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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.…

An iPhone Safari attack behind recent security warnings hasn’t yet been linked to a confirmed cryptocurrency theft in SlowMist’s investigation.Multiple reports surfaced this week urging iPhone users to update their devices immediately and warning that malicious Safari pages could expose crypto private keys and seed phrases, with some citing a range from iOS 13 through iOS 26.5.SlowMist told Cointelegraph that it has not independently confirmed a victim compromised by the specific Safari attack sample it analyzed, while its strongest technical evidence covers iOS 18.4 through 18.6.2.The company said the “iOS 13 to 26.5” range should be treated as preliminary. “We…

Australia’s engineering firm Worley has picked up a multi-year renewal of its assignment in the North Sea with CNOOC International, a subsidiary of China’s CNOOC, supporting the operator’s offshore operations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Buzzard; Source: Worley Worley has obtained a five-year renewal of its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) framework agreement with CNOOC International’s UK business, including the Scott, Buzzard, and Golden Eagle fields. The Australian firm’s scope includes engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, completions and decommissioning services, from like-for-like replacements through to complex brownfield modifications and larger project scopes. Golden Eagle; Source: Worley The company stated: “Over the…

Internet and call services have been disrupted in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray after fighting broke out this week between regional forces and the national army.Services provided by state-owned telecoms operator Ethio Telecom have been completely cut, although those from the much smaller private firm Safaricom remain operational. Internet monitoring group NetBlocks earlier posted on X that network data indicated a sub-national internet shutdown in northern Tigray.”Last night telecommunications got knocked out,” Duke Burbridge, an American humanitarian worker in Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, told the BBC’s Newsday programme.The BBC has contacted Ethiopia’s authorities for comment.Burbridge said there had been a scarcity…

Burnham took office on July 20 after replacing Keir Starmer, whose government had come under growing pressure following electoral losses, internal Labour Party disputes and weak public support. Starmer’s departure capped a turbulent final period in office in which domestic political problems increasingly dominated his government’s attention. The change in leadership came less than a year after Starmer and Merz had made a major push to bring Britain and Germany closer. The two governments signed the Kensington Treaty in July 2025. It laid out plans for closer work across defense and security, economic ties, transport and migration. Defense has become…

Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing Bolting Bingo against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve the infrastructure that moves oil, gas, and petrochemicals. Bolts are what she landed on. Specifically, the bolts that connect sections of pipe (technically called “bolted flange joints”). These bolts require hard, physical work to loosen and tighten and are the source of many pipefitters’ injuries. Like many trade industries,…

Ravie LakshmananSep 25, 2026Cryptocurrency / Cybercrime Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. “At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget’s security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets,” BitGet said in a post shared on X. “Bitget’s cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain secure and unaffected.” The company emphasized that customer account balances remain accurate, and deposits and trading continue to operate normally. However, withdrawals have been temporarily suspended out of an abundance of caution while a “comprehensive security review”…