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Airlines will be blocked from charging parents extra to sit with their children on planes, according to government plans.The new rule would require airlines to seat passengers aged under 14 next to their parents or an accompanying adult free of charge. Passengers will also no longer need to pay to tweak the name on their flight booking if they need to correct a mistake.It is understood that ministers will try to introduce the changes before the start of next year’s summer holidays. The prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said the rule changes are part of a crackdown on the “little…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe US is deploying seven additional warships to the Middle East carrying at least 9,000 troops, as President Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after November’s midterm elections.The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego earlier this week and are expected to arrive in the Middle East by the end of November, according to a US official. The USS Theodore Roosevelt could replace either of the aircraft carriers already stationed in…

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some of its key enterprise customers. Instead of a flashy media event, Nadella outlined the future of Copilot directly to the customers Microsoft really cares about, pitching its latest rethink of the AI assistant as the “OS for work.”Microsoft is adding coding and agent capabilities directly into Copilot, as well as bringing the full power of Office into Copilot for the first time. Nadella is betting that AI will change the way people work in the same way that Microsoft Office did in the ’80s and…

Ravie LakshmananOct 01, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is the lesson running through the list. Attackers do not always need a brilliant new trick. They can hide commands in public infrastructure, reuse old flaws, abuse weak defaults, or let automation stitch together a rough path that still…

Evernorth is set to become a publicly traded XRP treasury company after shareholders of blank-check firm Armada Acquisition Corp. II approved their proposed business combination.The deal is expected to close on Oct. 7, with shares of the combined company set to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN the following day, subject to remaining closing conditions.The vote clears a key hurdle after Evernorth filed its Form S-4 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in March. The registration statement was declared effective in August, leaving shareholder approval as one of the remaining steps before the Nasdaq listing.At…

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched at 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. “Crew-13 is another demonstration of America’s unmatched capability in human spaceflight and the strength of our commercial partnerships,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Jessica, Luke, Joshua, and Sergey will carry forward important work aboard the International Space Station while helping us build the experience and capabilities needed for ambitious missions to the Moon and beyond. Congratulations to the crew and the NASA and SpaceX…

Greg Shea / GBH Archives By Rebecca Fraimow & Peter Higgins, WGBH | Published October 1, 2026In 2008, GBH’s investigative news program Frontline was putting together their regular special on the year’s presidential candidates: The Choice, featuring Barack Obama and John McCain. Working on a hunch, the editors went back into GBH’s local news footage, searching Ten O’Clock News stories related to Harvard Law School in the 1990s to see if they could find any footage of Obama as a law student. The hunch paid off: an archivist cataloging that footage had recognized a young Obama speaking on behalf of…

Your analysis of slowing buses in global cities sets out the mechanism exactly, and the remedy follows from it (London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised, 23 September).Transport for London’s own calculation that a 10% fall in speed costs 6% of demand and Imperial College London’s finding of the same decline across 15 cities show what happens to buses as the traffic thickens around them. Retiming the lights will not reverse it, and London is already trying. The phrase to notice in the article is one used by TfL: signals…

On Sept. 30, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered what he called a “State of the Force” address. During it, he announced the launch of “Project Meridian,” which he described as “an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.” Hegseth named Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Palmer Luckey, founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries, as heads of Project Meridian. In a memorandum published the same day, Hegseth wrote, “Project Meridian’s primary function will be to map the trajectory of future warfare, identify…

Landlords in Washington DC will no longer be able to refuse a tenant’s dog based on its breed, size or weight, nor can they impose special charges related to these factors.At least, that’s what a new law that took effect on Thursday aims to achieve. Animal welfare organizations and animal shelters applauded the legislation, emphasizing the benefits of reducing barriers to pet ownership in the US capital.Dog breeds considered “scary” used to face restrictions, especially pit bulls, rottweilers and dobermans. Property owners could ban certain breeds, regardless of their behavior. With these restrictions, landlords tried to avoid incidents with aggressive…