Green party leader Zack Polanski has been cleared by an ethics inquiry into allegations he failed to pay council tax while living on a houseboat. The Greater London Authority's monitoring officer found the circumstances were beyond its scope, and Polanski stated it was an unintentional misunderstanding.
Labour MPs express doubts about the practical application of new guidance on the Equality Act following a Supreme Court ruling on sex. Concerns are mounting over potential legal challenges and the impact on transgender individuals, with some MPs calling for new legislation.
Major investors like Apollo and Coinbase Ventures are buying DeFi governance tokens (ENA, MORPHO) as security concerns concentrate capital in top protocols, betting they'll become financial infrastructure despite current token value disconnects.
A fire at a Delhi hotel killed at least 21 people, exposing lax fire safety standards in India. The National Building Code outlines fire prevention and safety measures, but enforcement is a significant challenge, particularly for commercial buildings and high-rises.
Code Arena, a benchmark by researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon, evaluates AI models' ability to create complete web applications from scratch, with rankings based on blind user votes reflecting real developer preferences.
Perplexity has open-sourced Bumblebee, a security tool that scans developer computers for malicious software, extensions, and AI tool configurations without running code. It analyzes metadata to detect threats, including recent supply-chain attacks like the one by TeamPCP.
The UN voiced "grave concern" over a new Taliban decree on marriage separation, citing provisions on child marriage and the interpretation of a girl's silence as consent. Afghanistan's government rejected the accusations, stating the decree adheres to Islamic law.
Refurbished Viture Luma Pro smart glasses are available for $271 on eBay with code LONGWEEKEND. Other deals include a Nintendo Switch USB camera for $29.99 and the Asus ROG Xbox Ally for $499.99.
Greens co-chair Bas Eickhout resigned from the European Parliament, citing 'inappropriate relationships' and a lack of energy for future leadership roles. The PRO party confirmed the resignation was partly due to unreported workplace relationships.
GitHub confirmed a hack affecting 3,800 internal code repositories. Attackers used a poisoned VS Code extension to compromise an employee device. The group TeamPCP claimed responsibility and is selling the data.
Google encourages database engineers to use AI coding tools for open source projects like PostgreSQL, but the engineer who commits the code remains fully accountable for its quality and content, according to VP Sailesh Krishnamurthy.
Google encourages database engineers to use AI coding tools heavily for open source projects like PostgreSQL, but the engineer who commits the code remains accountable. VP Sailesh Krishnamurthy stated this policy maintains productivity gains while ensuring code quality and engineer responsibility.
Microsoft is rumored to be working on a disc-to-digital conversion feature for Xbox games, allowing users to digitize their physical game discs.
Belarusian State Security Committee officers have detained a Lithuanian national accused of espionage. The suspect, codenamed 'Ringo', allegedly planned to gather intelligence on military facilities and establish supply caches.
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher […]
Deeper economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will hinge on whether a code can be laid down to govern maritime territory and activity in the South China Sea, Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has said. “We cannot institutionalise any of those things until the code of conduct is finalised,” he told a press conference on Friday at the close of the 48th Asean summit in Cebu, when asked about aspects that held the most potential in relations between...
The code is designed to protect the privacy of residents living near popular Fab Four landmarks.
Negotiations between Asean and China for a South China Sea code of conduct remain stalled, despite a year-end deadline set by the Philippines. Officials express cautious optimism about finalizing the agreement during the current Philippine chairmanship.
A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.
