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According to tx, the bridge’s software registered transactions as deposits even though they never delivered XRP to the bridge. That gave the attacker bridged XRP on the tx chain without the real XRP that was supposed to back it. Those unbacked tokens then went back through the bridge, and the attacker withdrew real XRP from the reserve.How a missing check let an attacker withdraw XRP that was never deposited. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)The drain began at 19:16 UTC. Each payout was authorized by 17 of the bridge’s 28 relayers, a majority signing off exactly as designed, because the bridge’s own records told…

A British driver who was the first person to break the sound barrier in a car on land has set a new speed record, this time in a hydrogen-powered vehicle.Andy Green, a 64-year-old retired Royal Air Force pilot, reached a speed of 406mph (654km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the fastest a hydrogen-powered car has ever travelled.Green’s record was measured as an average of two runs in a car powered by two hydrogen internal combustion engines, with a combined 1,600 brake horsepower (bhp).In 1997, Green drove the jet-powered ThrustSSC across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert at 763mph (1,228km/h), making…

Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta hitting social media on 30 July, 22 European Union leaders, the Trump administration and Israel had piled on to criticise Madrid.The outbreak of hysteria and recrimination was a case study in 21st-century politics, driven by real-time images in a media echo chamber where populists set the agenda on migration, propagating fear, prejudice and demagogic proposals. Above all, the kneejerk reactions undermined trust between European allies and dealt a setback to EU efforts to jointly…

Claim: In August 2026, Massachusetts legalized abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Rating: What’s True It is true that a new law made it possible to obtain an abortion in Massachusetts on a physician’s “professional medical judgment” after the 24th week of pregnancy. However … What’s False … Pregnancy terminations after that point already were legal in the state in four cases: to preserve the life of the gestating person; to preserve the gestating person’s physical or mental health; in case of defect or diagnosis that would result in the death of the fetus; and in the case of a…

Home Middle East Live Issued on: 12/08/2026 – 05:11Modified: 12/08/2026 – 05:39 A small boat sails past cargo ships anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on August 5, 2026. © Amirhosein Khorgooi, AP The US military announced on Tuesday that it had shot a Panama-flagged ship that was trying to approach an Iranian port in violation of Washington’s blockade. President Donald Trump asserted again that the United States was exercising “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments. 12/08/2026 – 05:39US military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians US military…

A seaside town back on the map — in ways unwanted The first focus group arranged by the More in Common think tank that POLITICO observed was made up of 12 constituents who all voted for Farage in the 2024 general election, and are minded to do so again in the by-election. (Their names were withheld so they could speak candidly). It was a retiree who was first to volunteer regret at Farage’s decision, blaming him for provoking an “influx of idiots” into the constituency. “Unfortunately, the action of causing a by-election has,” the former shopkeeper offered, “really made Clacton,…

A 74-year-old British man who has been living in Sweden for 25 years who needs round-the-clock care for dementia has been given 10 days to leave the country after he lost a post-Brexit migration court case.The deportation order comes after a Swedish court ruling in July that the government’s drive to reduce immigration trumped the needs of a man in full-time care.“The state’s interest in regulated immigration outweighs Horace Mason’s interest in continuing to reside” in Sweden, the migrations court of appeals ruled in July.The Masons’ family trauma echoes that of Joyce Thomas, a 78-year-old widow who the Guardian revealed…

Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK economy more than £4bn in lost economic output by the end of July, new analysis shows.Green thinktank Verdant had suggested June’s unseasonally hot weather had an economic cost of £2.36bn. Updating its assessment to include last month’s high temperatures, it finds a £4.4bn hit to output.As temperatures soar once again this week, Verdant’s director, James Meadway, said: “The economic costs of climate change are already with us, and set to worsen in future years. Action by the government to protect workers and businesses from the severe effects of…

For a while it seemed like the diarrhea-inducing parasite cyclospora was everywhere. Confirmed and suspected cases number more than 22,000 across 15 states, with 517 people requiring hospitalization. Two people in Michigan died. But now, with signs that the outbreak is slowing down, experts say lettuce is probably safe to eat again.The reason? Most of the contaminated produce is no longer available.Federal health authorities have linked the outbreak to iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico and distributed by Taylor Farms, including at Taco Bell restaurants. On July 17, Taylor Farms announced a recall of shredded iceberg lettuce and salad mixes…

Swati KhandelwalAug 11, 2026Vulnerability / Windows Security Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code already running on a machine can use it to escalate to SYSTEM. That patch goes out first. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-68820 (CVSS score: 7.0) and is the only one in this month’s release Microsoft flags as under active exploitation. Exploitation depends on triggering a race condition in the driver. Microsoft has not…