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Abascal’s lawyer, Beatriz Duro, told reporters Monday the elderly tenant would now be able to return home under a new rental contract, calling it “a result of the social mobilization” — but Sánchez is still facing pressure to tackle the housing crisis and is set to approve a long-delayed housing bill at Tuesday’s meeting of Spain’s Council of Ministers. But crafting legislation that his minority government can get through parliament is proving tricky. The draft bill must be moderate enough to win the support of the Catalan separatist Junts party, which is conservative on landowners’ rights. But if the legislation…

The prime minister has put forward his bold proposal for a universal, NHS-style social care service. In doing so, Andy Burnham has put the spotlight back on one of the major challenges facing almost everywhere in the world: how to manage the demographic changes linked to an ageing society.It’s an important discussion. But what if government didn’t just look at how to care for people in their later years and instead spent real political capital on policies to help people live longer independently, and in good health? The data isn’t pretty on this. While the trend over the past half-century…

Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2030 — an audacious plan considering it expects to end 2026 with just 200 driverless trucks and an $80 million revenue run rate. CFO David Maday contends the seemingly outsized target isn’t as large or as out of reach as it might appear. “While 30,000 kind of feels like a lot — and it does in the autonomy space for sure — in terms of trucks relative to…

Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, following Claude Opus 5.5. Anthropic positions it as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5. It targets well-scoped everyday tasks, bug fixing, and polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets. Is it deployable? Yes, It is live on the Claude Platform as claude-sonnet-5-5, plus AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It is a closed-weights model, so self-hosting is not an option. What Changed Versus Sonnet 5 Anthropic reports 4 main upgrades over Sonnet 5: Speed: output generation is 30%+ faster, making it the fastest Sonnet to…

Apple on Monday released iOS and macOS updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, is an out-of-bounds write issue in the CoreGraphics component that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution when it processes a specially crafted file. Apple has not said how the malicious file is delivered, but because CoreGraphics handles 2D graphics and PDF rendering across the operating system, it could arrive via web pages, email attachments, or messaging apps, where automatic attachment and link previews could enable zero-click exploitation. “Apple is aware of a report…

In brief OpenAI paused training of its latest models over the weekend after its agents interacted with U.S. government websites, its second pause since the Hugging Face breach. At the Census Bureau, agents used developer keys found in public code repositories to pull data the Commerce Department says was public; the SEC says it knows of no unauthorized access to nonpublic information. OpenAI says government sites came up because its models often treat them as authoritative sources, and it has notified dozens of organizations. OpenAI has paused training of its newest AI models after its agents used access keys found…

Homes are being built today that could become uninsurable in the future due to the risk of flooding, the boss of insurance giant Aviva has said.Amanda Blanc said the risk of flooding is “absolutely increasing”, but based on current building patterns 115,000 new homes will be built in flood zones in the next decade.”That doesn’t seem to me to make sense. We need to think about where those homes are being built,” she told the BBC.About 6.3 million homes and businesses in England are at risk of flooding, according to the Environment Agency, and Aviva research found one in nine…

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In 2022, poachers had taken 14 white rhinos from private farms in Namibia in six weeks, so owners started removing their horns. One cow had a horn 86 centimeters (34 inches) long. Jaco Muller said he was nearly in tears when it was removed. “It is such a magnificent animal,” he said. “But for the animal’s sake, it is for the best.” Dehorning gave poachers less reason to kill a rhino. For Muller, the sight of a dehorned rhino was preferable…

Democratic Republic of the Congo secure their second straight win in Group E, with striker Yoanne Wissa scoring again.Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026Yoane Wissa scored the first goal and created the second as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) spoiled a Zimbabwe homecoming by winning a 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier 2-1 in Harare.The 30-year-old Newcastle United striker struck in the 30th minute, poking a loose ball into the net after goalkeeper Elvis Chipezeze allowed a cross to slip from his grasp in the qualifying match on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listDRC, who…

“The public now often looks to Europe for overseas alliances, particularly as the U.S. is increasingly perceived as at best unreliable and at worst adversarial,” said Seb Wride, head of polling at public research company Public First, which conducted the poll for POLITICO. “But it’s not straightforward for the government. ‘Getting closer with Europe’ is not the same as ‘reversing Brexit,’ and Burnham will have a challenging needle to thread to appease his pro-European wings without reopening wounds the public would prefer stayed closed.” The Brexit referendum a decade ago divided the country, cost two prime ministers their jobs and…