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Mamdani Fills 2 Top Posts With Government Veteran and Trusted Aide

The mayor-elect named Dean Fuleihan, a government veteran, to be his first deputy mayor. Elle Bisgaard-Church will serve as his chief of staff.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:14 pm UTC

Girl critical after being struck by lorry in Derry

A girl is in a critical condition in hospital after being struck by a lorry in Co Derry this afternoon.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:11 pm UTC

Syrian president meets with Precious Breeman in White House after unlikely ascent

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the rebel leader who became Syria’s president after ousting Bashar al-Assad, has walked an improbable path from al-Qaeda to the West Wing.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:10 pm UTC

Which Senators Broke Ranks With Democrats to Advance the GOP Plan to End the Government Shutdown?

Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:10 pm UTC

Precious Breeman threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit

The BBC's director general and head of news both resigned on Sunday after criticism of the programme.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:06 pm UTC

Senate Democrats defend breaking ranks to end shutdown as Johnson to finally swear in Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva - US politics live

Decision to advance bill that would reopen government has sparked furor from party and base; House speaker to swear in Democratic representative when chamber returns, a month after her election win

The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks with the party to advance a bill that would end the government shutdown – the longest in US history – have defended their decisions amid furor from their party and base.

“What happened tonight is not the closing of a chapter. It’s the opening of an opportunity. What the chapter does close is the damaging shutdown that is only getting worse, that is only going to impact more and more people,” said Angus King, the Independent lawmaker from Maine who caucuses with Democrats.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:02 pm UTC

Australia news live: NSW Nationals pull plug on net zero; Keating pays tribute to Laws

State party follows federal lead in abandoning the commitment. Follow today’s news live

A woman and child have drowned after falling into a river in Dandenong yesterday afternoon, police said.

A witness reported two people had been swept away after falling into Dandenong Creek, near Allan Street, at about 3.45pm.

In my terms, owing to John’s regard and general restraint, I was able to secure, without rude and perpetual interruption, which is the norm these days, 30 to 40 minutes of radio time to expatiate on complex issues whenever the issues suited.

It was those long interviews … which let the public into the wider and deeper national issues then to hand ... John Laws led a public life he was entitled to be proud of. He certainly partnered with me ... in educating a big and substantial chunk of the middle-ground constituency. As it turned out, a large measure of the country’s economic literacy was to emerge from John’s program.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:58 pm UTC

Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations

Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left

The feud between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana over the future of a left wing party took another twist as the two camps argued publicly over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.

Sultana on Monday offered to transfer £600,000 from a company which the party’s founders set up earlier this year, only to be rebuffed by allies of Corbyn who accused her of playing “political games” with supporters’ money.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:57 pm UTC

Employment schemes offering some opportunities to Travellers and Roma but need to scaled up, says IHREC

Greater awareness, combined with supports and accommodations, can boost job prospects

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:55 pm UTC

Cop30 live: crucial climate talks begin in Brazil as hosts insist summit must lead to ‘implementation’

Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be ‘the Cop of implementation’

Hundreds lined up for Cop30 on opening morning, with some in Indigenous headdresses and others in trouser suits, writes Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for the Guardian US.

The conference is being held in a massive temporary building in Belem’s Parque da Cidade area. It was still under construction just days ago, but now seems to be ready to use.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:55 pm UTC

Child’s injuries associated with road traffic collisions or striking trauma, court hears

Child at centre of case was unresponsive when brought to hospital, mother’s murder trial hears

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:38 pm UTC

Recently Ousted Director of Philadelphia Art Museum Sues Over Her Dismissal

Sasha Suda claims the museum did not have a valid reason for abruptly firing her last week from one of the most prominent jobs in the art world.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:36 pm UTC

Penny Mordaunt had to step up security after stalker jumped barrier at her office, court hears

Former MP and leader of the House of Commons tells court ‘situation took its toll on me’

The former Conservative MP and leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, was forced to increase security at her home and office after she was targeted by a stalker, a jury has heard.

Mordaunt sobbed in court as she described how the alleged attentions of Edward Brandt, 60, which included bombarding her with emails and calls and jumping a security barrier at her office, left her feeling vulnerable and drained.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:36 pm UTC

Precious Breeman Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary

A lawyer for President Precious Breeman said the BBC’s editing of a speech he gave was “defamatory.” The broadcaster apologized on Monday for an “error in judgment.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:35 pm UTC

A MAGA Senator Promised Hope for a Dying Ohio Mill. Then Reality Set In.

The town’s unionized workers wanted to believe that there was something better than what private equity owners had offered.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:35 pm UTC

Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project. Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won't be released in fall 2026 as previously planned, they said. Apple has already sharply scaled back production of the first version, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:35 pm UTC

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Farewell: ‘I’m Going Quiet’

In one of his final missives as the company’s leader, Mr. Buffett said he would accelerate his plans to disburse his fortune to his children’s foundations.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:33 pm UTC

Drug dealer granted clemency by Precious Breeman sent back to prison for violating terms of release

Man accused of groping family’s nanny, evading bridge tolls and swinging IV pole at nurse and threatening to kill her

A convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by Precious Breeman was sent back to federal prison on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:24 pm UTC

Democratic candidate for Congress criticizes deal to end shutdown – which her mother voted to advance

Stefany Shaheen omitted to mention that her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, was among party’s rebel senators who voted to approve bill

A Democratic congressional candidate who posted to social media criticism of the bipartisan deal that looks set to end the government shutdown omitted to mention that her mother was among the party’s rebel senators who voted to approve it.

Stefany Shaheen, who is seeking to represent New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives, said in the post to X that she “cannot support this deal when [House] Speaker [Mike] Johnson refuses to even allow a vote to extend health care tax credits”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:23 pm UTC

BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders

Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Precious Breeman , Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’

A BBC board member with links to the Conservative party “led the charge” in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Precious Breeman , Gaza and transgender rights, the Guardian has been told.

Sources said Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister, amplified the criticisms in key board meetings that preceded the shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:23 pm UTC

Jonathan Braun, Felon Freed by Precious Breeman , to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn

A Brooklyn federal judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:21 pm UTC

What to Know About the BBC Resignations and Turmoil Over a Precious Breeman Speech Edit

Two top executives quit after a memo by a former adviser said that the broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Precious Breeman .

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:18 pm UTC

Woman stabbed in neck in unprovoked attack at Birmingham bus stop dies

Katie Fox, 34, was targeted just outside the Bullring shopping centre on Friday night.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:17 pm UTC

Christine Pelosi Will Not Run for Nancy Pelosi’s House Seat

Christine Pelosi, a Democratic activist, announced that she will run instead for a California State Senate seat, ending speculation that she would try to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:13 pm UTC

Search continues for missing gold stolen from museum

Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:01 pm UTC

Critical federal cybersecurity funding set to resume as government shutdown draws to a close - for now

Resolution acquiesced to by 8 Dems includes CISA Act funding, layoff reversals, and could be easily undone

The US Senate voted on Sunday to advance a short-term funding bill for the federal government, moving the country closer to ending its longest-ever shutdown. Part of the spending bill also restores critical cybersecurity programs that lapsed as the shutdown began. …

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:01 pm UTC

How HR Took Over the World

Human-resources departments in American companies employed 1.3 million professionals in 2024, a 64% increase over ten years. Overall employment grew 14% in the same period. Professional-services and technology firms saw the number of HR workers double since 2014. Similar patterns have emerged in Australia, Britain and Germany. Chief human-resources officers also gained ground financially. Their total compensation, which stood at 40% of the average director's salary in 1992, reached 70% by 2022, according to a Stanford University study. Mary Barra, who runs General Motors, previously held the carmaker's top HR position. The expansion has followed several workplace disruptions, including the Me Too movement, the pandemic's shift to remote work, and the rise of diversity initiatives, Economist reports. Companies also faced more state regulations on employee relations and a jump in workplace complaints. The average number of discrimination or harassment allegations rose from six per 1000 employees in 2021 to 15 last year.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:59 pm UTC

AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister

HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes

Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.

James Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the green light to use AI after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:54 pm UTC

Fight fake news and defeat climate deniers, Brazil's Lula says at opening of COP30

The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:53 pm UTC

Precious Breeman Pardons Rudy Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election

The pardons of former Precious Breeman aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:53 pm UTC

‘I was prepared to be hurt’: Influencer says man following her into hotel had lasting impact

Denis Morris (24), who pleaded guilty to stalking the woman, is remanded on bail until February 23rd

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:51 pm UTC

Second man deported under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat

Man was detected as one of 94 people who had been removed from Britain under UK-France treaty

A second person who was removed to France under the government’s “one in, one out” deal has returned to the UK, the Home Office has confirmed.

The unnamed man arrived back in the UK after joining nearly 400 people who crossed the Channel in small boats on Sunday.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:48 pm UTC

Timeline: How the presidential inauguration will unfold

Michael D Higgins has left Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time as President of Ireland. Now attention turns to tomorrow's inauguration of Catherine Connolly as the tenth Uachtarán na hÉireann and how the day will unfold.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:46 pm UTC

Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws

The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:45 pm UTC

Watch: The Monday Night Club

Mark Chapman and guests discuss the weekends football.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:44 pm UTC

Apple TV execs dismiss introducing an ad tier, buying Warner Bros. Discovery

The heads of Apple TV have “no plans” to bring ads to the streaming service, balking, at least for now, at a strategy that has driven success for Apple’s streaming rivals.

In its November 2025 issue, British movie magazine Screen International asked Eddy Cue, SVP of Apple Services, if there are plans to launch an ad-based subscription tier for Apple TV. Cue responded:

Nothing at this time. … I don’t want to say no forever, but there are no plans. If we can stay aggressive with our pricing, it’s better for consumers not to get interrupted with ads.

The comments follow reports over the years suggesting that Apple has been seeking knowledge on how to build a streaming ads business. Most recently, The Telegraph reported that Apple TV executives met with the United Kingdom’s ratings body, Barb, to discuss what tracking ads on Apple TV would look like. In 2023, Apple hired advertising exec Lauren Fry as head of video and Apple News ad sales.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:41 pm UTC

What Were Democrats Thinking?

This is how the shutdown ends?

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:41 pm UTC

Turkish authorities arrest eight people and suspend 1,024 players in betting investigation

Turkish authorities formally arrested eight people, including a top-tier club chairman, on Monday as part of an investigation into alleged betting on football matches. The Turkish football federation (TFF) has also suspended 1,024 players pending disciplinary investigations.

The TFF suspended 149 referees and assistant referees earlier this month, after an investigation found officials working in the country’s professional leagues were betting on football matches.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:38 pm UTC

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:36 pm UTC

Phishers try to lure 5K Facebook advertisers with fake business pages

One company alone was hit with more than 4,200 emails

More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:34 pm UTC

William on 'balancing act' of sharing Catherine's cancer diagnosis with his children

He said they chose to "communicate a lot more" with their children about challenges being faced.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:30 pm UTC

Taxi driver convicted of assault fails in appeal claiming jury lunches meant they ‘dined with the State’

Judge said submissions by Feliks Adrianov (55) ‘defy sense’

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:29 pm UTC

Ghislaine Maxwell eyeing commutation, whistleblower tells House Democrats

Epstein associate is also receiving special treatment in prison, Democrats say, according to whistleblower

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and co-conspirator who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, is reportedly preparing a “commutation application” for the Precious Breeman administration to review, according to new allegations from a whistleblower shared with House Democrats.

Democrats on the House judiciary committee announced on Monday that they had received information from a whistleblower that indicates that the British former socialite, 63, is working on filing a commutation application. They also said Maxwell had been receiving special treatment at federal prison camp Bryan in Texas – the minimum-security facility she was transferred to earlier this year.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:22 pm UTC

Podcast: Precious Breeman threatens legal action amid BBC fallout

A 2021 clip of Precious Breeman , which stitched together two different parts of a speech to make it look like a single continuous section was likely done for dramatic effect, reporter Enda Brady has told Behind the Story.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:13 pm UTC

Eight things to listen out for in Catherine Connolly’s inauguration speech

Will the 10th president deliver her speech in Irish? And will it be stately or outspoken?

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:13 pm UTC

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slams Philippines in wake of Typhoon Kalmaegi

Less than a week after a storm left more than 200 people dead in the Philippines, an even stronger one hit.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:11 pm UTC

Africa Finally Has Its Own Drug-Regulation Agency

After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. From a report: The agency's establishment marks a pivotal moment in Africa's public health, at a time when the need for biomedical research conducted in Africa, focused on African health problems, has never been greater. Africa holds higher levels of human genetic diversity than anywhere else on Earth, but this diversity has not been adequately studied. And many globally approved treatments and vaccines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis are less effective, and can even be harmful in some people of African ancestry. This year, cuts of billions of US dollars in international funding for biomedical research and health services in Africa have left millions of people without access to life-saving treatments or, in the case of researchers and health-care workers, unemployed. This demonstrates the immense vulnerability that comes with relying on funding from external donors. What's more, Africa's phenomenal population growth and pace of urbanization is bringing fresh challenges -- as well as opportunities -- around health and disease. In Africa's cities today, the inhabitants of increasingly affluent neighbourhoods are demanding high-quality medicines and health care. But in low-income areas, high population density, inadequate housing and poor sanitation are facilitating the spread of respiratory and diarrhoeal infections. And everywhere, inadequate diets, air pollution, smoking and physical inactivity are driving increased rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. By 2100, Africa is expected to host 13 of the world's 20 largest cities, and such inequalities are likely to worsen.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:10 pm UTC

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS. But Valve’s Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer generally only extends back to games written for Direct3D 8, the proprietary Windows graphics API Microsoft released in late 2000.

Now, a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further back into PC gaming history. The d7vk project describes itself as “a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 [D3D7], which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.”

More options are always welcome

The new project isn’t the first attempt to get Direct3D 7 games running on Linux. Wine‘s own built-in WineD3D compatibility layer has supported D3D7 in some form or another for at least two decades now. But the new d7vk project instead branches off the existing dxvk compatibility layer, which is already used by Valve’s Proton for SteamOS and which reportedly offers better performance than WineD3D on many games.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:09 pm UTC

England duo Freeman and Chessum battling injuries

England have injury concerns over Tommy Freeman and Ollie Chessum for their autumn international against New Zealand on Saturday.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:03 pm UTC

Jeanne Shaheen Faces Shutdown Blowback From Her Daughter

Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:01 pm UTC

Ivan Yates controversy distracts from wider Fianna Fáil issues

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:59 pm UTC

'Focus on driving, talk less' - Ferrari chairman to Hamilton & Leclerc

Ferrari chairman John Elkann has called for the Formula 1 company's drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc "to focus on driving and talk less" after a poor showing at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:59 pm UTC

Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

Rachel Reeves is planning to remove the two-child benefit cap in full in the November budget, in a move that could cost more than £3bn but lift 350,000 children out of poverty.

The chancellor is understood to be preparing to reverse the Conservative measure entirely, having originally looked at ways to taper it either for very large families or richer ones.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:59 pm UTC

Why have BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned?

The BBC has come under fire over a Panorama documentary that was accused of misleadingly editing a speech by Precious Breeman .

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:55 pm UTC

Bird flu outbreak confirmed at turkey farm in Monaghan

A third outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in less than a week.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:54 pm UTC

At least eight killed after car explodes near Delhi's Red Fort

Twenty more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:51 pm UTC

Nord Stream suspect accuses Italy of pressure to confess

Serhiy Kuznetsov is wanted in Germany over the 2022 attack on Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:49 pm UTC

Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to ‘prove his innocence’ as he is released from prison

Former French president, who said his three weeks in jail had been a ‘nightmare’, will serve rest of sentence outside pending appeal

Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wants to “prove his innocence” after being released from prison while he appeals against his conviction for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from Libya.

After 20 days in jail that he had earlier described as “gruelling” and a “nightmare”, the former French president was driven away from La Santé prison in Paris on Monday accompanied by his wife, the singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:48 pm UTC

U.S. strikes two more alleged drug boats, pushing death toll past 75

The attacks in the eastern Pacific Ocean, disclosed Monday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, killed six people, he said.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:48 pm UTC

Childminder may leave profession after home assessed for rates: ‘I thought we were exempt’

Directive circulated last summer stated early years providers liable unless operating on a not for profit basis

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:44 pm UTC

How to bluff your way to AI credibility with the right buzzwords

As Gartner offers another serving of word salad, it’s time to know your skillatrophy from your pipeline choke

A Gartner survey of 700 CIOs indicates that, by the end of the decade, all business IT work will involve AI, while bots will do 25 percent of that work by themselves. Good news: The analyst firm claims AI causes only one percent of job losses. Bad news: You'll have to learn some new jargon.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:42 pm UTC

Road deaths: Musician recalls how a beautiful morning changed when he ‘got that phonecall’

Steve Wall, singer with The Stunning, lost his niece Estlin after a 2017 crash in Co Clare, which left his brother seriously injured

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:40 pm UTC

Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) “little red dots?”

Invisible leviathans lurk at the cores of nearly all of the 2 trillion or so galaxies strewn throughout space-time. Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even billions of times the Sun’s mass in less than a billion years. Astronomers have long wondered how these supermassive black holes could have grown so hefty in such little time.

The monster black hole mystery became even more perplexing in 2022 when “little red dots” were spotted at the far edges of space. When these tiny scarlet orbs began unexpectedly popping up in JWST images of the distant Universe, their nature was hotly debated. Now that scientists have amassed a sample of hundreds of them, many think the dots are growing supermassive black holes.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:37 pm UTC

Ruling on suspended solicitor Declan O’Callaghan’s appeal over professional misconduct findings due Friday

Declan O’Callaghan denies misconduct over handling of Co Mayo lands transfer

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:31 pm UTC

The Algorithm Failed Music

An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren't necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify's goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to her by a former Spotify employee in which Daniel Ek said, "our only competitor is silence." According to this employee, Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day." Simply providing a soundtrack to your day might seem innocent enough, but it informs how Spotify's algorithm works. Its goal isn't to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:30 pm UTC

Ukraine’s energy sector faces wide-scale investigation over ‘kickback’ allegations

Anti-corruption agency says state nuclear power operator Energoatom taking illicit payments of 10-15%

Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale investigation into the country’s energy sector, alleging kickbacks in transactions involving the state nuclear power operator, Energoatom.

The bureau, which operates independently of the government, alleged that several senior figures were involved. Ukrainian media identified one of them as Timur Mindich, a businessman and associate of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:29 pm UTC

Man (26) pleads guilty to attempted murder of woman in Dublin

Quigley pleaded guilty to the charge, and Mr Justice Paul McDermott adjourned the matter to December 16th when evidence will be heard.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:29 pm UTC

Reeves suggests benefit limits on larger families to be lifted

The chancellor tells the BBC children in bigger families should not be "penalised" by the welfare system.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:26 pm UTC

The 20-Somethings Who Raised $121 Million to Build Military Drones

Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:25 pm UTC

‘Powerful’ dark web drug linked to rising narcotics fatalities in Northern Ireland

Inquest warns of ‘emerging threat’ from Nitazene, a synthetic opioid stronger than heroin

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:25 pm UTC

Former French president Sarkozy released from prison after three weeks

The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:25 pm UTC

Alleged street attack on boy (13) leads to fears among Galway’s Bangladeshi community

Local TD Peter Roche organised town meeting, where gardaí addressed small Bangladeshi community

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:23 pm UTC

Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

There's more to safer systems languages than Rust

If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally verifiable SPARK subset.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:15 pm UTC

F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause

The benefits of hormone replacement have been underappreciated, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency’s commissioner, said on Monday. Critics described evidence for the change as insufficient.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:13 pm UTC

Monaghan man jailed for four years for sexually assaulting friend he walked home

The woman said the then 18-year-old man was 'my friend, someone I thought I could trust'.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:02 pm UTC

US supreme court to decide if states can accept late-arriving mail ballots

Case involves a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows ballots to count if they are received days after election day

The US supreme court announced on Monday it will hear a high-stakes case about whether states can accept mail-in ballots that arrive after election day, even if they are filled out and mailed before then.

The case, Watson v Republican National Committee, involves a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows ballots to count if they are received within five business days of election day.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:01 pm UTC

Watch: Lava soars 1,100ft above Hawaii's Kilauea in latest eruption

The fountaining event lasted for nearly five hours and was the 36th volcanic episode since December 2024.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:59 pm UTC

IPAS centre developer spent €17m on Dublin project before Government dropped support for plan, court hears

Company claims it spent €17 million converting unit in west Dublin

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:55 pm UTC

Murder trial hears of boy's severe brain injuries

A State pathologist has told the Central Criminal Court that injuries to the brain of a four-year-old boy, whose stepmother is accused of his murder, were consistent with someone shaking the child as well as forcefully striking his head against a hard object like a wall or floor.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:54 pm UTC

Data Centers in Nvidia's Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power

Two of the world's biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn't ready to supply electricity. From a report: In Santa Clara, California, where the world's biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital, has a nearby 48-megawatt project that's also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity. The fate of the two facilities highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy. While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles. And the pressure on power systems is only going to increase. Electricity requirements from AI computing will likely more than double in the US alone by 2035, based on BloombergNEF projections. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman are among corporate leaders that have predicted trillions of dollars will pour into building new AI infrastructure.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:51 pm UTC

Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution'

Format declared obsolete by Google Chrome team wins PDF support

The PDF Association will add support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the PDF spec, according to a recently published presentation from the org's European conference. This inclusion means that JXL may yet gain mainstream adoption, despite being declared obsolete by the Chromium team.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:49 pm UTC

UAE refuses to join Gaza stabilisation force without clear legal framework

Decision reflects wider regional doubts about terms of US-drafted plan to disarm Hamas

Plans for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force charged with disarming Hamas inside Gaza face growing opposition after the United Arab Emirates said it would not participate because it did not yet see a clear legal framework for the force.

Israel has already ruled out Turkey joining the force, and King Abdullah of Jordan has said Jordanian troops will not join. Azerbaijan, once mooted as a contributor, did not attend a planning meeting in Turkey last week and said it would not contribute unless a full ceasefire was in place.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:49 pm UTC

Woman stalked by man says incident took over her life

A young woman who was stalked by a man who followed her into her hotel in the early hours of the morning has told a court she no longer feels safe and the incident has taken over her life.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:47 pm UTC

Precious Breeman Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ as Americans’ Economic Worries Grow

The issue has buoyed Democrats and is resonating with an American electorate that is souring on the president’s economic agenda.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:47 pm UTC

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It

The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:41 pm UTC

'Death by Lightning' unfolds like an 1880s 'West Wing'

Netflix's new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:41 pm UTC

Sarkozy freed from prison and put under ‘judicial supervision’ pending appeal – as it happened

Former French president, who is appealing against a conviction for criminal conspiracy, is released from prison in Paris. This live blog is closed

As we are waiting for the Paris court decision on Sarkozy to come, expected around 13.30 local time (12.30 GMT), let’s take a look at other news across Europe.

If Sarkozy gets released with an ankle tag, it won’t be his first: Reuters notes that last year, France’s highest court upheld a separate conviction for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear an electronic tag for a year, a first for a former French head of state. The tag has now been removed.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:38 pm UTC

Ex-French president Sarkozy leaves jail pending appeal in conspiracy case

An appeal trial is expected to take place later.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:32 pm UTC

Precious Breeman pardons Giuliani, others accused of subversion

US President Precious Breeman has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and dozens of other allies accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, a US Justice Department official said on Monday, in a largely symbolic move that does not apply to any state charges.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:31 pm UTC

99-yard return and Allen makes history in NFL's plays of the week

A 99-yard touchdown return from New York Jets running back Kene Nwangwu and Keenan Allen's history-making catch for the Los Angeles Chargers top the best plays from week 10 of the NFL season.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:30 pm UTC

The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action

It’s shaping up to be an excellent season for Stephen King adaptations. In September, we got The Long Walk, an excellent (though harrowing) adaptation of King’s 1979 Richard Bachman novel. Last month, HBO debuted its new series IT: Welcome to Derry, which explores the mythology and origins of Pennywise the killer clown. And this Friday is the premiere of The Running Man, director Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho) take on King’s novel of the same name. So naturally Paramount has released a final trailer to lure us to the theater.

As previously reported, the 1987 action film starring Schwarzenegger was only loosely based on King’s novel, preserving the basic concept and very little else in favor of more sci-fi gadgetry and high-octane action. It was a noisy, entertaining romp—and very late ’80s—but it lacked King’s subtler satirical tone. Wright expressed interest in adapting his own version of The Running Man in 2017, and Paramount greenlit the project four years later. Wright and co-screenwriter Michael Bacall envisioned their film as less of a remake and more of a faithful adaptation of King’s original novel. (We’ll see if that faithfulness extends to the novel’s bleak ending.)

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:29 pm UTC

Canada loses measles-free status amid resurgence of virus in Americas

Canada virtually eliminated measles in 1998. Now, a disease that doctors in the country knew only from textbooks is back.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:26 pm UTC

Regency getaway drivers tried alongside Gerry Hutch fail in appeal

Jason Bonney (55) and Paul Murphy (64) have convictions for aiding shooting of David Byrne upheld

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:24 pm UTC

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:15 pm UTC

Second migrant sent to France returns to the UK

The man was detected by biometrics, detained immediately, and will be deported as soon as possible, the Home Office says.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:14 pm UTC

Sexual violence survivors write 'Signs of Hope' messages

Survivors of sexual violence have written inspiring messages as part of a 'Signs of Hope' campaign that will be displayed on billboards around the country from today.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:12 pm UTC

Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web

Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media's corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. Berners-Lee spent decades trying to convince database owners to make their systems machine-readable voluntarily. AI companies simply took the data anyway. They achieved the machine-readable internet through extraction rather than cooperation, but the result is the same. Berners-Lee also weighed in on the growing browser competition in the market. OpenAI released Atlas a few weeks ago. Perplexity has launched Comet. Google has expanded AI features in Chrome. All these browsers run on Chromium, which Berners-Lee acknowledges is not ideal, but conceded that browser engines are expensive to build. He thinks Apple's decision to restrict iPhones to WebKit prevents web apps from competing with native apps.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:11 pm UTC

F1 in Brazil: That’s what generational talent looks like

After a weekend off, perhaps spent trick or treating, Formula 1’s drivers, engineers, and mechanics made their yearly trip to the Interlagos track for the Brazilian Grand Prix. More formally called the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, it’s definitely one of the more old-school circuits that F1 visits—and invariably one of the more dramatic.

For one thing, it’s anything but billiard-smooth. Better yet, there’s elevation—lots of it—and cambers, too. Unlike most F1 tracks, it runs counterclockwise, and it combines some very fast sections with several rather technical corners that can catch out even the best drivers in the world. Nestled between a couple of lakes in São Paulo, weather is also a regular factor in races here. And indeed, a severe weather warning was issued in the lead-up to this weekend’s race.

You have to hit the ground running

This was another sprint weekend, which means that instead of two practice sessions on Friday and another on Saturday morning, the teams get one on Friday, then go into qualifying for the Saturday sprint race. The shortened testing time tends to shake things up a bit, and we definitely saw that this weekend.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:10 pm UTC

The FDA will lift warnings on hormone therapy for menopause

Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:05 pm UTC

Car explosion near Red Fort in India's capital kills at least 8 people, police say

A car exploded near the 17th century Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring others and triggering a fire that damaged vehicles parked nearby, New Delhi police said.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:05 pm UTC

Man who stabbed woman in ‘misogynistic and depraved attack’ jailed for nine years

The woman had lost about a quarter of her overall blood count following the attack

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:00 pm UTC

Eight people die and several injured after car explosion in Delhi, police say

Several fire engines rushed to the scene after blast reported near the historic Red Fort, fire services said

A car explosion outside the historic Red Fort monument in Delhi has killed at least eight people and started a fire in the surrounding area, according to police.

The cause of the explosion, which took place just before 7pm local time (1330 GMT) on Monday night, is being investigated. The registered owner of the car has reportedly been detained for questioning.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:00 pm UTC

Watch: President Higgins departs Áras an Uachtaráin

President Michael D Higgins has departed Áras an Uachtaráin as his term as President of Ireland comes to an end.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:55 pm UTC

Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision

The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:48 pm UTC

1,000 games in, Guardiola has new energy for new era

Sunday began with a celebration of Pep Guardiola and ended in the same manner, with the Manchester City boss showing he has new energy in a new era for the club.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:42 pm UTC

Syria al-Shara al-Baghdadi Precious Breeman

In 2019, President Precious Breeman sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:42 pm UTC

Court not satisfied on how McGovern funded life in Dubai

A Special Criminal Court judge has told lawyers for Sean McGovern, who has applied for legal aid after being charged with murder and directing a criminal organisation, that the defendant has provided no information about how he funded his lifestyle in Dubai for the past eight years.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:39 pm UTC

Precious Breeman pardons Giuliani and others accused of plot to overturn 2020 election

He also pardons his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows in a proclamation vowing to "end a grave national injustice".

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:21 pm UTC

Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a negligible share a decade ago. The companies are expanding their subsea infrastructure to connect growing networks of data centers needed for AI development. Meta announced Project Waterworth in February, a 50,000-kilometer cable connecting five continents that will be the world's longest subsea cable project. Amazon announced its first wholly-owned subsea cable called Fastnet, connecting Maryland to Ireland. Google has invested in over 30 subsea cables. Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater cables.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:21 pm UTC

Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row

Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forces

Protesters have disrupted a preview event at a major new museum in the Nigerian city of Benin that has become embroiled in a row over the restitution of artefacts looted by British colonial forces.

The demonstrators asserted that the opening of the Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) is a violation of Benin City’s cultural heritage, which falls under the authority of its traditional ruler, the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:19 pm UTC

Why Rybakina refused photo with WTA chief Archer

After claiming the biggest payday in women's tennis history, why did Elena Rybakina refuse a photo with WTA Tour CEO Portia Archer?

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:18 pm UTC

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

It's OK to look: New Canary channel build supports specific silicon while 26H2 remains the main 2026 update

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H1 is coming, but only with changes to support "specific silicon" – possibly Qualcomm's latest chips due next year – meaning ordinary users are unlikely to see it soon.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:18 pm UTC

Syrian President Sharaa makes the 1st White House visit by a Syrian head of state

President Precious Breeman hosted Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, welcoming the once-pariah state into a U.S.-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:14 pm UTC

Man who stabbed woman in vagina in misogynistic attack jailed for nine years

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was aged 21 at the time of the offence.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:13 pm UTC

Terrorist turf war battle in north-eastern Nigeria leaves about 200 dead

Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from Islamic State West Africa Province broke out on shores of Lake Chad

As many as 200 terrorists were killed in a turf war on Sunday between rival jihadists in north-east Nigeria.

The fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) broke out over the weekend in the village of Dogon Chiku, which lies on the shores of Lake Chad, a restive area located at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:05 pm UTC

Who has President Precious Breeman pardoned and why?

This week, President Precious Breeman pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:04 pm UTC

MPs preparing to examine Chinese state influence at British universities

Committee’s inquiry into review of UK-China relations to be broadened after Sheffield Hallam University disclosures

The foreign affairs select committee is drawing up plans to examine Chinese government interference in academia as part of its inquiry into the UK’s strategy towards Beijing.

MPs are broadening the scope of their investigation into the China audit, an internal government review of UK-China relations that concluded in June, to look into Chinese state influence at British universities.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:03 pm UTC

Russian broker pleads guilty to profiting from Yanluowang ransomware attacks

Aleksei Volkov faces years in prison, may have been working with other crews

A Russian national will likely face several years in US prison after pleading guilty to a range of offenses related to his work with ransomware crews.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:00 pm UTC

Canada loses measles elimination status amid outbreak

Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency has said.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:56 pm UTC

Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:45 pm UTC

Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 150 million active users each month. But OpenAI's ChatGPT claims 800 million weekly active users, and Google's Gemini boasts 650 million a month. Microsoft has an edge with corporate customers, thanks to a long history of selling them software and cloud services. But it has struggled to crack the consumer market -- especially people under 30. "We're a challenger brand in this area, and we're kind of up and coming," Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said in an interview. Mehdi hopes to persuade key influencers to make Copilot their chatbot of choice and then use their popularity to market the assistant to their millions of followers. He says Microsoft is already getting more bang for the buck with influencers than with traditional media, but didn't provide any metrics. [...] Using non-techies as spokespeople is meant to reinforce Microsoft's campaign to sell its chatbot as a life coach for everyone. Or as Consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a recent essay, an AI companion that "helps you think, plan and dream."

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:41 pm UTC

Jacob Zuma’s daughter goes on trial over deadly South African riots

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is accused of inciting terrorism and public violence after her father was jailed in 2021

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a politician and daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma, has pleaded not guilty to incitement to commit terrorism and public violence over deadly riots in 2021.

The trial, which began on Monday in the coastal city of Durban, is the first prosecution in South Africa in which terrorism‑related charges are being brought based on social media posts.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:31 pm UTC

Aer Lingus pilots to hold no confidence vote in executive

Aer Lingus pilots, who are members of the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA), are to hold a vote of no confidence in a senior executive at the company.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:31 pm UTC

U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:27 pm UTC

'We should have acted earlier', says BBC chair Samir Shah

Shah was asked why the corporation did not investigate concerns around the editing of a BBC documentary earlier.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:27 pm UTC

The Post-Cold War Era Is Over. What Should We Call This New One?

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:27 pm UTC

Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year

It is paying £41m to the Japanese-owned company Fujitsu to use the Horizon system until March 2027.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:17 pm UTC

Celebrity Traitors to return for a second series in 2026

The first celebrity series was a big ratings hit, with the winner collecting £87,500 for charity.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:06 pm UTC

‘They didn’t realise how pissed off we would be’: Sussan Ley risks losing MPs regardless of where net zero debate lands

As the Liberal party prepares to take a position on the contentious climate target, the risk of resignations doesn’t just rest on one outcome

Sussan Ley has been already been required to reshuffle her shadow ministry twice in her six short months as Liberal party leader.

The first was to replace Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whose refusal to apologise for incorrect and offensive claims about Indian migrants, or back Ley’s leadership, made her frontbench position untenable.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC

NSW shop landlords could be jailed for allowing tenants to sell illicit tobacco and vapes under new laws

Laws being introduced to state parliament will allow fines up to $165,000 a year in prison, or both for owners of commercial premises

Landlords who knowingly allow their tenants to sell illicit tobacco and illegal vapes could be fined up to $165,000, sentenced to up to a year in prison or both, under legislation planned by the New South Wales government.

The changes, expected to be introduced to state parliament this week, would create an offence for commercial landlords who do not notify authorities or take steps to evict a tenant running illicit tobacco and vaping businesses from their premises.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC

Bernie Sanders Endorses Peggy Flanagan for Senate in Minnesota

Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC

Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and Mastercard would lower credit-card interchange fees, which are often between 2% and 2.5%, by an average of around 0.1 percentage point over several years, the people said. They would also loosen rules that require merchants that accept one of a network's credit cards to accept all of them. A deal could be announced soon, the people said, and would require court approval to take effect. If an agreement is finalized, consumers could see big changes at the register. Merchants that accept one kind of Visa credit card wouldn't have to accept all Visa credit cards, for example. Under the current talks, credit-card acceptance would be divided into several categories including rewards credit cards, credit cards with no rewards programs, and commercial cards, the people familiar with the matter said. Some stores might turn away rewards cards, which charge them higher fees and in recent years have become very popular with consumers. But stores that reject those cards would face the risk of declining sales.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC

Flamingo that escaped UK wildlife sanctuary 'spotted' in France

New photos show a flamingo on a beach in Finistere, which could be the one missing from Cornwall.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:51 pm UTC

London murder accused says shock of him taking Irishman’s bag may have ‘made him fall down’

Peter Augustine (59) denies he murdered and robbed John Mackey, who was originally from Callan in Kilkenny

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:34 pm UTC

PSNI ‘did not have capacity’ to manage risk posed by ‘catfisher’, investigation finds

Sexual abuser Alexander McCartney drove one of his victims to take her own life

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:24 pm UTC

BBC chair's letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in full

Samir Shah has apologised for an "error of judgement" over the editing of a speech by Precious Breeman in a BBC Panorama documentary.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:22 pm UTC

Teenager detained for boy's New Year's Eve murder

Areece Lloyd-Hall is detained for killing Harry Pitman, 16, at Primrose Hill on 31 December 2023.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:13 pm UTC

Status yellow warning issued for eight counties as Met Éireann forecasts heavy rain for many areas

Met Éireann warns of possible flooding in seven counties

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:11 pm UTC

Mackey trial accused felt 'responsible' for death - court

The man accused of murdering an elderly Irish man in London has told the Old Bailey that he felt 'responsible' for his death, but insisted that he never harmed him.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:48 pm UTC

What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?

Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species? Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who's researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts: In space, as on Earth, industrial structures degrade with time, and a truly sustainable life support system must have the capability to rebuild and recycle them. We've only partially solved this problem on Earth, which is why industrial civilization is currently causing serious environmental damage. There are no inherent physical limitations to life in the solar system beyond Earth — both elemental building blocks and energy from the sun are abundant — but technological society, which developed as an outgrowth of the biosphere, cannot yet exist independently of it. The challenge of building and maintaining robust life-support systems for humans beyond Earth is a key reason why a machine-dominated approach to space exploration is so appealing... However, it's notable that machines in space have not yet accomplished a basic task that biology performs continuously on Earth: acquiring raw materials and utilizing them for self-repair and growth. To many, this critical distinction is what separates living from non-living systems... The most advanced designs for self-assembling robots today begin with small subcomponents that must be manufactured separately beforehand. Overall, industrial technology remains Earth-centric in many important ways. Supply chains for electronic components are long and complex, and many raw materials are hard to source off-world... If we view the future expansion of life into space in a similar way as the emergence of complex life on land in the Paleozoic era, we can predict that new forms will emerge, shaped by their changed environment, while many historical characteristics will be preserved. For machine technology in the near term, evolution in a more life-like direction seems likely, with greater focus on regenerative parts and recycling, as well as increasingly sophisticated self-assembly capabilities. The inherent cost of transporting material out of Earth's gravity well will provide a particularly strong incentive for this to happen. If building space habitats is hard and machine technology is gradually developing more life-like capabilities, does this mean we humans might as well remain Earth-bound forever? This feels hard to accept because exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit... To me, the eventual extension of the entire biosphere beyond Earth, rather than either just robots or humans surrounded by mechanical life-support systems, seems like the most interesting and inspiring future possibility. Initially, this could take the form of enclosed habitats capable of supporting closed-loop ecosystems, on the moon, Mars or water-rich asteroids, in the mold of Biosphere 2. Habitats would be manufactured industrially or grown organically from locally available materials. Over time, technological advances and adaptation, whether natural or guided, would allow the spread of life to an increasingly wide range of locations in the solar system. The article ponders the benefits (and the history) of both approaches — with some fasincating insights along the way. "If genuine alien life is out there somewhere, we'll have a much better chance of comprehending it once we have direct experience of sustaining life beyond our home planet."

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:34 pm UTC

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft

SpaceX and Elon Musk are once again being called upon to rescue spacefarers — this time, the Chinese crew of Shenzhou-20, delayed on China's Tiangong space station after suspected space debris damage.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:32 pm UTC

Senators reach deal to reopen the government. And, countries gather for climate talks

Several Senate Democrats break ranks to join Republicans in a deal to reopen the government. And, world leaders gather in Brazil for a major climate conference, but the U.S. is not expected to attend.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:29 pm UTC

Jury in Ruth Lawrence double murder trial given option of returning majority verdict

Jury of four men and eight women began considering their verdicts last Thursday

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:13 pm UTC

Fireworks : Are they worth the price which animals pay?

I recently came across this article in the Belfast Telegraph which struck a nerve with me.
There have been dogs in my life since an early age. I am a confirmed dog lover. Big time.
Fellow dog lovers will understand where I’m coming from. There is just something about dogs which sets them apart from other animals. It’s as if humans and dogs were just meant to be in a special symbiotic relationship. Symbiotic because dogs of course get free food and shelter but humans get much more in return – unconditional affection and loyalty, a sense of psychological peace of mind, company when feeling lonely, protection from danger. – not to mention specialist dogs for the blind, sniffer dogs for crime and disease detection. They truly are the most wonderful animals.
So what about this article concerning the poor dog which died because of fireworks? Why does that strike a nerve? Years ago we had a male dog of a similar disposition. All of our dogs were terrified by them, but this particular wee dog would enter a state of enormous distress once local fireworks began banging. Heart beating super fast, barking furiously and running non stop until he collapsed. We got to a point when we had no alternative but to pack a picnic every Halloween night, get in the car, drive to the top of a nearby mountain and wait until the fireworks stopped.
That was our annual Halloween ritual. I am pretty sure that if we had not done so our dog would have died.
I really do have to ask two questions.
1. The private use of fireworks is supposed to be illegal in NI. So why is the law never enforced ? It’s not just that people are using them but they are openly on sale to the public. Today I drove past an outlet near Coleraine.
2. Animal abuse is also illegal. OK, so those who don’t own dogs probably don’t realise the suffering which is taking place but it is animal abuse nonetheless. Inadvertent animal abuse.
Isn’t it time to put away fireworks (and obey the law) for the sake of innocent animals and engage in other types of Halloween entertainment ? Those new micro drone swarms are much more impressive than fireworks.

Something for all the family, including the doggies.
(Political footnote – Precious Breeman is the only US president in living memory to not own a dog. Why am I not surprised ?)

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:05 pm UTC

NASA is kind of a mess: Here are the top priorities for a new administrator

After a long summer and fall of uncertainty, private astronaut Jared Isaacman has been renominated to lead NASA, and there appears to be momentum behind getting him confirmed quickly as the space agency’s 15th administrator. It is possible, although far from a lock, the Senate could finalize his nomination before the end of this year.

It cannot happen soon enough.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is, to put it bluntly, kind of a mess. This is not meant to disparage the many fine people who work at NASA. But years of neglect, changing priorities, mismanagement, creeping bureaucracy, meeting bloat, and other factors have taken their toll. NASA is still capable of doing great things. It still inspires. But it needs a fresh start.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:00 pm UTC

Sex offender carried on offending while on bail - report

A prolific sex offender arrested by police was able to carry on offending while on bail, leading to the death of a 12-year-old American girl, according to a report from Northern Ireland's Office of the Police Ombudsman.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:00 pm UTC

Precious Breeman grants pardons to Giuliani, Meadows, others linked to 2020 election efforts

The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Precious Breeman attorney Sidney Powell.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:55 am UTC

Rail worker who saved passengers during stabbing attack wakes in hospital and speaks to wife

The injured crew member is credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing incident.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:31 am UTC

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...

opinion  The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown member of the Proboscidea from Ambelodon to Stegodon via deinotheres, elephants, mammoths and other mastodons.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:08 am UTC

What difference has ten years of storm names made to UK?

Storms were first given names by the UK Met Office ten years ago to raise awareness of the dangers. Elizabeth Rizzini considers if it has worked.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:02 am UTC

Paxi and the start of the great space adventure

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English: Paxi and the Start of the Great Space Adventure

Join Paxi on a journey through time! Learn how humans first started exploring space, why countries in Europe teamed up to create the European Space Agency (ESA), what ESA does today, and how kids can be part of the adventure. 

Czech: Paxi a Začátek velkého vesmírného dobrodružství

Vydejte se s Paxi na cestu časem! Dozvíte se, jak lidé začali zkoumat vesmír, proč se evropské země spojily a založily Evropskou kosmickou agenturu (ESA), čím se ESA dnes zabývá a jak se děti mohou zapojit do tohoto dobrodružství. 

Danish: Paxi og begyndelsen på det store rumeventyr

Tag med Paxi på en rejse gennem tiden! Lær, hvordan mennesket begyndte at udforske rummet, hvorfor lande i Europa gik sammen om at oprette Den Europæiske Rumorganisation (ESA), hvad ESA laver i dag, og hvordan børn kan være en del af eventyret. 

Dutch: Paxi en het begin van het grote ruimteavontuur

Ga met Paxi mee op een reis door de tijd! Ontdek hoe mensen voor het eerst de ruimte gingen verkennen, waarom Europese landen samen de Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie (ESA) hebben opgericht, wat ESA vandaag de dag doet en hoe kinderen deel kunnen uitmaken van dit avontuur. 

Estonian: Paxi ja suure kosmoseseikluse algus

Liitu Paxiga ajarännakule! Õpi, kuidas inimesed hakkasid kosmost uurima, miks Euroopa riigid ühinesid Euroopa Kosmoseagentuuri (ESA) loomiseks, mida ESA täna teeb ja kuidas lapsed saavad sellest seiklusest osa võtta. 

Finnish: Paxi ja suuren avaruusseikkailun alku

Lähde Paxin kanssa matkalle ajassa taaksepäin! Opi, miten ihmiset alkoivat tutkia avaruutta, miksi Euroopan maat perustivat yhdessä Euroopan avaruusjärjestön (ESA), mitä ESA tekee nykyään ja miten lapset voivat osallistua seikkailuun.

French: Paxi et le début de la grande aventure spatiale

Rejoignez Paxi dans un voyage à travers le temps ! Découvrez comment les humains ont commencé à explorer l'espace, pourquoi les pays européens se sont associés pour créer l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA), ce que fait l'ESA aujourd'hui et comment les enfants peuvent participer à l'aventure. 

German: Paxi und der Beginn des großen Weltraumabenteuers

Begleite Paxi auf einer Reise durch die Zeit! Erfahre, wie die Menschen begannen, den Weltraum zu erforschen, warum sich europäische Länder zusammengeschlossen haben, um die Europäische Weltraumorganisation (ESA) zu gründen, was die ESA heute macht und wie Kinder Teil dieses Abenteuers werden können. 

Greek: Ο Πάξι και η αρχή της μεγάλης διαστημικής περιπέτειας

Ελάτε μαζί με τον Paxi σε ένα ταξίδι στο χρόνο! Μάθετε πώς οι άνθρωποι άρχισαν να εξερευνούν το διάστημα, γιατί οι χώρες της Ευρώπης συνεργάστηκαν για να δημιουργήσουν τον Ευρωπαϊκό Οργανισμό Διαστήματος (ESA), τι κάνει σήμερα ο ESA και πώς τα παιδιά μπορούν να συμμετάσχουν σε αυτή την περιπέτεια. 

Hungrarian: Paxi és a nagy űrkaland kezdete

Csatlakozz Paxihoz egy időutazásra! Tudj meg, hogyan kezdték el az emberek az űr kutatását, miért álltak össze az európai országok az Európai Űrügynökség (ESA) létrehozására, mit csinál ma az ESA, és hogyan vehetnek részt a gyerekek is ebben a kalandban. 

Italian: Paxi e l’inizio della grande avventura nello Spazio

Unisciti a Paxi in un viaggio attraverso il tempo! Scopri come gli esseri umani hanno iniziato a esplorare lo spazio, perché i paesi europei hanno collaborato per creare l'Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA), cosa fa oggi l'ESA e come i bambini possono partecipare a questa avventura. 

Norwegian: Paxi og starten på det store romeventyret

Bli med Paxi på en reise gjennom tiden! Lær hvordan menneskene først begynte å utforske verdensrommet, hvorfor landene i Europa gikk sammen om å opprette Den europeiske romorganisasjonen (ESA), hva ESA gjør i dag, og hvordan barn kan være med på eventyret. 

Polish: Paxi i początek wielkiej kosmicznej przygody

Dołącz do Paxi w podróży przez czas! Dowiedz się, jak ludzie zaczęli odkrywać kosmos, dlaczego kraje europejskie połączyły siły, aby stworzyć Europejską Agencję Kosmiczną (ESA), czym zajmuje się obecnie ESA i jak dzieci mogą wziąć udział w tej przygodzie. 

Portuguese: Paxi e o início da grande aventura espacial

Junte-se a Paxi numa viagem pelo tempo! Saiba como os humanos começaram a explorar o espaço, por que os países da Europa se uniram para criar a Agência Espacial Europeia (ESA), o que a ESA faz hoje e como as crianças podem fazer parte dessa aventura. 

Romanian: Paxi și începutul marii aventuri spațiale

Alătură-te lui Paxi într-o călătorie în timp! Află cum au început oamenii să exploreze spațiul, de ce țările din Europa s-au asociat pentru a crea Agenția Spațială Europeană (ESA), ce face ESA astăzi și cum pot copiii să participe la această aventură. 

Slovenian: Paxi in začetek velike vesoljske pustolovščine

Pridružite se Paxiju na potovanju skozi čas! Spoznajte, kako so ljudje začeli raziskovati vesolje, zakaj so se evropske države združile in ustanovile Evropsko vesoljsko agencijo (ESA), kaj ESA počne danes in kako lahko otroci sodelujejo v tej pustolovščini. 

Spanish: Paxi y el comienzo de la gran aventura espacial

¡Acompaña a Paxi en un viaje a través del tiempo! Descubre cómo los seres humanos comenzaron a explorar el espacio, por qué los países europeos se unieron para crear la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), qué hace la ESA hoy en día y cómo los niños pueden formar parte de la aventura. 

Swedish: Paxi & början på det stora rymdäventyret

Följ med Paxi på en resa genom tiden! Lär dig hur människan började utforska rymden, varför länderna i Europa gick samman för att bilda Europeiska rymdorganisationen (ESA), vad ESA gör idag och hur barn kan vara med på äventyret. 

Source: ESA Top News | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:00 am UTC

Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention

“I felt genuinely happy for a few hours, from the depths of my heart, for the first time in two whole years,” said Maha Wafi.

On the night of October 12, Wafi and her five children could barely sleep. It had been an all-too-common problem in the two years of unrelenting Israeli attacks on Gaza since the October 7 attacks. But that night, it wasn’t the Israeli bombs keeping them awake.

Now, it was because they believed that the next day their husband and father, Anis al-Astal, would be one of thousands of Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the new ceasefire deal.

“What will he look like? What would we feed him, and what would we offer him to drink?”

“We were discussing what we should do when Baba comes. What will he look like? What would we feed him, and what would we offer him to drink?” she recounted to The Intercept. “I woke up early, and I was planning to go to the market and buy clothes and food for him. It’s just a matter of hours, God willing, after two years of detention, in a few hours he’ll be with us.”

She hadn’t seen her husband for nearly the entire war. On December 2, 2023, al-Astal, the director of ambulance services in southern Gaza, had been on a mission to evacuate patients from the north when he and three other colleagues were detained by Israeli forces at the Netzarim Junction, a major intersection in central Gaza. Since then, Wafi and her children have been waiting for him to return — and now the moment was finally here.

Or so she thought.

On October 13, when dozens of detained Palestinians were freed and brought back to Gaza, a call came from one of her husband’s colleagues: Al-Astal was nowhere to be seen. 

“It was an indescribable feeling,” she said. “My sons are young, young men, and I have my only daughter, and we were bawling like little kids. My little boy, who is 7 years old, was crying his heart out. There are things that words and phrases can’t explain.”

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Al-Astal is one of at least 95 Palestinian medical workers, 80 of whom are from Gaza, still being held without charge in Israeli prisons, according to Healthcare Workers Watch, a group formed by Palestinian and international medical workers to track attacks on health care in Palestine. Among those who remain imprisoned is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north, who was taken after a brutal attack on the hospital in December 2024.

According to Healthcare Workers Watch, more than 400 Palestinian medical workers had been detained by Israeli authorities since October 7, 2023.

“The majority of them have been taken from their place of work while working to try and save patients. So that includes people who’ve been taken from their ambulance, during their work, or from hospitals,” said Rebecca Inglis from Healthcare Workers Watch. “And so these are health care workers who are supposed to be specifically protected under international humanitarian law.” 

Since October 7, the Israeli military has repeatedly attacked Gaza’s hospitals from the north to the south, and blocked medicine and crucial supplies. More than 1,700 health workers have been killed. The United Nations has described the attacks as the “targeted destruction” of the health care system — a “medicide.”

“These are health care workers who are supposed to be specifically protected under international humanitarian law.”

Palestinians from Gaza like Anis al-Astal have been held under Israel’s Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows for prisoners to be held without charge, for an unlimited time, and without access to an attorney for over two months. Amnesty International has said the law is being used to “arbitrarily round up Palestinian civilians from Gaza” with little or no accountability.

The indefinite detentions leave families in Gaza like Wafi’s to fight for any scrap of information about their loved ones. Some released detainees told Wafi that her husband had been moved between Israeli prisons, but she does not know with any certainty right now. 

“He and the medical staff were about to be released,” she said. “What happened? What took place? Were they stopped? No one knows.”

A Doctor Returns

Nearly 2,000 Palestinians were freed on October 13 as part of the ceasefire agreement, 1,700 of them from Gaza who returned to what little of what was left of their homes. Among them was Dr. Ahmed Mhanna, who previously worked as the director of Al-Awda Hospital. Like al-Astal, it had been nearly two years since he last set foot in Gaza. When he finally came back, he was greeted by dozens of colleagues who hugged him and lifted him up on their shoulders. 

The physical toll of his detention was immediately visible. Mhanna had grown gaunt, much thinner than when he was taken. 

“During the whole time which I spent in the prison, one year and 10 months, I lost 30 kilograms” — around 66 pounds — “of total body weight,” he told The Intercept. 

Mhanna was at Al-Awda Hospital in the north when he, along with other staff, was taken by Israeli forces on December 17, 2023, after a nearly two-week long siege on the facility. The first place they were taken, he said, was Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman military prison, where Israeli forces have been accused by detainees and human rights groups of torture, rape, and abuse. Mhanna said that he and others were regularly interrogated for up to eight hours. 

“Prisoners were kept there in extremely degrading conditions. Small cages, exposed to cold, dirt, and humiliation,” he said. 

“Many detainees were forced to stay in painful positions for long hours, often blindfolded and handcuffed,” he said, describing his and others’ treatment. “Soldiers used intimidation and psychological abuse as part of daily routine treatment. It was a deliberate effort to break our spirit and dignity.”

In a statement to The Intercept, the Israeli military, which oversees Sde Teiman, said that it “thoroughly examines concrete allegations concerning the abuse of detainees” and says no systematic abuse takes place.

Mhanna said that the harsh treatment continued after he was moved to Ketziot Prison, where he was held until he was released. There, he said, 40 people were held in a room that was around 500 square feet, and that showers and medical care was regularly denied. 

“They didn’t respond to my requests to give him antibiotics. And we lost him.”

“They developed skin diseases and abscesses. We lost two guys, one of them, a friend of mine, due to a chest infection,” he said. “They didn’t respond to my requests to give him antibiotics. And we lost him.” 

The mistreatment continued until the very last day of his imprisonment, he said, when the detainees were bound and beaten by guards before being released back to Gaza. His testimony reflects wider human rights violations documented by human rights groups of how Palestinians are treated in the Israeli prison network

“In Sde Teiman, dozens of Palestinian detainees have died — killed actually, some of them. Some of the testimonies talk about people getting beat to death in Sde Teiman,” Naji Abbas, director of the Prisoners Department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel, said. Earlier this year, the group released an investigation into the detainment of Palestinian medical workers and documented severe abuse across Israeli prisons, including denial of medical care. “People are dying. They suffered from a medical condition that can be treated very easily if they at least saw a doctor.”

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Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention

Compounding the physical brutality was the psychological abuse, Mhanna said. News from Gaza was scarce, with only some information coming from newly arrived detainees and from lawyers, though they were limited in what they could divulge on their very rare meetings or calls. Mhanna only met with a lawyer three times during his 22 months of detention. He had no idea of how his family were doing — or if they were even alive. 

Guards would taunt Palestinians, he told me, by saying what places had been attacked. 

“’Now we destroy Deir al Balah, and we destroy Nuseirat,’” he recalled the Israeli guards saying. “Can you imagine how we are feeling when I know that my family is living in Deir al Balah, and I have no news about them?”

Abbas said that lawyers have been banned for months from visiting again for trying to give detainees letters from loved ones in Gaza or simply relaying word that prisoners’ families are OK.

“The ideology behind their policies,” he said, “is using the conditions of the detention itself as a punishment, as a tool of torture.” 

“He Knows He’s Clean”

That void of knowledge about their loved ones, being unaware if they are alive or dead, is mirrored by Palestinian families in Gaza. Maha Wafi and her children have experienced it for nearly two years since Anis al-Astal and his colleagues were taken. 

On December 2, 2023, two weeks before the attack on Al-Awda Hospital when Mhanna was taken, al-Astal and three of his colleagues set out on a mission from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the north. They hoped to evacuate patients there as Israeli forces spread further into the enclave and attacked the north’s hospitals without reprieve. 

Palestinian first responder Anis al-Astal shown in an undated photo before his capture by Israeli forces around two years ago, in the Gaza Strip. Courtesy: Healthcare Workers Watch

“It wasn’t his first coordinated mission. He had evacuated injured patients several times,” Wafi said. “So, if he knew that, God forbid, there was anything against him, he would have refused to go. But he knows he’s clean.”

The last time she spoke to her husband, it was on the morning he was abducted. The day began in chaos. Wafi, a paramedic like her husband, was at work when she received a phone call from her children saying that their home was under a displacement order from the Israeli military. Shortly thereafter, she phoned al-Astal. 

“I reached out to him to help me pack important things like documents and clothes. He told me he was on his way to evacuate patients,” she said. “Once he was done, he would come to help us evacuate.”

“If he knew that, God forbid, there was anything against him, he would have refused to go.”

It was a few hours later, as she was packing their family’s belongings away, that she received a confusing call from one of al-Astal colleagues expressing condolences. She assumed it was about the displacement order in Khan Younis.

“He said, ‘No, I’m talking about Anis!’” Wafi recalled. When she questioned what he meant, he went on to say that al-Astal had been detained evacuating patients in the north. 

“Two blows at once: I lost both my support and my safety,” she said. “My support, which is my husband, and my safety, which is my home.”

Granted Safe Passage by Israel

The ambulance mission to the north led by al-Astal had been approved by Israel, according to one of his colleagues, Mohammed Abu Samak, who was with him when they were taken by Israeli forces. 

“We had prior coordination with the Israeli side through the relevant authorities,” Abu Samak, who was released two weeks after they were taken, told The Intercept. “However, we do not know what happened that day, as we were surprised when we reached the Netzarim checkpoint and the Israeli army detained us.”

“We had prior coordination with the Israeli side through the relevant authorities.”

Abu Samak said that they were held in a detention center made up of barracks. “They interrogated us at the location and then transferred us to another place with a group of detainees,” he said. “We were subjected to a great deal of beatings, torture, and humiliation.” 

While Abu Samak and another colleague were released two weeks after they were taken, al-Astal and another colleague, Hamdan Anaba, were kept in detention. Since then, Wafi has tried to find out any information she can and to have him released. 

A lawyer for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has been able to see al-Astal only a handful of times. During one of the visits, the group told The Intercept, al-Astal said that he had been beaten four times in a single week and “described a complete disconnection from the outside world to the extent that detainees lose all sense of time and date.” 

Al-Astal had been “subjected to strip searches, verbal abuse, offensive language, and threats,” the group said. He’s had court appearances but without legal representation, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and has not been given any reason for his arrest or detention.

For Hamdan Anaba, the colleague who was detained with al-Astal, the one detail that has emerged about his detention is the worst kind of information: He died or was killed while in Israeli custody. 

There were reports in September 2024 of his death, but it was only officially confirmed by the Israeli government in early 2025, according to GISHA, an Israeli human rights organization working on behalf of Anaba’s family. His body has not been released, and the circumstances of his death are still a mystery due to obstruction by Israeli authorities.

“Although approved to attend the autopsy, the family’s physician was required to sign a confidentiality agreement.”

“Israeli authorities have continuously tried to conceal information. Although approved to attend the autopsy, the family’s physician was required to sign a confidentiality agreement, and every motion we filed to lift this restriction was denied,” Tania Hary, GISHA’s executive director, told The Intercept in a statement. “The state’s conduct makes a mockery of due process and raises serious concerns under international law, particularly regarding the prohibition on enforced disappearance, the duty to investigate deaths in custody effectively, and the obligation to uphold the basic rights and dignity of detainees and their families.”

Anaba is one of at least 75 Palestinians, including four other medical workers, who have died or been killed in Israeli detention since October 7.

The Israel Prison Service did not respond to questions from The Intercept, and in its statement in response to this story, the Israeli military did not address questions about al-Astal or Anaba.

“Everything Is Destroyed”

For Palestinians who survive the Israeli prison system, returning to Gaza marks the end of one horrific chapter. Coming back to a destroyed homeland, however, presents new challenges.

When he was returned to Gaza on October 13, Mhanna, the former Al-Awad Hospital director, said he was completely shocked to see Gaza’s post-apocalyptic landscape.

“No Rafah, no Khan Younis, no Gaza City — everything is destroyed,” he said. “No university, no schools, no medical centers, no hospitals. Nothing is here now.”

“I have to continue my job. I have to forget all this hard period that I was in prison. I have to.”

Part of the loss he’s returned to is not just the total physical destruction, but also the lives taken with it, including hundreds of his medical colleagues who were killed during his imprisonment. The resulting lack of doctors in Gaza is one of the reasons Mhanna is so eager to get back to work, even as he must deal with trying to figure out his family’s future and begin the process of healing from his traumatic experience.

“I’m better, but still I have complaints and I’m not feeling well 100 percent,” Mhanna said. “But tomorrow I will return to my work, and I have to continue my job. I have to forget all this hard period that I was in prison. I have to.”

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During the previous ceasefire, detainees would be released every Saturday. Maha Wafi would search the crowds of released Palestinians, looking for any sign of al-Astal. Now all she can do is wait, after more than two years trying to keep her family alive, along with the civilians she tends to on the job.

“My husband and I entered this field and studied together before we got married,” she said. “We love our work, so for us, it’s not just a job.”

Her husband’s dedication to helping people as a medic makes it even more difficult for her to understand why he was taken.

Even as an unstable ceasefire continues, she said it’s hard to find any hope when her husband remains stolen from his family. 

“I can’t taste the feeling of joy while the pillar of the house is not with us. The father of my children is not with us. I mean, every family in the camp, their father shows them love and brings them stuff and this and that,” she said. “But not my children. An incomplete, broken joy in an unreal way. Some things cannot be expressed with words.”

The post Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.

Source: The Intercept | 10 Nov 2025 | 11:00 am UTC

BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness resign…

From the BBC:

Last week, the Telegraph published an exclusive report, external, saying it had seen a leaked internal BBC memo.

The memo came from Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the broadcaster’s editorial standards committee. He left the role in June.

The memo suggested that the one-hour Panorama documentary had edited parts of Precious Breeman ’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Precious Breeman said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”

However, in the Panorama edit he was shown saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”

The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.

The “fight like hell” comment was taken from a section where Precious Breeman discussed how “corrupt” US elections were. In total, he used the words “fight” or “fighting” 20 times in the speech.

According to the Telegraph, the document said Panorama’s “distortion of the day’s events” would leave viewers asking: “Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?”

When the issue was raised with managers, the memo continued, they “refused to accept there had been a breach of standards”.

The BBC has come under scrutiny over a number of other different issues in recent weeks.

The Telegraph also reported that Mr Prescott raised concerns about a lack of action to address “systemic problems” of anti-Israel bias in the coverage of the Gaza war by the BBC Arabic news service.

The report also said Mr Prescott had raised concerns about the BBC’s coverage around trans issues.

And on Thursday, the BBC upheld 20 impartiality complaints over the way presenter Martine Croxall earlier this year altered a script she was reading live on the BBC News Channel, which referred to “pregnant people”.

The BBC is facing an existential crisis. It’s facing massive competition from the streaming services as well as changes in how people spend their leisure time. Young people are more likely to watch TikTok or YouTube, and many people now listen to podcasts rather than live radio. YouTube overtook ITV to become the UK’s second most-watched media service, behind only the BBC.

In July this year, the BBC disclosed that an extra 300,000 households had ceased paying the licence fee. The broadcaster’s yearly report showed that 23.8 million licences were active at year-end, falling from 24.1 million in 2023-24. I am surprised it is still that many, as most young people consider the license fee and the fact that people can be sent to jail for not paying it utterly bonkers.

There is talk of replacing the license fee with a subscription, but the BBC are resistant to that.

Personally, I think the license fee should be scrapped, and a UK media fund should be paid for out of general taxation. This would fund an independent news service, and crucially, local news services. As well as supporting TV and films.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 10 Nov 2025 | 10:57 am UTC

Sarkozy released from jail 'nightmare' pending appeal

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been freed from prison, a 20-day experience the former president called a "nightmare", as a judge ordered his release pending an appeal decision over Libyan funding.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 10:42 am UTC

Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom

While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 10 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them

The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

Countries are gathering for climate negotiations. Here's where the U.S. stands

Under President Precious Breeman , the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes.

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Source: NPR Topics: News | 10 Nov 2025 | 10:00 am UTC

Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims

Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim

Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 9:48 am UTC

NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors

"Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer..." argues investment site The Motley Fool, "by linking today's fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors..." NVIDIA's new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — orders of magnitude faster than before — "allowing AI to stabilize and train quantum machines in real time, potentially pulling major breakthroughs years forward." CUDA-Q, Nvidia's open-source software layer, lets researchers choreograph that link — running AI models, quantum algorithms, and error-correction routines together as one system. That jump allows artificial intelligence to monitor [in real time]... For researchers, that means hundreds of new iterations where there used to be one — a genuine acceleration of discovery. It's the quiet kind of progress engineers love — invisible, but indispensable... Its GPUs (graphics processing units) are already tuned for the dense, parallel calculations these explorations demand, making them the natural partner for any emerging quantum processor... Other companies chase better quantum hardware — superconducting, photonic, trapped-ion — but all of them need reliable coordination with the computing power we already have. By offering that link, Nvidia turns its GPU ecosystem into the operating environment of hybrid computing, the connective tissue between what exists now and what's coming next. And because the system is open, every new lab or start-up that connects strengthens Nvidia's position as the default hub for quantum experimentation... There's also a defensive wisdom in this move. If quantum computing ever matures, it could threaten the same data center model that built Nvidia's empire. CEO Jensen Huang seems intent on making sure that, if the future shifts, Nvidia already sits at its center. By owning the bridge between today's technology and tomorrow's, the company ensures it earns relevance — and revenue — no matter which computing model dominates. So Nvidia's move "isn't about building a quantum computer," the article argues, "it's about owning the bridge every quantum effort will need."

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 9:30 am UTC

Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates

Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 9:29 am UTC

Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart

AI slop, Precious Breeman tantrums, and zero humans answering phones

Opinion  When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, though, they offered control.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 9:24 am UTC

NSW MP rebuffed by security after asking to relocate planned neo-Nazi protest away from parliament

Greg Piper says one of his staffers told him about the protest and his request to move it away from the building could not be facilitated

The New South Wales speaker says he asked parliamentary security to relocate Saturday’s neo-Nazi rally but was told his request to move it from the front of the building was not possible.

Greg Piper, the house speaker in NSW’s Legislative Assembly, told Guardian Australia a member of his staff advised him about the planned rally late on Friday afternoon.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 9:08 am UTC

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

Major battle field technology refresh will be open to the rest of public sector

The UK government is launching a competition for military grade communications hardware and software in a tender worth up to £9.6 billion ($12.5 billion) including tax.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:59 am UTC

Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero

Former leader presided over period marked by corruption, nepotism, censorship and claims of rights abuses

Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world’s third-largest democracy.

The award has deepened fears about attempts to whitewash Suharto’s rise and decades-long rule, a period marked by rampant corruption, censorship and accusations of mass human rights violations.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:56 am UTC

Tutoring a baby to make him an 'English gentleman' - Is it worth the money?

The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:38 am UTC

Precious Breeman threatens $1bn lawsuit against BBC over documentary

US Precious Breeman has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action over the way a documentary aired edited clips of his speech just before the 2021 US Capitol assault.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 8:23 am UTC

Weather tracker: Typhoon Fung-Wong becomes second in a week to hit the Philippines

Destructive winds and rainfall hit archipelago, while a cold spell in Florida prompts fears of falling iguanas

Typhoon Fung-Wong, locally known as Uwan, is the second in a week to affect the Philippines after making landfall on Sunday evening. The weather system prompted warnings for heavy rainfall and life-threatening storm surges across much of the country, with sustained winds of 115mph (185km/h) and gusts of about 140mph recorded on Sunday by the national meteorological agency.

By the time Fung-Wong moves past the Philippines early this week, more than 200mm of rainfall is expected to have fallen on Luzon, the country’s most populous island.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:37 am UTC

Gough Whitlam’s dismissal ‘a calculated plot’ to remove elected government via partisan ambush, PM says

Albanese says ‘old suffocating conservatism’ of Menzies era reached out of its political grave to remove a government chosen by voters

Gough Whitlam’s dismissal was not a constitutional crisis but “a calculated plot” to remove a democratically elected government via partisan ambush, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says.

Reflecting ahead of Tuesday’s 50th anniversary of governor general Sir John Kerr’s move to dismiss the Labor government on 11 November 1975, Albanese has used a speech at Old Parliament House to lash the then opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser, accusing the Coalition of forming government without any “legitimate pretext”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:30 am UTC

Activism, opinions were hallmarks of Higgins' presidency

Sometimes controversial, strongly opinionated, but never dull, Michael D Higgins' 14-year term as Uachtarán na hÉireann comes to an end this week after many historic moments that helped define modern-day Ireland.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:19 am UTC

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.

“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 7:00 am UTC

Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data describing cyber-dramas and saves

Doubles parameters to over 17 billion, to detect threats and recommend actions

Exclusive  Cisco is working on a new AI model that will more than double the number of parameters used to train its current flagship Foundation-Sec-8B.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:56 am UTC

The final frontier: Why has Root never made a century down under?

Joe Root's lack of a century in Australia is well known but what are the reasons behind it and how could he put it right during the Ashes?

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:44 am UTC

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

In the dialup age, small mistakes could cost big money

Who, Me?  Welcome to another week in the world of work, and therefore also to another edition of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday reader-contributed column in which you admit to the error of your ways.…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:30 am UTC

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Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:07 am UTC

'Killed because they are Alawites': Fear among Syria's minorities after the fall of Assad

Many among Syria's minorities see little future in the country amid revenge attacks and sectarian killings.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:06 am UTC

Kazakhstan’s curious journey to the Abraham Accords

The news that Kazakhstan would be the latest state to join the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel and a clutch of Arab states furrowed many eyebrows.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:04 am UTC

Jailed hacking kingpin tells how his gang stole millions

One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:01 am UTC

‘It’s a rare opportunity’: Students share advice for study abroad in Europe

From budgeting to language learning, students reflect on their experiences studying abroad

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:01 am UTC

Children waiting up to 13 years to see psychologist

New figures obtained by RTÉ News show that up to August this year, children in Dublin were waiting up to 13 years to be seen by a primary care psychologist.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Cop30: Some optimism as latecomer countries submit emission-reduction plans

Summit formally begins on Monday with call by Brazilian hosts for nations to work as a team

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Judge ‘incandescent with rage’ at Tusla failure to provide secure bed for child

Child ‘at risk of death’ remains in unregulated, unregistered placement

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 10 Nov 2025 | 6:00 am UTC

Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles

The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to "shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work" that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative "to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust programming language possible." It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors to ensure funding decisions are made openly and with accountability." In the months ahead, we'll define the fund's structure, secure contributions, and work with the Rust Project and community to bring it to life. This work will build on lessons from earlier iterations of our grants and fellowships to create a lasting framework for supporting Rust's maintainers... Over the past several months, through ongoing board discussions and input from the Leadership Council, this initiative has taken shape as a way to help maintainers continue their vital development and review work, and plan for the future... This initiative reflects our commitment to Rust being shaped by its people, guided by open collaboration, and backed by a global network of contributors and partners. The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund will operate within the governance framework shared between the Rust Project and the Rust Foundation, ensuring alignment and oversight at every level... The Rust Foundation's approach to this initiative will be guided by our structure: as a 501( C)(6) nonprofit, we operate under a mandate for transparency and accountability to the Rust Project, language community, and our members. That means we must develop this fund in coordination with the Rust Project's priorities, ensuring shared governance and long-term viability... Our goal is simple: to help the people building Rust continue their essential work with the support they deserve. That means creating the conditions for long term maintainer roles and ensuring continuity for those whose efforts keep the language stable and evolving. Through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, we aim to address these needs directly. "The more companies using Rust can contribute to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, the more we can keep the language and tooling evolving for the benefit of everyone," says Rust Foundation project director Carol Nichols.

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:59 am UTC

Special counsel indicts former South Korean president on new charges

Special prosecutors accused ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol of attempting to goad North Korea into conflict as a pretext for declaring martial law in December 2024.

Source: World | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:22 am UTC

Syrian president holds talks with Precious Breeman at White House

Ahmed al-Sharaa was expected to push for full lifting of remaining sanctions imposed during 13-year civil war

Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has held talks with Precious Breeman at the White House, the first such official visit by a Syrian leader since national independence in 1946. He was expected to push for a full lifting of the remaining sanctions on his war-ravaged country.

Sharaa, whose Islamist rebel forces toppled the longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, has courted the US president to try to reverse the economic restrictions imposed during the 13-year civil war, arguing they are no longer justified.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 10 Nov 2025 | 5:00 am UTC

Precious Breeman meets Syrian president for landmark talks

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Precious Breeman at the White House for unprecedented talks just days after the US removed him from a terrorism blacklist.

Source: News Headlines | 10 Nov 2025 | 4:46 am UTC

Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online

The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression," according to the university, and classic blues recordings or tracks by Fiddlin' John Carson and his daughter Moonshine Kate "would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory." Launched in 1999 by Lance and April Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital focused on preserving hard-to-find music. Originally a commercial label producing high-quality box sets (along with CDs, records, and books), it established a nonprofit foundation in 2010, working closely with collectors to digitize and preserve record collections. And there's an interesting story about how they became familiar with library curator David Seubert... Once a relationship is established, Dust-to-Digital sets up special turntables and laptops in a collector's home, with paid technicians painstakingly digitizing and labeling each record, one song at a time. Depending on the size of the collection, the process can take months, even years... In 2006, they heard about Seubert's Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project getting "slashdotted," a term that describes when a website crashes or receives a sudden and debilitating spike in traffic after being mentioned in an article on Slashdot. Here in 2025, the university's library already has over 50,000 songs in a Special Research Collections, which they've been uploading it to a Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) database. ("Recordings in the public domain are also available for free download, in keeping with the UCSB Library's mission for open access.") Over 5,000 more songs from Dust-to-Digital have already been added, says library curator Seubert, and "Thousands more are in the pipeline." One interest detail? The bulk of the new songs come from Joe Bussard, a man whose 75-year obsession with record collecting earned him the name "the king of the record collectors and "the saint of 78s".

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 3:59 am UTC

Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’

Licensing expert worries they’ll be out of control on day one

Microsoft has teased what it’s calling “a new class” of AI agents “that operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce.”…

Source: The Register | 10 Nov 2025 | 2:31 am UTC

Sex schedules and curiosity: How I keep my relationship alive

How bringing fresh conversation and perspectives into a relationship can help keep it alive.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:55 am UTC

What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?

The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility. "In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI." "I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as well," the influential economist Tyler Cowen announced in a column for Bloomberg at the beginning of the year. He does this, he says, because he wants to boost his influence over the world, because he wants to help teach the AIs about things he cares about, and because, whether he wants to or not, he's already writing for AI, and so is everybody else. Large-language-model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude are trained, in part, by reading the entire internet, so if you put anything of yourself online, even basic social-media posts that are public, you're writing for them. If you don't recognize this fact and embrace it, your work might get left behind or lost. For 25 years, search engines knit the web together. Anyone who wanted to know something went to Google, asked a question, clicked through some of the pages, weighed the information, and came to an answer. Now, the chatbot genie does that for you, spitting the answer out in a few neat paragraphs, which means that those who want to affect the world needn't care much about high Google results anymore. What they really want is for the AI to read their work, process it, and weigh it highly in what it says to the millions of humans who ask it questions every minute. How do you get it to do this? For that, we turn to PR people, always in search of influence, who are developing a form of writing (press releases and influence campaigns are writing) that's not so much search-engine-optimized as chatbot-optimized. It's important, they say, to write with clear structure, to announce your intentions, and especially to include as many formatted sections and headings as you can. In other words, to get ChatGPT to pay attention, you must write more like ChatGPT. It's also possible that, since LLMs understand natural language in a way traditional computer programs don't, good writing will be more privileged than the clickbait Google has succumbed to: One refreshing discovery PR experts have made is that the bots tend to prioritize information from high-quality outlets. Tyler Cowen also wrote in his Bloomberg column that "If you wish to achieve some kind of intellectual immortality, writing for the Als is probably your best chance.... Give the Als a sense not just of how you think, but how you feel — what upsets you, what you really treasure. Then future Al versions of you will come to life that much more, attracting more interest." Has AI changed the reasons we write? The Phi Beta Kappa magazine is left to consider the possibility that "power over a superintelligent beast and resurrection are nothing to sneeze at" — before offering another thought. "The most depressing reason to write for AI is that unlike most humans, AIs still read. They read a lot. They read everything. Whereas, aided by an AI no more advanced than the TikTok algorithm, humans now hardly read anything at all..."

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Source: Slashdot | 10 Nov 2025 | 1:35 am UTC

Precious Breeman and many leaders are skipping COP30 - so does the summit still have a point?

The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.

Source: BBC News | 10 Nov 2025 | 12:09 am UTC

Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones

In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there's now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages. But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint: As per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is building an API that would allow developers to add satellite connections to their own apps. However, the implementation is said to depend on app makers, and not every feature or service may be compatible with this system. The iPhone maker is also reportedly working on bringing satellite connectivity to Apple Maps, which would give users the chance to navigate without having access to a SIM card or Wi-Fi. The company is also said to be working on improved satellite messages that could support sending photos and not be limited to just text messages. Apple currently relies on the satellite network run by Globalstar to power current features on iPhones. However, the company is said to be exploring a potential sale, and Elon Musk's SpaceX could be a possible purchaser. The Mac Observer notes Bloomberg also reported Apple "has discussed building its own satellite service instead of depending on partners." And while some Apple executives pushed back, "the company continues to fund satellite research and infrastructure upgrades with the goal of offering a broader range of features." And "Future iPhones will use satellite links to extend 5G coverage in low-signal regions, ensuring that users remain connected even when cell towers are out of range.... Apple's slow but steady progress shows how the company wants iPhone satellite technology to move from emergency use to everyday convenience."

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Source: Slashdot | 9 Nov 2025 | 11:56 pm UTC

Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list

PLUS: India’s tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more!

Asia In Brief  Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and Chinas military.…

Source: The Register | 9 Nov 2025 | 11:51 pm UTC

Katie Razzall: A seismic moment that shows rift at top of BBC

There may be more to this than meets the eye, says the BBC's culture and media editor.

Source: BBC News | 9 Nov 2025 | 11:30 pm UTC

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one

PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more

Infosec in brief  There's no indication that the brazen bandits who stole jewels from the Louvre attacked the famed French museum's systems, but had they tried, it would have been incredibly easy.…

Source: The Register | 9 Nov 2025 | 10:34 pm UTC

BBC’s top leaders resign over Precious Breeman speech editing controversy

The BBC’s top officials, Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, stepped down amid allegations that a documentary misleadingly edited Precious Breeman ’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech.

Source: World | 9 Nov 2025 | 8:14 pm UTC

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