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At Facebook, we learned the same lesson from the other side. Short retention windows made it harder to reconstruct abuse because complaints, patterns and corroborating facts often arrived later, so we widened some windows. Deletion removes risk, but it can also destroy evidence needed to expose misuse. The better model is graduated retention backed by graduated controls. Seven days can remain the default. A community seeking more time should approve it publicly and accept stronger requirements, including verified identity, case-bound access, added justification for older data, supervisor review for sensitive searches, automated abuse detection, immutable logs, periodic renewal and independent…

It’s that time of year again in the United States. The days start to draw in, the leaves start to fall, and the tax man comes knocking for your 2025 return.This year, thanks to the Inland Revenue Service’s new rules, the agency now knows more about Americans’ crypto trades than ever before, with brokers required to report gross proceeds from certain digital asset sales. But unfortunately for some taxpayers, getting a form from an exchange hasn’t made filing their returns any easier.A survey of 1,000 US crypto investors conducted in August by Awaken Tax found that 21% of respondents who…

New research led by scientists at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai suggests that Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) may be much more common than earlier estimates indicated. The findings, published in Autism Research, estimate that the condition affects roughly 1 in 7,300 people. Phelan-McDermid syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by a deletion or mutation involving the SHANK3 gene on chromosome 22. It can lead to a broad range of medical, intellectual, and behavioral challenges. Most people with the syndrome also meet the criteria for autism spectrum disorder, and changes affecting SHANK3 are believed to…

Amid recurring landslides, a growing number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space.The refugee management authorities warn that expansions of Rohingya camps will accelerate further destruction of forests and biodiversity.A study recommends protection of the vulnerable hill slopes, but authorities cite fund shortages as a major obstacle.See All Key Ideas According to a report by the Bangladeshi government, released on Sept. 16, more than 150,000 Rohingya people fleeing persecution in Myanmar have entered the country’s 33 Rohingya camps in Teknaf and Ukhiya areas of Cox’s Bazar in the last few…

Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has shaken hands with Mozambique’s National Hydrocarbons Company (ENH) on a framework for bilateral cooperation across the oil and gas sector. Illustration; Source: Petrobras The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the basis for strategic cooperation in the oil and gas sector. While the deal is valid for two years, there is also potential for renewal. ENH is the commercial arm of the Mozambican State for the research, production, processing, commercialization, and distribution of oil and gas, including the development of projects throughout the oil sector’s value chain. The MoU…

September is the cruellest month for political commentators because it is when something has to be said about the Liberal Democrats. They are a play without a plot, a chorus line of seemingly endless “don’t knows”. Their leader, Ed Davey, recently warned that “we’re in the fight of our lives” to defend the values of liberty and equality. Really? How can this be when Davey is becoming about as relevant as Count Binface?The Lib Dems’ central predicament has remained unchanged for a century, ever since the decline of David Lloyd George and the rise of the Labour party. There is…

Youth group threatens return to mass protests, sets deadline for Gyanesh Kumar to quit due to reports of meddling with voter lists.By Al Jazeera Staff and ReutersPublished On 25 Sep 202625 Sep 2026India’s ‘cockroach’ party youth movement has threatened to launch nationwide protests unless the country’s chief election officer does not resign by Saturday.Founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), Abhijeet Dipke, announced on Friday that protests would begin in Mumbai on October 2 – if Gyanesh Kumar does not step down.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe CJP, a satirical outfit born on Instagram in May after India’s…

Ravinder Athwal, the economist who wrote Labour’s 2024 manifesto, is taking on a senior role as an adviser to John Healey, in a move likely to fuel speculation about an early general election.The chancellor is keen to beef up his team before the critical budget on 28 October, as the economy is buffeted by high oil prices and rising government borrowing costs.Healey has poached Athwal to be his senior special adviser from the business advisory group Flint Global, previously run by Andy Burnham’s chief of staff, the former Blair-era cabinet minister James Purnell.Athwal, a Cambridge economics graduate, was closely associated…

A few weeks ago, YouTube channel Gamers Nexus dropped an explosive two-hour video exposing just how extensive LG’s TV data collection has become. With ultra-sensitive microphones that are always listening and extensive user activity logs, your living room has become a data farm where you are the cash crop. And it’s not just LG; just about every major TV brand engages in some data collection either for sale to third-party advertisers or for internal marketing. Also: This LG TV jailbreak turns smart devices into spies, say researchers But what exactly are they collecting, and what are they doing with it?…

Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at privilege escalation goes nowhere. That dead end used to cost hours of documentation reading, permission checks, and script debugging, and plenty of operators simply got stuck. With a model in the loop, the error gets explained, the script gets fixed, and a fresh enumeration path is under test within minutes.…