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The decision to abolish the medical training initiative (MTI) scheme (Medical colleges condemn scrapping of NHS placements for overseas doctors, 31 July) risks reversing years of progress in medical diplomacy and repeating earlier mistakes in the UK’s treatment of international medical graduates (IMGs).In the early 2000s, in response to perceived workforce shortages, the government actively recruited IMGs and established a new GMC exam centre to process applicants at scale. Thousands came to the UK, but the number of available posts was insufficient. The government responded by ending the permit-free visa, which had allowed IMGs to work in the UK, so…

South Korea’s professional baseball league scrapped all 10 games scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday as a record-breaking heat wave gripped the nation, overwhelming both players and fans and forcing the authorities to warn citizens off the streets and farm fields.The brutal heat set a record on Sunday, when a southwestern town clocked a staggering 42.5 degrees Celsius, about 108.5 degrees Fahrenheit, — the highest reading in 122 years of weather observations in South Korea.Illnesses related to the extreme weather have claimed 21 lives since mid-May, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed Wednesday. President Lee Jae Myung declared the…

A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man in Italy after refuse workers found the missing slip.The anonymous player disposed of the ticket in a shop in Bitonto, southern Italy, after checking his numbers and being told it was “non-payable”.The man only realised he threw away a winning ticket after a relative pointed out the numbers he always played had been drawn. It sparked a two-day search through a “mountain of waste” which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency…

It’s time to be blunt: the government is about to expose hundreds of vulnerable women to the risk of death or serious injury. Survivors of domestic abuse, including women who have suffered years of physical violence and intimidation, are now preparing for the moment in October when 5,000 prisoners begin to be released early. What are these women supposed to do? Where are they supposed to go? Their abusers know where they live. They know where their children go to school.Following an outcry, rapists and some child sex offenders have been excluded from the early release scheme. But by refusing…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It is always a happy occasion when a newly listed company reports its quarterly earnings for the first time, and they beat analysts’ expectations. SpaceX did that on Tuesday. But if ever there were a case to be made that quarterly financial statements are pointless — a view proposed by the US market regulator — Elon Musk’s rocket maker surely strengthens it.SpaceX did better than analysts expected on most of the measurements that matter. Revenue increased by 92 per cent year on year;…

Jack Wallen/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysAnduinOS V2.0 is now available.The latest version uses a full Wayland stack.It’s now even easier to run Windows and Android apps.There’s a Linux distribution for everyone and everything. If you’re a developer, gamer, average user, systems administrator, creator, or a combination thereof, you’ll find a distribution that’s perfectly geared toward your needs.But what if you need a Linux distribution that makes using Windows and Android apps easier? Well, I have a distribution that’s right up your alley.Also: When Windows 10 support runs out, you have 5 options but only 2 are…

A framework that validates tool calls more strictly, or that segments memory more conservatively, closes off attack paths that a more permissive framework leaves wide open — regardless of which model is doing the reasoning. The model generates the decisions. The framework controls how much autonomy the agent has to act on those decisions, and where the checks sit along the way. Concretely: a framework that requires every tool call to pass through an explicit schema check before execution gives an attacker far less room to smuggle a malicious parameter through than a framework that lets the model call a…

Binance-affiliated companies have sued the founders of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency payments company RedotPay, alleging they diverted more than 470,000 users from Binance Card in breach of their commercial agreement.The plaintiffs seek nearly $473 million in damages, alleging the conduct contributed to RedotPay’s valuation as it considers a potential initial public offering, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a Hong Kong court filing it obtained.According to the report, Binance Holdings affiliates Nest Trading, DistributedTechnologies and Chaintecs Consulting Singapore filed the petition against RedotPay co-founders Gao Zhangpeng, Chan Wa Choi and Yao Chao.Binance alleges RedotPay allowed users to fund RedotPay stablecoin payment cards with…

A stray SpaceX rocket is believed to have crashed into the Moon, forming a crater near a famous lunar landmark and giving scientists a unique research opportunity that could help future missions.The empty upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket was due to strike the Moon near the Einstein crater at a speed of about 5,400mph (8,700km/h) on Wednesday.The short, dramatic flash it created would have been hard to catch by amateur astronomers even with high-end telescopes, but larger observatories in the Americas are analysing the information.It could be days or even weeks before the full picture of what happened…

Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself nearby, a practice that may have violated state voting laws, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. This comes weeks after Talarico accused Attorney General Ken Paxton, his opponent in the race for U.S. Senate, of voter fraud for similar actions. The news organizations reported in July that Paxton voted using an address where his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, said he hasn’t lived for two years. Paxton has made eradicating voter fraud a cornerstone of his time in office by…