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The couple have other income sources, from inheritance to the sales of Harry’s memoir Spare, which was the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998. A return to acting for Meghan even appears possible.The BBC has learned she is in talks about a role in Netflix series The Gentlemen, a comedy series created by Guy Ritchie about a duke who becomes a drug baron. No details have yet been revealed, but this would be Meghan’s first significant acting role since her marriage to Prince Harry.Since 2024, Meghan’s professional focus has been on her lifestyle range, As…

A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s ban on issuing visas to immigrants from 75 countries, finding that the policy was “contrary to law” and beyond the legal authority of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.In a 61-page ruling, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York disputed the administration’s public rationale for the policy, billed as a “pause,” that immigrants from the targeted countries were likely to draw public benefits and become “a financial burden to Americans.”In fact, Judge Vargas found, U.S. officials were ordered to refuse visas to…

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysChatGPT can now connect to your text messages on your Mac.You can ask ChatGPT to send a text or search your existing message.Even cooler, you can ask the AI to analyze your texts.Like many people, I exchange frequent text messages with family, relatives, friends, and other individuals in my life. But I don’t necessarily pause to understand how I’m communicating with them. Now I can ask ChatGPT for some armchair analysis based on those messages.On Thursday, OpenAI rolled out a new plugin for ChatGPT that connects to your…

iAuthFlow V2 is a new phishing toolkit demonstrating the rapidly improving sophistication of phishing techniques. iAuthFlow V2 is a malware toolkit first seen on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. It is an advanced form of phishing that offers persistent access to the victim’s account, surviving a password reset. The base toolkit is offered for sale at $10,000, with additional modules available separately. Using available information from the seller’s forum posts and demonstrations (but without acquiring or running the malware), Abnormal researchers have postulated an analysis of its operation, based on the ‘passkey’ module and employed against a Gmail account. The target…

Bitcoin (BTC) saw multimonth highs after Thursday’s Wall Street open while stocks dipped and bond yields rebounded on US-Iran war nerves.Key points:Bitcoin builds on its highest levels in 11 weeks to hit $72,500 on Bitstamp.US bond yields see volatility after president Donald Trump threatens “economic warfare” with Iran.Bitcoin market participants question whether the rally has staying power.US bond yields reverse higher after Trump pledges “economic warfare” with IranData from TradingView showed BTC/USD retesting $71,000 before hitting new 11-week high of $72,505 on Bitstamp, up by more than 4% on the day.BTC/USD one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewUS equities opened lower after US…

Brazil’s presidential race formally began on Sunday. Flávio Bolsonaro appeared in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana neighborhood for a launch rally while wearing a bulletproof vest under a green-and-yellow shirt printed with the words, “My party is Brazil.” His wife walked beside him, along with his running mate Alfredo Gaspar, a first-term legislator from Bolsonaro’s party accused of mishandling public funds and sexually assaulting a minor. Gaspar’s selection followed months of fruitless negotiations in which Bolsonaro sought to assemble a broader coalition behind his candidacy—and possibly select a more esteemed running mate from another party. The failure of those talks reflected…

A fresh wave of US tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods has come into effect as of midnight on Saturday after a last minute break down in trade talks.Announcing the suspension of negotiations shortly before the Friday night deadline, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would impose reciprocal tariffs on US goods “dollar for dollar”.Carney said “last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal”.Trade negotiators had been engaged in intense talks since July, after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50% levy on nearly $20bn…

The Defense Department on Friday fired the publisher and the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news outlet that reports on the U.S. military, according to a senior Pentagon official and the dismissed journalists.The firings raised questions about the Pentagon’s willingness to ensure the editorial integrity of the publication that has reported extensively on difficulties faced by military communities as the war in Iran has dragged on. The terminations came about 10 days after Stars and Stripes journalists reported on hardships that Navy sailors were facing on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier whose deployment was…

Government regulators have spent the last year asking serious questions about Tesla’s electronic, retractable door handles, a cool-looking automotive design flourish that has since been imitated by plenty of competitors.The handles have been blamed, in the US and in China, for making it difficult for passengers to quickly exit vehicles and for impeding rescue efforts. A handful of crash victims’ families have even filed lawsuits against Tesla, alleging the door handle designs played roles in their loved ones’ deaths.Now the door handles have led to Tesla’s largest recall ever—and China’s. The Chinese government is recalling more than 2.9 million Model…

Ravie LakshmananAug 21, 2026Malware / Automotive Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that’s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet. “The malware spread through the built-in updaters of Android-based automotive head unit firmware,” security researcher Dmitry Kalinin said. “This is the first documented case of malware found on a car head unit with an infection chain specific to that type of…