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Hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have detailed data on thousands of FBI employees.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating a breach of its jobs website by a hacking group that claims to have obtained sensitive data on thousands of employees.“The FBI is aware of a cybercriminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the fbijobs.gov portal and alleged impact to FBI employee personally identifiable information,” the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“While the point of breach is still undetermined — whether a third…

Still, though, he admits to be “definitely surprised” at how much progress he has made.”I knew that I was going to be better than my first year,” he says. “Obviously, because I think last year, towards the end of the season, I started to put things more together, starting to extract more performance. But still, it was still not great.”Whereas this year, it’s a lot different. Also as well, with the first win, the first pole, it took a lot of weight off my shoulder.”Antonelli has blossomed. Everything seems to be coming so easily to him. If he drops back…

New analysis of school funding by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies shows the budget per pupil is growing faster than expected, by 9% in real terms between 2025-26 and 2028-29. This is partly because of various government top-ups to the budget and falling pupil numbers in some areas. Economist Luke Sibieta said asking schools to offer more vocational routes would be a “big change” on top of the significant reforms to support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. He said there was a “big question mark” over whether there were enough people to teach technical and vocational…

Amazon’s chief sustainability officer said Tuesday the company doesn’t know how it will achieve its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. “We are still striving towards that target,” Kara Hurst said at an Axios event, adding later that she is “not going to sit here and say, ‘We know all the ways that we’re going to do this.’” The admission was both frank and realistic. It’s also a bit disappointing. If Amazon doesn’t have a plan to decarbonize, then who does? Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, with last year’s revenue up 12% to $717…

Technology company F5 fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) platform on Tuesday. The flaw impacts deployments configured as OAuth authorization servers and was already under active exploitation in the wild before the patch became available. BIG-IP APM is a software component in F5’s BIG-IP hardware platform that enables companies to control access to internal network resources. APM performs various client-side checks and handles authorization and authentication, along with providing VPN connectivity for remote users. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-94127, is described as a heap-based buffer overflow and is rated 9.8 on the…

BlackRock says AI could create a new class of stablecoin customer: machines that spend continuously without human approval.The world’s largest asset manager sees increasingly autonomous AI systems purchasing data, accessing software, and acquiring computing resources on their own, potentially adding a new source of transaction demand to digital assets beyond trading and human payments.That prospect sits at the center of BlackRock’s new report, The Machine-Native Economy, which argues that artificial intelligence could eventually change who initiates economic activity. Instead of people making individual payment decisions, software could execute thousands of small transactions to complete a task.Stablecoins enter that market with…

Brazilian tin-producing company, White Solder, has been accused of acquiring a mineral  illegally mined in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon. White Solder has supplied hundreds of metric tons of tin to companies with U.S. Department of Defense contracts, according to an investigation by Repórter Brasil. White Solder, which describes itself as one of the world’s largest tin producers, supplied at least 525 metric tons of tin to U.S.-based Indium Corporation between May 2023 and August 2025, according to records analyzed by Repórter Brasil. Indium Corporation in turn supplied solder to Raytheon, a major U.S. defense…

Nadia Khomami provides an excellent analysis of current dilemmas regarding political songs and engagement (‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war, 19 September).However, I do feel that it lacks a longer timeframe. Outspoken, overtly political singers and songwriters have been active for decades. My own generation was brought up on Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. A bit  further back were Woody Guthrie and Billie Holiday. Who would dare to write Strange Fruit today? In all, far too many are being deterred by fears of censorship by media billionaires and their like. They need…

The claim that Danish officials played “Send in the Clowns” when U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived at the signing of a U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement is unproven. The rumor stems from footage circulating online that social media users claimed showed Rubio entering the signing ceremony on Sept. 22, 2026, as Judy Collins’ song “Send in the Clowns” played in the background. Two separate live streams of the event both showed that Collins’ song did play while Rubio entered the signing ceremony with Greenland and Denmark’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs. All three men were in frame while parts of the song…

A few days after the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, British former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen cast doubt on the official narrative when he implied that a plane did not hit the south tower of the World Trade Center. In reality, the south tower was indeed hit by a United Airlines Boeing 767 which had been hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists.  The former MP shared a video on September 15, 2026 that he claimed showed proof that a plane didn’t actually hit the south tower. The video, which garnered more than a…