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Significant cracks in the managed identity trust chains of the world’s biggest cloud platforms could put enterprise and government resources at risk.That’s according to Justin O’Leary, independent security researcher, who discovered two “confused deputy” vulnerabilities in both Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) earlier this year. Despite reporting them to the cloud giants, neither company acknowledged the vulnerabilities or paid a bug-bounty reward, even though Microsoft appears to have silently patched its flaw.Confused deputy issues arise when a product or service receives a request from an upstream entity but fails to preserve the original source of request and…

BitMEX customers are seeking the return of 622.66 Bitcoin in a proposed class action that accuses the exchange of engineering liquidations and retaining traders’ collateral. The complaint, filed July 23 in the Southern District of New York, arrived as BitMEX began a regulator-approved wind-down ahead of its September closure. Related ReadingBitMEX shutdown gives traders 2 months to withdraw, but active positions face an earlier deadlineReduce-only trading begins Aug. 26, with forced closes possible before exchange services end Sept. 23. Jul 23, 2026 · Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright BKX Services Inc. alleges it lost at least 305.809 BTC through BitMEX liquidations in…

In the UK, an assessment by the Met Office showed that fires could be exceptionally severe by Wednesday if they were to start in parts of London, the south east or the east of England as a result of hot, dry conditions.On the Isle of Wight, campfire remains where discovered at the site a fire which burned the equivalent size of almost 13 football pitches and lasted almost five days. Two people had to be rescued after trying to film a wildfire in Wales with a drone. Emergency services have fought multiple wildfires across north Wales in recent days, including…

Your editorial (22 July) rightly identifies the structural paradox at the heart of Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda – that it takes a confident assertion of central power to give real power away. But one institutional mechanism that goes some way to resolving this paradox operationally deserves mention: the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (Nista), which has sat jointly between the Treasury and the Cabinet Office since April 2025.Inherited from Keir Starmer’s government, Nista (with about 250 civil servants) merges what were the National Infrastructure Commission and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority into a single body reporting simultaneously to both departments.…

Claim: An comparison of images of U.S. President Donald Trump shows a photo edited by the White House next to Getty Images’ original photo. Rating: Context Both images were altered versions of an authentic photo by Reuters. No evidence suggested the White House shared either image. In July 2026, people shared an comparison of images of U.S. President Donald Trump that allegedly showed a heavily edited White House version — generally on the left — and Getty Images’ original photo — usually on the right. The images feature a close-up profile view of the right side of Trump’s face, as…

US President Donald Trump has said “there are very friendly negotiations going on” about the conflict with Iran, after the warring sides did not exchange strikes for a third straight day.He expressed optimism for an end to the war on Monday, telling reporters aboard Air Force One: “I think there’s a good chance that something could happen.”However, he warned that Washington would “go back to doing what we were doing” before the pause in fighting if the latest negotiations failed.Tehran has denied that any direct negotiations are taking place.Trump said he had decided to pause US strikes on Iran on…

Andy Burnham will tell schools across England to adapt their curriculums to the needs of local businesses as part of a devolution drive aimed at tackling the jobs crisis for young people.By moving decision-making to local areas, the PM hopes the plan will make technical and vocational skills as valued as academic qualifications – and help cut the benefits bill.Based in part on the Greater Manchester baccalaureate that Burnham introduced as the region’s mayor, it will task schools with making their curriculums for students aged 14 and above more responsive to the local jobs market, teaching technical skills alongside traditional…

The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order by President Trump that restricts voting by mail, setting up a legal showdown as the president pushes for more control over voting ahead of the midterm elections in November.The administration filed the emergency application to the justices after a federal appeals court on Saturday blocked key parts of his executive order.In the application, Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the lower court ruling “indefensible,” asserting that it imposed “serious irreparable harm on the federal government” and would bar federal agencies from implementing an…

Spain declared a national emergency in the community of Madrid and the province of Ávila due to the spread of intense wildfires. With fires still burning out of control, this year is shaping up to be one of the most devastating wildfire seasons on record for the region.“We are facing a dramatic situation, not only in various Spanish provinces but also in regions of neighboring countries,” warned Spain prime minister Pedro Sánchez. He noted that “all available resources” have been deployed to manage the emergency in the cities of Ávila, León, Toledo, Madrid, and other parts of the country amidst…

Moonshot AI’s Kimi team and kvcache-ai have open-sourced AgentENV (AENV), a distributed platform for running agent environments at scale. AgentENV powers agentic reinforcement learning (RL) training for Kimi K3, Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. The code ships under an MIT license. Why Environment Infra Holds Back Agentic RL Agentic RL does not just sample text. It requires the model to act inside a real computer. Every rollout needs an isolated Linux environment with a filesystem, a network stack, and live processes. That requirement creates a hard trade-off. Containers start fast but share the host kernel, which weakens isolation for model-generated code.…