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Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 entered its mandatory-signaling phase at block 961,632 on Saturday, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation, according to the BIP-110 monitor.Starting at block 961,632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting blocks that did not set version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes continued accepting both signaling and non-signaling blocks. A minority BIP-110 branch subsequently emerged, but quickly fell behind the dominant chain.The low signaling rate makes a sustained rival chain unlikely without substantially greater miner participation. With relatively little mining support,…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of harming global food security amid a spate of attacks on Odesa’s port.Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026An overnight Russian attack on an apartment building has killed two people in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv as Moscow also keeps up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.Russian forces hit a high rise in the Saltivskyi district, killing a 50-year-old man and a 66-year-old man, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. At least 21 people were wounded.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPhotos of the scene shared by Syniehubov showed a gaping hole across…

The democratic socialist and his Fox News interrogator circled each other for almost 15 minutes, disagreeing on everything from homeless encampments to whether the U.S. Senate is truly democratic.But it was a question about city-owned grocery stores in New York that left the host speechless.Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, declared that if city-owned stores brought down prices enough to drum people out of business, “then maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place.”The Fox host, Martha MacCallum, paused for a couple of beats. “Interesting,” she muttered,…

Most people think Britain is not working as it should. For young people, the situation is at its most acute: Only one in four believe that everyone in society has a fair crack. Most think the game is rigged.It is clear why the generation who grew up during the post-2008 crash austerity years and in the shadow of the Covid pandemic are downbeat: the level of public service provision their parents enjoyed is gone, living costs are rising, the AI revolution is changing everything, and the planet is on fire.That is why Alan Milburn’s review into youth unemployment is vital.…

gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images PlusFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysAI brings new challenges for hard-working cyber staff.Talented professionals will question almost everything.Work with agents to make decisions that reduce risks.Working in cybersecurity is a tough gig. While security teams work hard to prevent damage to their organizations, ZDNET reported earlier this year that many cyber professionals aren’t receiving the recognition they deserveEmerging technology brings new challenges. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is accelerating the pace of bug reports, with a growing mismatch between what machines can surface and what humans can realistically triage.Also: AI failed to patch software flaws 74% of the time,…