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Home Europe Live Issued on: 29/07/2026 – 08:36 This aerial view taken from a Civil Security helicopter shows plumes of smoke from multiple wildfires near the city of Lège-Cap-Ferret, southwestern France, on July 28, 2026. © Baz Ratner, AFP A massive wildfire that has burned some 42,000 hectares in southwest France over the past week “remains under control” after a second quiet night, regional authorities said Wednesday. But the regional prefecture warned that hot and dry weather conditions remained “unfavourable”. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates. 29/07/2026 – 08:27Wildfire response must evolve to keep pace with climate change,…

Andy Burnham’s plans to put academic and technical education routes on an equal footing in England have been welcomed by many, but none were more enthusiastic than the former Conservative minister Kenneth Baker.“I’m very impressed with what he has said,” the 91-year-old former education secretary, home secretary and Conservative party chair told the Guardian. “It’s a very significant announcement. I’m going to try to persuade the Conservative party to support this.”Lord Baker and Burnham may seem strange bedfellows. They belong to different generations; they support different political parties. But at a time when a million 16- to 24-year-olds are not…

Lance Whitney/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.If you’ve purchased a new Windows laptop anytime in the past year or two, you may notice the presence of a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard. Located to the right of the spacebar, this key quickly launches Microsoft’s Copilot AI so that you can ask a question or kickstart a conversation.Naturally, the key is the brainchild of Microsoft, which first introduced it to its own Copilot+ PCs Surface laptops more than two years ago. Third-party laptop vendors like Lenovo, Dell, and HP then jumped on the bandwagon, adding the…

Security leaders have spent the last decade building controls around people and code. Shift-left practices caught vulnerabilities earlier in the development cycle. Zero trust reduced lateral blast radius. Developer tooling added guardrails at the IDE. The architecture was sound — for an enterprise where humans wrote code and humans ran applications. That enterprise no longer exists. AI agents are moving from research projects to production workloads at a pace most security organizations weren’t designed to match. They operate autonomously, consume tokens and APIs directly, make decisions without human checkpoints, and leave behind an audit trail only if someone thought to require one. …

Trade.xyz, an operator of onchain perpetual markets on Hyperliquid, said it will cover eligible liquidation losses after a price anomaly hit its contract tracking SK Hynix, a South Korean chipmaker and producer of high-bandwidth memory for artificial intelligence.Trade.xyz said the SKHYNIX contract’s mark price fell from $1,127.90 to $917.25 at 23:01 UTC on Monday after an executed trade was relayed by multiple independent data providers. Eligibility requirements will be announced soon, with distributions expected in the coming days.The SK Hynix contract ranks among Hyperliquid’s most active markets. On Wednesday, Hyperliquid data showed the contract had generated over $1.5 billion in…

In Vietnam’s Pu Mat National Park, which borders Laos, an antipoaching unit is integrating high-tech tools with on-the-ground patrols to help turn the tide on illegal wildlife poaching. The antipoaching unit (APU) was formed through a partnership in 2018 between the NGO Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and the park, to address the widespread use of wire snares and the limited capacity of forest rangers, APU coordinator Huu Trung Nguyen told contributor Campbell Rusden in an interview for Mongabay. Nguyen said that about 70 forest rangers previously monitored more than 1,300 hectares (3,200 acres) of rugged terrain each on…

Leading Australian climate policy experts say a new oil refinery in Western Australia would be an investment in “dinosaur technology” that would require public subsidy and do little to solve the country’s fuel security.The Albanese government announced a $4m early-stage feasibility study with the WA government for a new oil refinery in the Pilbara region on Tuesday, but experts said the money would be better spent on green technology to reduce Australia’s reliance on fossil fuels.Experts told Guardian Australia doing the feasibility study was not a bad idea, but would ultimately show the project would be uneconomic and would require…

Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has spent his final days on the job celebrating his efforts to terminate employees in his office.But current and former officials said few people have actually been fired in recent weeks from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, despite a flurry of social media posts by Mr. Pulte. And members of Congress have been left scratching their heads about whether Mr. Pulte has cut nearly as many employees as he has claimed.Mr. Pulte said on Tuesday, hours before the Senate confirmed his replacement, Jay Clayton, that he had reduced the…

Ozlo, the sleep earbuds startup from former Bose engineers, is launching its next device. On Tuesday, the company unveiled Sleepbuds 2, an updated version of its original product that tackles key areas of improvement, including battery life, connectivity, and sound quality. The new model costs $279, a $30 increase from the original Sleepbuds, which were $249 last month with an MSRP of $349. The launch marks Ozlo’s first major update since the release of its original device and reflects the company’s evolution from a continuation of Bose’s brand into its own sleep platform. Image Credits:Ozlo The original Sleepbuds, launched in…

AI-native OT security startup Frenos today announced raising $1.52 million in a seed funding round extension that brings the total raised by the company to $6.4 million. The new investment round was led by Momenta and Exposition Ventures, with additional support from Riptide Ventures. Frenos will use the new funding to expand its customer success team and to grow its AI R&D. In addition to the fresh funding, the startup launched SAIRA Co-Work, an AI reasoning agent designed to provide evidence-based insights during complex investigations. Founded in 2023, US-based Frenos has built an autonomous operational technology (OT) security assessment platform…