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Democrat Mary Peltola and incumbent Dan Sullivan lead in Alaska primary for US SenateHello and welcome to our live coverage of US politics.We are still awaiting the full election results from Alaska, where it appears Mary Peltola is leading for the Democrats and Dan S Sullivan is leading for the Republicans in the contest for US Senate.Incumbent Sullivan is running for a third term while Peltola is fighting to flip the seat and aid Democrats in their quest to retake control of Congress. The Tuesday vote in the non-partisan primary will see four candidates advance to the general election for…

The lab routinely tests for 400 substances and “now, in France, we are looking for diuretics”, he adds.It is now 15 years since Anaïs’s encounter with Nègre and seven years since she first spoke to police.Like many of the other accusers, she is frustrated at the length of time it is taking for Nègre’s case to come to court.Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator has continued to work in human resources, according to Fondation des Femmes, a women’s rights group that is supporting about 30 of the women affected.”Everything is unsettling and I am angry at how we are treated,” says Anaïs,…

Once again, President Trump is threatening his country’s own partners with everything from tariffs to bombs. Once again, he is fawning over a nuclear-armed tyrant deemed to be one of the biggest dangers to U.S. security. And once again, the world is left trying to make sense of a United States that has upended the world order that it established eight decades ago.Nearly 10 years after Mr. Trump first came to the White House on the slogan of America First, his attack-thy-friends, befriend-thy-enemies approach to international relations has become the feature, not the bug, of U.S. foreign policy. Traditional alliances…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Ukraine’s​ anti-corruption authorities ​o​n Wednesday r​aided the home ​o​f a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as a lawmaker and a bank executive as part of a probe into an alleged criminal group.The searches came at a vulnerable time for Zelenskyy, whose administration has been plagued by corruption scandals.The night before the raid, ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov had launched a blistering broadside against him, warning that rampant graft was undermining the country’s fight against Russia and calling for extraordinary…

OpenAI says it has slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security.In a blog post, external, the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.It said training would be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place.”The capabilities of frontier models are rapidly accelerating,” the company said. “Our ability to understand…and secure them must stay ahead.”Claude-maker Anthropic and Facebook-owner Meta reported similar kinds of hacks by their AI in the weeks following the initial announcement by OpenAI that some…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. “The operation doesn’t rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software working together – some components encrypt files, others silently steal documents or lock the screen, and another acts as a live chat between the attackers and their victims,” Check Point Research’s Jaromír Hořejší said. The large-scale campaign is being tracked by the cybersecurity company…

Last week on August 14th DMND, the Stratum V2 mining pool, announced an integration with Mempool Accelerator to introduce new transaction acceleration functionality to Stratum V2 miners. This will put individual miners in control of transaction acceleration and prioritization.  This is a fundamental shakeup to the legacy model of a transaction accelerator. These products have been historically offered by mining pools, rather than actual miners, and as such the pools have traditionally been the ones to both decide which transactions to prioritize in their templates and pocket the additional revenue for accelerating them.  Now, individual miners at DMND can handle…

More than 10 million years ago, South America was home to an ecosystem filled with enormous animals and formidable predators. During the Miocene, a geological period that lasted for millions of years, a vast lake covered a large portion of the continent. Its waters supported giant turtles and crocodylians, while an extraordinary collection of hunters prowled the surrounding shores. Those predators included anacondas, saber toothed mammals, flightless “terror birds” and sebecids, a group of land dwelling relatives of crocodylians. Despite this intense competition, new research indicates that crocodylians occupied an especially important place in the ecosystem and were the most…

STONE HARBOR, N.J.—Against a lush carpet of marsh grasses, the five-and-a-half acre island of muddy sediment, shallow pools and tufts of straggly vegetation stood out like a sore thumb.  It wasn’t enough to catch the eye of young visitors to The Wetlands Institute, who were far more interested in the diamondback terrapin enclosure that was the centerpiece of “Totally Turtle Tuesday.” To the scientists studying it, however, this patch—known as the Scotch Bonnet Island enhancement project—is far more interesting. It’s an ongoing experiment in saving critically important marsh ecosystems from drowning in a relentlessly rising tide. The restoration effort kicked…

ProPublica is examining U.S. military budgeting, spending and contracting, and we’re asking for your help. We’ve spent years talking to people who’ve worked in the defense industry, the Pentagon and the armed services, so we know that these topics are critically important. Every day, Pentagon contracting officers, defense industry workers, congressional staffers and others make decisions that affect the most expensive military in the world, with great consequences for the safety of soldiers and for the country at large. Yet it’s well documented that, even when those involved have good intentions, many Pentagon projects end up mired in delays, cost…