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Senator Lindsey Graham, the Trump opponent turned outspoken ally who died at 71 this month, will be honored with two days of funeral services this week.Congressional leaders will have a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday, and a funeral service will be held at Washington National Cathedral later in the afternoon. On Wednesday, he will be remembered in his home state, South Carolina.Here’s what to know:What’s happeningElected leaders and other public figures will attend closed ceremonies at the Capitol and Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, before a procession and public funeral in South Carolina on the next day.Mr. Graham’s…

A Conservative MP has claimed a French warship fired warning shots near a boat he was on in the Channel in an attempt to stop him highlighting the small boats crisis.Chris Philp, who is his party’s home affairs spokesperson, was being interviewed by the BBC a couple of miles off Boulogne on Tuesday when the warship Flamant passed by. As it did so, a French navy officer standing at the stern fired 17 shots from a handgun, aiming away from Philp.Philp turned to the BBC interviewer, Michael Keohan, and said: “Is that toward us? I dunno.”After uploading a video of…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysAirline power bank rules expose our bad habits.Flying is safe, but how we carry power banks isn’t.Treat power banks with respect at home and in the air.I’m off to Mallorca next month to catch the solar eclipse, so I’ve been planning and preparing. For this eclipse, I’m not going to be photographing or videoing. Instead, I’m going to sit back and enjoy it using the eyes that my mom gave me. This approach means I won’t be travelling with a load of camera gear and batteries, but I will want…

More than 24,000 internet-exposed servers are leaking authentication password hashes due to a 20-year-old vulnerability in their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) interface. For at least a third of them, researchers were able to find the correct password using dictionaries and the patterns on factory stickers for default credentials. The exposed servers are vulnerable to CVE-2013-4786, an IPMI 2.0 authentication weakness rooted in a protocol introduced in 2004. The security issue allows attackers to request an authentication response that can be used to crack the password offline using dedicated GPU rigs or similar setups. BMCs and server risks BMCs are processors built into…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors and alts are very red; BTC -2.7% at $63.4k; HYPE -9% at $54 Saylor raises $525M in cash, buys STRC over BTC Coinbase leans into meme coins with new “Launches” feature Fomo app notches new ATH in weekly revenue and fees FWA opens platform up to wrapped ERC20s, starting with PNKSTR ₿ Strategy Chooses Cash, STRC Over BTCStrategy went a fifth straight week without buying Bitcoin, its longest pause in two…

A major Atlantic Ocean current is slowing, and the consequences could reach far beyond the Atlantic. New research from the University of California, Riverside suggests the change could strengthen powerful storms along the California coast while reducing snowfall over Greenland. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast system of ocean currents that acts like a planetary conveyor belt. It carries warm tropical water northward, helping keep regions such as Europe relatively mild. After the water cools and becomes denser, it sinks and flows southward along the ocean floor. “It is well known that the AMOC is a…

Singapore-based Keppel has set up a new private fund to which it will divest ten legacy rigs, as part of its announced monetization, with Apollo Global Management to invest $1.5 billion in the fund. Through its indirect subsidiary, Rigco Holding (RigCo), Keppel will divest six operational rigs this year to the Keppel Offshore Fund (KOF) for a total of approximately S$1.2 billion (US$936 million) and is expected to receive a cash consideration of about US$478 million. KOF’s acquisition of the rigs will be by cash from Apollo, while Keppel will make 50% of the contributions to the fund to acquire…

In a private ceremony on Sept. 17, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium inside the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and praised a Florida nonprofit for what he called a singular achievement in American education. The attendees were celebrating the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, which announced that it had reached 2 million children with civics education since its founding in 2016. “I hope you understand how important this is,” Hegseth told the room. “What we pour into the next generation will determine whether we keep our republic or not.” FLAG’s founder, Nick Adams, had spent…

As allied leaders gathered in Ankara, Turkey, in early July, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte declared the dawn of “NATO 3.0,” a rebalanced alliance underwritten by a $80 billion military package for Kyiv. But behind the new architecture sat a familiar assumption, unchanged after four years of war: that enough conventional pressure on the battlefield will eventually force Russian President Vladimir Putin toward a negotiated off-ramp. This is a mistake—a failure of Western mirror imaging, in that it projects a particular strategic logic onto a leader who is not playing by it. Putin’s war is not governed by rational international relations…

Claim: Pope Leo XIV said U.S. President Donald Trump “does not fear chaos. He needs it. Martial law. Emergency powers. Democratic norms pushed aside. And then — no midterm elections … Destroying democracy to keep yourself out of prison — that is extreme.” Rating: In late July 2026, a popular rumor claimed that Pope Leo XIV sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he was “destroying democracy.”  The rumor primarily spread on Facebook. A Facebook post claimed Leo made a speech in a room full of cameras. According to the post, Leo claimed Trump “needs chaos” and would bring “martial law” and “emergency…