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The meeting followed days of unusually public anger at Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. In a letter signed by 22 EU leaders, governments demanded tougher action to stop irregular arrivals, while Italy suspended air and sea transit with Spain over fears that migrants could move onward through the Schengen area. Sánchez hit back by urging his counterparts to show “understanding” rather than turn Spain into a scapegoat for a crisis on the EU’s external border. By Tuesday, ministers were keen to close ranks. The EU’s Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner said the influx had been “instrumentalized” by smugglers and human traffickers, while…

See the latest results in today’s key races including updates on the Michigan Senate primary, plus more elections in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Washington.Voters in Michigan are heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide a bruising, high-stakes Democratic Senate primary and closely-watched Democratic House races that could offer clues about the party’s direction.Here’s what to know about Primary Day in Michigan, a perennial battleground state.What’s at stake in the marquee Senate race?The Democratic Senate primary pits two candidates with starkly different visions for their party.The winner will try to protect a seat that the retiring Democratic senator Gary…

BP’s chief executive has urged Andy Burnham to make use of the UK’s oil and gas resources even as the oil company prepares to sell its North Sea business after 60 years in the ageing basin.In a conversation with the new prime minister, Meg O’Neill said the country should prioritise using energy produced in the UK, “where we generate jobs, we generate tax revenue, we generate all those additional positive impacts”.BP’s endorsement of UK oil production came days after the 117-year-old company signalled a plan to exit the North Sea after six decades, as part of a wider plan to…

Any AI looking at the footage would face the same issue, even for a tournament as long as the Main Event.More Than Just CookiesTell detection is nuanced work, and pros are dubious that a camera-based AI tool can effectively do it better than a human.Most nonplayers’ exposure to the importance of poker tells comes from the penultimate scene in the 1998 film Rounders. Matt Damon’s character, Mike McDermott, folds a monster hand to John Malkovich’s Teddy KGB after recognizing that the gangster has him beat—and McDermott discovers this after spotting a tell based on KGB’s habit of eating Oreos at…

The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and seize control of user accounts. “Greatness supports AiTM [adversary-in-the-middle] credential and token theft, device code phishing, and OAuth consent abuse, all from the same operator panel and shared backend infrastructure,” ZeroBEC said in a report shared with The Hacker News detailing the PhaaS kit’s latest capabilities. “The platform now supports AiTM token theft, device code phishing, OAuth consent abuse,…

Bitcoin’s biggest near-term security problem may not be a breakthrough against its cryptography, but the software and hardware already standing between a private key and its owner. As AI gets better at finding seams in that custody stack, even cold storage deserves a closer look.Bitcoin cold storage shuts one door. The rest of Bitcoin custody still hums with code, chips and human choices. The private key stays off an always-connected device; the machinery around it stays in play.Coinkite showed how in its July 30 technical disclosure, published in 2026. A 2021 integration change sent wallet seed generation down a MicroPython…

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have achieved a major milestone in hydrogen power by operating a new compressorless gas turbine for a record 303 seconds. The burner uses an advanced form of pressure-gain combustion and surpassed NASA’s previous record of 250 seconds. The result also marks progress toward using hydrogen for cleaner energy production. Unlike natural gas, hydrogen can be produced using renewable energy sources. Earlier this year, the KIT team also became the first to generate electricity with a hydrogen gas turbine that does not rely on a mechanical compressor. Hydrogen Turbine Runs for More Than…

On June 30, 266 clan leaders across 41 villages in Papua New Guinea’s Torricelli Mountains signed a legally binding “conservation deed” that protects rainforest and its inhabitants and is the result of decades of work by the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.The deed shields the range’s exceptional biodiversity, including the critically endangered tenkile and weimang tree kangaroos, after a long-stalled effort to secure formal government protected-area status has left communities exposed to logging pressure.Conservation deeds have held up in court, with a 2025 National Court ruling citing one to restrict logging on clan lands in East New Britain.Built over two years…

“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Listener in July 1945. “Patronage of the arts has crept in. It has happened in a very English, informal, unostentatious way – half baked if you like.” He was referring to the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (Cema), which would become the Arts Council of Great Britain. Keynes died a few months before it was granted a royal charter on 9 August 1946. A body to secure and distribute government cultural investment was…

In a contentious interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false, misleading and baseless claims about the origins of Lyme disease and the respiratory syncytial virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the science shows about autism, vaccination and acetaminophen use during pregnancy. On the Aug. 2 show, Kennedy had several disagreements with host Dana Bash, with Bash challenging the health secretary’s assertions and Kennedy saying that Bash was wrong. We’ll sort out the facts. Kennedy baselessly claimed that Lyme disease and respiratory syncytial virus infections came from lab research.…