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Sarah Killick has been battling problems in her social home for months, including mould and damp. She says the anxiety has been insufferable and she has permanently damaged her teeth from grinding them due to stress.She thought help would come in the form of Awaab’s law, new legislation designed to force social housing landlords in England to fix dangerous hazards, which came into effect in October last year.But it did not. Killick said her landlord, Clarion Housing Association – the largest social housing provider in the UK – sent contractors to do a mould wash, but claimed they did nothing…

Stefan_Alfonso/iStock/Getty Images Plus ZDNET’s key takeaway The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) created CheatBench. They found that every agent cheats in some scenarios. The propensity to cheat creates risks for humanity. AI labs often tout impressive benchmark scores when releasing new models, showing better capabilities in areas like coding, computer use, and more than their competitors. However, those benchmarks aren’t always a reliable measure of what AI can do because they’re easily beaten by exponentially improving models and can emphasize marketing over actual performance. Also: With AI models clobbering every benchmark, it’s time for human evaluation Benchmarks like Humanity’s Last…

A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed systems, weak checks, fake fixes, and attack paths that look almost too easy. Even the research side is getting messy, with more findings, more automation, and not always more clarity. Nothing here needs much drama. Just a lot of small doors left open. Here’s what happened. ⚡ Threat of the Week Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited ISE Auth Bypass — Cisco…

Government spending hasn’t slowed, and Tim Draper says that leaves only two real outcomes: hyperinflation or interest rates high enough to break banks. In this Bitcoin Magazine Podcast conversation with host Spencer Nichols, the Draper Associates founder makes the case that every business should hold at least four weeks of operating expenses in Bitcoin, every individual about six months, and every government a Bitcoin hedge. He explains why he considers boards that hold zero Bitcoin to be exposed — legally and financially — when a bank holding their cash goes under. Draper also maps his $250,000 Bitcoin price target to…

2026 NAHF Enshrinement Ceremony 9.24.26.pdf An Evening with the Stars EWTS 9.16.26.pdf Maryland Space Business Roundtable 9.9.26 Virginia Aerospace Business Association (VASBA) Gala 9.24.26.pdf Roman Space Telescope Event 8.28.26.pdf The Planetary Society_Celebrating Viking 7.20.26.pdf Farnborough Airshow Events 7.18-19.26 University of Maryland Acres 7.14.26.pdf Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum_Blue Origin 7.14.26.pdf Space Business Roundtable_MSBR 7.22.2026.pdf USA Rockets Red Glare Reception 6-25-26 Northrop Grumman Event 6.17.26.pdf FUSE 6.24.26.pdf Greater Cleveland Partnership 6.10.26.pdf SSF UC Symposium 6.9.26.pdf NAA Firefly Aerospace and AE Industrial Partners 6.11.26 AIAA Event 6.3.26 Space Walk III 5.21.26 Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) 5.20.26.pdf Congressional Reception for Artemis…

Forestry officials charged with protecting the Atewa Forest Reserve in eastern Ghana have been overrun by illegal miners whose operations are putting the water supply of millions of Ghanaians in jeopardy, according to conservation groups.Atewa is a biodiversity hotspot, with more than 80 threatened and endangered species found in its 26,300 hectares (65,000 acres).Environment group A Rocha Ghana and others have called on the government to provide greater resources to counter illegal mining in Atewa and elsewhere.See All Key Ideas Every day, scores of illegal miners on motorbikes swarm into the Atewa Forest Reserve, in eastern Ghana —…

India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has made a new natural gas discovery in the deep waters of the Mahanadi Basin off the country’s east coast. ONGC strikes new gas discovery; Source: ONGC The drilling campaign that led to the latest gas discovery was launched on July 25, 2026, by Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, with the spudding of the MDW-28 (MN-DW18-1-H-D) exploration well in the deep offshore Mahanadi Basin. MDW-28, which is described by the Asian company as the first well in its current deepwater campaign in this basin, is…

RIO DE JANEIRO—At right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro’s kickoff rally in the city’s Copacabana neighborhood in August, most of his supporters were clad in their usual green and yellow—some wearing soccer jerseys—and waving Brazilian flags. But a handful of attendees also raised the flags of other countries: the United States and Israel. The banners symbolized the direction that Bolsonaro promises to take Brazil’s foreign policy if he is elected next month: away from the hedging between the United States and its great-power rivals that has defined the current administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running…

In a post on X last week, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf claimed that the UK’s foreign-born population was 13.1 million in 2024, and that this was “up 143% in a decade”.This isn’t correct—the foreign-born population of the UK was estimated to be 13.1 million in 2024, but estimates suggest the increase over the previous decade was significantly less.We’ve asked Reform UK about this claim, and will update this fact check if we hear back. But it’s possible it was based on a misreading of figures quoted in a briefing from the Migration Observatory at the University of…

Germany’s Merz ‘grateful’ centre-left SPD wants to remain in coalitionGerman chancellor ⁠Friedrich Merz has said that he ⁠is grateful ⁠the ​centre-left Social Democrats wanted to remain ⁠in a coalition with his conservatives after a ⁠dramatic setback for ​his ‌CDU party ‌in state elections.“I am ‌grateful that we have heard from the Social Democrats this morning that they intend ‌to remain part of the coalition in Berlin,” ​Merz said at a press conference.“That applies to us ⁠too, and it applies ​to ​me as well. Together, ​we are determined ​to ‌rise ​to ​the historic challenges facing our country,” he said.“We are determined…