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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has signalled she is willing to rethink plans to make it harder for foreign workers to claim permanent residence in the UK.The home secretary has been under pressure to water down the proposals from a significant number of Labour MPs, including Housing Secretary Angela Rayner, and trade unions.In a speech to Labour’s annual conference, Mahmood acknowledged “some have said elements of these reforms are not fair”.And she said the government would “come to a position that balances fairness for those who came here legally and fairness to British citizens across this country”.Permanent residence, or indefinite leave…

In a widely expected move, Volkswagen announced Monday that it will replace the recently retired ID.4 crossover with the upcoming ID.Tiguan. The decision is an acknowledgment by the German automaker that its more recognizable nameplates like Tiguan are likely an easier sell with consumers, especially when it comes to EVs.When it lands in Europe in early 2027, the ID. Tiguan will join the ID.Polo and ID.Cross to round out Volkswagen’s new-and-improved electric lineup. VW also confirmed that the ID.Tiguan will come to the US, where the ID.4 was previously manufactured, “at a later date.” Design details remain under wraps, as…

Ravie LakshmananSep 28, 2026Cybersecurity News / Hacking A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing exotic. Mostly things nobody expected to matter anymore. Here’s the full recap of what mattered this week. ⚡ Threat of the Week Citrix Warns of Actively Exploited NetScaler ADC and Gateway Flaws — Citrix…

A political action committee (PAC) aligned with and largely funded by the cryptocurrency industry reported spending more than $11 million on ads supporting Republican Jon Husted and opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown in a race for one of Ohio’s seats in the US Senate.In a Thursday filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Defend American Jobs PAC, affiliated with the Coinbase- and Ripple Labs-backed group Fairshake, reported spending $11.4 million on media supporting Husted and opposing Brown’s potential return to the Senate. The ad buys appeared to be part of Fairshake’s pledge to initially spend $30 million in the Ohio…

The first time I was in Punta San Juan, the desert was flooded with birds. It was 2012, and I was making a short documentary film about the cormorants, pelicans and penguins that made this arid peninsula in southern Peru one of the largest gatherings of seabirds on Earth. At the time, this 133-acre reserve — a patch of rock and sand jutting into the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean — was home to more than a quarter million seabirds, including 300,000 Guanay cormorants (Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum) and some 3,000 Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti). Humboldt penguins make the daily crossing from their nests to…

Researchers from Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales worked with State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Bristol, where the fossil had been sent for detailed inspection.They discovered it belonged to a Saurichthys – a predator fish that lived in shallow tropical seas during the Late Triassic period.”Many teeth from Saurichthys were once mistaken for those of an amphibian, and that misunderstanding continued well into the 20th Century,” said Museum Wales curator Cindy Howells. “This lovely little jaw caused great confusion when it was first found as it bore no resemblance to any known species,” she said. Quinn…

Thirty six years ago, the team I support, Swindon Town, were severely punished for financial irregularities that pale into comparison with those of Manchester City (Manchester City found guilty of breaking Premier League’s financial fair play rules, 25 September). We were initially sentenced to be relegated two divisions but, after appeal, refused entry to Division One. It was an incredibly painful experience for us as fans and I feel for those City fans who have enjoyed the last years so fully, but now see it tainted through no fault of theirs.At the time, a number of journalists made the case…

The skulls and bones of at least 28 people have been recovered from suspected criminal camps in Nigerian forests.Police in the south-eastern state of Abia are investigating the identities of the remains found in the Umuaku and Nneato forests on Saturday after a security operation was carried out in the Umunneochi area.Police spokeswoman Maureen Chinaka said the suspects fled when police arrived.The discovery is likely to revive concerns about kidnapping gangs operating in remote forests across parts of south-eastern Nigeria, where criminal groups have frequently targeted motorists, travellers and residents for ransom.According to Abia State Police Command, the raids were…

Biletskyi said the Third Corps deceived Russian forces into believing the main Ukrainian thrust would come toward Shandryholove and Zelena Dolyna, drawing Russian reserves into counterattacks there while Ukraine struck toward Nove. “This led them to senselessly burn through their reserves in counterattacks in that very sector. The Russians missed the real strike,” Biletskyi added. According to Bielieskov, the result undermines Russia’s theory of victory, which he said “hinged precisely on attempts to turn local advances in the Donetsk region into strategic successes.” He added: “The goal was to create the impression Russia would inevitably capture the Donetsk region, thereby…

The government must “take seriously the possibility of an unprecedented impact on the jobs market” caused by artificial intelligence (AI), a UK minister has said.AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said there was no evidence so far of an overall reduction in jobs as a result of AI, but one of his priorities was to have a contingency plan in place for worst case scenarios.”If it’s going to hit us in a big way, you are going to want to be as ahead of the curve as possible,” he told a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference.Carsten Jung, of the IPPR…