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“There is a war in the Middle East, and we are paying the price,” Macron said. The European Union has in recent months purchased more diesel from the U.S. to make up for lost supply that can’t get through the Strait of Hormuz, and shipments from across the Atlantic now make up more than half of all diesel imports to the bloc. Macron last week announced plans to chair a G7 meeting to look at releasing strategic oil stocks and held talks with the leaders of hydrocarbon exporters to secure supplies from alternative sources. During Thursday’s interview, Macron said France…

It’s entirely possible other governments have been the victim of rogue AI agents.Former Australian government cybersecurity adviser Alastair MacGibbon told the BBC he’d heard whispers that several others have been notified of similar recent breaches by OpenAI agents.”Some have chosen to not be public – that’s every government’s choice on how it wants to handle these things,” the CyberCX chief strategy officer said. “The [Australian] government chose a time to release this to gain maximum publicity which is their wont to do.”Revealing a data breach can of course be a risky strategy for governments – it leaves them vulnerable to…

There is a corporate mandate to implement AI enablement programs. In cybersecurity, integrating AI chatbots into dashboards is table stakes. The industry, and the organizations it serves, must evolve to adopt agentic AI. But true autonomy isn’t just about moving faster – it’s about changing the goalpost entirely. The ultimate objective is Shift Zero: eliminating vulnerability backlogs entirely and preventing exposure at the source. To achieve this, the best place to begin is the end. Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a framework to discover and remediate threats and exposures. The final step of this framework, mobilization, is the operational…

New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday filed a lawsuit against crypto-based prediction market Polymarket, accusing the platform of running an unlicensed gambling operation in the state. An investigation by the Attorney General’s office concluded that these markets meet New York’s legal definition of gambling because users stake money on uncertain outcomes they cannot control.  Polymarket never obtained a license from the New York State Gaming Commission, the suit alleges, and so avoided the taxes that licensed casinos and mobile sportsbooks pay. That revenue helps fund public schools, youth sports programs and problem gambling treatment.…

A new discovery from the University of Missouri is revealing an overlooked reason muscles can lose strength with age. The findings could eventually lead to treatments designed to help older adults remain active and independent, from walking safely to continuing everyday activities with family. W. David Arnold, executive director of the NextGen Precision Health initiative, and his collaborators found that communication between nerves and muscles becomes less reliable as people age. This breakdown appears to contribute to sarcopenia, the age-related decline in muscle strength and function that affects nearly half of adults older than 80. The researchers also identified a…

The test works by sending small tissue samples taken from the tumour to the pathology lab. The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians. The molecules of DNA pass through a nanopore – a tiny hole – which reveals the tumour’s unique genomic fingerprint.In Steve’s case, after the nanopore machine was running for 20 minutes, the neuropathology team called the theatre to tell them that the tumour was likely to be a glioblastoma.Dr Simon Paine, consultant neuropathologist at…

Pakistan has established the Punjnad Indus River Dolphin Sanctuary in Punjab, which connects with an existing reserve in Sindh to form a continuous 400-kilometer protected river corridor.A 2025 abundance study reveals the endangered Indus River dolphin metapopulation has rebounded to an estimated 1,987 individuals, marking a 19.4% increase between 2011 and 2017.Despite this encouraging recovery, nearly 99% of the population is confined to a 690-kilometer stretch of the river and remains highly vulnerable to fatal gillnet entanglements and habitat fragmentation from irrigation barrages.Wildlife officials and conservationists stress that long-term survival for the endemic bhulan, as it is locally known,…

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It’s Thursday, which means we are back to our regular weekly programming, but we have more news from another busy day at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his UNGA speech, U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington, and Denmark’s military intelligence service issues a chilling warning about Russia. For the second year in a row, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a mass walkout at UNGA. As Netanyahu took the stage…

Home Americas Live Issued on: 25/09/2026 – 01:52Modified: 25/09/2026 – 02:29 Masoud Pezeshkian was due to meet Vladimir Putin © Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV, AFP It is for the United States to choose whether to end its war in Iran as Tehran does not wish to continue fighting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Fox News in an interview aired Thursday. Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN Wednesday, for which he travelled to New York, telling the world that Iran would not “bend at the knee” to Washington Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.   25/09/2026 – 02:29Saudi Grand Mufti tells troops to be ready to…

IT’S THE AFTERMATH, STUPID: The intrusion wasn’t sophisticated, no one was harmed, but it’s still a political timebomb. The problem is what comes next — when the same thing happens but then agents start colluding to take it further, and personal data is breached or systems are shut down. Wow! OpenAI had no idea for two months, and then had no idea how to handle this with the Australian government. Ryan Heath explains each of the major mistakes, and why this drama is part of a long history of large tech companies not taking non-American markets and governments seriously. THE…