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Israel rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after he criticised Israeli actions in the West Bank in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. In his last speech as president addressing the UN’s signature annual diplomatic gathering, Macron deplored the humanitarian situation in Gaza – from which Hamas led the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest ever against Israel – as well as actions by Israel in the West Bank. Read moreMacron urges world to ‘stand firm’ against ‘abuse of power by empires’ in final UN speech Macron said that “Hamas has never struck in the West Bank,”…

The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), which helps farmers to manage land in environmentally-friendly ways, criticised the “frantic scramble” and said farmers had “faced a desperate race against time” to secure their funding agreements.Cambridgeshire arable farmer Martin Lines, who leads the NFFN, said: “This entire SFI system, with windows opening and closing within a few hours, isn’t fit for purpose. “We need to find a better way based on continuous, whole-farm agreements, not doors that slam shut on day one because the money has already gone.”He pointed out that after years of extreme weather, many farmers were relying on the…

A new military unit dedicated to defending satellites, protecting services people need on Earth and potentially supporting offensive operations is being launched by the UK.The No III Space Effects Squadron will be announced on Wednesday, with the defence secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that Britain needs to “keep pace in the new space race”.“Control of the waves was the essential ingredient in 19th-century deterrence,” he will tell the Space Power conference.“That is why Britain built the finest naval power in history. In the 20th century it was control of the skies, and so we built a world class air force to…

Frequently Asked QuestionsWhy Large Space Heaters Aren’t More Powerful Than Small HeatersAccordionItemContainerButtonNope! It may seem counterintuitive, but large space heaters don’t necessarily heat any better than small ones.Whatever their physical size, most space heaters in the US and Canada deliver about the same amount of heat. Space heaters top out at 1,500 watts, which is the highest safe operating load for a 15-amp household circuit. And aside from some low-power personal heaters here and there, most space heaters you’ll find on the market are 1,500-watt heaters.What’s more, electric space heaters are all pretty much 100 percent efficient in converting that…

Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models that solve math problems out loud. Both start from GLM-4-Voice-9B and add supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). There is no transcription step and no separate text LLM in the loop. On spoken GSM8K, accuracy climbs from 27.3% for the base model to 77.1%. Is it deployable? Yes, for self-hosting. Kyutai ran both BF16 checkpoints on a single H100. You also need the GLM-4-Voice repo for its speech tokenizer and decoder. Weights inherit the GLM-4-Voice license, and no Hugging Face inference provider hosts them yet. Why Speech Models Lag…

F5 has released security updates to address a critical BIG-IP APM zero-day vulnerability being exploited in remote code execution attacks. BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is the company’s centralized access management proxy solution that helps admins secure access to their organizations’ networks, applications, cloud, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Tracked as CVE-2026-94127, the flaw affects instances configured as an OAuth Authorization Server when a BIG-IP APM access policy and an OAuth profile are configured on a virtual server. “We have learned that this vulnerability has been exploited,” F5 warned in a security advisory published on Tuesday. “Deployments using…

[Update 09:15 UTC, Sept. 23: This article was updated with comments from SlowMist on how FomoPeek operated, what its researchers verified and its advice for people who installed affected versions.]A malicious iOS app distributed through Apple’s App Store has been linked to nearly $580,000 in stolen crypto after researchers found it contained multiple kernel exploits capable of escaping Apple’s sandbox and accessing sensitive wallet data.According to an investigation published by blockchain security firm SlowMist, the app, called FomoPeek, introduced two malicious modules that could exploit iOS vulnerabilities, gain elevated privileges and access Keychain data and files belonging to other apps. SlowMist…

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental drug called CS18 that may help cancer treatments work against tumors that have become resistant to therapy. The study, published in Science Advances, provides early evidence supporting further investigation of CS18 as a possible future cancer treatment. “Therapeutic resistance is a main obstacle to achieve effective and durable cancer treatments,” said corresponding author Dr. Weei-Chin Lin, professor of medicine – hematology and oncology and of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor. “While some therapies are effective at the beginning, many patients eventually relapse because cancer cells can activate compensatory and…

In February 2023, George Garrow jumped in his car and hurried to help people impacted by a freight train that had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.  The crash happened about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line and sent plumes of toxic smoke and hazardous chemicals into the air above the small town. A medical doctor by training, Garrow was on his way there when it dawned on him that he was in over his head. “I realized I don’t know the first thing about what we were supposed to do to care for someone who may be exposed…

Armed men open fire at a house party in a Durban township, killing a pregnant woman and 10 others.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026At least 11 people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed after armed men stormed a house in a township in the South African city of Durban.The attack took place late on Tuesday, according to Thamsanqa Ntuli, the premier of KwaZulu-Natal province, of which Durban is the main city. Assailants entered the home shortly before 11pm (21:00 GMT) while the victims were gathered at a house party.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTwo people survived…