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Reacting to the ruling, Trump posted that he was “pleased” the “baseless” lawsuit had failed to halt construction.”We are living in the Golden Age of America, and this Building will be one of the Greatest ever constructed in Washington, DC,” he said.Trump has long argued that the White House needs a larger events space, and more recently, that it was important for his security.The Republican president emphasised the need for the ballroom after an alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April.But the National Trust for Historic Preservation argued that construction was causing irreversible damage to…

Andy Burnham should call a cross-party meeting to discuss the UK’s response to worsening extreme weather, including the forthcoming ‘super El Niño’, the Liberal Democrats have said.The prime minister chaired a Cobra emergency meeting on the drought earlier this month but there has been little from the government on the wider threats posed by five successive heatwaves since May and expected global issues with food shortages and inflation.Pippa Heylings, the Lib Dem spokesperson for energy security and net zero, said: “Andy Burnham has shown he is able to commit to talking about things people care about, which is good. But…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.OpenAI’s ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher EU rules such as removing illegal content or face potential fines, the European Commission said on Monday, as Brussels grapples with how its existing digital regulation applies to rapidly evolving AI services.The Commission said the chatbot would be classified as a so-called very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act, its landmark online safety regime, while social media forum Reddit and gaming platform Roblox would be classified as very large online platforms.The…

The governor of the Bank of England has warned G20 finance ministers that artificial intelligence could cause a global economic downturn and pose a significant cyber security risk to financial systems.Andrew Bailey said any collapse of growth in the AI sector could lead to a “future market correction” that spreads worldwide.In an open letter to finance ministers in the US on Monday, he said companies around the world should prepare for security breaches “involving simultaneous disruption across multiple firms”. Earlier this month, a group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, urged countries and groups to beef up…

The campaign was heavily focused on cryptocurrency theft, but its capabilities went further. Socket observed code that captured information typed into web forms and extracted authentication material from active browser sessions. Other modules targeted logged-in social media accounts and collected browser history. Socket linked the extensions to a broader operation dating to February 2024 based on similarities with activity previously documented by DomainTools. The researchers said the malware’s design allowed attackers to change the payloads delivered to infected browsers over time. Extensions become supply-chain risksThe campaign shows why companies can no longer treat approval of a browser extension as a…

Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual work happens in a distant building packed with computer chips. Those chips draw power, move data, and produce enough heat to require heavy-duty cooling from AI data centers.When you multiply that process across millions of prompts, image requests, and business tasks, you begin to understand why a quick answer to a question that feels weightless becomes a physical demand on power plants and wires.Electric utilities are being asked to supply that demand in enormous, concentrated blocks. Your average large data-center…

A simple measurement around the waist could reveal important health risks that weight alone may miss, according to new research from Rutgers Health. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, found that measuring waist circumference, either by itself or together with body mass index (BMI), was about as effective as a more complicated new approach that relies on several different body measurements. The results suggest that something as basic as checking waist size could give doctors and patients a practical way to identify potentially unhealthy levels of body fat and recognize related health concerns earlier. Waist Size Could Offer an…

Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, an ecosystem exists in water so salty and lacking in oxygen that its marine life is unique and virtually unstudied.Called the Orca Basin, it’s now the focus of a corporate effort to profit from fighting climate change by dumping tons of organic waste into its depths, a deep-sea biologist explains in a new op-ed.“The Orca Basin is not a waste repository waiting for a use. It is a living system that has been developing for thousands of years, hosting organisms we have barely begun to characterize, preserving a chemical and biological record we…

France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has wrapped up its exit from a Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, giving up its stake but retaining rights to recover around $1.3 billion in shareholder loans, subject to sanctions. Arctic LNG; Source: Novatek TotalEnergies has completed the transfer of its 10% interest in Arctic LNG 2 to NordLine, a Novatek subsidiary. As a result, the French company is no longer a shareholder in this major LNG project on Russia’s Gydan Peninsula. The firm highlighted: “As part of the transfer agreement, TotalEnergies retains its rights to be reimbursed by Arctic LNG 2 for its share…

California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that school administrators are informed about past accusations of misconduct against teachers as part of their hiring process.   The legislation follows a KQED-ProPublica investigation revealing how delays and inaction, combined with a lack of transparency, allowed educators to get new jobs after school districts reported them to the state teacher licensing agency for sexual harassment or other misconduct. Our reporting found that at least 14 educators were hired by new schools after their former employers determined they had sexually harassed students or committed other sexual misconduct.  The bill, authored by Democratic…