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At our wedding reception 15 years ago, my new father-in-law stood up, pint in hand, looked me squarely in the eye and welcomed me to the family – and to Yorkshire. He acknowledged my obvious defect – my London roots – before offering a note of comfort. “Don’t worry, Zahaan,” he said. “You’ll fit in here eventually. It’ll just take 50 years.” He added that if I’d been from Lancashire, there’d have been an extra zero on that 50.Not long after the wedding, my wife and I relocated from our first place together in London to her beautiful home city…

A number of social media users have shared the misleading claim that the leader of Camden Council Sagal Abdi-Wali, Labour’s candidate in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election, is a Somali asylum seeker.Ms Abdi-Wali has spoken about coming to the UK from Somalia as a child refugee in the 1990s, but she is now listed on Companies House as having British nationality. She is not currently seeking asylum. Posts making the claim have been shared more than a thousand times across X, Facebook and Instagram, with some questioning the eligibility of “non-citizens” or “foreigners” to stand in UK elections.To…

Weinstein, who was at the center of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley. In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years for assaulting Haley but his conviction was overturned on appeal in 2024. A jury found him guilty again in 2025 after a retrial in New York.  Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials and spoke again in court Wednesday just before Weinstein was to be sentenced. “Having been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has had a…

The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to write his first novel.Thélyson Orélien, 38, has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac – the first of the literary season’s prizes – for C’était ça ou mourir (It was either that or die). He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon.But on Tuesday a little-known group called Balance ton Claude (Denounce your Claude, in reference to Anthropic’s AI assistant) claimed…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has registered gifts worth £8,177 covering travel and accommodation for a meeting with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Greece.Badenoch, along with her husband Hamish and shadow minister Alex Burghart, were flown to Athens on 24 August – with the costs paid for by the Murdoch family’s News Corp UK organisation.Badenoch’s spokesperson said: “Kemi was pleased to meet Rupert Murdoch and senior News Corp and News UK executives.”The visit has been declared in full in the usual way.”The spokesperson added: “Kemi values serious engagement with Britain’s major media organisations and the people who run them (including at…

Six people have been arrested after anti-migrant protesters gathered at a marina in Hampshire in the mistaken belief that a small boat was due to arrive.Heeding calls from the far-right campaigner Daniel Thomas, hundreds of protesters gathered early on Tuesday evening at Gosport in Hampshire, aiming to disrupt any disembarkation of asylum seekers. The Border Force vessels carrying them landed instead in Dover early on Wednesday.Thomas, who styles himself as Danny Tommo, spent Tuesday afternoon in a speedboat in the Channel broadcasting his pursuit of the asylum seekers to more than 100,000 people.He is facing a police inquiry after using…

My YouTube algorithm is sacred, with years of data about my preferences and viewing history fermenting into whatever videos it picks for my home screen. YouTube’s algorithm, while not perfect, sure knows what I want to see. The current top three videos on my front page are an Apple Watch analysis, a Big Brother season 28 update, and something called “I Lost to the Muppets” from comedian Chris Fleming. Click. Click. Click.As part of its Made on YouTube event Wednesday, Google released several new features, including a Custom Feeds button for adjusting what videos pop up on your front page.…

Deploying randomised AI logistics offers military planners a viable defence against adversarial tracking, allowing U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) to insulate global distribution networks against contested disruption. Commercial freight software historically prioritises static scheduling, steady delivery windows, and just-in-time routing to eliminate transit waste. In an operational theatre, however, those fixed cadences expose military transports to enemy predictive models.Speaking on Tuesday at the DefenseTalks conference hosted by DefenseScoop, TRANSCOM Head Gen. Randall Reed explained that adopting adaptive algorithms enables logistics units to outmanoeuvre hostile machine learning systems. By injecting controlled unpredictability into transport routes, TRANSCOM can keep critical cargo moving across civilian,…

Attackers are increasingly targeting the management systems used to control enterprise infrastructure, with several critical vulnerabilities actively exploited before or shortly after vendors disclosed them. This was reported in the September edition of Eclypsium’s InfraTrust Pulse, a monthly report tracking security advisories affecting network devices, servers, firmware, chips, and other infrastructure. Between August 25 and September 17, InfraTrust tracked 158 new security advisories across 17 vendors, covering 1,699 vulnerabilities. Of those advisories, 42 were rated critical, eight had a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, and 71 could be exploited remotely without authentication. Five of the published advisories included vulnerabilities that…

In brief Police and intelligence agencies in Japan, the U.S., Australia and Germany said the group infected at least 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries. It took funds or credentials from over 7,000 crypto wallets and moved ¥1.7 billion, around $10.71 million, to North Korea. Japanese authorities dismantled a domestic “laptop farm” for the first time. A North Korean crew that poses as recruiters to compromise developers has taken funds or credentials from more than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets and moved around $10.71 million to Pyongyang, seven agencies across four countries said in a joint advisory published on September 18.The group,…