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Britain is prepared to discuss financial contributions to EU infrastructure funds in exchange for access to the bloc’s electricity market, Europe minister Hamish Falconer confirmed. It is a pragmatic step toward a post-Brexit reset that lowers consumer bills through more efficie…
French intelligence has tied the IRGC-linked unit Shahid Kaveh to a campaign targeting French infrastructure — including an incident involving internet-connected refrigerators — through front groups that pose as vigilante hackers. The unit takes its name from “shahid” (martyr), …
MARA Holdings, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, sold 13,597 BTC worth $1.1 billion in the six weeks after the third quarter — and says it is nowhere near done.
Saudi Arabia downs Houthi missiles after pipeline attack — Saudi forces intercepted two missiles over Riyadh after reporting damage to its key east-west pipeline.
The Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and subsequent missile interception over Riyadh represent the most significant escalation in the Yemen conflict this year, with direct implications for energy security and peace talks.
Google used its cloud blog to announce TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max — its eighth generation of custom AI chips, and the fourth new TPU system this year. The headline is speed. The story is supply.
Palantir has been caught using WhatsApp messages to press a health minister to extend its AI platform into NHS GP records — data specifically excluded from its existing contract. The Guardian’s exclusive shows the US company lobbying former minister Zubir Ahmed between July 2025…
Payments Canada today launched the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a national system that lets financial service providers clear and settle payments in seconds, around the clock. After years of delays, the infrastructure is finally live — and it arrives at a moment when Canada can least a…
The Zcash network is barely settling into its new rhythm and developers already want to push harder. Just days after the NU7 upgrade cut block time from 75 seconds to 25 — a threefold improvement — Dev Ojha and Evan Forbes have proposed shrinking the window further to 20 seconds…
Russell Brand was sentenced to 10.5 years for rape and sexual assault this afternoon. The women who came forward after years of silence did not just secure a conviction — they forced a reckoning with how the system treats survivors of sexual violence.
When external threats loom, the natural instinct is to tighten control at home. Iran’s latest crackdown on suspected spies and public gatherings, reported by Al Jazeera, fits a familiar pattern: as US strike threats escalate, domestic security controls harden.
Nvidia stock falls 5% amid CEO spy probe — Nvidia’s board is investigating CEO Jensen Huang after he admitted to a relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.
Bitcoin’s weekend swing — down to $73,761, then back above $75,000 — liquidated more than $1 billion in leveraged positions. The same week carried a quieter signal: stablecoin supply has barely grown this year, while payments using the tokens jumped 45%.
The board of Nvidia has launched an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a romantic relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence identified as a Chinese spy. This is not merely a personal scandal.
A developer known as synchopate has released llama-modchip, an open-source inference engine that runs DeepSeek-V4-Flash — a 284-billion-parameter model — on a standard desktop CPU with 64GB of RAM. No GPU required. At 9–14 tokens per second generation and 44 tokens per second pr…
The UK wasted at least £100 million of taxpayers’ money building Brexit border inspection posts that were never used. Five of the seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage, as successive Conservative governments vacillated over what to check and how. …
Democrats are preparing to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs as soon as they take control of Congress next year. Their plan is straightforward: speed legislation to the House floor that reasserts Congress’ constitutional authority over trade, then dare the president to …
Developer Caleb retired Anthropic’s Claude Code after 244 updates in favour of Pi, an open-source harness. That number — 244 releases — is the overlooked story. It signals that even the most polished AI coding assistants accumulate invisible debt: broken multi-tab IDE integratio…
Concerns are mounting over a sharp rise in Turkish nationals facing removal from the UK because of administrative errors in their indefinite leave to remain applications. David Lammy and others have accused the Home Office of failing to learn the lessons of the Windrush scandal,…
US forces struck Iran’s Qeshm Island on Friday, and President Trump called the operation “minor.” The word is carefully chosen — it suggests containment, proportionality, a threshold not crossed. But for anyone watching from the region, the framing does not undo the reality of b…