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Burnham has played down the jeopardy, but he also promised to “say what I feel.” He has the advantage of having seen his predecessor Keir Starmer try to please Trump, only to be hectored relentlessly on Truth Social. Like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni or Canada’s Mark Carney, Burnham may sense a political advantage in not kissing the ring. A visit will still tie him up in diplomacy, however; tricky for a man who wants to keep his focus at home rather than engaging in the geopolitical wrangling for which voters gave Starmer little credit. It will also come days before his…

U.S. forces attacked two Iranian rocket launchers attempting to disperse sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, U.S. Central Command said on Sunday.The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said early Monday, local time, that it had fired missiles at American fighter jets at air bases in Jordan in response to a U.S. attack on Iran. Several thousand U.S. military personnel are stationed at bases in Jordan.The Jordanian military said it had intercepted eight missiles that violated the country’s airspace at dawn on Monday. It did not report any injuries or damage. A person familiar with the Iranian attack, who…

In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both moves citing national-security concerns. The drone tariffs take effect in September, with additional component tariffs following in 2027. These moves are part of a broader U.S. effort to restrict foreign technology in strategically important industries. The FCC’s Covered List, established in 2021, initially targeted telecommunications and surveillance equipment from companies including Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision before expanding to foreign-made drones and, most recently, to advanced robotic devices. The latest move comes as Chinese manufacturers have built commanding…

The OpenClaw team has just released OpenClaw 2.0. The team shipped nothing for nearly seven weeks, after 106 releases in the previous 230 days. The update rewrites installation and rebuilds the browser Control UI. It also moves sessions and transcripts into SQLite and adds shared cloud sessions. Is it deployable? Yes for single-operator and single-team deployments. No for multi-tenant products. Setup starts from credentials you already have Guided setup now looks for AI access already on the machine. It can reuse verified Codex, ChatGPT or Claude CLI sign-ins, accept an API key, run a provider sign-in, or find installed Ollama…

PaperCut Software has released a second emergency patch for zero-day vulnerabilities exploited against users of its NG and MF print management solutions as more information has emerged about the flaws and their exploitation. The zero-days can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution on affected PaperCut NG/MF instances. The vendor issued a security bulletin on August 27 and released the first emergency patch the next day for PaperCut NG/MF versions 25 and 26. The second emergency patch was released later the same day to deliver additional hardening, including for version 24. Indicators of compromise…

Researchers have   a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in a recent study, researchers write that the plant, Indianthus virgatus, while officially listed as critically endangered in Sri Lanka, was presumed possibly extinct in the wild in the country. I. virgatus, which has small white flowers, grows in the understory of wet tropical forests. It’s known from some 150 locations in India, but the only verified record of the plant in Sri Lanka is from…

Going into the fall midterm season, political scandals are in the air in U.S. politics. Over the past few months, the public has been confronted with a series of high-profile scandals that have become challenges for both parties. Democrats were forced to scramble in July after a sexual assault allegation brought down Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who was replaced by the working-class Troy Jackson. Although Platner denied the accusation and had already survived multiple controversies, including the discovery of an apparent Nazi tattoo and reports that he had sent sexually explicit messages to women other than his wife, the…

Helicopters and coastguard boats have been dispatched to the scene, while ambulances have been stationed on the beach ready to receive rescued passengers.Üstel wrote on social media that the “priority right now is human life”, adding that security forces, rescue teams and health officials were all on the scene.He added the disaster will be thoroughly investigated and “even the slightest negligence will be uncovered”. “No one will be spared, regardless of who they are, who is found to be at fault or responsible,” Üstel said.Erhan Arikli, the transport minister of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which is…

Bitcoin embraces post quantum futureDespite considerable skepticism among Bitcoiners about how close the quantum threat to Bitcoin actually is, two stories this week highlighted the progress being made toward upgrading the blockchain and protecting outputs from attack.StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet that protects it during the brief period when public keys are exposed in the mempool.Onchain data shows that StarkWSare spent a 10,000-satoshi output protected by Levy’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme. It combines hash-based one-time signatures with computational searches that bind an authorization to a specific transaction. While it works, it’s…

Scientists have found a way to grow Spirulina that produces biologically active vitamin B12 at levels comparable to beef, potentially overcoming one of the biggest nutritional limitations of this widely promoted algae. The research, published in the scientific journal Discover Food, was led by Dr. Asaf Tzachor, Founder and Academic Director of the Aviram Sustainability and Climate Program at Reichman University, together with researchers from Iceland, Denmark and Austria. Using advanced biotechnology and carefully controlled light conditions, the team produced carbon-neutral, nutrient-rich Spirulina biomass containing active vitamin B12. According to the researchers, this is the first time biologically active vitamin…