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Western nations allege Russia has been operating a “shadow fleet” to evade international sanctions imposed on its oil exports.The UK Ministry of Defence says Russia has a fleet of more than 700 vessels, responsible for carrying 75% of the country’s sanctioned oil.This oil is a “critical lifeline for the Kremlin” in “sustaining Russia’s illegal war”, the MoD says.Putin’s comments come as the European Union intensifies pressure on Russia’s shadow fleet.In his remarks to Russian sailors, Putin singled out the EU, accusing member states of violating international maritime law and “attempting to restrict the movement of vessels belonging to our economic…

Francine McKenna is an adjunct professor of accounting at Montclair State University and also teaches in the University of Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting Program. She is the author of the newsletter The Dig.FT Alphaville has been trying its best to keep up with the nonstop, increasingly self-reinforcing, multiyear spree of AI ecosystem partnerships, alliances and influxes of investment into each other. But there’s a lingering question we’ve not yet answered. The answer sheds some light on how key players are lining up to take full advantage of the AI boom, even those we hope will warn us if it’s time…

IPad? Never heard of it.I have been using Android tablets pretty much since the first one came out, and I’ve never felt the need for anything made by any fruit companies. Android tablets make great “nice to have” entertainment centers, or they can be complete lightweight laptop replacements for travel.Whatever your use case, I’ve tested just about all the Android tablets out there, and these are the best, depending on what you need them for. If you want to see how these stack up next to those iPad things, check out our guide to all the tablets on the market.Be…

Swati KhandelwalAug 11, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter’s. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, the feature that lets participants draw and type on a shared screen, and it asked nothing of the victim beyond being in the meeting. No click, no download, no prompt, and nothing on screen to show it had happened. The patches are not new. Client fixes shipped in June and July, roughly two months before the flaws were made public,…

In brief A Seoul court sentenced Delio chief executive Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years for fraud and for registering as a virtual asset provider using false documents, according to local media. The court ruled evidence seized from Delio’s server host was unlawfully obtained, voiding the primary charge covering 2,800 victims and 250 billion won. He was convicted instead on fallback charges covering roughly 1,100 victims and 70 billion won, about $49 million. The Seoul Southern District Court has sentenced Delio chief executive Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years in prison over the collapse of the South Korean crypto deposit platform, five…

Where and how did life first emerge on Earth? Those questions are at the heart of research at the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU). Now, an international team led by biologists in Düsseldorf has reported new findings in Science Advances that shed light on the chemical reaction network used by the earliest cells to produce the basic ingredients of life, as well as the energy sources that powered those reactions. By tracing the origins of enzymes during the earliest split between bacteria and archaea, the researchers found evidence that free-living cells may have originated independently…

 Nadia Nadesan & Digit / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/AI may bode ill for the journalism industry as a whole, but for us data journalists, it opens up a new method for answering important questions in ways readers should trust.LLM classification — and its cousin, extraction — sits in the Venn diagram overlap: an AI tool that helps us do more valuable, credible work, and that we can convince our readers to trust.So often, data journalists deal with big, unwieldy piles of text — or worse, images and video. Maybe you have a spreadsheet full of police report narratives and you want…

Claim: A video authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump waking himself up with a fart during a maternal healthcare announcement in the Oval Office on May 11, 2026. Rating: In August 2026, people shared a video allegedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump waking himself up with a fart while seated during an Oval Office announcement. For example, on Aug. 8, an X user posted (archived) the clip overlaid with text reading, “Trump wakes himself up after audible fart during White House briefing.” Other users shared the same video on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived), TikTok (archived), X (archived) and YouTube (archived).…

Tabitha Chawinga scored twice and sister Temwa Chawinga once as tournament outsiders Malawi beat Algeria 3-1 on Wednesday in Rabat to reach the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations final. Cameroon will face the giant-killers in the deciding game after defeating hosts Morocco 3-1 on penalties following a 0-0 draw after extra time. Read moreWomen’s AFCON 2026: Tournament gets underway after months of delay Malawi are ranked 153rd in the world, 116 places below the pre-WAFCON favourites and record 10-time champions Nigeria, who bowed out in the quarter-finals. Debutants Malawi took advantage of Algeria’s Morgane Belkhiter red card for a foul on the last defender midway…

Yvette Cooper admits Labour has “not done government very well” in the last couple of years, and accused Keir Starmer’s No 10 of sidelining her during the launch of a key immigration policy when she was home secretary.Speaking on the Political Currency podcast with the former Conservative chancellor George Osborne, Cooper highlighted some of the difficulties ministers faced with Starmer’s leadership, which she summarised as “bring me solutions, not problems”.She said she had found a more collegiate style under Andy Burnham, and argued in favour of trying to form a national consensus around social care and reintroducing Sure Start-style children’s…