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The Trump administration can resume rapidly deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday.The one-page emergency ruling was unsigned and gave no vote count, as is typical in such cases. Although the justices cleared the way, for now, for the swift removals to continue, the court also announced that it would fast-track the case and hear oral arguments about it in December, setting up a final ruling on the issue next year.The court’s three liberal justices noted that they would have denied the government’s request to resume the deportations.The decision was a victory for…

A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges.The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI’s agents violated California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face over the summer. The suit, which comes amid ongoing disclosures across the industry of agents…

Researchers from the VUSec group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy have disclosed a new variant of the Spectre v2 attack that affects systems powered by Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs. The researchers named it Branch Target Reuse (BTR), and it targets the just-in-time (JIT) compilers relied upon by operating system kernels, web browsers, and runtimes. An attacker able to run code on a targeted machine could exploit BTR to steal sensitive data from memory, such as password hashes. Attacks launched from malicious web pages also appear feasible, but the researchers have yet…

SPX options are among the world’s most actively traded index derivatives, with a record 970.6 million contracts changing hands in 2025, or an average of 3.9 million per day, Cboe said. S&P DJI, meanwhile, operates some of the world’s most widely followed financial benchmarks, led by the S&P 500, that underpin trillions of dollars worth of investment products.Tokenization puts traditional assets such as stocks, funds and credit on blockchain rails, where they can potentially trade around the clock, settle faster and move more easily between trading, lending and collateral systems.For derivatives, the potential appeal goes beyond simply extending trading hours.…

Sea turtles are known for extraordinary journeys across the ocean. They can navigate using cues from Earth’s magnetic field, the sun, and ocean currents, traveling long distances to find food before eventually returning toward the places where they were born to reproduce. That reputation made one population in the Galápagos especially surprising. Rather than roaming across vast stretches of ocean, these turtles appeared to spend much of their time close to home. “Here we show that ‘yellow-morph’ green sea turtles – one of two genetically distinct forms – occupy individual foraging areas which span one or more islands in the…

A case has been brought to the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) over the Kenyan government’s plan to build a 2,000-5,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bondo, near the eastern shore of Victoria Lake, Africa’s largest freshwater lake. The project has been the source of numerous protests from residents since it was announced. A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) report produced in 2023 by Kenya’s nuclear power program noted that nuclear power should be avoided in the Victoria Lake region, citing volcanic hazards that could impair nuclear safety. However, the nuclear plant project is proceeding, despite the SEA finding.…

The NGC has executed the final commercial agreements with Shell Trinidad and Tobago, an affiliate of the UK-headquartered Shell, in support of the Aphrodite project, following their finalization in early September 2026. The National Gas Company explains that its pipeline and gas-related infrastructure will play a critical role in bringing the project’s gas reserves to market, with first gas anticipated by the second quarter of 2027.Gerald I. Ramdeen, NGC’s Chairman, commented: “The execution of the agreements represents the results of advancing the new vision and business model of NGC directed to strengthening Trinidad and Tobago’s energy security and providing support…

The spectacle of young migrants swimming en masse from Moroccan waters to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta exposed the frustration felt by a generation. One-third of the population of Morocco is aged between 15 and 30, and more than one third of that cohort is unemployed. A dearth of opportunity at home incentivises young men in particular to take huge risks to reach the European Union. More than 100 people died in that attempted exodus, most of them by drowning.Worryingly, an adequate domestic response to a huge generational challenge is a long way off, if Morocco’s latest parliamentary election serves as any guide. In…

The Trump administration escalated its withering diplomatic assault on South Africa this month when it announced new visa bans on South Africans who it said were complicit in anti-white discrimination.South African officials said they were blindsided by the news.Earlier this year, Washington demanded that South Africa address what it said were racist polices that hurt white South Africans. Days before the new visa restrictions were announced this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa sent a six-page letter to President Trump laying out his government’s efforts to address Washington’s requests.Mr. Ramaphosa’s response was not enough.“President Ramaphosa failed to meaningfully respond” to three of…

The chief executive of the company that runs the Eiffel Tower will step down after a backlash over female staff being replaced by male colleagues during a visit by a Hindu religious group.Patrick Branco Ruivo, who has been director general of the Paris landmark since 2018, will leave his job at the end of the year, the company SETE said in a statement.It said an internal investigation found that “operational flaws and shortcomings” in organising the visit led to the “unacceptable” removal of female staff.They were replaced by male colleagues as a delegation of around 100 people linked to the…