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Labour has hosted major party donors at No 10 for a drinks reception, as the party comes under growing pressure from MPs and unions to consider a donations cap.The Guardian understands that high-level donors, including business leaders and philanthropists, were hosted by cabinet ministers in Downing Street for an evening reception on Tuesday. Donors from the party’s Rose Network give thousands of pounds a year to the party.Andy Burnham is under increased pressure from MPs to consider new restrictions for domestic donors after Reform UK received £72m from two cryptobillionaires, Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne, over the course of 48…

He identified “putting digital ID on hold” as an example of how he had already “taken difficult decisions in this job in relation to reprioritising government spending” and vowed to continue to “take difficult decisions to make sure the economy remains on track”.Digital ID is a striking choice of example. Burnham announced that he was abandoning the scheme in the days before he became prime minister so that he could focus on policies affecting the everyday cost of living. But the spending was then, within the new government’s first few days, re-allocated to cut VAT on household electricity bills.So in…

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They’ll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users.As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into “one Claude,” with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude “can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from…

Ravie LakshmananSep 16, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A critical security flaw in Issabel Framework, a web-based framework for the open-source unified communications PBX software, has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-89026 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4.0 score: 9.3), which can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system (OS) commands by taking advantage of a hard-coded JSON Web Token (JWT) signing key. The Issabel Framework “contains a hard-coded HS256 JWT signing key in the pbxapi index.php file that is identical across every installation, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to forge valid bearer tokens,” VulnCheck said…

Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, has added custody support for Etherlink and seven assets on the Tezos layer-2 network, including xU3O8, a token representing physical uranium.The other supported assets include wrapped XTZ (WXTZ), liquid staking token stXTZ, stablecoins USDT, USDC and USDSM, and wrapped Ether (WETH), according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The integration allows Anchorage’s institutional clients to custody assets issued on Etherlink, an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible layer-2 network that settles on Tezos, through segregated accounts at the federally chartered bank.xU3O8 represents ownership of physical uranium, giving investors exposure to the…

The human brain is made up of billions of cells, interconnected in millions of circuits, making it difficult to understand its development and what exactly is happening – at the cellular level – when things go wrong.While this research is not the first time human neurons have been implanted in laboratory rodents, external, these scientists took that approach to a new level.First, they genetically-engineered mice to develop almost none of their own cerebral cortex – that is the outer layer of the brain sometimes referred to as “grey matter”. It handles higher-level thinking, memory and senses.The researchers then used skin…

AUSTIN, Texas—A chair with Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian’s name on it sat empty Tuesday in the hearing room of the Texas House Committee on Energy Resources. Committee Chairman Drew Darby had called Christian to testify before the panel, which oversees the Railroad Commission, regulator of the state’s powerful oil and gas industry. Christian failed to appear before the committee and wrote in a letter that he had a scheduling conflict. Darby, a Republican from San Angelo, opened the committee meeting with stern words for the commissioner.  A seat reserved for Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian sits empty at the Texas House…

John Deere is the largest player in the U.S. agricultural machinery market, accounting for nearly 35% of sales, according to Farm Action. Its grip is even stronger in major equipment markets such as large tractors and combines. Now the company is pushing further beyond machinery, into farm data, software and AI. On Sept. 1, Deere introduced JD, an artificial intelligence assistant built into its operations center. Farmers can ask the AI assistant questions about their own data, including fuel use, yields, machine performance and the best time to harvest, according to Successful Farming. Deere says farmers should stay in control…

Zurab Chitaia, a Georgian business owner, appeared before a judge in Tbilisi over a post on his personal Facebook page on Sept. 7. The post is a stream-of-consciousness complaint about domestic politics, mostly aimed at Georgia’s opposition, accusing its leaders of weak planning and ineffectual action. A brief postscript directed “fuck their lot” at the ruling Georgian Dream party, collectively. Investigators from the interior ministry stepped in, despite the lack of a complaint from any injured party. Police monitors read his posts, wrote up charges, and decided that public order had been violated. The judge quickly found Chitaia guilty and…

Claims that the deaths of seven NASA astronauts in the Challenger space shuttle disaster were faked have been shared online. This is false.An Instagram video, which has over 3,000 likes and hundreds of shares, states that the 1986 mid-air break up of the Challenger shuttle was a hoax and that everyone on board the spacecraft has since been found alive. The man in the video says that this has been “proven in court” and cuts to footage of another man presenting “evidence” that crew members were found years later. However, this footage actually shows a member of the public speaking…