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Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has developed their own app, external developed an app to provide alerts when bathing water quality could be affected by pollution, including sewage spills.It says the information comes from various sources including voluntarily data from water companies in England and Wales, from sensors that monitor when a Combined Sewer Overflow operates. The alert stays live for 48 hours post-discharge.It says UK water companies keep pollution alerts active for varying periods so “for the safety of water users, SAS follows the precautionary approach to keep the current alerting system in place at 48 hours”.The app also includes…

Imagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and a Middle Eastern nepo-royal football boss can’t be doing with it. Such is the status of Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s scheme to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. More historically, perhaps, the 55 nations that make up Uefa have reacted to this horror show by voting unanimously to boycott Fifa tournaments, including World Cups, if Infantino presses ahead. That would mean Spain and Portugal boycotting their own men’s World Cup next time around, which you’d think – not to call it too soon – would come…

The former president and his wife were sentenced to 15 years last year after being convicted of money laundering.Published On 1 Aug 20261 Aug 2026Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has been released from prison after the country’s Constitutional Court overturned his 15-year prison sentence for a case linked to a globe-spanning corruption scandal involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.Humala was serving his sentence at a special detention facility in eastern Lima that houses several of Peru’s jailed former leaders. The 64-year-old and his wife, Nadine Heredia, were found guilty last year of money laundering for receiving illegal contributions from Odebrecht, now…

Like Andy Burnham, I was once an enthusiastic altar boy, although I don’t recall competing to be at the front with the communion plate as the prime minister apparently did. Much of my motivation had little to do with piety. The tips received for serving at weddings were often very generous and I got on well with Father Jerome, an engagingly worldly monk from Ampleforth who shared my passion for Manchester United.I’m five years older than Burnham, but the atmosphere of the small-town northern Catholicism we grew up with will have been much the same. The second Vatican council’s reforms,…

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Ravie LakshmananJul 31, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. Both versions were released last month. In its latest patch for Chrome 151, released Wednesday, the tech giant resolved 370 flaws, out of which 349 were reported by Google itself. Seven of the vulnerabilities have been marked critical in severity. The development comes amid an exponential surge in vulnerability discovery, mainly fueled by the advent of large language models (LLMs)…

Japan-listed Quantum Solutions expanded the amount of Ether its group may sell through Oct. 30, 2026, after subsidiary GPT Pals Studio sold another 1,000 ETH to help fund its AI data-center push. The group can still sell up to 2,471 ETH, while only 1,714.8 ETH of its present balance is disclosed as outside a lender pledge.The July 30 board action raised the aggregate ceiling from 1,875 ETH to 4,375 ETH. Together with 904 ETH sold on June 16, the latest transaction brought sales under the policy to 1,904 ETH.GPT received $1.903 million in aggregate proceeds, net of transaction fees, at…

Why this matters San Diego faces a persistent housing and homelessness crisis — and it continues to fall short on production needs. San Diego officials plan to host four public meet-ups in the next two weeks to share plans for future affordable housing projects on city-owned land. In an open-house style, city officials plan to inform and collect input from the public about 11 project sites. The public engagement is part of the city’s Affordable Home Development Master Plan, which aims to create a long-term strategy to construct homes on city-owned land near transit, jobs and community amenities. The goal…

The 250th anniversary of U.S. independence has revived a debate on what it means to be American. This has spotlighted at least two competing stories on American identity: One hinges on a conventional understanding of national identity as a state-centered project characterized by jurisdictional boundaries and physical separation between peoples; a competing story, based on shared experiences, cultures, and diasporas, claims that “American” is a term that cuts across national differences and refers to the entire Western Hemisphere. Both accounts of American culture and identity have been taken up recently in public discourse. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has made…

By noon it is time for a break. The temperature is about 35C, the smell of ash, cinders and burnt wood hang acrid in the air. At tables laid out in the shrinking shade on the desiccated grass and sand outside the sports centre in Le Porge, 200 men and a handful of women have gathered. Firefighters, soldiers, police, gendarmes, officials, first aid teams, foresters and volunteers sit elbow to elbow, plates of sausages, steak and potatoes in front of them.The village was evacuated just over 14 hours after the “megafire” – as it has become known in France –…