Max Verstappen has backed Laurent Mekies' contract extension with Red Bull, but has cautioned those who expect the Dutchman to continue his winning form at this weekend's United States Grand Prix.
George Russell has reflected on his title chances and the challenges he faced over the course of the 2026 season.
Esteban Ocon believes Rafael Camara deserves his opportunity with Haas, but remains adamant that he also belongs on the Formula 1 grid in 2027.
Charles Leclerc has revealed what he wants to achieve with Ferrari before the end of the 2026 season.
Ex-Trump adviser and former top aide for homeland security alleged to have profited off government role
Corey Lewandowski, a former political adviser to Donald Trump and top aide at the Department of Homeland Security, is under criminal investigation over allegations he profited off his role in the US government, three US officials and a fourth person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
The investigation began with a criminal referral to the justice department from the internal watchdog at DHS, according to the four people. The DHS inspector general’s office has been investigating Lewandowski’s involvement in the handling of certain government contracts, according to one of the people, a DHS official.
Continue reading...Student List movement hopes to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in a pivotal vote on Sunday
About 150,000 supporters of Serbia’s opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrade on Thursday, seeking to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in crunch parliamentary elections this weekend.
The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote.
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xthylacine has added a photo to the pool:
Crocheted cats brighten a home's interior
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:
Fireworks above the Sumida River, with Tokyo Skytree and an illuminated bridge reflected in the water. Tokyo, Japan, July 2026.
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID-joined devices running Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server. It runs in the background and establishes secure tunnels back to the user's corporate network whenever their device connects to the internet.
Microsoft first acknowledged the issue in a service alert sent to IT administrators in late September, saying it was triggered on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and later after installing the September 2026 security updates when the initial Always On VPN connection failed (e.g., when using automatic protocol selection with IKEv2 and SSTP). "When automatic protocol selection or protocol fallback was configured, affected VPN connections could remain stuck in a Connecting state or fail to connect after an initial connection attempt failed," it said. "In some cases, subsequent connection attempts could display the error, 'The specified port is already in use.'"
After releasing the October 2026 Patch Tuesday Windows 11 cumulative updates, Microsoft marked the bug as resolved, but in a Tuesday update it said the issues weren't actually addressed and that a fix would ship later. "This disclosure was mistakenly updated to Resolved status on October 13, 2026. We have returned its status to Mitigated," it said in a service alert sent to IT admins. "A resolution for this issue is planned to be included in an update to be released in the coming weeks. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion." While Microsoft continues working on a permanent solution, it shared a temporary fix that requires affected customers to choose one of two VPN tunneling protocols to work around the issue.
Microsoft first acknowledged the issue in a service alert sent to IT administrators in late September, saying it was triggered on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and later after installing the September 2026 security updates when the initial Always On VPN connection failed (e.g., when using automatic protocol selection with IKEv2 and SSTP). "When automatic protocol selection or protocol fallback was configured, affected VPN connections could remain stuck in a Connecting state or fail to connect after an initial connection attempt failed," it said. "In some cases, subsequent connection attempts could display the error, 'The specified port is already in use.'"
After releasing the October 2026 Patch Tuesday Windows 11 cumulative updates, Microsoft marked the bug as resolved, but in a Tuesday update it said the issues weren't actually addressed and that a fix would ship later. "This disclosure was mistakenly updated to Resolved status on October 13, 2026. We have returned its status to Mitigated," it said in a service alert sent to IT admins. "A resolution for this issue is planned to be included in an update to be released in the coming weeks. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion." While Microsoft continues working on a permanent solution, it shared a temporary fix that requires affected customers to choose one of two VPN tunneling protocols to work around the issue.
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gecko47 has added a photo to the pool:
Resident of the Top End of Australia, this male was seen in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory.
WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en World Liberty Financial, het cryptobedrijf dat Trump samen met zijn zonen heeft opgericht, zijn aangeklaagd door een aandeelhouder van een concurrerend cryptobedrijf. De aanklager stelt dat de president op illegale wijze financieel heeft geprofiteerd van zijn ambt, wat in strijd is met de Amerikaanse grondwet.
Benjamin Greenberg, aandeelhouder bij Circle Internet Group, beweert dat hij en andere investeerders in Circle financieel zijn benadeeld door oneerlijke concurrentie vanuit World Liberty. Het gaat specifiek om twee betalingen van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) aan World Liberty ter waarde van ruim 2 miljard dollar.
De Amerikaanse grondwet verbiedt presidenten betalingen van buitenlandse overheden te accepteren zonder toestemming van het Congres. "Nog nooit in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis heeft een president zo schaamteloos geprofiteerd van zijn ambt", aldus Greenberg in zijn aanklacht.
Trump rapporteerde vorig jaar 1,4 miljard dollar aan inkomsten uit zijn cryptoprojecten, waaronder World Liberty.
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