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Andy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on the UK rejoining the EU, but said his immediate priority was continuing to rebuild bridges with European allies.The prime minister, who will hold his first meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on Tuesday, did not rule out including reversing Brexit in Labour’s next manifesto – but suggested the country should focus on securing closer trading ties first.Ministers have expressed fears privately that the EU reset has lost significant momentum since Burnham became prime minister, and a summit on the issue is likely to be…

If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better honeypot than an AI chatbot.OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and their countless smaller competitors have become therapists, sounding boards, and virtual confession booths for millions of people around the world. Almost all of those AI models are set by default to collect and store that highly private data with, in many cases, no restrictions on how it’s shared or sold, used to further train…

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies from Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany have published a joint advisory attributing a long-running hiring scheme to a North Korean group they call WaterPlum, also known as Contagious Interview.  The document lays out the threat group’s methods, ties some of its members to North Korea’s broader IT-worker scheme, and describes Japan’s first-ever takedown of a North Korean laptop farm. WaterPlum campaign overview WaterPlum poses as employers to reach software developers and IT professionals, often impersonating real AI, cryptocurrency or NFT companies. The group has also used legitimate recruiting services to make contact, according…

Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solana-based decentralized finance platform Solstice, said crypto markets are unlikely to return to the extreme boom-and-bust cycles as deeper liquidity brings stability to digital assets.Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction show, Nadareski said liquidity across major crypto trading pairs has increased significantly, even during bear markets, reducing the conditions that produced sharp price swings seen in previous cycles.He added that crypto is increasingly a market for institutional capital and household wealth rather than speculative trading.“We don’t want to go through 2017. We don’t want to go through 2021. We don’t want to go through these massive fluctuations,”…

Stem cell transplants may be able to repair damage caused by stroke, according to researchers at the University of Zurich. In experiments with mice, the treatment helped generate new neurons, restore movement, and trigger several other forms of brain repair, offering a promising step toward regenerative treatments for neurological damage. Stroke is extremely common, affecting about one in four adults over a lifetime. Roughly half of those who experience one are left with lasting problems such as paralysis or difficulty speaking. These disabilities can occur because a stroke deprives parts of the brain of oxygen or causes bleeding that destroys…

Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) manufacturer Strohm has, in a joint industry program (JIP) with Petrobras and Shell, completed a qualification and field trial program for its ultra-deepwater TCP flowline technology.Source: Strohm The completion of the full-scale qualification and offshore field trial represents the final step before Petrobras installs and starts operating a pilot flowline in a Brazilian pre-salt field, on schedule in early 2027. “The project has great strategic relevance for the subsea sector in Brazil and beyond, as it decisively solves one of the major pipeline integrity challenges identified in recent years: the risk of stress‑corrosion cracking in…

The announcement of a deal regarding the future of Greenland hopefully ends a period of tension between the United States, Denmark, Greenland, and other European allies. U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed a triumphant deal, but the whole thing has been an exercise in pointlessness. Though more details, including the full text of the agreement, need to be released, much of what the purported deal accomplishes was either already the case or could have been achieved through diplomacy and without the threats of coercive action. Trump has had a fascination with Greenland since his first term, when he explored options to buy…

Overnight missile and drone attacks hit several Ukrainian regions as world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly.Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026Russian forces have launched widespread attacks targeting industrial sites and critical energy infrastructure across several regions of Ukraine, killing at least three people and knocking out power to nearly 100,000 residents, Ukrainian officials said.The strikes overnight hit industrial facilities simultaneously in the Dnipropetrovsk region, including Dnipro, Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThree people were…

One of the more dramatic moments in a Liberal Democrat conference otherwise short of them came late on Sunday, when the party frontbencher Lisa Smart told the polling veteran John Curtice that, in effect, he no longer understood modern politics.Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignored outside a few electoral strongholds. Smart’s response? In the new era of five- or six-party politics, and mass tactical voting, this does not matter.It was a distillation of the largely underground debate which has dominated the gathering…

Good morning. Andy Burnham is at the United Nations general assembly today and in a speech to the world (or, technically, to people in the hall and anyone watching on TV at around 2am UK time), he will say that Britain is not “on the slide”.Speaking to reporters on the plane to New York, Burnham said: double quotation markThe plan for Britain is about ‘what is our direction over the next 10 years and how do we make life more affordable for people’. That is my main priority, that’s what people are looking for. I hear people saying the country…