to learn about the potential impact on certain parts of its audience.

"Since then, we have been in contact and had extensive dialogue with a wide range of representative groups to build on our existing research into what elements of the service are most used and valued by different groups," wrote Dan Taylor-Watt, director of product for BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, in a BBC blog.

"We have listened to this feedback - and I'm pleased to let you know that we have found a way to keep the most valued text and data elements of the red button service."

"I would like to thank everyone who has got in touch to let us know what they value about the red button text service - and hope you continue enjoying using it," he added.

Local, national and international news will now remain on the red button, along with the sports news headlines, fixtures and results; and weather forecast.

Yet from mid-2021, features like the lottery results and in-depth sport stories, for example, will no longer feature.

It's as the BBC aims to "reduce cost and complexity elsewhere", Taylor-Watt continued.

Red Button video streams though, for the likes of Wimbledon and Glastonbury, will remain in place.

BBC staff were told in April that the corporation would have to find £125m savings this year.

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I find it very handy for flicking through the sports news and the main news headlines while I'm eating lunch.  There is usually just enough info to decide whether a subject warrants proper examination.

And without the Red Button, where would I find stories like this to share... 

Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

A security flaw in a hi-tech chastity belt for men made it possible for hackers to remotely lock all the devices in use simultaneously.

The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so owners might have been faced with the prospect of having to use a grinder or bolt cutter to free themselves from its metal clamp.

The sex toy's app has been fixed by its Chinese developer after a team of UK security professionals flagged the bug.

They have also published a workaround.

This could be useful to anyone still using the old version of the app who finds themselves locked in as a result of an attacker making use of the revelation.

Any other attempt to cut through the device's plastic body poses a risk of harm.

Pen Test Partners (PTP) - the Buckingham-based cyber-security firm involved - has a reputation for bringing quirky discoveries to light, including problems with other sex toys in the past.

It says the latest discovery indicates that the makers of "smart" adult-themed products still have lessons to learn.

"The problem is that manufacturers of these other toys sometimes rush their products to market," commented Alex Lomas, a researcher at the firm.

"Most times the problem is a disclosure of sensitive personal data, but in this case, you can get physically locked in."

Lock and clamp

Qiui's Cellmate Chastity Cage is sold online for about $190 (£145) and is marketed as a way for owners to give a partner control over access to their body.

Pen Test Partners believe about 40,000 devices have been sold based on the number of IDs that have been granted by its Guangdong-based creator.

The cage wirelessly connects to a smartphone via a Bluetooth signal, which is used to trigger the device's lock-and-clamp mechanism.

But to achieve this, the software relies on sending commands to a computer server used by the manufacturer.

The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used.

In addition, they said, they could reveal a unique code that had been assigned to each device.

These could be used to make the server ignore app requests to unlock any of the identified chastity toys, they added, leaving wearers locked in.

Mr Lomas' team flagged the issue to Qiui in May, after which it updated its app as well as the server-based application programming interface (API) involved.

But it still left an earlier version of the API online, meaning those who had not downloaded the latest version of the app theoretically remained at risk.

Pen Test Partners sent follow-up emails urging this to be addressed and involved the news site Techcrunch to help press for action.

Techcrunch said Qiui's chief executive subsequently told it he had tried to tackle the issue but added: "When we fix it, it creates more problems."

Five months on from first getting in touch, the UK security team decided to go public.

"Given the trivial nature of finding some of these issues and that Qiui is working on another internal device, we felt compelled to publish," Mr Lomas said.

Pen Test Partners acknowledged that in doing so, however, it made a real-world attack more likely.

The BBC has asked Qiui to comment.

Techcrunch reported there was no evidence that the hack had been exploited by anyone to cause harm.

But it noted that one online reviewer who appeared to have got locked in due to an unrelated bug posted that he had been left with "a bad scar that took nearly a month of recovery".

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See, it even qualifies as good news, for some.