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Jewelry can sparkle like it’s invincible, but treat it roughly and even the hardest baubles may break.Whether it’s gemstones, metals or a family heirloom, a piece’s shine can fade and its value diminish over time if it isn’t cared for properly — a particular risk as the value of gold surges and people look to cash in on their jewelry or acquire new pieces as investments.“Jewelry is similar to cars,” said Heather White, a jewelry designer, metalsmith and professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. “Both require constant maintenance and special storage.”Leave your earrings on the…

Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested last month after prosecutors said she helped a man evade federal immigration agents.A judge in the United States has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings after she was accused of helping an undocumented migrant evade authorities. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, was arrested last month after prosecutors said she hindered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who showed up to arrest the man without a judicial warrant outside her courtroom. Prosecutors alleged she tried to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz…

Ivanti on Tuesday announced patches for three vulnerabilities in its products, including two Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) bugs that have been chained in the wild. The exploited zero-day flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-4427 (CVSS score of 5.3) and CVE-2025-4428 (CVSS score of 7.2), are described as an authentication bypass issue and a remote code execution (RCE) defect impacting two open source libraries integrated into EPMM. They enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. The company says it is working with the maintainers of the affected libraries to assess the impact on the open source dependencies and whether additional CVEs…

Industrial giants Siemens, Schneider Electric and Phoenix Contact have released ICS security advisories on the May 2025 Patch Tuesday. The cybersecurity agencies CISA and CERT@VDE have also published advisories.  While most of the vulnerabilities described in the advisories have been patched, only mitigations and workarounds are currently available for some of the flaws. Siemens has published 18 new advisories, including four that cover critical-severity vulnerabilities. One of them describes an authentication bypass issue in the Redfish interface of the BMC controller used by Simatic industrial PCs. The flaw was disclosed by firmware security company Eclypsium in March. Another critical advisory…

The Tesla Model Y and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 are two of the hottest electric SUVs on the market. Adding to their appeal, both SUVs were recently updated. The 2026 Model Y has new styling, higher-quality interior materials and a smoother ride quality. Changes to the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 aren’t as dramatic, but you do get more range, easier-to-use controls and new ways to charge. Which recently updated electric SUV is the better buy? Edmunds’ experts compare them to find out. Range and chargingThe 2026 Model Y is currently only available in the Long Range All-Wheel Drive version. It…

KARACHI: Stars skipper Sidra Amin continued her superb form with the bat to hand Stars their third win in the fifth round of the National Women’s T20 Tournament here at the National Bank Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. Challengers’ Sadaf Shamas (3-31 & 29) showcased all-round skills to inspire her team to a hard-fought win over Strikers at the Oval Academy Ground. At the National Bank Stadium, Stars slipped to 19-3 after opting to bat first before Sidra, batting at number three, took it upon herself to rebuild the innings and steer her team to 145-8 in 20 overs. Sidra, who…

SYDNEY: Cricket Australia is working with the government and the Indian board on security arrangements with several players set to make a decision on whether to return to the Indian Premier League when it resumes this week, the governing body said on Tuesday. The Twenty20 tournament was suspended last Friday amid the worst fighting between India and Pakistan in nearly three decades before a ceasefire was reached over the weekend. India’s board (BCCI) said on Monday the remaining 17 games would resume on May 17 with the final rescheduled for June 3. That would leave some Australian players, such as…

LAHORE: The Pakis­tan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday announced the revised schedule for the remaining eight mat­ches of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2025, set to resume on May 17 and conclude with the final on May 25 at the Gaddafi Stadium here. The PSL was halted on May 8 after a drone attack near Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium — a part of last week’s military escalation between Pakistan and India — where Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi were scheduled to play. The escalating conflict prompted the PCB to postpone the league, with all 37 foreign players returning to their…

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has slashed another $450m in grants from Harvard University, amid an ongoing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential control and the limits of academic freedom. On Tuesday, a joint task force assembled under Trump accused Harvard, the country’s oldest university, of perpetrating a “long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race”. “Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it’s not academic freedom; it’s institutional disenfranchisement,” the task force said in a statement.…

NEW YORK (AP) — “James Bond” creator Ian Fleming didn’t need to write about Cold War intrigue to consider the ways people scheme against each other. “The Shameful Dream,” a rare Fleming work published this week, is a short story about a Londoner named Bone, Caffery Bone.Fleming’s protagonist is the literary editor of Our World, a periodical “designed to bring power and social advancement to Lord Ower,” its owner. Bone has been summoned to spend Saturday evening with Lord and Lady Ower, transported to them in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Bone suspects, with a feeling of “inevitable doom,” that he is…