Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI deskilling the human body? “In surrendering to a quick technological fix, we are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending.”
The issue runs through almost every twist and turn and has come to define the congresswoman’s political persona
For Haley Stevens, the road from Democratic Senate candidate to campaigning alongside a Republican she once called a rubber stamp for Donald Trump has been remarkably short – and the issue running through almost every twist and turn has been Israel.
Having failed to stop Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, Stevens chose to back Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, a candidate who she previously warned would enable Trump’s agenda – apparently because the Democrat who won refuses to share her position on Israel.
Continue reading...Premier League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off
David Moyes, meanwhile, also makes two changes. Jarrad Branthwaite returns after two games missed following concussion protocol, so too Harrison Armstrong. I doubt the away following will be chuffed that it’s Hayden Hackney and Tyler Dibling dropping out, but to accommodate the changes, Merlin Rohl moves forward from right-back to right-wing, with Jake O’Brien moving out of the middle to fill his old spot.
The big news for Newcastle is that Anthony Elanga returns to the starting XI, for the first time since diddling his hamstring at Millwall nearly two months ago. He and Joelinton are the two changes to the side which lost at Everton last midweek, Jacob Ramsey and Jacob Murphy dropping to the bench. But equally important is the news that Osula is fit enough to start.
Continue reading...After a second apparent cyber-attack in as many weeks, we examine possible culprits and their motives
Supermarket fridges and freezers in seven European countries have malfunctioned, their thermostats remotely cranked up in some cases to 50C (122F).
The EU has condemned what it said was “a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers’ confidence in it”.
Continue reading...Britain needs migrant workers, yet ministers would make many wait longer for secure settlement because their essential work commands low wages
Shabana Mahmood has made a partial retreat on her policy to lengthen the wait for some foreign workers who were soon to be eligible for settlement in the UK. But while the home secretary lost the argument in cabinet on a particularly damaging aspect of her proposals, she has won the larger battle that settlement ought to be based not just on residency but also on how much tax has been paid, English language proficiency and the “character” of applicants. Significantly, she has also won the “full support” of the prime minister for this approach.
The home secretary plans to double the standard qualifying period for settlement from five to 10 years for most workers. Importantly, she dropped the proposed 15-year qualifying period for some workers in occupations below graduate level. That is a good thing. Differences in pay, however, should not determine how soon people can put down secure roots. The Home Office’s own figures suggest that a person earning £41,700 makes a similarly positive lifetime fiscal contribution as someone earning £50,271. But the former has to wait five years longer to qualify for settlement than the latter. It is only three years for foreign workers who make enough to be in the top 2% of earners – about £125,000.
Continue reading...Donald Tusk is attempting to restore legitimacy to the country’s constitutional court. In a polarised country and continent, that carries political risks
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, must occasionally look towards Budapest and sigh. A landslide victory in elections last spring enabled Hungary’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar, to act with ruthless determination to clean up the country’s politics after 16 years of corrupt Orbánisation. Mr Tusk, whose centrist coalition ousted the far-right Law and Justice party (PiS) in 2023, is similarly taking on the legacy of a government which undermined the rule of law and democratic norms. But his efforts have been relentlessly boxed in by the blocking tactics of Poland’s (PiS)‑backed president, Karol Nawrocki.
At the weekend, this standoff escalated into a crisis with wider implications for the European Union as well as Poland itself. Exasperated by Mr Nawrocki’s attempts to veto the appointment of new judges to the country’s constitutional court – which has been illegitimately dominated since 2015 by PiS‑friendly appointees – Mr Tusk backed the enforced appointment of a new head, and the suspension of the court’s president and vice‑president. Extraordinary scenes followed, as rightwing demonstrators massed outside the court building in the early hours of Saturday morning and Mr Nawrocki pushed past security forces to protest.
Continue reading...Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens has endorsed the Republican candidate for the Senate after a spat with her party’s own candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. The endorsement stunned Stevens’ Democrat colleagues, with one calling it a ‘despicable betrayal’ on the eve of the midterm elections. So what will it mean for the race? Lucy Hough speaks to US southern bureau chief and host of Anywhere but Washington Oliver Laughland
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Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. "The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its software estate, leaving some customers facing incorrect times, broken schedules and a collection of workarounds while Redmond catches up," reports The Register. From the report: Outlook users have been left with the most homework. Switching to the new Canadian time zones won't automatically update existing calendar entries, meaning that meetings scheduled after November 1 are potentially an hour out of whack. Microsoft advises users to change their Outlook calendar time zone, then update upcoming events and meetings to use it. For meetings involving other people, only the organizer can make the change.
Recurring meetings come with an additional treat: changing the time zone resets any previously moved occurrences, which then have to be recreated. Anyone with a calendar full of recurring meetings may wish to put the kettle on first. Microsoft is working on an Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet to remediate non-recurring meetings, but according to its guidance, that's not due until later this week. A fix for recurring meetings remains "in development," with an ETA yet to be confirmed.
Things get stranger with Power Automate and Fabric, where Microsoft's temporary fix involves pretending you're somewhere else entirely. Depending on the product and province, that could mean Saskatchewan, Arizona or, for Manitobans, Bogota. Because apparently time zones weren't confusing enough already. SharePoint On-Prem customers, meanwhile, have to wait until November 10 for the correct time zones to arrive, while Power Pages users could see server-formatted dates appear an hour out until a service fix lands. Microsoft's current milestone for that is December 12.
Recurring meetings come with an additional treat: changing the time zone resets any previously moved occurrences, which then have to be recreated. Anyone with a calendar full of recurring meetings may wish to put the kettle on first. Microsoft is working on an Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet to remediate non-recurring meetings, but according to its guidance, that's not due until later this week. A fix for recurring meetings remains "in development," with an ETA yet to be confirmed.
Things get stranger with Power Automate and Fabric, where Microsoft's temporary fix involves pretending you're somewhere else entirely. Depending on the product and province, that could mean Saskatchewan, Arizona or, for Manitobans, Bogota. Because apparently time zones weren't confusing enough already. SharePoint On-Prem customers, meanwhile, have to wait until November 10 for the correct time zones to arrive, while Power Pages users could see server-formatted dates appear an hour out until a service fix lands. Microsoft's current milestone for that is December 12.
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A coalition of private-sector security firms working with Japan’s National Police Agency has disrupted XCPE, a backdoor used to build a massive botnet comprising more than 1.3 million Android devices across more than 200 countries. Google, Lumen, Human Security, Plume, Synthient, and TrendAI participated in the disruption. “We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology,” the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Monday blog. Videostrong Technology is a hardware manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China. It builds Android devices, including home TV boxes and projectors. According to Google, Videostrong deliberately embedded the XCPE backdoor in device firmware and sold access to criminal affiliates, allowing them to install additional malware modules on devices shipped to unsuspecting customers. When buyers connected these devices to their home networks, the preinstalled backdoor allowed operators to create proxy networks and hide malicious traffic using the customers' internet connections without their knowledge. The firmware’s pre-installed management agent purported to be a standard remote-management client, according to TrendAI. It pulled updates from a GitHub page, and connected to a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) server that gave the operator full remote control of each box, allowing them to install and remove apps, change settings, and push updates to the infected devices. Between June 3 and October 1, TrendAI documented more than 3.8 million distinct home and mobile IP addresses connected to the operation. The coalition also disrupted the command-and-control domains used to manage the affiliate modules. “Because these affiliates each have diversified distribution channels for their modules beyond XCPE, we assess that taking down their C2 domains will sever access to at least 10 million additional compromised devices,” according to GTIG. Google said it had since cut ties with Videostrong, and banned the OEM from making devices with preloaded Google apps. Videostrong did not immediately respond to The Register’s inquiries. This backdoor and botnet operation is part of the same ecosystem as BadBox 2.0, another notorious botnet that infected more than 10 million TV boxes and other devices before Human, Google, and TrendAI disrupted it in March 2025.®
LIMOGES (ANP) - Een inzamelingsactie voor het afgebrande stadhuis van de Franse stad Limoges heeft al ruim 1 miljoen euro opgeleverd. Het gebouw raakte zwaar beschadigd door de brand op 17 oktober, toen in Frankrijk massaal rellen, plunderingen en vernielingen plaatsvonden.
Het geld komt van meer dan 9800 donoren. Fondation du patrimoine, een onafhankelijke non-profitorganisatie die zich inzet voor Frans erfgoed, hoopt 2 miljoen euro in te zamelen. Hoeveel geld nodig is om het stadhuis te herbouwen, is nog niet bekend.
Premier Sébastien Lecornu vertelde vorige maand tijdens een bezoek aan Limoges dat de staat de kosten zal dekken, maar met bijdragen van publieke en particuliere donoren. Hij zei ook dat het stadhuis de status van historisch monument zal krijgen. Daardoor komt het pand, dat tussen 1879 en 1883 werd gebouwd, in aanmerking voor subsidies.
Frankrijk is verzwakt. Het kampt met protesten en plunderingen, hervormt niet en betaalt torenhoge rentes op zijn staatsschulden. Maar juist nu krijgt de Europese Unie steeds meer Franse trekjes. Hoe kan dat?
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Lawrence Barretto selects his winners and losers at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Ryo Hirakawa admits that making his Formula 1 debut "was my dream" after the Japanese driver finished the Mexico City Grand Prix last weekend, eventually being promoted into the points.