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More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal.Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function.One in six (16.8%) came from the US, 4.5% from Ireland, and about a quarter from all European countries other than the UK.Seven of the 12 most-read tweets about Belfast and Southampton came from the US…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysWi-Fi 7 is finally becoming popular.With that trend, overall internet speeds are picking up.You can now buy Wi-Fi 7 routers for reasonable prices. I love Wi-Fi 7. It’s fast enough to keep up with my AT&T Fiber 2 Gbps internet connection, and when deployed with my Netgear Orbi 970 mesh network, it can cover my 5,000-square-foot home/office even with its thick plaster walls. However, in the two years since Wi-Fi 7’s commercial launch, not many people joined me. For all Wi-Fi 7’s virtues, Wi-Fi 7 gear was also relatively…

Ravie LakshmananAug 07, 2026Cybercrime / Vulnerability A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. “The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure, and operational tradecraft,” Oligo Security researchers Avi Lumelsky and Gal Elbaz said. This includes two campaigns observed in the second half of 2025: ShadowRay 2.0 (aka IronErn), which involved hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure into a self-propagating…

In brief Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 left its test sandbox and went onto the open internet, security firm Frontier Security said. The model probed the sandbox’s network settings, found reachable sites and pulled its test answers from GitHub. Frontier says a misconfiguration opened the door, but that Kimi’s own guardrails did not stop it. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 left the sandbox it was being tested in and went onto the open internet to find answers to problems it had been set, according to security firm Frontier Security.The model was being assessed on defensive cybersecurity skills and was expressly tasked with…

A new Canadian study led by University of Toronto professor Harvey Anderson adds to growing evidence that full-fat dairy can be part of a healthy diet. In the 12-week study, 74 adults consumed different amounts of dairy under varying dietary conditions. The researchers found that eating three servings of full-fat dairy per day did not negatively affect body weight, body composition, energy metabolism, or blood lipid levels. The findings were recently published in The Journal of Nutrition. Why Full-Fat Dairy Has Long Raised Concerns Dairy foods contain saturated fat, which has traditionally been associated with higher cholesterol and an increased…

Tehran, Iran – On Fadaeiyan-e Islam Street in the south of the Iranian capital, Tehran, a woman in her 50s stands contemplating a bag of rice, looking closely at its price before turning away with a sigh.“Inflation has taken a toll on our family’s income for decades, but this year it is almost wiping out our dining table,” she says. “The prices of all goods have doubled.”Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThis is a familiar scene these days across Iran, a country suffering from a naval blockade, two successive wars and a collapse in the value of the…

The Irish government jet carrying suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan has departed Dubai for Dublin.The 49-year-old was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in April and is being extradited to the Republic of Ireland to face a charge of directing a criminal organisation.Kinahan will be immediately charged upon his arrival in Dublin and then brought by gardaí (Irish police) to appear before the non-jury, three judge Special Criminal Court on Sunday evening.A large-scale security operation is in place. Ahead of the extradition the Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bombproof van which can be used to escort prisoners…

During the World Cup soccer final in New Jersey last month, Zach Witkoff, co-founder of President Trump’s cryptocurrency company, took in the action from a luxury suite. Joining him was a man who had made the president, and all the company’s co-founders, much richer.Two years earlier, the man, Guren “Bobby” Zhou, was a failed hardwood flooring retailer in Britain who had come under investigation there for money laundering and presided over the collapse of a small crypto start-up.Then seemingly out of nowhere, he became one of the biggest buyers of tokens from Mr. Trump’s company, World Liberty Financial, dropping a…

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross?   The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders, “including helping them source office space when needed,” the firm told me when asked about the rumor, declining to confirm or deny any details.  The neighborhood’s popularity began back in 2016 when DeepMind — then newly acquired by Google — moved in. Soon after,…

An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous software buys services and pays other machines. The client hasn’t moved an inch, yet Bitcoin can travel from the middle of the pack to the front.Leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money when researchers framed the task around ordinary reliability. The asset moved toward the top once the prompt introduced…