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Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is “more up” with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos islands and the war in Iran.At their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a “natural businessperson”, saying he thought he had “lots of assets on his side” and would be a “great” prime minister.Burnham, who was joined in the talks by Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, and Jonathan Powell, his national security adviser, said…

Nearly a year after releasing Premiere for iPhone, Adobe is finally bringing its redesigned video-editing app to Android. The app has been in beta for several weeks but is now available as the official successor to Premiere Rush, which the company will stop supporting on September 30.Eric Snowden, senior vice president of design at Adobe, tells WIRED the feedback for the iOS app has been “incredibly positive” (to his credit, it has a 4.8-star rating out of 5 on the App Store with more than 25,000 ratings). The goal with the Android version wasn’t just to port the iPhone app…

The researcher known online as Nightmare Eclipse, who has spent months publishing a rapid string of Windows and Microsoft Defender proof-of-concept exploits, has revealed his identity and released another Defender exploit.  Posting under the name Abdelhamid Naceri, the researcher announced a new PoC exploit called BigDiskBuster over the weekend. According to the project’s GitHub page, BigDiskBuster is a proof of concept “similar to UnDefend” that prevents Windows Defender from completing its platform and signature updates.  He describes it as working on all currently supported Windows versions, while cautioning that the code is still buggy and needs further work. SecurityWeek has…

In brief Coinbase is developing post-quantum custody safeguards to support a wide range of signature schemes, according to Head of Cryptography Yehuda Lindell. Traditional Multi-Party Computation (MPC) relies on split keys, but many post-quantum signature schemes may be “non-MPC-friendly.” Coinbase is exploring a fallback architecture that combines post-quantum threshold decryption with programmable Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). If a cryptographically relevant quantum computer eventually becomes an active threat to Bitcoin’s security, Coinbase wants to have protections in place that are prepared for whatever direction Bitcoin and other digital assets take, according to Yehuda Lindell.In a recent appearance on MARA Foundation TV,…

The purpose of this working group was to assemble a panel of experts to review the most recent data related to extravehicular activity (EVA) prebreathe testing and decompression sickness (DCS) events, venous thromboembolism (VTE) in-flight occurrences, and patent foramen ovale (PFO) implication as they relate to NASA’s Artemis (lunar and beyond) missions. The recommendations from this working group are built upon and integrate the outcomes of the September 2024 Assessment of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) as Related to Decompression Sickness (DCS) in the Spaceflight Environment and During Ground Testing (NASA/SP-20240010473), the April 2026 NASA Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Spaceflight…

Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries between 2013 and 2024. Across all ecosystems, including both aquatic and terrestrial, researchers found on average a density of 1 cigarette butt every 4 square meters, or roughly 1 butt every 43 square feet. The proportion was even higher in aquatic ecosystems. Researchers found that roughly one out of every nine pieces of litter, or 12%, of litter found in aquatic ecosystems was from cigarettes. In some…

For anyone who has been paying attention to the news for the last week or so, with its saturated coverage of the dystopian powers of artificial intelligence, it would be easy to succumb to the conclusion that we are all doomed. Despite the fact that the coverage has been more heat than light, this take might actually be right. But that is not necessarily because AI will end up wiping out our species. Rather, it is because of something deeper and far more impervious to regulation: human nature itself. For anyone who has been paying attention to the news for…

DoorDash said it would pay $131.5m ⁠to settle a ​New York City government investigation that found the food delivery company underpaid or waited too long to pay workers.Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the settlement the city’s largest ⁠labor enforcement action. It advances the city’s longstanding effort to hold food delivery companies to a 2023 law intended to improve pay for delivery workers.The accord also came nearly ⁠eight months after the city’s department of consumer and worker protection accused DoorDash and rival Uber Eats of engineering “design tricks” ​to deprive workers of more than $550m in tips.DoorDash ‌will provide nearly $115m of…

New elements make some pointed revisions, however, stipulating that no non-NATO nation can open a base on the island or mine for critical minerals or rare earths without the agreement of the three signatories. Trump has often spoken about Chinese and Russian military activities around Greenland, claiming earlier this year that, “if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers. There are Chinese destroyers … there are Russian submarines all over the place. We’re not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland, and that’s what they’re going to do if we don’t.” NATO officials…

By putting the European Union at the heart of how he would fund his tax cut, the Lib Dems couldn’t be drawing a starker contrast with the Brexit-backing Reform UK and a Conservative Party also committed to cutting welfare.But the plan is speculative. The Lib Dems insist a deal with the EU could be negotiated within a year if the party was in government after the next election.Plenty of economic experts, including the official budget forecaster the OBR, believe the UK’s economy could grow if the UK was in the Single Market.But as recent political history teaches us, negotiating a…