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Since it was introduced by the coalition government in 2011, the triple lock has guaranteed that the UK state pension rises each year in line with whichever is the highest of inflation, average wages, or 2.5%.Burnham said that from April 2030, instead, it would only rise in line with the highest of inflation or 2.5%.The prime minister added that “it will hold its value relative to earnings over time”.We are still awaiting full details from the government, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank, external says the new proposed system would ensure that the state pension rises by…

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Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles retrieval and ranking for all production traffic. It also powers a new Fast Search mode in the Perplexity Search API. Perplexity reports single-call latency of 160 ms at p50 and 230 ms at p95. Is it deployable? Yes, as a hosted API. Set search_type: “fast” on POST /search and pay $1 per 1,000 requests. Photon itself is not open source, so the engine cannot be self-hosted. Why Perplexity Replaced its Old…

Ravie LakshmananSep 30, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a memory overflow bug in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol handling that’s rooted in the NetScaler Packet Processing Engine (NSPPE). “Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway contain an improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution or denial-of-service,” the U.S.…

In brief Anthropic posted a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025 on $4.6 billion in revenue, though about $34 billion of it was a non-cash charge tied to convertible financing. Its operating loss topped $8 billion, and the company plans about $518 billion in cloud and computing spending in coming years, against $20.28 billion in cash at the end of 2025. The prospectus warns its AI models could pose existential risks to humanity, while backers eye a valuation above $2 trillion for an IPO expected after November’s midterms. Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025, according to a…

Scanning the specimens is not a trivial process. Not only does each one need to be photographed, but the tiny labels containing important scientific information, often handwritten, sometimes centuries ago, also have to be recorded. The team involved calculated that it would have taken hundreds of years to do this manually, but using robots and AI this process can now be done in a decade, according to Sarah Addezio, the DiSSCo UK’s programme delivery director.”What we’re able to do now is connect and analyse that information at a scale that’s unprecedented and has not been possible before.”One hundred museums, botanic…

In the first half 2026, the local council of one district in southeastern Zimbabwe recorded 317 cases of human-wildlife conflict, including attacks on livestock by predators.Edson Mabika says he used to lose four or five animals this way every year — until he took an ex-ranger’s advice and painted black and white eyes on the backsides of his livestock.Since then, he told Mongabay, he’s lost just one goat and a lamb.See All Key Ideas NYANGOMBE, Zimbabwe — In the first six months of 2026, the local council in Chiredzi recorded 317 cases of human-wildlife conflict in this district…

The Marine Energy Test Area (META), Wales’ national marine energy test center, has secured a one-year investment from The Crown Estate, which will help sustain its operations and support the development and testing of wave, tidal, floating offshore wind and offshore hydrogen components. In addition to the financial support from Welsh Government, The Crown Estate’s investment will enable META to support further deployments, enhance marine data collection and environmental monitoring capabilities, strengthen supply chain growth and continue its program of community and education engagement across Pembrokeshire.“This investment from The Crown Estate represents a significant vote of confidence in META and the…

As Andy Burnham delivered his conference speech to the Labour faithful yesterday, it was hard not to recall Jeremy Corbyn’s words after the party’s shattering 2019 election defeat. “I am proud that on austerity, on corporate power, on inequality and the climate emergency,” he wrote for this publication, “we have won the arguments and rewritten the terms of political debate.” Given Boris Johnson’s 80-seat majority, widespread mockery ensued.But when it comes to rhetoric, who can now deny that the left has won the argument? A Labour prime minister has declared that “Britain has been on the wrong path for a…

The medical condition of dozens of prisoners has deteriorated as inmates protest against suspension of amnesty law.Published On 30 Sep 202630 Sep 2026The medical condition of dozens of inmates on a hunger strike for more than two weeks inside Lebanon’s largest prison has become “dire”, according to a legal campaigner.“About 400 prisoners are on a hunger strike for more than two weeks. Ambulances enter daily to take [dozens of] them away because their condition is dire,” Mohammed Sablouh, a Lebanese lawyer, told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The prisoners are refusing medication, food and water,” Sablouh, who…