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In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it. The new owner holds wildcard DNS across the entire domain, and any hostname under it now resolves to infrastructure that person controls. Today the apex serves an ad-heavy media downloader page, which is unremarkable. The remarkable part is that the decision…

For many, the failure of the assisted dying bill (MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales, 11 September) has brought relief that a manifestly unsafe law will not be entering the statute book. But it should also prompt reflection about how it got this far.Two hundred and seventy MPs voted for the bill despite multiple warnings from the medical royal colleges and other professional groups responsible for implementing it that it was unsafe and unworkable. Supportive MPs appeared to be voting on an abstract principle rather than engaging with the concerns raised.But an MP’s role is not that of…

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic and violent content. A rumor circulated online in September 2026 alleging several images show the moment immediately before an Israeli “double tap” airstrike reportedly killed a Gazan child attempting to help a wounded person. Research on this subject concluded the images were enhanced, likely with artificial intelligence. However, further examination found an authentic video served as the reference point for the enhanced images.  According to news reports, the video shows a boy named Muhammad al-Zinati dying in an airstrike that took place moments after an earlier strike injured or killed a man in the…

In 2022, India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), classified Tata Sons as an “upper layer non-banking financial company” because of its systemic importance and investment activities. This created a listing obligation on the group.Tata Sons sought to get out of this classification by repaying their debt and arguing that they do not borrow directly from the public markets.But after sitting on its application for over two years, the RBI rejected the company’s bid to get out of the framework earlier this month, pushing the group closer to a stock market debut.In a statement, Tata Trusts reiterated its…

Siegmund combined the forward-looking “Everything is Possible” with another slogan, “Bring Back the Good Old Times,” fusing nostalgia and hope, a powerful combination for people worried about the rapid pace of disruptive change and an uncertain future.  “He’s become a bit of a pop star, and that explains a lot about why the AfD doubled its vote,” said the German-British historian Katja Hoyer. “It also helps explain why there was a smaller gap between men and women in Saxony-Anhalt. In the national vote, far more men than women vote for the AfD.” Hoyer believes the appeal won’t be confined to…

India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam reports with telecom operators, prompting spam-blocking app maker Truecaller to call the ruling anti-competitive. On Friday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the country’s telecom regulator, amended rules governing commercial communications, making it mandatory for call-ID and call-management apps that let users flag calls as spam or junk to send those reports to a blockchain-based platform maintained by telecom operators. The platform tracks commercial communications and enforces anti-spam rules. The change, TRAI said, is intended to broaden the pool of spam reports available…

Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. “Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,” Microsoft said in a Thursday advisory. Azure AI Foundry, also called Microsoft Foundry, is an enterprise platform designed to build, deploy, and manage generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents. The Windows maker credited security researcher Rémy…

“We are actively working toward becoming MiCA-authorised and view this as an important step in providing users with a consistent, regulated, and trusted service across the European market,” the spokesperson said.Binance withdrew its Greek application in mid-June and began winding down operations after officials at the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) decided not to approve Binance’s MiCA license request at the last minute.Gillian Lynch, Binance’s head of Europe, told CoinDesk in early July that the exchange had met all of the HCMC’s requirements.“We were deemed to have a complete application,” Lynch said. “Nothing was missing, nothing material was outstanding.”The WSJ…

I appreciate Zoe Williams’s excellent interview with Camilla Cavendish (Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birthrates are plummeting – and why it matters, 17 September), but I have to take issue with one of her statements: “Of course, the climate crisis is playing a big part in that, but it still doesn’t wholly stack up – in the 80s, there was the wraparound threat of nuclear annihilation and it didn’t seem to dent anyone’s joie de vivre.”Yes, the buildup of nuclear arms and the terror surrounding it reached its peak in the 20th century, but it was kept in…

He didn’t leave it at that, though; Mangan found Timby on Instagram and followed up with a message inviting her out.”It was short and sweet, and it was really genuine, too,” says Timby – and she took him up on the offer.What followed was a series of whirlwind dates – lunches, dinners, sightseeing and shopping trips. Timby extended her time in Ireland and documented much of it for her newfound following – but she didn’t reveal anything about her new beau. They wanted to save the burgeoning romance for themselves.When Timby eventually had to fly home, there were “tears at…