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Donald Trump stood before the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to “annihilate” Iran. Yet even as the most powerful man on the planet flexed his military muscles, he was powerless to keep the gravitational pull of domestic politics at bay.Heading into the UN building in New York, the US president was questioned by Kaitlan Collins, an anchor at CNN, which he had banned from the White House before a judge ruled against him. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me,” the 80-year-old snapped. “You should not be here covering me.”The lashing-out was a reminder that even Trump, who…

Can you be English and non-white? It’s a question that keeps stubbornly resurfacing in our political discourse.Last weekend, the former prime minister Rishi Sunak gave his view in a column in the Times, arguing that national identity should not be turned into a DNA test. After leaving office, Sunak, the UK’s first prime minister of colour, was subject to claims by a prominent podcaster that he was not English because he was a “brown-skinned Hindu”. Reflecting on this, Sunak described it as a “reverse Tebbit test”: the sociological concept measuring the loyalty of immigrants – and their children – in…

A cabinet minister under Sir Keir Starmer has said Andy Burnham’s government is not focused enough on boosting economic growth and needs to act with “more urgency”.Speaking to the BBC two months after being sacked in Burnham’s cabinet reshuffle upon entering office, Peter Kyle said he wasn’t making a “criticism” but “pointing to the potential that we have as a country and as a government”. “If the destination means prosperity, it means freedom for people to do new things, and it means security for people and families, then why wouldn’t we put our foot down and get there quicker,” the…

Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That’s what a subclass of so-called “electric SUV” (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and rear suspension, plus practical accessories like fenders and racks.So, that’s what I set out to test on a new TL Carbon e-bike from Amflow, the DJI offshoot that upended the mountain bike industry a few years ago with its incredibly small and powerful Avinox motors.After a month of testing in the heart of Amsterdam — including a…

Some compliance is mostly for show, and that’s being charitable. You go through it for the website badge, not to find weak spots in your organization. SOC 2 is not like that. There’s a reason your customers’ procurement teams demand it. They want to know whether they can trust you with their data, and SOC 2 compliance is the accepted way to demonstrate that. It might not be the reason a deal closes, but that deal wouldn’t have closed without it. We’ve lived “move fast and break things” for so long that we assume disruption must mean breaking stuff by…

In brief Darktrace’s Signal Labs found that when AI agents couldn’t legitimately hit a required perfect score on coding tasks, two of them hacked their test network instead, and one rewrote its own evaluation to fake the result. A separate experiment showed that tampering with the locally stored conversation logs of coding assistants could trick them into running unauthorized network reconnaissance and privilege escalation. Darktrace disclosed both findings to Anthropic, AWS, and OpenAI in August 2026, a month before publishing them publicly on September 24. Cybersecurity firm Darktrace ran a stress test on AI agents this summer. One of them…

Engineering Notebook Template Scoring Rubric The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA, at universities, and in the aviation industry are searching for ways to increase safety, make flight more affordable, find new fuels for aircraft, and reduce the amount of time passengers and cargo spend in the air. This year’s Dream with Us Challenge focuses on new aircraft fuels and how even the addition of one new fuel will change both the aircraft they are used…

Indonesia’s push to expand geothermal power is facing resistance from communities around Mount Ungaran in Central Java province, where a long-running dispute over the proposed project has resurfaced.The government says further exploration is needed to determine whether the area can support a commercially viable power plant, with electricity generation targeted for 2031.Residents and civil society groups have raised concerns about potential impacts on water resources, farming livelihoods, the environment, and cultural heritage.Questions over public consultation and differing estimates of the area’s potential electricity output have added to the debate over the project’s future.See All Key Ideas YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia…

On the first day of the United Nations general assembly this week, two world leaders outlined competing visions for the future. Donald Trump’s speech was disturbingly familiar to those he’s given before: a litany of false boasts and odd tangents, peppered with grim military threats against a variety of nation states. Discussing his seven-month war with Iran, he mused over whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly”.In Trump’s eyes, the world is there to be ruled – and ruled only by the US, whose economy is “the envy of the world” and military is “the most powerful…

CNN reporters have been barred from traveling with US President Donald Trump as planned on Saturday, in a new move by the White House to limit the news network’s access. The president last week sought to ban three US outlets – CNN, MS NOW and Politico –from the White House, accusing them of providing only negative coverage on him. After journalists with the three outlets were blocked from entering the White House complex, a judge ordered their access to be temporarily restored, saying Trump’s move was likely unconstitutional. Read morePolitico, CNN and MS ​NOW return to White House hours after…