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Your report (New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say, 21 September) reflects what those of us supporting school leaders are hearing. As a volunteer with Headrest, a school leader wellbeing helpline, I cannot discuss individual cases. I can, however, describe the disturbing patterns we encounter.We have spoken to headteachers whom mental health professionals considered suicide risks following their experience of the Ofsted process. We have spoken to leaders whose physical or mental health has been seriously damaged by inspections. We have heard from headteachers who successfully navigated inspections but then chose early retirement rather than face that…

The international aid charity Save the Children has been issued with an official regulatory warning over management failures and misconduct that put staff at its Yemen office at serious risk.The warning concluded a two-year investigation by the Charity Commission for England and Wales into the running of the office after the death of its safety and security director, Hisham al-Hakimi, in October 2023 after he was detained by the Yemeni authorities.The commission said weak governance meant staff at the Yemen office were not properly safeguarded in response to what it called a “live security concern”, and incidents of poor conduct…

Nursing homes would no longer be required to report each week how many residents were stricken by Covid and other respiratory diseases, under a Trump administration plan to repeal a key public health response to thousands of pandemic deaths.A draft summary of the proposed rule obtained by The New York Times outlines how the administration agrees with the industry’s objections to weekly reporting of viral caseloads, calling it burdensome. In its waning days, the Biden administration made Covid reporting rules permanent, adding influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (R.S.V.) to the list of threats that facilities also must track and record.…

The UK has warned countries around the world that the climate and nature crises and the coming El Niño threaten their national security and defence, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of an explosive report suppressed under Keir Starmer.Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, made a presentation to the foreign ministers of the EU as well as Kenya and other countries on Wednesday night at a private meeting during the UN general assembly in New York, based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data — and more say — on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply.As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they’ve triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI might stress power grids and local water systems. That’s fueled partly by concerns about how difficult it is to see just how much electricity or water they’re actually gobbling up. California’s new disclosure rules won’t offer a full picture, but starting next year, data center operators…

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any conversation: who spoke when. The 100M-parameter model tracks up to 8 speakers, including when voices overlap. One checkpoint handles both offline recordings and real-time streaming. Is it deployable? Yes. The weights are released under the OpenMDW License 1.1, which permits commercial use. It runs on Linux through NVIDIA NeMo, using Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Hopper, or Blackwell GPUs. Why Speaker Diarization? Automatic speech recognition (ASR) gives you the words. It does not tell you who said them. Without attribution, a summarizer…

Swati KhandelwalSep 23, 2026DevOps Security / Supply ChainThe private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled “Email work item to this project.” Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored by you. The string in the middle of the address is a token tied to your account, and GitLab’s…

Visa released the results of a survey signaling that bank-level fraud protection and insurance could drive adoption in stablecoins for cross-border transactions among US users.In a survey of 2,192 US-based customers published on Wednesday, Visa said that the “adoption intention” of stablecoins among US users could climb from 36% to 56% “in a hypothetical scenario with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance.” The findings conducted by Morning Consult between February and March showed that Americans who were asked about financial terms like stablecoins were looking for faster and cheaper methods to send money abroad.“Nearly two-thirds (64%) [of respondents] say trust…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea turtle laying eggs on the U.S. West Coast. And three days later, there were more. An olive ridley turtle — maybe the same one — laid eggs on Sept. 19, a few miles away near the Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, authorities said. “This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species” on the West Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast Fisheries division said on Facebook. Olive ridley turtles…

DeepOcean and the controlling entity of TFKable Group are planning to establish a joint venture (JV) that will provide integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services for inter-array cable projects in offshore wind, as well as a newbuild, dedicated inter-array cable laying vessel (CLV). The planned JV will provide an integrated offering covering key stages of inter-array cable projects, including seabed mapping, route surveys, engineering, cable manufacturing and transportation, trenching, installation and cable protection. The collaboration, set to combine TFKable Group’s subsea cable technology and manufacturing capabilities with DeepOcean’s expertise in offshore engineering, installation and seabed intervention, will initially focus…