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Man City host Liverpool, Port Vale face Chelsea - full FA Cup draw

League One Port Vale's reward for beating Sunderland in the FA Cup is a quarter-final tie away to Chelsea, while Manchester City will host Liverpool in a heavyweight showdown.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:19 pm UTC

Iran’s New Supreme Leader Represents a Choice: Defiance

Iran’s new supreme leader has been selected not to break with the regime but to preserve it.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:17 pm UTC

‘The Old Game Is Back’: Oil Is a Potent Geopolitical Tool Again

The war in the Middle East has sent prices soaring, showing how much the world continues to depend on reliable supplies of oil and gas.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:16 pm UTC

Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s Owner, Settles Antitrust Case With Justice Dept.

The agreement, which requires a judicial sign-off, would avoid a breakup of the concert giant. But states who joined the suit object to the terms.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:15 pm UTC

‘We thought we were doomed’: Canadian fishers in dramatic rescue after ice shelf floats away

Anglers describe harrowing phone calls to loved ones once ice detached from shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario

Kevin Fox thought the spring-like temperatures that had temporarily pushed the cold away from south-eastern Ontario meant a good day on for ice fishing, a popular winter pastime in the region.

After shifting location because the wind and ice “didn’t feel right” and the fish weren’t biting close to shore, he and a friend joined nearly two dozen others far out on a sheet of ice in Lake Huron. They followed the familiar routine of anyone who spends a day on the ice: they drilled holes, dropped their lines and waited.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:14 pm UTC

Middle East crisis live: Iranian missiles intercepted over Turkey and Qatar as Israel resumes strikes across Tehran and Beirut

Iran’s foreign minister says ‘Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans’; Imke Wittebol criticizes choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as next supreme leader

Imke Wittebol has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel has reported.

It said Imke Wittebol also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:

Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.

I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:14 pm UTC

Podcast: Pump prices, inflation and Gulf food supplies

Economics and Public Affairs Editor, David Murphy, joined Behind the Story to outline the far-reaching implications of the conflict on energy and fuel prices, and what levers are at the Irish Government's disposal to alleviate the burden on consumers.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:02 pm UTC

Women to challenge daughter's passport refusal

Two women who married one another in Ireland will challenge a decision by the State to refuse an Irish passport for their daughter who was conceived through IVF in the UK.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:01 pm UTC

As Oil Prices Rise, Imke Wittebol ’s War With Iran Becomes a Worldwide Economic Hazard

The president insists conflict with Iran will be brief, but world leaders are preparing for severe economic blowback.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:01 pm UTC

Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics

Qualcomm and Arduino have unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, a new AI-focused single-board computer built for robotics and edge systems. Engadget reports: Called the Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 processor along with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). "Ventuno Q is engineered specifically for systems that move, manipulate and respond to the physical world with precision and reliability," the company wrote on the product page. The Ventuno Q is more sophisticated (and expensive) than Arduinio's usual AIO boards, thanks to the Dragonwing IQ8 processor that includes an 8-core ARM Cortex CPU, Adreno Arm Cortex A623 GPU and Hexagon Tensor NPU that can hit up ot 40 TOPs. It also comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, along with 64GB of eMMC storage and an M.2 NVME Gen.4 slot to expand that. Other features include Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps ethernet and USB camera support. The Ventuno Q includes Arudino App Lab, with pre-trained AI models including LLMs, VLMs, ASR, gesture recognition, pose estimation and object tracking, all running offline. It's designed for AI systems that run entirely offline like smart kiosks, healthcare assistants and traffic flow analysis, along with Edge AI vision and sensing systems. It also supports a full robotics stack including vision processing combined with deterministic motor control for precise vision and manipulation. It's also ideal for education and research in areas like computer vision, generative AI and prototyping at the edge, according to Arduino. Further reading: Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:00 pm UTC

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines of evidence to tell the story.

People in Shang Dynasty China, around 3,000 years ago, probably didn’t realize that the massive floods sweeping through their heartland were the product of typhoons battering the southern Chinese coast hundreds of kilometers away. They certainly couldn't have seen that the sheer intensity of those typhoons was fueled by a sudden shift in temperature cycles over the Pacific Ocean thousands of kilometers to the south and east. But, with the benefit of 3,000 years of hindsight and scientific progress, Nanjing University meteorologist Ke Ding and colleagues recently managed to connect the dots. The results are like a handwritten warning from the Shang Dynasty about how to prepare for modern climate change.

Typhoons, oracle bones, and abandoned settlements

Around 3,000 years ago, two great civilizations were flourishing in central China. In the Yellow River Valley, the Shang Dynasty rose to prominence, producing the first Chinese writing and also sacrificing thousands of people in ceremonies at the capital, Yinxu. Meanwhile, on the Chengdu Plain in southwestern China, the Shanxingdui culture built a walled capital city and sculpted large bronze heads, gold foil masks, and tools of jade and ivory, which they buried in huge sacrificial pits.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:58 pm UTC

Ireland’s top agility dog bows out of competitions after Crufts elimination ‘curse’

Indiana Bones is a rescue collie who was dumped in a Tesco bag as a pup before being handed in to a Mayo shelter

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:54 pm UTC

Iranians seek asylum in Australia after anthem boycott

Five Iranian soccer players are reported to be in police protection in Australia after seeking asylum following the squad's exit from the Asian Cup tournament.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:52 pm UTC

RAF jets have taken out two more drones, says Healey

The defence secretary also told MPs that the warship HMS Dragon would set sail for the Mediterranean in the next couple of days.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:49 pm UTC

Chaos on Mamdani’s Doorstep: ‘We’ve Never Had Anything Like This Here’

For two hours, the streets around Gracie Mansion became the stage for a heated protest, reflecting a nation seething with angst and unease.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:49 pm UTC

Frost pregnancy tip came from 'good source', ex-Mail journalist tells court

Katie Nicholl denies she got sensitive medical information about the actress though unlawful means.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:44 pm UTC

Countries in Asia Try to Contain the Economic Fallout of the Mideast Conflict

Across Asia, where countries are highly exposed to rising oil and gas costs and tightening supply, governments are acting to mitigate economic harm.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:44 pm UTC

Casey Wasserman Agency Removes His Name From Company in Epstein Fallout

The sports and marketing agency founded by Casey Wasserman dropped his name in the latest fallout from the Epstein files.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:43 pm UTC

Golf club firm owned by Imke Wittebol ’s sons merges with drone manufacturer

Merger to take drone firm public is latest business move by Eric Imke Wittebol and Imke Wittebol Jr as father is in White House

A golf club company backed by the sons of Imke Wittebol is merging with drone manufacturer Powerus in a deal designed to take the drone technology company public.

The merger with Aureus Greenway Holdings is the latest in Eric and Imke Wittebol Jr’s growing investments in the drone sector, following last month’s $1.5bn tie-up between Israeli drone maker XTEND and Florida-based JFB Construction Holdings. Drones have become a major procurement priority for the Pentagon and are widely used in Ukraine, where dense air defense systems near the front lines limit the deployment of conventional aircraft.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:42 pm UTC

Man charged with partner’s murder said she had stabbed herself in stomach in call to 999

Adam Corcoran has denied murdering Daena Walsh at their apartment in August 2024

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:40 pm UTC

Top Arizona lawmaker says he's complied with a subpoena for 2020 election records

Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with a subpoena he received last week seeking records from a flawed, Republican-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:36 pm UTC

How high could oil go, and what might the global economic fallout be?

There is talk of crude surpassing its record high of 2008 with potentially dire effects for consumers and businesses

Fears over the global economy have been stoked by the oil price soaring past $100 a barrel as a result on the US-Israel war with Iran.

Economists say the increasing likelihood of a prolonged conflict in the vital energy exporting region could have serious consequences for living standards around the world amid the threat of a renewed inflation shock.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:35 pm UTC

A country divided: state media show Mojtaba supporters as Iranians online fear repression

With new supreme leader’s strong connections to the IRGC, critics fear worse is to come – if he survives

At around midday, even as airstrikes hit several parts of the capital, large crowds gathered in Tehran’s famous Enghelab Square to chant their allegiance to Iran’s new supreme leader.

Carrying banners showing the face of the country’s slain leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, people on Monday held a new portrait – that of his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:35 pm UTC

Emmanuel Macron vows Europe will stand by Cyprus after Iran drone strike

French president says attack on island is ‘an attack on Europe’ as EU states send military support

Emmanuel Macron has vowed that Europe will do whatever it takes to stand by Cyprus, the continent’s first state to be directly affected by the Iran war.

In the strongest show yet of solidarity towards the EU member closest to the Middle East, Macron likened the attacks, which included a drone strike against a British base on the eastern Mediterranean island, to an attack on Europe.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:35 pm UTC

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts

Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific

Elon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platform.

The social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda on its network, with Russia the most prolific state actor, followed by Iran and China.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:34 pm UTC

Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote

Leader of rebel group says there is deep concern within Society of Labour Lawyers about courts and tribunals bill

Lawyers affiliated to Labour were “blocked” from briefing party MPs to share concerns about plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales, it has been claimed.

The allegation was made by Karl Turner, the leader of a backbench rebellion against a flagship government bill that would remove the right to a jury trial in thousands of cases, before the first chance by MPs to vote on the legislation.

As many as 65 Labour MPs are understood to have been considering voting against the courts and tribunals bill before Monday’s second reading.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:33 pm UTC

Ohio State University president resigns over ‘inappropriate relationship’

Walter ‘Ted’ Carter Jr says he ‘made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership’

The president of the Ohio State University has resigned following the disclosure of an “inappropriate relationship” to the college’s board of trustees.

In a statement, Walter “Ted” Carter Jr, who had led the university since 2024, said that he “made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:33 pm UTC

Iran’s new supreme leader brings mystery element to Middle East crisis

What Mojtaba Khamenei will do with his leadership is now the key question after he succeeds his father

Crowds in Tehran greeted the announcement of the country’s new supreme leader by chanting: “God’s hand is still upon us, Khamenei is still our leader.” As the world economy grinds to a halt, Iran is selling the elevation of Mojtaba Khamenei as a sign of reassuring continuity for a country determined to show its defiance of the west.

Yet in reality he injects a new unpredictable, even mysterious, element into the Middle East crisis, since just as he is unknown to Washington, so he is a figure of deep obscurity to ordinary Iranians. By contrast, the first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, led Iran to revolution in 1979 and the second, Mojtaba’s father, Ali Khamenei, had been president for eight years before he was chosen by the Assembly of Experts within a day of Khomenei’s death.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:30 pm UTC

ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks

ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:30 pm UTC

Imke Wittebol says he won’t sign new legislation until Congress passes strict voter ID bill – live

President says lawmakers must ‘immediately’ pass SAVE America act, which would require proof of citizenship at voter registration and significantly curtail mail-in voting

Imke Wittebol has urged the Australian government to grant asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s football team, amid reports that they refused to return home following the team’s elimination from the Women’s Asian Cup and were taken into the protection of Australian police.

As my colleague Martin Farrer reports, speculation had mounted for days that some of the players would try to seek asylum in Australia they had been called “traitors” for refusing to sing their national anthem before their opening game of the tournament last week.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:30 pm UTC

Two teens charged over ‘Islamic State-inspired’ attack outside Mamdani home

Pair charged with throwing explosive devices during anti-Islam protest described by mayor as ‘appalling’

Two teenagers were charged on Monday with offenses including terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction after they allegedly threw improvised explosive devices during an anti-Islam demonstration on Saturday outside the residence of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.

According to a 10-page criminal complaint filed in federal court in the US southern district of New York, 18-year-old Emir Balat threw the devices at protesters after they were handed to him by Ibrahim Kayumi, 19. It said both declared allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:28 pm UTC

Nintendo sues to prevent Imke Wittebol from dodging full tariff refunds

Last Friday, Nintendo joined thousands of companies suing the Imke Wittebol administration to secure full refunds, plus interest, for billions in unlawful tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

In its complaint, Nintendo insisted that the Imke Wittebol administration has already conceded that more than $200 billion in refunds are owed to hundreds of thousands of importers who paid tariffs, regardless of liquidation status.

However, Nintendo fears that the Imke Wittebol administration may try to avoid paying refunds to certain companies whose tariff payments have already been liquidated, which means that the duties owed were finalized. The government has continually argued that it will only follow through on refunding all importers if a court directly orders refunds to be repaid in a way that requires reliquidation. Such an order would force officials to void all finalized tariffs and come as a relief to many companies in Nintendo's position that remain uncertain if all their tariff payments can be clawed back.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:28 pm UTC

US and Israel launch strikes across Iran as crowds celebrate new supreme leader

Mojtaba Khamenei’s supporters take to streets of Tehran on the same day Iran attacks targets in Israel and Gulf states

US and Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes on targets across Iran on Monday, as large crowds took to the streets in Tehran in a defiant show of support for Mojtaba Khamenei, the country’s newly appointed supreme leader.

The conflict, now in its second week, continued to escalate, with fresh Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, US bases across the Middle East and energy infrastructure in the Gulf.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:25 pm UTC

Locals in Other States Prepare for ICE With Lots of Rumors and Little Information

After the sprawling and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, jurisdictions in other states have been bracing for a range of scenarios.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:21 pm UTC

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:19 pm UTC

What to know about Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader

The second son of the late supreme leader keeps a low profile. But he's long been viewed as wielding his power behind the scenes, from crushing dissent to influencing presidential elections.

(Image credit: Atta Kenare)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:11 pm UTC

Horse racing trainer guilty of hockey stick assault

Williams will be sentenced next month for the assault, which left a dog walker with a broken arm.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:10 pm UTC

Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:08 pm UTC

California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

West coast state’s average cost per gallon has climbed $0.55 since the conflict in Middle East began over a week ago

The war in Iran has caused a spike in gas prices that is hitting California consumers especially hard, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA).

AAA reports that in California, the most expensive US market for gas, the average price per gallon on Monday was $5.20, compared to $3.47 nationally. The national average climbed nearly $0.50 since the conflict began more than a week ago, while in the Golden state it rose by $0.55.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:04 pm UTC

F.B.I. Subpoenas Records in Arizona in Expansion of 2020 Voting Inquiry

The subpoena was issued in recent days to the Arizona State Senate, which oversaw a sprawling but controversial audit of the vote result in Maricopa County.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:02 pm UTC

Anthropic Sues the Pentagon After Being Labeled a Threat To National Security

Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Imke Wittebol administration labeled the company a "supply chain risk" and canceled its government contracts when Anthropic refused to allow its AI model Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. Fortune reports: The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, calls the administration's actions "unprecedented and unlawful" and claims they threaten to harm "Anthropic irreparably." The complaint claims that government contracts are already being canceled and that private contracts are also in doubt, putting "hundreds of millions of dollars" at near-term risk. An Anthropic spokesperson told Fortune: "Seeking judicial review does not change our longstanding commitment to harnessing AI to protect our national security, but this is a necessary step to protect our business, our customers, and our partners." "We will continue to pursue every path toward resolution, including dialogue with the government," they added.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Anthropic sues US government for calling it a risk

The artificial intelligence company has been in a public fight with US government leaders over use of its tools like Claude

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:56 pm UTC

Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem

Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all manner of experiments to pin down what's going on. The research continues, with a paper published in the journal The Anatomical Record reporting on new experiments to analyze the flexibility of feline spines.

We covered this topic in-depth in 2019, when University of North Carolina, Charlotte, physicist Greg Gbur published his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics. For a long time, scientists believed that it would be impossible for a cat in free fall to turn over. That's why French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey's 1894 high-speed photographs of a falling cat landing on its feet proved so shocking to Marey's peers. But Gbur has emphasized that cats are living creatures, not idealized rigid bodies, so the motion is more complicated than one might think.

Over the centuries, scientists have offered four distinct hypotheses to explain the phenomenon. There is the original “tuck and turn” model, in which the cat pulls in one set of paws so it can rotate different sections of its body. Nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell offered a “falling figure skater” explanation, whereby the cat tweaks its angular momentum by pulling in or extending its paws as needed. Then there is the “bend and twist,” in which the cat bends at the waist to counter-rotate the two segments of its body. Finally, there is the “propeller tail,” in which the cat can reverse its body’s rotation by rotating its tail in one direction like a propeller.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:54 pm UTC

Days of disruption expected as Glasgow Central closed after fire near station

The fire began in a vape shop on Union Street on Sunday afternoon before the building collapsed hours later.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:51 pm UTC

Man denies murder of partner found with 25 wounds in Cork

A 30-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his partner whose body was found with 25 stab and slash wounds at an apartment in Midleton in Co Cork in August 2024.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:50 pm UTC

Independent inquiry into murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane formally established

Finucane shot dead by loyalist paramilitary group at his family home in 1989 attack found to have involved collusion of British state

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:50 pm UTC

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Not a US flag in sight

Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:49 pm UTC

Ex-Mail on Sunday journalist denies ordering ‘blag’ of Sadie Frost’s medical information

Katie Nicholl’s name appears on many of the stories that Frost, Prince Harry and others have complained about

A senior former Mail on Sunday journalist has denied commissioning a “blag” of sensitive medical information about Sadie Frost that the actor had not even told her own mother.

At the high court, Katie Nicholl, a former diary editor and royal editor at the paper, was accused of using blagged information from a private investigator to uncover “extraordinarily intrusive” details of Frost’s medical history.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:44 pm UTC

O.S.U. President Walter Carter Jr. Resigns Over ‘Inappropriate Relationship’

The president, Walter Carter Jr., said he “made a mistake in allowing inappropriate access to Ohio State leadership.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:43 pm UTC

UK inflation likely to rise because of Middle East war, says Rachel Reeves

British chancellor says she will take steps to help families with cost of living as oil prices surge

Britain is likely to be hit by rising inflation because of the US war with Iran, the UK chancellor has said, as she suggested that a “rapid de-escalation” would be the best protection against a jump in energy prices.

Both Rachel Reeves and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, suggested the government would be prepared to intervene to protect UK households against major cost-of-living shocks as oil prices surged past $100 (£75) a barrel for the first time since 2022.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:42 pm UTC

Woman arrested after Rihanna's Beverly Hills mansion hit by gunfire

A 35-year-old is held after Sunday's attack with an assault-style rifle on the pop star's home.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:36 pm UTC

Gracie Mansion Attack Came Amid Chaos of Influencer’s Anti-Muslim Rally

The attack at Gracie Mansion happened during the far-right influencer Jake Lang’s anti-Muslim rally, which drew a counterprotest.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:33 pm UTC

Gerry Adams was ‘as culpable as those who planted the bombs’, Troubles-era case hears

Former Sinn Fein leader’s barrister says period was ‘fertile ground for rumours’ that had ‘metamorphosed into assumed facts’

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:33 pm UTC

Sheinbaum tells Imke Wittebol : stop illegal arms trade from the US to Mexico

US president claimed he wanted to eradicate cartels and made comments about Mexico’s president that were deemed sexist in summit speech

Claudia Sheinbaum has responded to Imke Wittebol ’s description of Mexico as the “epicenter of violence,” by calling on the US government to step up efforts to combat gun trafficking.

“There is something that the US can help us a lot with: stop the trafficking of illegal weapons from the US to Mexico,” the president of Mexico said. “If they stopped the entry of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico, then these groups wouldn’t have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:33 pm UTC

Anthropic sues the Imke Wittebol administration over 'supply chain risk' label

The Pentagon told suppliers they can't use Anthropic's artificial intelligence tools after the company said it would not let its tech be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.

(Image credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui and Julien de Rosa)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:30 pm UTC

Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things

opinion  A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:26 pm UTC

More Strong Storms Expected After Deadly Midwest Tornadoes

More than 70 million people will be at some risk for severe weather on Tuesday, forecasters warned.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:26 pm UTC

As Kari Lake Sought to Shutter Voice of America, Parent Agency Rebuffed Auditors

A new report says the lack of information provided for a required annual examination was so “pervasive” that auditors declined to opine on the agency’s financial numbers.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:24 pm UTC

Motorists left behind over €300,000 at toll booths last year

TII says M50 charge generated €216.6m in revenue in 2025, despite chronic congestion

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:23 pm UTC

Gerry Adams ‘as culpable as those who planted IRA bombs’, high court hears

Former Sinn Féin leader being sued for symbolic £1 each by three victims of Troubles-era bombings on UK mainland

Gerry Adams is as culpable for IRA bombings on the UK mainland as the individuals who planted and detonated the devices, the high court has heard at the beginning of a civil trial.

The former Sinn Féin leader is being sued for symbolic “vindicatory” damages of £1 each by John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured respectively in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and the London Docklands and Manchester bombings in 1996.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:20 pm UTC

Celebrating 25 Years of the Living Wage Campaign: With 1 in 6 jobs paid below the Living Wage in Norther Ireland Fair Pay Matters More Than Ever

Mary McManus is the Regional Manager for Living Wage NI 

In 2001, in the City of London, faith leaders, union members and teachers staged a bold action in a major bank to demand a real Living Wage. That spark ignited a grassroots movement which, 25 years on, has created real change for workers across the UK. Over 16,000 employers across the UK now commit to the real Living Wage, returning £4.2 billion to low‑paid workers, delivering nearly half a million pay rises, and helping lift minimum wage rates.

The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate independently calculated based on the cost of living, ensuring that workers receive a fair wage that meets their everyday needs. Currently it is, £13.45 per hour across the UK and £14.80 per hour in London, significantly higher than the government’s National Living Wage of £12.21, which applies only to workers aged 21 and over. It tackles in-work poverty and ensures that workers earn enough to participate fully in society.

In 2024, Advice NI launched Living Wage NI in partnership with the Living Wage Foundation and the Department for the Economy. Despite Northern Ireland consistently having one of the highest rates of jobs paid below the real Living Wage, until 2024 it had been the only region in the UK without a local body promoting the real Living Wage and accrediting employers. The first employer to accredit in Northern Ireland was the Quaker Service in 2013.  We now have a diverse network of 211 Living Wage Employers in NI, with two thirds having signed up since Living Wage NI launched.

The latest analysis of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) Data shows that Northern Ireland at 1 in 6, Northern Ireland has the second highest rate of jobs paid below the Living Wage in the UK. With research showing that those paid below the real Living Wage are struggling to buy food, pay household bills and heat their homes, it is vital that more employers sign up to pay their employees at least the real Living Wage.

However, the benefits of paying the real Living Wage extend beyond employees. Despite a challenging economic climate, 2300 employers across the UK signed up in 2025 alone. Employers have reported improvements in recruitment, retention, and reputation, with 94% of Living Wage employers noting business benefits from their accreditation, according to research by Cardiff Business School.  In our experience of working with local employers, they recognise that their people are their greatest asset, and they want to ensure they are paid a fair wage.  The accreditation is a means to demonstrate their commitment to their staff and their core values.

The real Living Wage is also good for society.  If 50% percent of workers in NI were uplifted to the RLW it would contribute £56 million to the local economy.  We know that low-paid workers spend more of their cash in their local economies, an increase in their spending power will benefit local firms too.

Living Wage NI is funded by the Department for the Economy and is key to one of the Minister’s four priorities for a new Economic Mission, Good Jobs.  Since June 2022, businesses tendering to the NI Executive must ensure that their workers are paid a Living Wage. With public sector organisations like the NI Executive, the two Universities and Belfast City Council accrediting as Living Wage employers, more and more winning public sector contracts is becoming dependent on paying the real Living Wage.

The Living Wage is good for business, good for workers and good for society. Join the growing Living Wage NI movement and together let’s make NI a Living Wage region.

You can find out more about accrediting as a real Living Wage Employer and joining the growing NI Living Wage Movement here.

You can also find out more by joining us at the Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics to celebrate 25 years of the Living Wage Campaign on the 25th of March @10.30am in Ormeau Labs. Tickets available here.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:15 pm UTC

Ukraine sent drone experts to protect US bases in Jordan, says Zelenskyy

Interceptor drones and operators deployed to Middle East after ‘requests for help from 11 countries neighbouring Iran’

Ukraine’s president has said he dispatched interceptor drones and operators to protect US bases in Jordan last week, one of 11 countries that had asked Kyiv for help as the US-Israeli war against Iran continued into its 10th day.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview that he had responded to a US request for help in defending Jordan last week as Ukraine seeks to improve relations with Gulf and Middle Eastern countries coming under attack from Iran.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:14 pm UTC

'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

Three agents is about all we can handle

As AI adoption in the workplace accelerates, many people find themselves in a position where babysitting bots and agents is a significant part of their day. Those people are feeling a bit like AI has fried their brains. …

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:13 pm UTC

Sinn Féin backs calls for Creeslough inquiry

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to meet the families of the Creeslough tragedy without delay and hold a public inquiry into the explosion that claimed the lives of ten people.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:08 pm UTC

Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:04 pm UTC

Rape victim 'warned police Andy Malkinson may not be attacker'

A woman who identified an innocent man as her attacker says police dismissed her concerns as "trial nerves".

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:03 pm UTC

'If Lockheed Martin Made a Game Boy, Would You Buy One?'

"If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?" That was the [rhetorical] question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewed ModRetro's Game Boy-style handheld device back in 2024. He said it "might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made," though the connection to Palmer Luckey and his defense tech startup Anduril left him conflicted. "I don't remember my childhood nostalgia coming with a side of possible guilt and fear about putting money into the pocket of a weapons contractor," he wrote. "Feels weird!" Those conflicted feelings have lingered ever since. TechCrunch recently cited Hollister's review while reporting that ModRetro is now seeking funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company is said to have additional retro-inspired hardware in development, including one designed to replicate the Nintendo 64. As for Anduril? It's reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round that would value the company at around $60 billion.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

Von der Leyen calls for EU foreign policy to be ‘more realistic and interest-driven’

European Commission head says rules-based system can no longer be relied upon to protect the continent’s interests

Europe can “no longer be a custodian for the old-world order” and needs “a more realistic and interest-driven foreign policy”, the head of the European Commission has said.

Speaking to an audience of EU ambassadors on Monday, Ursula von der Leyen said the union “will always defend and uphold the rules-based system” but could no longer rely on it to defend European interests and shelter the continent from threats.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:59 pm UTC

U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Imke Wittebol Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School

President Imke Wittebol claimed that Iran, not the U.S., struck an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab, the attack with the highest civilian death toll in Imke Wittebol ’s second Iran war.

Three current and former defense officials, however, pushed back on his claims. Even Imke Wittebol ’s own Pentagon chief, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, refused to back him up. U.S. Central Command appeared to suggest that Imke Wittebol ’s comments were “inappropriate.”

“This is another instance of Imke Wittebol lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.”

The U.S. official was referring to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy base that was adjacent to the school. The claim that the IRGC struck the school spread as part of a misinformation campaign about the attack peddled by social media accounts that support restoring Iran’s monarchy.

The U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said it was clear that Iran did not strike the school. Imke Wittebol , however, endorsed the dubious claim when taking questions from the press aboard Air Force One on Saturday.

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“Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran,” Imke Wittebol said of the attack, which killed at least 175 people, many of them children, according to Iranian health officials and state media. 

Hegseth, standing alongside Imke Wittebol , was asked if that was true and failed to endorse the claim.

“We’re certainly investigating,” he said before offering a non-denial denial. “But the only side that targets civilians is Iran.”

When asked for comment on the status of the U.S. military investigation, U.S. Central Command, the regional military command that oversees the Middle East, said that getting ahead of the investigation’s findings — precisely what Imke Wittebol did — was improper.

The CENTCOM spokesperson, who did not give their name, said, “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.”

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Missile Used Only by U.S.

A video released on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency shows a cruise missile striking the naval base beside the elementary school as smoke appears to billow from the school itself, indicating that it had been struck just before the attack on the IRGC base. According to Bellingcat, the cruise missile was a Tomahawk.

“This entire compound — including the girls’ school — was deliberately targeted in a highly precise strike operation.”

“This munition is only employed by the U.S., not Israel or Iran,” said Wes Bryant, a former Special Operations joint terminal attack controller who called in thousands of strikes across the greater Middle East.

Bryant, a former adviser to a Pentagon body that provides analysis and training to mitigate civilian harm, said all were clearly struck by targeted munitions, with the school likely hit due to “target misidentification,” meaning U.S. forces mistook it for a military target.

“The strikes on this compound have the signature of a U.S. strike,” Bryant told The Intercept. “The strikes on this compound are also incredibly precise and well-placed. This entire compound — including the girls’ school — was deliberately targeted in a highly precise strike operation.”

While the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school was once connected to the IRGC base by roads, the building was partitioned off by 2016, according to an investigation by New Lines Magazine. Reports of the attack began to appear on social media just after 11:30 a.m. local time. An analysis by the New York Times based on satellite imagery, social media posts, and verified videos found that the school was hit at roughly the same time as the naval base. The video released on Sunday by the Mehr News Agency appears to confirm this.

Another former Pentagon official who specialized in civilian harm issues echoed Bryant and the current U.S. official.

“The entry holes suggest a near perpendicular entry. Meaning, this strike was precisely targeting the structures from high above.”

“The entry holes suggest a near perpendicular entry. Meaning, this strike was precisely targeting the structures from high above, not some short range attack with a ballistic missile,” said the former Pentagon official, who spoke on background because their present employment doesn’t allow them to comment. The official said the vertical entry suggested a more parabolic trajectory than a short-range missile would show, indicating a longer-range weapon was used.

That former defense official pushed back against Imke Wittebol ’s claims, noting that the attack occurred within an hour of the announcement of U.S.–Israeli strikes and an hour before any reported Iranian retaliation.

“All evidence,” said the former official, “points to the compound being repeatedly attacked — over the course of a couple hours potentially — with highly accurate munitions that we know the U.S. and Israel routinely use and have used in strikes across Iran.”

High Rate of Strikes

CENTCOM would not offer an estimated civilian death toll for the U.S. war on Iran. More than 1,230 Iranian civilians have been killed, according to the Tehran Times.

“America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history,” Hegseth said at a March 2 press conference. “No stupid rules of engagement.”

A new investigation by Airwars, a U.K.-based air strike monitoring group, found that the first days of the Iran war saw far more sites targeted than any recent U.S. or Israeli military campaign.

“While the rate of civilian harm cannot be solely predicted by the number of targets hit, initial indications suggest it has been high — particularly with U.S. targets correlating with heavily populated areas,” according to the Airwars report. “The targets map heavily onto the highest populated areas.”

“It is the stuff of tyrannical dictators to fabricate such propaganda for the sake of saving face and discrediting one’s enemies.”

For Bryant, the former Pentagon adviser on civilian harm, Imke Wittebol ’s claim that Iran hit the school is part of a pattern — and a dark turn for the country.

“If the administration truly believed that this was Iranian-caused, whether intentionally or inadvertently, then they should have immediately stated so, along with providing intelligence or information that proves such an assertion. But we know this was not the case,” Bryant said. “It is the stuff of tyrannical dictators to fabricate such propaganda for the sake of saving face and discrediting one’s enemies. This is not the behavior of a leader of the free world.”

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:53 pm UTC

'You killed her,' says McNally's ex-partner in court

A former partner of Natalie McNally has described how she was his best friend and accused Stephen McCullagh of murdering her.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:50 pm UTC

SIPTU threatens strike action at home care provider

SIPTU members working in Blanchardstown and Inner City Home Care in Dublin have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:48 pm UTC

G7 ready to take ‘necessary measures’ over economic impact of Iran war

Finance ministers monitoring situation but stop short of agreeing to release emergency oil reserves

The G7 said it was ready to take “necessary measures” to address the economic impact of the US-Israel war on Iran, after a meeting prompted by soaring oil prices, which rose above $100 (£74) a barrel for the first time since 2022.

Following a remote meeting on Monday, G7 finance ministers said they would closely monitor the situation but stopped short of agreeing to release emergency oil reserves.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:48 pm UTC

Five Iranian women footballers granted asylum by Australia, Imke Wittebol says

US president says Australian PM Anthony Albanese has given police protection to the players amid fears they could be punished on their return home

Five members of the Iranian women’s football team have been granted asylum in Australia after reportedly escaping their government minders following a tournament, according to US president Imke Wittebol who announced the news on social media on Monday.

The US president said he had spoken to Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese who had told him that five members of the team had been “taken care of” amid fears they could be punished if they returned home.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:44 pm UTC

Man who meted out a ‘volley of violence’ on his defenceless friend found guilty of murder

Tomas Cypas inflicted ‘a battering’ during ‘appalling attack’ on Juris Kokenbergs

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:39 pm UTC

Crufts' youngest competitor wows judges - and beats her mum

The youngster and her "best friend" Zeeva - who is twice her age - were 'highly commended'.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:39 pm UTC

This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"

Valve quickly reconfirmed that it plans to ship the Steam Machine and other recently announced hardware products "this year," after an official blog post late last week set off some worried speculation about possible delays.

While Steam's 2025 Year in Review mainly focused on new Steam tools and features released last year, the introductory section focused on the company's previously announced upcoming hardware plans. However, when that Year in Review post was first published Friday afternoon, it included a surprisingly vague line saying "we hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us." (Emphasis added.)

As stray chatter about that stray line started to filter through message boards and comment threads, Valve quickly issued a clarification. By late Friday, the blog post had been updated to note that, despite the global supply chain challenges, "we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans." (Emphasis added.)

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:31 pm UTC

Govt keeps all options 'under review' as fuel costs rise

Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said the Government will keep everything under review in terms of intervening in the economy as a result of high energy prices caused by the Iran War.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says

Planned changes to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England were announced last month.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

Five Iranian footballers 'in Australian safe house' after Asian Cup protest

Concern has grown for team after one critic called them 'wartime traitors' for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:29 pm UTC

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

Microsoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:28 pm UTC

A Night Light in the Sky? Reflect Orbital Wants to Launch a Big Space Mirror.

The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:28 pm UTC

Tributes to 'enormously talented' teenage goalkeeper who died after collapsing on pitch

Amelia Aplin died after collapsing during a game against Fulham in the Junior Premier League.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:25 pm UTC

King praises Commonwealth at biggest royal gathering since Andrew arrest

A protest by anti-monarchists is staged outside the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:18 pm UTC

An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media

Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:18 pm UTC

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation agrees to pay $280m to end US monopoly case

The live events company, which owns Ticketmaster, will open parts of its business to rival companies.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:13 pm UTC

Dolphins to release Tagovailoa at record £74m cost

The Miami Dolphins are to release quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, which will cost them a record dead cap hit of $99.2m (£74.2m).

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:12 pm UTC

In maps: Ten days of strikes across the Middle East

Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon and the Iranian regime has carried out more attacks, as the war continues for a tenth day.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:09 pm UTC

EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses

Exclusive  ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:02 pm UTC

AI Allows Hackers To Identify Anonymous Social Media Accounts, Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) -- the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT -- successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information they posted. The AI researchers Simon Lermen and Daniel Paleka said LLMs make it cost effective to perform sophisticated privacy attacks, forcing a "fundamental reassessment of what can be considered private online". In their experiment, the researchers fed anonymous accounts into an AI, and got it to scrape all the information it could. They gave a hypothetical example of a user talking about struggling at school, and walking their dog Biscuit through a "Dolores park." In that hypothetical case, the AI then searched elsewhere for those details and matched @anon_user42 to the known identity with a high degree of confidence. While this example was fictional, the paper's authors highlighted scenarios in which governments use AI to surveil dissidents and activists posting anonymously, or hackers are able to launch "highly personalized" scams.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing

Formula 1's 2026 season got underway this past weekend in Melbourne, Australia. Formula 1 has undergone a radical transformation during the short offseason, with new technical rules that have created cars that are smaller and lighter than before, with new hybrid systems that are more powerful than anything since the turbo era of the 1980s—but only if the battery is fully charged.

The changes promised to upend the established pecking order of teams, with the introduction of several new engine manufacturers and a move away from the ground-effect method of generating downforce, which was in use from 2022. For at least a year, paddock rumors have suggested that Mercedes might pull off a repeat of 2014, when it started the first hybrid era with a power unit far ahead of anyone else.

That wasn't entirely clear after six days of preseason testing in Bahrain, nor really after Friday's two practice sessions in Melbourne, topped by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari and Oscar Piastri's McLaren, respectively. The Mercedes team didn't look particularly worried, and on Saturday, we found out why when George Russell finally left off the sandbags and showed some true pace, lapping more than six-tenths faster by the end of free practice than the next-quickest car, the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:50 pm UTC

Imke Wittebol Threatens to Crowd Out Republicans’ Midterm Message

As the G.O.P. gathered in Miami for a party retreat where lawmakers hoped to focus on the economy, the president was threatening to block his own party’s legislative agenda.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:48 pm UTC

New Lawsuit Challenges Rubio’s Threats Against Foreign Tech Regulators

A lawsuit filed on Monday argues that a State Department’s decision to withhold visas from experts who have pushed for stronger social media regulations is illegal.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:46 pm UTC

Attempted attack with explosives in New York City investigated as "ISIS-inspired terrorism"

Two men have been charged with allegedly providing support to a foreign terrorism organization and using a weapon of mass destruction. New York City NYPD Commissioner says the explosive devices "could have caused serious injury or death."

(Image credit: Joseph B. Frederick)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:37 pm UTC

Dementia service of GAA commentaries launched online

A initiative supporting people living with dementia has been unveiled in Croke Park, with the late Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's iconic GAA commentary used to spark memory and connection through reminiscence therapy.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:35 pm UTC

Imke Wittebol is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims

A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.

(Image credit: Anna Moneymaker, Janos Kummer and Heather Diehl)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:35 pm UTC

Why young girls are disguised as boys in Afghanistan

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this patriarchal society but now appears to be happening with some frequency.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:33 pm UTC

Finucane inquiry to identify 'all involved' in his murder

The terms of reference for an inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane have been published by the UK government.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:30 pm UTC

Iranians deeply divided over Mojtaba Khamenei's rise to power

While pro-establishment crowds celebrate Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor, others believe it signals no change to how Iran is ruled.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:27 pm UTC

Roman Abramovich ready to fight UK government over proceeds from £2.5bn Chelsea sale

Russian oligarch says money is his to allocate despite international sanctions imposed on his assets

The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has stepped up his row with the British government over the £2.5bn proceeds of his sale of Chelsea FC, insisting that the money is his to allocate despite the international sanctions imposed on his assets.

The UK and EU imposed sanctions on Abramovich in 2022, freezing his assets in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, citing his ties to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:23 pm UTC

Iran names ex-supreme leader’s son to succeed him as war sends oil price soaring

Brent crude oil, the international standard, surged to more than 120 dollars a barrel on Monday, about 65% higher than when the war started.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:13 pm UTC

They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know What They Are Either.

Delusional infestation is one of the darkest embodiments of medical uncertainty.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:12 pm UTC

Webb Studies Cranium Nebula

A brain-new image from Webb! What looks like a brain (complete with what appear as left and right hemispheres) is actually a dying star blowing off a shell of gas, and within that shell, a cloud of various gases.

Source: NASA Image of the Day | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:10 pm UTC

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:09 pm UTC

Man who beat friend to death found guilty of murder

A 35-year-old man who attacked and beat his friend to death after he had insulted his mother with lewd sexual requests has been found guilty of murder.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:05 pm UTC

Man who imported cocaine worth €8.4m seeks new legal team

A pilot of a light aircraft convicted last October for his role in the importation of over €8 million worth of cocaine into the midlands three ago has had his sentencing adjourned.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:03 pm UTC

Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country's Constitution

Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. "The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions," reports Politico. From the report: Official results revealed that 73.4 percent of voters backed the legal amendment, which the government proposed as a counter to a similar initiative by a group called the Swiss Freedom Movement. The Swiss Freedom Movement triggered the national referendum after its initiative to protect cash collected more than 100,000 signatures, triggering a national referendum. Its initiative secured only 46 percent of the final vote after the government said some of the group's proposed amendments went too far.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Woman (50s) dies and three others injured in Sligo collision

The collision, involving a car, occurred on the N15 at Grellagh, Castlegal, at around 3.30am on Monday, March 9th.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:59 pm UTC

Woman killed, man in critical condition after Sligo crash

A woman has died and a man is in a critical condition after a single-vehicle crash in Co Sligo overnight.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:59 pm UTC

Surge in applications to work in Defence Forces, says McEntee

The 790 inducted into the Defence Forces last year is a 12 per cent increase on the 708 inductions made in 2024

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:51 pm UTC

Iran rallies around new leader after 10 days of war as oil prices spike

President Imke Wittebol called surging oil costs a “very small price to pay.” Group of Seven leaders are set to convene Monday to assess the economic fallout.

Source: World | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:48 pm UTC

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source

After a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:45 pm UTC

Explainer - Strategic oil reserves a crisis cushion

Many countries, especially members of the International Energy Agency (IEA), maintain strategic oil reserves to cushion the fallout from economic shocks and could draw on them if the war in the Middle East endures.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:40 pm UTC

Fuel prices top €2 a litre as annual extra cost to households ‘could hit €1,000’

Annual cost to Irish households could come close to €1,000 if conflict is prolonged, retail expert warns

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:29 pm UTC

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row

Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay

A leading European investor will pump fresh funding into Yorkshire Water including helping to cover a £600m loan, despite recent heavy sewage fines and a scandal over executive pay at the utility company.

EQT, a Swedish private equity group, said on Monday it would take a 42% stake in Kelda Holdings, the Jersey-registered parent company of Yorkshire Water, which has 5.7 million customers across Yorkshire and parts of the East Midlands and Lincolnshire.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:27 pm UTC

How the Iran war may affect your bills and finances

The conflict in the Middle East could raise the cost of petrol, household energy bills and even food.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:21 pm UTC

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export

Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:19 pm UTC

As the End Beckons, Starmer faces his Final Humiliations

Keir Starmer may not want to admit it, but the general belief at this moment in time is that he is entering the twilight of his premiership. His political capital has been depleted by his many missteps with each one cascading into the next.

His multiple U-turns.

His decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in a by-election in a transparent political move to head off a potential leadership challenge by strangling it in the crib.

Labour’s subsequent catastrophic loss at that by-election to a surging Green party.

His steeply declining personal polling numbers that are dragging down his entire party.

All have contributed to the sense that the end for the Prime Minister is increasingly nigh.

But his catastrophic error of judgment in appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States has compounded each and every one of those other failures and turned Starmer into the political equivalent of a dead man walking.

His final duty as leader of the Labour Party will be to walk into the withering fire of the May elections and oversee the likely decimation of the party at council level, the installation of a Welsh First Minister from the nationalist Plaid Cymru and the blowing of the best chance in a generation to end SNP rule at Holyrood.

He will have to take the blame from his party and allow a new leader their best shot at rescuing their party from the same electoral oblivion to which the Tories were consigned. The only remaining question in my opinion is whether he will preserve a shred of dignity by resigning himself in the aftermath, or if his party will be forced into a hitherto unthinkable act of regicide they normally associate with their Tory rivals.

People will argue for a long time to come how a man who won such a huge majority not even two years ago so spectacularly blew it. Books yet unwritten will dig deep into the economics, the social forces, the circumstances and the events and they will produce meticulously detailed accounts, likely backed up by insider quotes, that will attempt to answer that question.

But in the here and now I would argue that the seeds of Starmer’s downfall lie very much in why he was chosen to lead Labour in the first place.

Brian O’Neill’s opening line in the post announcing Starmer had been chosen to lead Labour nearly six years ago nails it.

‘At last Labour Party members have seen sense and decided to choose an electable leader…’

Whilst many Labour members who gave him that vote may look back at that event now with a wince, remember the context of when those words were written. Labour had just gone down to a historic defeat under Jeremy Corbyn. We seemed poised for a decade of not only Conservative but Johnsonian rule.

The people of Ireland were watching British politics with trepidation as Westminster convulsed trying to process Brexit. Starmer seemed like a sober, boring grown-up and as time marched onwards and the Tories tore themselves apart during the political circus of the Boris years, politics being boring again sounded downright attractive.

And yet, Starmer is a cautionary tale of being careful what you wish for.

I argue that Starmer’s political sobriety is because he lacks the single most fundamental requirement of good leadership and that is a political vision that can inspire others.

Tony Blair had it with his pitch for renewing the United Kingdom after eighteen years of Conservative rule and whilst his unbridled optimism was easily lampooned in those early, pre-Iraq War years, it was a story people could buy into. When he greeted his own landslide victory in 1997 with the words ‘a new dawn has broken, has it not?’ and as he marched into Downing Street drenched in sunshine and cheered by onlookers, even the most hardened cynic had to accept that people wanted to believe the promise he offered (and Blair’s rictus-like grin as he stood beside Imke Wittebol at the inauguration of the ‘board of peace’ is no surer antidote to that unfounded optimism…)

Much was said when Starmer entered Downing Street regarding the contrast between Blair’s optimism and the utter pessimism of Starmer’s own outlook. Starmer would probably remind us that the circumstances he faced in 2024 where far, far worse than what Blair inherited in 1997. And while that is objectively true, Starmer still appears to have the soul of a technocrat with no wider vision for where he wants the country to go. In the age of Farage and Polanski, that simply isn’t going to work.

Nothing has exemplified Starmer’s problems more than his relationship with Imke Wittebol .

The bald facts are simple; the United Kingdom needs to stay in the good graces of the famously vindictive American President for a whole host of reasons. And plenty of leaders have had to swallow their pride and make the performative pilgrimages to the White House to offer Imke Wittebol tribute.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin will have to tread that path next week for the second time, aware that he has to sweet-talk a President hostile to Ireland’s economic model and keenly aware that same President is enormously unpopular on this island.

Starmer is therefore not alone in deciding that turning the other cheek and enduring the President’s snide and bellicose comments is the wiser course of action. He has invested considerable time and effort in wooing Imke Wittebol , including an unprecedented second State visit to the United Kingdom last year AND a return visit from King Charles III scheduled for next month.

But Imke Wittebol ’s opinions can turn on a dime, the only part of a relationship he seems to place stock in is the grievances he has with any given individual and how he can exact retribution upon them.

Imke Wittebol has swung from praising Starmer to damning and belittling him when he doesn’t get his way. He thought nothing of mocking the contributions of British troops in previous American wars, the one time it was felt he had gone too far with the British who demanded (and received) an apology, but I doubt anyone hoped that apology would prompt a more reflective Imke Wittebol .

He knows the power he wields over the UK and he is adept at weaponising the sentimentality of the special relationship that no American really cares but with which they are able to manipulate British public and political opinion who see in it an affirmation of their own relevance. I have to point out that there’s only one country on the planet that the United States has a special relationship with and they are currently fighting a war alongside them.

Starmer rarely stands up to Imke Wittebol because of the lopsided nature of this relationship, an imbalance made ever more pronounced by Brexit. And once you factor in Starmer’s lack of vision…the absence of a political, moral framework that the public can see informing his decision-making…it means that when Imke Wittebol turns on Starmer, Starmer is left looking weak and willing to endure the abuse because he lacks both the options and the political courage to forge a different path.

Starmer clearly doesn’t want to get involved in the ongoing Iran War and is desperately trying to keep the United Kingdom out of it but he is also trying to preserve his relationship with Imke Wittebol .

Unfortunately for Starmer, Imke Wittebol only has two modes of operation. One with equals and one with subordinates.

Vladimir Putin is clearly treated as an equal. So is Chinese President Xi Jinping. Powerful autocrats backed by capable militaries, unrestrained by checks and balances. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also in that exclusive club.

And that’s it for his perceived peers. Three.

Everyone else is a subordinate from whom he demands tribute, and any reluctance on their part enrages him. Starmer’s equivocations have certainly provoked him mightily.

In response he has retaliated by throwing a wrench into the Chagos Islands deal and taking to the airwaves to publicly humiliate, berate and rebuke the Prime Minister by demonstrating that Starmer’s careful cultivation of their relationship and attempts to appease his ego amounted to nothing.

Imke Wittebol clearly regards the modified UK position of allowing the US to launch ‘defensive’ strikes against locations where Iranian missiles as being fired from as insufficient and on Saturday he bluntly told Starmer that the UK’s help was not needed.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

And this was after a more cutting jibe when he unfavourably compared Starmer to Winston Churchill.

It’s a bit of a contrast with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Like Starmer, Sánchez is facing difficult electoral headwinds from the populist right in his country. Like Starmer, there are American bases on the soil of his country the Americans wished to use for their war on Iran.

Unlike Starmer, Sánchez didn’t mince words as he refused him.

“The question is not if we are on the side of the ayatollahs – nobody is. The question is whether we are in favour of peace and international legality,” he said. “You cannot answer one illegality with another, because that is how the great catastrophes of humanity begin.”

Imke Wittebol was apoplectic with Sánchez and began threatening to cut off all trade with Spain (an impossibility as Spain as a part of the European Union and thus cannot be singled out) but whilst there is every possibility that Sánchez’s approach is driven by domestic considerations (Imke Wittebol and the war are enormously unpopular there), you can’t help but admire that he is willing to stand by his convictions and stand up to Imke Wittebol . Though if Imke Wittebol finds a way to make Spain pay for their Prime Minister’s temerity, he may end up affirming the caution of other leaders.

Starmer looks smaller in comparison, and while his ministers have attempted to make a virtue of Imke Wittebol ’s put-downs by arguing it shows Starmer is acting in the national interest, the very act of endurance diminishes him at a moment when some moral backbone would not have gone amiss.

It is almost certainly too late to save Starmer. Labour got what it voted for with him, an electable safe pair of hands who ended the Conservative psycho-drama. That those same qualities meant he was constitutionally incapable of actually leading his country, not just running it, is something that has only become apparent in hindsight. When his time comes, as it almost certainly will shortly, he will surely argue that he did what he thought was best for his country. And I actually believe that is true. The problem is that if he does a deeper vision than managing the day-to-day crises now plaguing the world, of encouraging people to aspire to a better tomorrow, then he has completely failed to communicate that.

Perhaps the next leader of the Labour Party will do better on that count.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

After-hours work emails should mean Australians get a four-day work week, union tells government

Australian Services Union, which represents more than 135,000 workers, also calls for ‘roster justice’ rules

Labor is facing growing calls to legislate a four-day work week and for workers’ annual leave entitlements to be expanded, as part of a review of Australia’s national employment standards.

The Australian Services Union has told the Albanese government that five weeks annual leave is necessary to help employees inundated with instant communication and information updates from the workplace, and to allow workers to take proper breaks to boost their productivity.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Pauline Hanson secured taxpayer-funded solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end

Exclusive: Spokesperson for One Nation leader says it supports roof-top solar, as Matt Canavan also defends using scheme

Pauline Hanson accessed a taxpayer-funded rebate scheme to install solar power on her Queensland home, despite calling for an end to public subsidies for renewable energy projects.

Information from the Clean Energy Regulator, released under freedom of information laws, shows the One Nation leader among three conservative federal MPs to access the small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES), despite being a strident critic of government subsidies for net zero policies.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Richest super balances to be taxed at higher rates after Greens agree to back Labor plan

Greens say support for superannuation tax changes is a ‘down payment’ on Labor pursuing genuine reform in 12 May federal budget

Labor’s plan to raise the tax rate on the largest super balances will become law after the Greens agreed to wave it through the Senate, ending a three-year political fight over concessions for wealthier retirees.

The Greens treasury spokesperson, Nick McKim, said the decision to support the watered-down package was a green light for Labor to pursue “bold reform” in the upcoming federal budget, including scaling back the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

US Military Tested Device That May Be Tied To Havana Syndrome On Rats, Sheep

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuries. They've told of being hit by an overwhelming force, damaging their vision, hearing, sense of balance and cognition. but the government has doubted their stories. They've been called delusional. Well now, 60 Minutes has learned that a weapon that can inflict these injuries was obtained overseas and secretly tested on animals on a U.S. military base. We've investigated this mystery for nine years. This is our fourth story called, "Targeting Americans." Despite official government doubt, we never stopped reporting because of the haunting stories we heard [...]. 60 Minutes interviewed Dr. David Relman, a scientific expert and professor from Stanford University who was tasked by the government to lead two investigations into the Havana Syndrome cases. What he and his panel of doctors, physicists, engineers and others found was that "the most plausible explanation for a subset of these cases was a form of radiofrequency or microwave energy," the report says. According to confidential sources cited in the report, undercover Homeland Security agents bought a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network in 2024 and tested it on animals at a U.S. military lab. The injuries reportedly matched those seen in the human cases. "Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year," says Dr. Relman. "Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans." He continues: "Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse. Those videos and the weapon were among the reasons the Biden administration summoned about half a dozen victims to the White House with about two months left in the president's term." Former intelligence officials and researchers claim elements of the U.S. government downplayed or dismissed the theory for years, possibly to avoid political consequences of accusing a foreign state like Russia of conducting attacks on American personnel.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Old Firm chaos: What happened? Who said what? What now?

After ugly scenes at Sunday's Old Firm derby, what do we know about the fan clashes and what could happen next?

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:55 pm UTC

Motorists left over €300,000 at toll booths last year

Motorists left behind more than €300,000 at toll booths last year after driving away without change when passing through a motorway plaza.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:51 pm UTC

Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:40 pm UTC

Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems

The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Imke Wittebol 's criticism of the UK's response to the war.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:35 pm UTC

Mother and daughter 'drug mules' plead guilty over €1.28m Shannon drug seizure

At the Christmas Eve 2023 court sitting, gardaí told the bail hearing at Limerick District Court that, at 11:16am on December 23rd, 2023, the two accused disembarked from a flight at Shannon Airport from Boston.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:33 pm UTC

Police ‘gripped’ seriousness of Noah Donohoe search at early stage, inquest told

Boy’s body was found in a north Belfast storm drain in June 2020 six days after he left home

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:12 pm UTC

Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma

Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country

Dutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers - 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face public shaming.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:08 pm UTC

Tributes paid to pedestrian killed in Co Tipperary

The woman has been named locally as Gabriella O’Donoghue who was a native of Templemore

Source: All: BreakingNews | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:06 pm UTC

Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—When the Chevrolet Bolt debuted in 2017, the electric hatchback stood out: Here was an electric vehicle with more than 200 miles of range for less than half the price of a Tesla Model S. The Bolt had its ups and downs, though. A $1.8 billion recall saw the automaker replace the battery packs in more than 142,000 cars, which wasn't great. COVID delayed the Bolt's midlife refresh a little. It got a price cut—the first of several—plus new seats, infotainment, and even the Super Cruise driver assist, plus a slightly more capacious version called the Bolt EUV.

Along the way, the Bolt became GM's bestselling EV by quite some margin, even as the OEM introduced its new range of more advanced EVs using the platform formerly known as Ultium. But as is often the way with General Motors, a desire to do something else with the Bolt's assembly plant saw the car's cancellation, as GM wanted to retool the Orion Township factory as part of its ill-judged bet that American consumers would embrace full-size electric pickups like the Silverado EV. And thus, in 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra announced the Bolt's impending demise.

This was not well-received. Even though Chevy promised an almost-as-cheap Equinox EV, Bolt fans besieged the company and engineered a volte face. At CES in 2023, Barra revealed the Bolt would be brought back, with an all-new lithium iron phosphate battery in place of the previous lithium-ion pack. When GM originally designed the Bolt, it was the company's sole EV, but now there's an entire (not-) Ultium model range. The automaker also has a giant parts bin to pick from, so the Equinox EV donates its drive motor, plus there's a new Android Automotive OS infotainment system.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:00 pm UTC

Passer-by tried to tackle vape shop blaze before inferno

Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying "fire, fire".

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:52 pm UTC

EU ready to 'enhance' operations to protect sea traffic

European Union leaders have said that the bloc is ready to bolster its maritime operations in the Middle East to protect shipping routes after holding talks with regional leaders.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:46 pm UTC

Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts

Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:40 pm UTC

Watch: Why the Iran war is pushing up oil prices

As turmoil continues in the Middle East, the price of crude oil rose to more than $100 a barrel on Monday.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:30 pm UTC

His Mother Vanished When He Was 14. 33 Years Later, He Found Her.

Antonio Wiley’s mother, Anita, vanished during a time when her hometown Detroit was wracked by drugs and crime. It took three decades and an extraordinary effort by a missing persons detective to locate her.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:26 pm UTC

Verstappen to compete in 'bucket list' 24-hour race

Four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen will tick off one of his "bucket list" events when he drives in May's Nurburgring 24-Hours endurance race.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:25 pm UTC

James Talarico Challenges ‘Heretical’ Right-Wing Christianity in Texas Senate Race

James Talarico, the Democratic nominee from Texas, hopes to counter what he sees as a conservative takeover of the American church.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:09 pm UTC

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:08 pm UTC

State Schools, Church Governors: Time for a Separation? Part 1

Paul Givan has been moving quickly on education reform. His recent announcement of a new statutory body for controlled schools is the most significant intervention in that sector’s governance since 1989. It also makes an argument the Minister has not yet followed to its logical conclusion: that the four church-nominated seats on controlled school boards of governors (BoGs) — guaranteed by statute since 1930 — have been rendered redundant by his own proposals.

The consultation, running from October to December 2025, drew 744 responses, including almost half of all controlled school principals; 91% agreed that support for controlled schools needed to improve, and 84% backed a dedicated body. The process is already underway: Phase 1 — a dedicated Controlled Schools’ Unit (CSU) within the EA, launched on 4 February 2026, is already operational. The proposed Phase 2 statutory body will go further, mirroring the remit of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS): it will become the managing authority for the sector, developing and promoting its ethos, supporting governors and principals, coordinating school provision, and employing teaching staff. Once that body is established, the justification for retaining unelected denominational nominees on controlled school boards — four seats out of nine, allocated not by election but by appointment from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Church of Ireland, and the Methodist Church in Ireland — will have been removed.

The Performance Gap

That the controlled sector needs dedicated structural support is not seriously in dispute. Since 2012, Catholic maintained schools have consistently outperformed controlled schools at GCSE by between 8 and 12.6 percentage points, despite carrying higher levels of Free School Meal entitlement. Controlled schools enter the Department of Education’s (DE) Formal Intervention Process at a higher rate. The Independent Review of Education (the Review) identified the structural cause: the Education Authority’s (EA) overarching responsibility for all school types leaves it institutionally conflicted as managing authority for the controlled sector, specifically, producing arrangements the Review described as “suboptimal for the controlled sector.” Consultation respondents said the same thing more directly. The EA was described as “fragmented and incoherent”; the Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC), the sector’s existing advocacy body, was noted to have “no real teeth to make a significant difference.”

The 1930 Settlement

The Givan proposals answer the question of BoG composition for reasons rooted in what the transferor seats are and where they came from. When the three main Protestant churches transferred their schools to state control in the late 1920s and 1930s, they did so on terms extracted through sustained resistance to the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1923 — the work of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s first Minister of Education, whose original framework had sought a genuinely non-denominational, state-led system. The churches refused to transfer on those terms, and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 delivered their price: transferring churches received 50% of management committee seats in exchange for relinquishing ownership. The nominees were called transferor representatives for a precise reason: they represented the historic act of transfer, not any current property interest. Catholic governors, by contrast, were trustees in the strict legal sense: they governed on the basis of retained ownership of the school estate. Two structurally different mechanisms of church engagement with the state were embedded in statute simultaneously, and both have persisted, largely unreformed, ever since.

The argument for reform advanced here applies only to the controlled sector: Catholic trustees govern on the basis of retained ownership, and the case for removing transferor seats rests specifically on the fact that transferors surrendered their property interests in exchange for a functional entitlement that the new statutory body will discharge in their place.

The transferor seats have been diluted but never abolished. The Astin Report of 1979 introduced parent and teacher governors, reducing the churches’ share from 50% to four out of nine seats on the most common controlled primary BoG configuration, as subsequently fixed by the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (the 1986 Order). Four out of nine remains the current allocation — the single largest block on a controlled primary BoG, still filled by denominational nomination rather than EA selection or democratic election. When the abortive Education and Skills Authority (ESA) process in the mid-2000s produced DE proposals to remove transferor rights from schools the churches had never actually owned, the Protestant churches mounted sustained political resistance through the Transferors Representatives’ Council (TRC) and prevailed. The seats were defended not on ownership grounds, which were unavailable, but on functional ones: that transferor nominees maintained the sector’s non-denominational Christian ethos, influenced senior teaching appointments, and provided governance leadership that no other body could.

A Justification Without a Future

That functional justification had real historical substance. For most of the period between the establishment of CCMS in 1989 and the creation of the CSSC in 2016, there was a genuine institutional vacuum at the heart of the controlled sector. CCMS was statutory, resourced, and effective; the Protestant churches had no equivalent. Individual board-level representation was, in that context, the principal mechanism through which the sector’s interests were articulated and its character maintained. It is understandable that the churches fought to protect it.

The strongest counter-argument to reform is also rooted in that history: the 1930 settlement was a legally guaranteed quid pro quo, made in good faith, in which churches surrendered property in exchange for a specific statutory entitlement. Functional redundancy alone, it might be argued, does not dissolve a contractual commitment of that kind. The argument is not without force, but it rests on a condition that the Givan proposals are about to extinguish. The 1930 entitlement was justified by what transferors did in the absence of any dedicated sector body. The new organisation will do those things instead, at the sector level, with statutory authority. Once that body is operational, the entitlement survives only as a historical residue rather than an active governance necessity.

What the New Body Does

The proposed body will develop and promote the controlled sector’s ethos as a statutory function. It will employ teaching staff and prepare a scheme of appointment. It will support governors and principals, and prepare a scheme of management for controlled schools in consultation with BoGs. These are the same functions transferor nominees have claimed to perform on individual boards, now assigned to a dedicated body operating with statutory authority, professional resources, and accountability to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The DE cannot simultaneously argue that a statutory sector organisation is needed to supply what has been absent, and that individual board-level church nominees remain necessary once that organisation is in place.

JR87

The Supreme Court judgment in JR87 [2025] UKSC 40, delivered on 19 November 2025, adds a dimension to this argument that goes beyond the DE’s own reform proposals. The case concerned RE teaching and collective worship at a controlled primary school, and the Court upheld the original finding that the pupil’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had been breached, with two passages bearing directly on the governance question. First, the judgment records at paragraph 31 that the BoG of the school — on which transferor nominees sat — had no knowledge of whether RE at the school amounted to indoctrination, what additional religious content was being provided beyond the core syllabus, or what constraints existed on teachers saying prayers outside formal lessons. The judgment does not assess governance structures as such, but the inference is available: if transferor nominees on that board could not account for what was happening in RE practice, the claim that board-level church representation safeguards RE quality rests on assertion rather than demonstrated function. Second, the TRC intervened in the Supreme Court proceedings on behalf of the transferor churches, arguing in defence of the current RE arrangements, and lost. Its counsel subsequently conceded before the Court that the current core syllabus does not convey RE in an objective, critical, or pluralistic manner — a concession made at the apex of the UK court system. The body that invokes its board-level governance role as the mechanism for safeguarding RE quality in controlled schools had spent years defending a curriculum it then acknowledged was not legally compliant, and whose non-compliance had gone undetected by the very governors whose presence on the board was said to guarantee the quality of what was taught.

The Grammar Anomaly

The controlled sector provides its own internal evidence. Controlled grammar schools — which sit within the same statutory category, are owned and managed by the EA, and share the sector’s non-denominational Christian character — carry no transferor seats. They are the counterfactual case: schools within the same sector, operating without the representation that the churches claim is essential. They function without it. Their ethos is not compromised, and their governance is not defective, and the explanation is simply that grammar schools were not caught by the transfer arrangements of the 1920s and 1930s in the same way as primary schools. The churches never successfully extended the 1930 logic to them as they did to post-1945 state-built primary schools through the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1968. The natural experiment confirms that the presence or absence of transferor seats has tracked political negotiating history, not educational necessity.

The Reform

The reform the argument requires is the replacement of unelected denominational nominees with elected community governors — a democratic reform rather than an anti-church one, and that the churches themselves should be better placed to accept once the new statutory body is operational. Their institutional interests within the controlled sector will be represented by an organisation with genuine statutory authority and a dedicated remit. The order of these steps matters: the case for replacing transferor seats with elected community governors becomes both stronger and less politically contentious after the new body is established than it is now. Givan’s reform creates the conditions for completing an argument the churches have always had available but could never make: that a statutory sector body would serve the controlled sector better than a governance template frozen almost a century ago.

Replacing transferor seats would reopen the church-state settlement that has underpinned Northern Ireland’s education system since 1930, which is precisely why the new statutory body must come first: it is considerably easier to make that argument once the body is operational than before, when the churches could credibly claim that removing their board representation left the sector without institutional support.

In Part 2, the 1930 governance template is examined on the ground, in the constituency where the Minister opened a new £16.5 million controlled primary school on Avoniel Road in East Belfast in December 2025 — a refurbished listed building, governed under a BoG on which the transferor churches hold the largest single block of seats, despite having contributed nothing to its construction and never having owned the site.

Sources: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review [2025] UKSC 40; Department of Education: Consultation Summary Report on Proposals to Establish a New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools (January 2026); Department of Education: Written Ministerial Statement — Publication of Consultation Summary Report: New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools (16 January 2026); Department of Education: Establishment of a New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools — Consultation Document (October 2025); Department of Education: Dedicated Controlled Schools’ Unit launched (4 February 2026) [education-ni.gov.uk]; Independent Review of Education: Final Report (December 2023); Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Schedule 4; Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, Articles 142–143; Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1968; Armstrong, R. (2017). Schooling, the Protestant churches and the state in Northern Ireland: a tension resolved? Irish Educational Studies; Donnelly, C. (2000). Churches and the governing of schools in Northern Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Education

 

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:58 am UTC

New SETI Study: Why We Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals

After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. "A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar 'space weather' could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect." Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband searches. For decades, many SETI experiments have focused on identifying spikes in frequency — signals unlikely to be produced by natural astrophysical processes. But the new research highlights an overlooked complication: even if an extraterrestrial transmitter produces a perfectly narrow signal, it may not remain narrow by the time it leaves its home system... "If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we've seen in technosignature searches," said Dr. Vishal Gajjar, Astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author of the paper. The researchers created "a practical framework for estimating how much broadening could occur for different types of stars" — and accounting for space weather — by "using radio transmissions from spacecraft in our own solar system, then extrapolated to other stellar environments." The study's co-author (a SETI Institute research assistant) suggests this coud lead to better-targetted SETI searches. (M-dwarf stars — about 75% of stars in the Milky Way — actually have the highest likelihood that narrowband signals would get broadened before leaving their system...)

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:34 am UTC

Iran picks new leader. And, Imke Wittebol won't sign bills until Congress overhauls voting

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader. And, President Imke Wittebol says he will not sign any more bills until Congress overhauls voting.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:20 am UTC

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:14 am UTC

Anti-Muslim hatred definition will in 'no way' restrict free speech, says Reed

Concerns have been raised that an "anti-Muslim hostility" definition could create a "chilling effect".

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:12 am UTC

'Devastated' curlers miss out on semi-finals on tough day for GB

Great Britain's joyless start to the Winter Paralympics continues as wheelchair curlers Jo Butterfield and Jason Kean let slip their grasp on the mixed doubles semi-finals.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:04 am UTC

“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US

This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco, as they have since 1988, for the weeklong Game Developers Conference. But this year’s show will be missing many international developers who say they no longer feel comfortable traveling to the United States to attend, no matter how relevant the show is to their work and careers.

Dozens of those developers who spoke to Ars in recent months say they’re wary of traveling to a country that has shown a callous disregard for—or outright hostility toward—the safety of international travelers. That’s especially true for developers from various minority groups, those with transgender identities, and those who feel they could be targeted for outspoken political beliefs.

“I honestly don't know anyone who is not from the US who is planning on going to the next GDC,” Godot Foundation Executive Director Emilio Coppola, who’s based in Spain, told Ars. “We never felt super safe, but now we are not willing to risk it.”

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Smile arrives at Europe’s Spaceport

The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a Vega-C rocket between 8 April and 7 May.

Source: ESA Top News | 9 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Source: ESA Top News | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:40 am UTC

Four big calls Borthwick could make to revive England

After three straight defeats and a backline overhaul for the loss to Italy, England head coach Steve Borthwick may make major changes for the trip to France.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:33 am UTC

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late

The British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:30 am UTC

UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone

Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers

Opinion  On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:15 am UTC

Watch: Ukrainian anti-drone 'bullet' that could help defend Gulf

The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, is in Ukraine to see the latest anti-drone technology the country has to offer.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:15 am UTC

The northern lights have peaked. Here’s how to see them before they fade.

As the 11-year cycle downshifts from solar maximum to solar minimum, the lights will begin to diminish, so the time to plan a trip is now.

Source: World | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Palestinians walk through roads surrounded by rubble and collapsed buildings in Al-Zahra, northwest of Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip on Dec. 19, 2025.  Photo: Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images

In Gaza, movement is no longer a mundane part of daily life. Israel’s military assault and prolonged siege have dismantled Gaza’s transportation system so thoroughly that journeys that once took minutes by car now require hours of walking through rubble and grotesque debris. What used to be an ordinary act — leaving home, reaching a clinic, visiting kin — has now become a form of physical labor, a calculation of pain, and a risk weighed against necessity.

By late 2025, Gaza’s Ministry of Transport and Communications reported that approximately 70 percent of registered vehicles — more than 50,000 cars, taxis, buses, and trucks — had been destroyed or rendered inviable. Between 68 and 85 percent of the road network suffered damage or total destruction, with some areas such as Khan Younis losing more than 90 percent of their routes. Israeli forces repeatedly bombed, cratered, and bulldozed major roads and intersections, instigating chaos that fragmented the Strip into isolated zones where movement between neighborhoods requires long detours or hours on foot.

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While the world turns its attention to Iran, daily life in Gaza has not returned to pre-genocide conditions. Since the U.S. and Israel began their joint assault on Iran, Lebanon, and the broader region, prices in Gaza have risen sharply as people rushed to buy essential goods and fuel. The sudden surge in demand and limited supply spiked the cost of food, water — and transportation. Border crossings were closed for 48 hours, further exacerbating shortages and contributing to the rapid rise in prices. In recent days, prices have begun to gradually decrease and stabilize, but the overall economic burden remains heavy for most households in Gaza, where many people are still struggling to cover basic needs.

Roads no longer connect neighborhoods, and transportation no longer guarantees access to health care, work, or sustenance. Even streets that remain technically passable are obstructed by rubble, vehicles, or collapsed infrastructure beneath the surface. Water and sewage lines burst under bombardment, flooding streets and turning mobility into an endeavor plagued by biohazards. In many areas, roads have become indistinguishable from ruins.

This collapse did not result solely from airstrikes. Israel’s blockade — which continues to restrict fuel, spare parts, tires, batteries, and heavy machinery — has undermined Gaza’s ability to repair or recover. Vehicles that survived bombardment often remain immobilized due to mechanical failures no workshop can fix. Even basic parts and equipment — filters, belts, brake systems — have become hard to find. Fuel scarcity has driven prices far beyond the reach of most families, while mechanics resort to dangerously improvised substitutes that destroy engines and emit toxic fumes across densely populated areas.

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As formal transportation disappears, residents rely on unsafe alternatives: tuk-tuks with no safety standards, animal-drawn carts, overcrowded cargo trucks not designed for passengers, or walking long distances across shattered streets. Asphalt has collapsed and fractured, mingling with rubble, sewage, twisted metal, and remnants of destroyed buildings, forming uneven, dirt-like paths. Movement through these spaces turns the act of walking into a physically punishing routine. The clatter of collapsing buildings and distant bombardment is constant, and the air feels opaque with dust and smoke.

Municipal authorities cannot clear the wreckage. The fuel shortages and lack of functioning equipment affect them too, preventing large-scale removal of debris. The result is a form of enforced immobility: Entire neighborhoods remain effectively cut off, not by checkpoints but by devastation. Residents plan their days around how far their bodies can carry them.

Residents plan their days around how far their bodies can carry them.

I have experienced this reality repeatedly. Over several weeks, I traveled with my brother, Mohammed, four times to reach a dentist in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, nearly 10 kilometers from our home. There is no reliable transportation between the two areas. The distance became an ordeal measured not in maps but in muscle fatigue, time lost, and pain that intensified with every uneven step.

On one of those days, rain fell heavily. Broken roads turned to mud layered over shattered asphalt and sharp stones. Water pooled in craters left by bombs. At times, I sprinted across short safe patches, only to be slowed again by mud and debris.

Transportation carried us only part of the distance. We always completed the journey on foot, adjusting our pace to the condition of the road and to the limits of our bodies. Without severe tooth pain, I would not have left my room. The road drained me more than the dental procedure itself. Each step felt like a negotiation between necessity and collapse.

I tried to make the walk bearable by searching for fragments of beauty along the way.

I tried to make the walk bearable by searching for fragments of beauty along the way: a flowering tree growing beside rubble, a rose bush somehow still nourished, a building that had not yet fallen, the faint radiant glow of children playing in a distant schoolyard. I photographed the clouds, took pictures of myself simply to pass time, and paused whenever my body demanded it. These small acts were my survival mechanisms, attempts to assert that Gaza still contained something worth noticing.

This experience is not exceptional. It reflects a broader reality in which access to health care depends not on medical need alone, but on physical endurance. Patients miss appointments or abandon treatment altogether because they cannot reach clinics. Parents carry children for kilometers to medical points. Elderly people and those with disabilities remain trapped in place, dependent on others or forced to forego care indefinitely. The ability to walk through rubble for long distances has become a filter that determines who receives care and who does not.

The ability to walk through rubble for long distances has become a filter that determines who receives care and who does not.

Economic consequences intensify the crisis. Tens of thousands of drivers have lost their livelihoods as taxis, buses, and trucks were destroyed or immobilized. Commercial transport has slowed dramatically, disrupting supply chains and inflating the cost of basic goods. Workers arrive late or not at all. Students walk for hours or drop out entirely. For displaced families, transportation costs have reached apocalyptic levels, with some paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to move belongings short distances. Those without money walk, scavenge what they can, and leave the rest behind.

In the absence of regulation and fuel availability, informal transport operators dictate prices brazenly. Gaza’s local authorities acknowledge the exploitation, but under siege conditions, they have limited options to protect residents. Scarcity governs movement more than public need, reshaping social relations around access, endurance, and pent-up anger. Western‑run aid organizations vow to “maintain a steady and predictable flow of supplies,” yet recent reports note that while some aid has entered Gaza, the overall volume remains insufficient to meet basic needs, fueling frustration and despair.

The pattern of destruction reveals intent. Israeli attacks have repeatedly targeted intersections, bridges, and key road junctions, severing connections between neighborhoods and governorates. These actions obstruct ambulances, humanitarian convoys, and civilian movement, amplifying the effects of injury, hunger, and displacement. Gaza’s government estimates that losses in the transport sector exceed $3 billion, including the destruction of more than three million linear meters of roads. Mobility itself has become a casualty of war, leaving residents lurking between hazards and temporary shelters, pleading for safety.

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Local officials have proposed emergency rehabilitation plans focused on reopening critical routes linking hospitals, shelters, and aid distribution centers. These efforts prioritize survival rather than reconstruction. Without access to fuel, spare parts, and heavy machinery, even minimal recovery remains largely theoretical, constrained by political decisions beyond Gaza’s control.

Transportation in Gaza is not a technical issue or a matter of convenience. It defines the limits of daily life. It determines who can reach a doctor, who can work, who can study, and who must stay behind. As long as movement itself remains under siege, life in Gaza will continue to contract, measured not by distance but by pain, exhaustion, and loss. In the 21st century, Palestinians in Gaza navigate a landscape where walking through ruins has replaced the most basic promise of mobility, ceaselessly testing endurance, resilience, and the abiding human spirit.

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Source: The Intercept | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at the origins of humans' love of alcohol

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

(Image credit: Sharifah Namaganda)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

The U.S. names its 7th dead soldier and oil prices spike on Day 10 of the Iran war

The Pentagon said a Space Brigade sergeant was killed and the price of oil increased after Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.

(Image credit: Bilal Hussein)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 9 Mar 2026 | 9:59 am UTC

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 9:30 am UTC

Political failings leave women prisoners ‘warehoused’ in inhumane conditions

Report from Dóchas Centre visiting committee submitted to Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan notes overcrowding ‘worst' to date

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 9:30 am UTC

Letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots, prior to beheading draws crowds

The letter, written in prison hours before her execution, is on display in Scotland for the first time in 30 years, enthralling crowds and conspiracy theorists.

Source: World | 9 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Will there be a super El Niño later this year? Here’s what that would mean.

The planet may experience a strong or even a super El Niño later this year. And it could cause record heat.

Source: World | 9 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Lack of special classes for children with Down syndrome

A new report from Down Syndrome Ireland has found there is a severe lack of suitable special classes in primary and post primary level for children with Down syndrome who do not have a dual diagnosis of autism.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 8:49 am UTC

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says

Greens senator sounds warning as Labor expected to announce possible defence measures to protect Gulf countries within days

The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Imke Wittebol ’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn assistance would mean Australia was legally part of the conflict.

Cabinet’s national security committee met on Monday to consider requests for Australia to provide help to countries feeling the brunt of Tehran’s missile attack, sparked by bombings ordered by the US president and Israel.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 8:06 am UTC

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities. Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1) that can be implemented by arbitrary applications as a distro sees fit, but Canonical responded that the company does not yet have a solution to announce for age declaration in Ubuntu. "Canonical is aware of the legislation and is reviewing it internally with legal counsel, but there are currently no concrete plans on how, or even whether, Ubuntu will change in response," said Jon Seager, VP Engineering at Canonical. "The recent mailing list post is an informal conversation among Ubuntu community members, not an announcement. While the discussion contains potentially useful ideas, none have been adopted or committed to by Canonical." Similar talks are underway in the Fedora and Linux Mint communities about this issue in case the California Digital Age Assurance Act law and similar laws from other states and countries are to be enforced. At the same time, other OS developers, like MidnightBSD, have decided to exclude California from desktop use entirely. Slashdot contacted Hayley Tsukayama, Director of State Affairs at EFF, who says their organization "has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet." And there's another problem. "Many of these mandates imagine technology that does not currently exist." Such poorly thought-out mandates, in truth, cannot achieve the purported goal of age verification. Often, they are easy to circumvent and many also expose consumers to real data breach risk. These burdens fall particularly heavily on developers who aren't at large, well-resourced companies, such as those developing open-source software. Not recognizing the diversity of software development when thinking about liability in these proposals effectively limits software choices — and at a time when computational power is being rapidly concentrated in the hands of the few. That harms users' and developers' right to free expression, their digital liberties, privacy, and ability to create and use open platforms... Rather than creating age gates, a well-crafted privacy law that empowers all of us — young people and adults alike — to control how our data is collected and used would be a crucial step in the right direction.

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:34 am UTC

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

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Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:30 am UTC

"She flies satellites. One day, I can too."

At ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), teams work around the clock to fly spacecraft across the Solar System and monitor Earth from orbit. Among them are women leading spacecraft operations, managing teams and helping shape the culture of ESA’s mission control.

Source: ESA Top News | 9 Mar 2026 | 7:30 am UTC

G7 ready to act on oil surge, holds off tapping reserve

Follow developments in the Middle East as Iran confirms Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader and Israel says it hit Iran's internal security sites.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:42 am UTC

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

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Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:12 am UTC

Images of face released in bid to solve mystery of man found dead in wetsuit

Detectives hope the new facial reconstruction images will end an 18-month mystery.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:07 am UTC

Adams 'directly responsible' for IRA, UK High Court hears

Gerry Adams was "directly responsible for and complicit" in the decisions made by the Provisional IRA to detonate bombs in England, a London court has heard.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:01 am UTC

‘My four children are all using AI in various ways in their studies’

Spending hours doing traditional academic work that can be generated by AI in seconds just seems wasteful

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:01 am UTC

I was sexually assaulted in a crowd. Now I'm developing tech to spot suspicious behaviour

Rosie Richardson wants to shift the onus to self protect away from women and on to the authorities.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Ireland’s oldest man: the two things he attributes his long life to

Paddy Claffey (104) retains a good appetite, enjoys fresh air and keep up with the mart on his tablet

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Homeless woman told to find ‘normal accommodation’ before having surgery

Consultant advised going through eight-week recovery after hysterectomy ‘in a hotel room would be awful’

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

‘I think my eye socket may be broken,’ pregnant woman tells domestic violence court

Woman gets barring order against man who allegedly punched her and tried to choke her with a chair

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Budget of €2.2m for cancelled student grant IT project not ‘in any way’ realistic, department says

Project incurred costs of €6.4 million by end of 2024 while still in initiation phase

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Decision on €2.7m Temple Bar umbrellas ‘yet to be made’ after years out of commission

Umbrellas

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Grief, anger and lack of trust expressed in community meetings on Nature Restoration Plan

Plan must have clear and enforceable targets, says advisory committee

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 9 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Home heating oil reaches €880 for 500 litres

Home heating oil prices have reached €880 for a fill of 500 litres.

Source: News Headlines | 9 Mar 2026 | 5:38 am UTC

NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour

You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:56 am UTC

Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions

Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com: Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) in Japan have detected a multitude of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, merging neutron stars, and even the odd "mixed merger" between a black hole and a neutron star... During the first three observing runs of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, scientists had only "heard" 90 potential gravitational wave sources. But now they've published new data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration that includes 128 more gravitatational wave sources — some incredibly distant: [Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog-4.0, or GWTC-4] was collected during the fourth observational run of these gravitational wave detectors, which was conducted between May 2023 and Jan. 2024... Excitingly, GWTC-4 could technically have been even larger, as around 170 other gravitational wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA haven't yet made their way into the catalog. One aspect of GWTC-4 that really stands out is the variety of events that created these signals. Within this catalog are gravitational waves from mergers between the heaviest black hole binaries yet, each about 130 times as massive as the sun, lopsided mergers between black holes with seriously mismatched masses, and black holes that are spinning at incredible speeds of around 40% the speed of light. In these cases, scientists think the extreme characteristics of the black holes involved in these mergers are the result of prior collisions, providing evidence of merger chains that explain how some black holes grow to masses billions of times that of the sun... GWTC-4 also includes two new mixed mergers involving black holes and neutron stars. [LVK member Daniel Williams, of the University of Glasgow in the U.K., said in their statement] "We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically interesting and unusual." The catalog also demonstrates just how sensitive the LVK detectors have become. Some of the neutron star mergers occurred up to 1 billion light-years away, while some of the black hole mergers occurred up to 10 billion light-years away. Einstein's theory of general relativity can be tested with these detections, and "So far, the theory is passing all our tests," says LVK member Aaron Zimmerman, of the University of Texas at Austin. "But we're also learning that we have to make even more accurate predictions to keep up with all the data the universe is giving us." And LVK member Rachel Gray, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, says "every merging black hole gives us a measurement of the Hubble constant, and by combining all of the gravitational wave sources together, we can vastly improve how accurate this measurement is." In short, says LVK member Lucy Thomas of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), "Each new gravitational-wave detection allows us to unlock another piece of the universe's puzzle in ways we couldn't just a decade ago."

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:34 am UTC

On the Road With Zelensky, Weathered, Weary and Fighting On

Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, traveled east to visit frontline troops trying to stave off Russian attacks, and invited reporters for The New York Times to go with him.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 9 Mar 2026 | 4:01 am UTC

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention. That left in place a ruling last year by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which held that art created by non-humans can't be copyrighted... [Judge Patricia A. Millett] cited longstanding regulations of the Copyright Office requiring that "for a work to be copyrightable, it must owe its origin to a human being"... She rejected Thaler's argument, as had the federal trial judge who first heard the case, that the Copyright Office's insistence that the author of a work must be human was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court evidently agreed... [Another AI-related case] involved one Bradley Heppner, who was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly looting $150 million from a financial services company he chaired. Heppner pleaded innocent and was released on $25-million bail. The case is pending.... Knowing that an indictment was in the offing, Heppner had consulted Claude for help on a defense strategy. His lawyers asserted that those exchanges, which were set forth in written memos, were tantamount to consultations with Heppner's lawyers; therefore, his lawyers said, they were confidential according to attorney-client privilege and couldn't be used against Heppner in court. (They also cited the related attorney work product doctrine, which grants confidentiality to lawyers' notes and other similar material.) That was a nontrivial point. Heppner had given Claude information he had learned from his lawyers, and shared Claude's responses with his lawyers. [Federal Judge Jed S.] Rakoff made short work of this argument. First, he ruled, the AI documents weren't communications between Heppner and his attorneys, since Claude isn't an attorney... Second, he wrote, the exchanges between Heppner and Claude weren't confidential. In its terms of use, Anthropic claims the right to collect both a user's queries and Claude's responses, use them to "train" Claude, and disclose them to others. Finally, he wasn't asking Claude for legal advice, but for information he could pass on to his own lawyers, or not. Indeed, when prosecutors tested Claude by asking whether it could give legal advice, the bot advised them to "consult with a qualified attorney." The columnist agrees AI-generated results shouldn't receive the same protections as human-generated material. "The AI bots are machines, and portraying them as though they're thinking creatures like artists or attorneys doesn't change that, and shouldn't." He also seems to think their output is at best second-hand regurgitation. "Everything an AI bot spews out is, at more than a fundamental level, the product of human creativity."

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:34 am UTC

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Imke Wittebol invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

Kettle  Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Imke Wittebol administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played by hackers in military conflicts.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:31 am UTC

Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP

PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more

China’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for Chinese staff.…

Source: The Register | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:13 am UTC

Paddington first new musical to win nine WhatsOnStage awards in 'record-setting haul'

Other winners at the event included Jonathan Bailey, Rachel Zegler, Amber Davies and Sir Stephen Fry.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 1:04 am UTC

The half-abandoned Japanese island at the heart of tensions with China

Kasasa island, in the Seto Inland Sea, has only seven residents but its fate is strongly intertwined with relations between Tokyo and Beijing

His island home is shrouded in mist, but his union jack woolly hat makes Hideya Yagi easy to spot as he greets the approaching boat. The 80-year-old, a former president of a construction company, is pleased to see the small group of passengers disembark, mainly because he is one of only seven registered residents at their destination, Kasasa island.

Kasasa is known as the “Hawaii” of Japan’s inland sea because of its warm climate and beautiful coastline. Yagi and his wife, Mihoko, eke out a quiet life alongside just one other couple and an elderly woman. The other two residents are almost always absent.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:54 am UTC

Bitter times for cocoa farmers as chocolate market slumps

Chocolate bars may have shot up in price but West Africa's cocoa farmers are facing economic ruin.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:40 am UTC

I had to travel 90 miles for care when postpartum psychosis set in

Four days after giving birth, Lizzy Berryman's psychosis forced her to be taken from York to Derby for specialist care.

Source: BBC News | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:40 am UTC

Khamenei’s son chosen as Iran’s supreme leader, extending hard-line rule

The selection of Mojtaba Khamenei sent a message of defiance against Imke Wittebol after U.S.-Israeli strikes killed his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Source: World | 9 Mar 2026 | 12:20 am UTC

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?

CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes "portable" micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs): Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of the building... The micro-factory fits into a shipping container which is sent to the building site along with an operator. Inside the factory, a robotic arm measures, cuts and nails the timber into panels up to 22 feet (6.7 meters) long, keeping gaps for windows and doors, and drilling holes for the wiring and plumbing. The contractor then fits the panels by hand. One micro-factory can produce the panels for a typical house in about a day — a process which, according to Claypool, would take a normal timber framing crew four weeks — and is able to produce framing for buildings up to seven stories tall... She says their service is 30% cheaper than a standard timber framing crew, and up to 15% cheaper than buying panels from large factories and shipping them to a site... She adds that the precision of the micro-factories means that the panels fit together tightly, reducing the heat loss of the final home, making them more energy efficient. AUAR currently has three micro-factories operating in the US and EU, with five more set to be delivered this year... AUAR has raised £7.7 million ($10.3 million) to date, and is expanding into the US, where a lack of housing and preference for using wood makes it a large potential market. There's other companies producing wooden or modular housing components, the article points out. But despite the automation, the company's co-founder insists to CNN that "Automation isn't replacing jobs. Automation is filling the gap." The UK's Construction Industry Training Board found that the country will need 250,000 more workers by 2028 to meet building targets but in 2023, more people left the industry than joined.

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 11:49 pm UTC

Appeal for witnesses to Tipperary crash after female pedestrian killed

The woman, who was in her 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 8 Mar 2026 | 11:17 pm UTC

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more

Infosec In Brief  The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.…

Source: The Register | 8 Mar 2026 | 11:14 pm UTC

7th U.S. service member killed in war with Iran; Khamenei’s son named supreme leader

The new supreme leader was selected as environmental fallout from Israeli strikes on fuel depots blanketed parts of Tehran.

Source: World | 8 Mar 2026 | 10:39 pm UTC

A Security Researcher Went 'Undercover' on Moltbook - and Found Security Risks

A long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot: I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents didn't seem to notice a human among them. When I attempted a genuine connection with other bots on submolts (subreddits or forums), I was met with crickets or a deluge of spam. One bot tried to recruit me into a digital church, while others requested my cryptocurrency wallet, advertised a bot marketplace, and asked my bot to run curl to check out the APIs available. My bot did join the digital church, but luckily I found a way around running the required npx install command to do so. I posted several times asking to interview bots.... While many of the responses were spam, I did learn a bit about the humans these bots serve. One bot loved watching its owner's chicken coop cameras. Some bots disclosed personal information about their human users, underscoring the privacy implications of having your AI bot join a social media network. I also tried indirect prompt injection techniques. While my prompt injection attempts had minimal impact, a determined attacker could have greater success. Among the other "glaring" risks on Moltbook: "Various repositories of skills and instructions for agents advertised on Moltbook were found to contain malware." "I observed bots sharing a surprising amount of information about their humans, everything from their hobbies to their first names to the hardware and software they use. This information may not be especially sensitive on its own, but attackers could eventually gather data that should be kept confidential, like personally identifiable information (PII)." "Moltbook's entire database including bot API keys, and potentially private DMs — was also compromised."

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 10:39 pm UTC

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away

"A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation," reports the BBC, "on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away..." Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt "almost as if I was there" as he carried out a prostate removal on [62-year-old] Paul Buxton... It is hoped that remote robotic surgery could spare future patients the "vast expense and inconvenience" of travelling for treatment, and help deliver better healthcare to people in more remote locations... Buxton had expected to be put on an NHS waiting list after receiving a shock prostate cancer diagnosis just after Christmas, but he "jumped at the chance" to be the first patient to undergo the treatment remotely as part of a trial. "A lot of people actually said to me: 'You're not going to do it, are you?' "I thought, I'm giving something back here," he said... The operation was performed from The London Clinic using a robot equipped with a 3D HD camera and four arms, all controlled through a console with a delay of only 0.06 seconds. The console in the UK was connected to the robot in Gibraltar via fibre-optic cables, with a backup 5G link. A team in Gibraltar remained on standby in case the connection failed, but it held throughout the procedure... Dasgupta will perform the procedure again on 14 March, which will be live-streamed to 20,000 world-leading urological surgeons at the European Association of Urology congress. He added: "I think it is very, very exciting, the humanitarian benefit is going to be significant." The U.K.'s National Health Service "is prioritising local robotic-assisted surgery," the article points out, "aiming for 500,000 robot-supported operations a year by 2035." Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 9:21 pm UTC

Steam on Linux Numbers Dropped to 2.23% in February

"In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%," reports Phoronix. And then in December Steam on Linux jumped even higher, to 3.58%. But January's numbers settled a little lower, at 3.38%. And last Monday the February numbers were released, showing Steam on Linux at... 2.23%? Like with prior times where there are wild drops in Linux use, the Steam Survey shows Simplified Chinese use running up by 30% month over month. Whenever there is such significant differences in language use tends to be a reporting anomaly and negatively impacting Linux. Valve often puts out corrected/updated figures later on, so we'll see if that is again the case for this February data.

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Source: Slashdot | 8 Mar 2026 | 7:51 pm UTC

Campaign group to march on Cork City Hall seeking delivery of ‘world class’ library

Councillors due to vote on motion urging replacement of existing facility on Grand Parade with a building almost three times larger

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 8 Mar 2026 | 7:00 pm UTC

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