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Poland has heightened its air defence posture, following repeated alleged incursions into its airspace in recent weeks.The Polish Air Force launched preventive air patrols on September 17 aimed at securing the eastern part of Polish airspace.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWarsaw officially blamed Russia, but Moscow has denied allegations that it is targeting NATO nations.“Following the latest Russian provocations and acts of aggression, I have made the decision to expand the protection of our airspace. We are increasing the activity of our air forces, including F-16 aircraft and helicopters,” wrote Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz on social media.Those…

He was later asked by BBC East Midlands political editor Peter Saull if there would be a general election next May, alongside council elections in the area.The PM replied “no” before adding: “Not having a general election.”Burnham also said he wants to use the conference to say more about “the direction I want to take the country in”, adding: “The focus is on that, helping people with the cost of living, helping businesses with the cost of running a business.”These have got to be the priorities right now, rather than throwing the country into a backward-looking process where we’re arguing…

Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They’re actually doing more to signal they’re taking a photo than phones do. He’s brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, Joanna Stern notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable.On today’s Vergecast, we’re talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant,…

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. Threat actors can exploit the flaw by tricking a logged-in administrator into opening a malicious link, causing the victim’s authenticated session to perform a REST API action permitted by their account. On default installations, the result is the creation of an administrator account under the control of the attacker. The Elementor Website Builder is a popular WordPress plugin active on 10 million websites that lets users create websites using a drag-and-drop interface. The CSRF flaw has yet to receive…

In brief References to a “Pro Max” subscription tier, priced at $500 a month, have turned up in ChatGPT’s website code and screenshots shared by several AI leakers this week. The plan appears to buy faster processing on OpenAI’s “Work” and “Codex” agent tools rather than more usage, with some pointing to chipmaker Cerebras as the reason why. OpenAI has not confirmed Pro Max. Its DevDay conference, where new pricing tiers are typically unveiled, is scheduled for September 29. OpenAI is quietly testing a new ChatGPT subscription tier called Pro Max that would cost $500 a month, according to code…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types – dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles, octupoles, decapoles, etc. – to steer and control its particle beams. Each type performs a specialized task. Some of the most important are known as inner triplets. These groups of three quadrupole magnets (hence the name) sit on both sides of the LHC’s four main experiments. Their job is to focus the particle beams as tightly as possible just before the particles collide inside the detectors. The tighter the beams are “compressed,” the greater the chance that particles…

In a letter, 27 leading global wildlife conservation and animal welfare organizations have urged Vantara, a private zoo in India funded by Reliance Industries’ nonprofit, to permanently end all wild animal imports into its facilities.The letter comes after Vantara announced a self-imposed one-year moratorium, which runs through June 2027, on all animal imports to its facilities as it improves its “due diligence” by appointing a governing council and stricter oversight.The announcement came amid allegations of illegal wildlife trade linked to Vantara — and a CITES Secretariat investigation into its 60,000 live animal imports over the past two years.The coalition…

Fit-out works are currently underway on the converter stations in Germany and the UK for NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the two countries.Source: NeuConnect The construction of the 24-meter-high, 70-meter-wide converter hall buildings reached full height earlier this year, allowing main contractor Siemens Energy to start the internal and external fit-out phase that will see key mechanical and electrical systems being installed. At the UK converter station, the transformers, each being 7 meters long, 5 meters tall and weighing over 200 tons, have been moved into position, while at both…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Click here to read highlights from the story A federal judge ruled Sept. 21 that the Trump administration did not give the required notice and public comment period when it released a controversial new rule in 2025. The rule would have required state officials to check the immigration status of anyone who uses federally funded adult education classes, Head Start programs, community health centers, and more.  The rule excluded undocumented immigrants and several categories of immigrants with legal status from accessing federally funded services. Wisconsin was among the states that sued to block the rule, arguing…

Facebook posts claiming Morrisons is giving away free food boxes for its birthday are not genuine.Morrisons told Full Fact these are not real offers from the supermarket.The posts say: “As a celebration for Morrisons Birthday in just a few days everyone who Hits like and comments: ‘Box’ gets a free food box. [sic]”They include images of what appear to be Morrisons-branded “free food boxes” in the store, one beside a sign reading “Celebrating 125 years of Morrisons!” Join 75,000 newsletter subscribers who trust us to check the facts Sign up to get weekly updates on politics, immigration, health and more.…