City’s mayor has consistently argued that rising housing costs have made it increasingly unaffordable

A New York City housing board has voted to freeze rent for approximately 1m apartments.

In a major victory for Zohran Mamdani, the mayor who campaigned on a pledge to freeze rent, the Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 on Thursday to freeze increases on one- and two-year leases. The decision will provide relief to tenants in more than 1m rent-stabilized apartments, representing over 40% of the city’s rental housing.

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Worst incident of its kind in country for more than 125 years leaves many searching for multiple family members – and pleading for international help

• Scenes of destruction after deadly earthquakes in Venezuela – visual guide

Nearly all of Ligia Level’s family lived in a trio of apartment blocks along Hotel Avenue, a seafront sweep of palm-specked resorts and high-rise condos along Venezuela’s Caribbean coast.

When a powerful “doublet” of earthquakes jolted the region on Wednesday afternoon, those buildings and the lives within them came crashing down.

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As Andy Burnham stuck to his ‘cool dad’ look while the UK sweltered, many in the Paris fashion pack did the same

For many, dressing for an extreme heatwave means wearing as little as possible. But for some men, not even record-breaking temperatures can dissuade them from pulling on their favourite pair of jeans.

This week as temperatures in the UK rose sharply on the back of the climate crisis, Andy Burnham stuck to his tried and tested “cool dad” combination of dark jeans with a dark blue (not black as he pointed out to Kemi Badenoch) T-shirt as he made his way to London to be sworn in as MP for Makerfield.

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YouTubers reveal how they are challenging traditional broadcast coverage of the tournament with their own audience interaction

For decades, the World Cup belonged to broadcasters. Fans gathered around the television, watched the game live or caught the highlights later that evening. In the UK, BBC and ITV acted as gatekeepers, deciding which stories were told and how audiences experienced football’s biggest tournament.

That world still exists. Millions watch live matches on television, and broadcasters remain dominant when it comes to rights and access. But alongside them, another layer of football media has emerged.

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Efforts of campaign groups, supporters and party figures coalesced after May elections as MPs’ views began to change

The third coming of Andy Burnham began in earnest on the dancefloor of the Ministry of Sound. It was the annual conference of the centre-left pressure group Compass on an unusually hot spring weekend in May 2025. Keir Starmer, a year into his premiership, was deep in the trenches of the welfare battle, and the event’s keynote speakers were Burnham and Louise Haigh.

Under the hot pink lights, the mayor of Greater Manchester joked that he was doing the “rally the troops” slot, inappropriate for a pessimistic Evertonian. But he said there was one reason to still be cheerful.

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UTRECHT (ANP) - De hitte blijft de komende dagen voor problemen zorgen op het spoor. Tot en met zaterdag gold al een aangepaste dienstregeling, maar diverse treinen blijken reparaties nodig te hebben en dat zal van invloed zijn op de dienstregeling maandag en dinsdag. Dat meldt de NS. Hoe groot de impact precies is, is nog onbekend.

Ook rijden er zondag op het traject Den Haag Centraal - Leiden Centraal - Haarlem - Amsterdam Centraal minder intercity's, aldus de vervoerder.

De regio zoekt massaal buiten naar verkoeling. In verpleeghuis De Burcht in de Rotterdamse wijk Het Lage Land gebeurt dat nét even anders. Op de gesloten afdeling voor bewoners met dementie vliegen de standballen door de lucht, staan voeten in een badje en spuiten ze elkaar nat met waterpistolen.

In een flat aan de Schakelweg in Hoogvliet is vrijdagmiddag een kind van een balkon gevallen. Het slachtoffer maakte een val van zeven hoog. Hoe dat kon gebeuren, is nog onduidelijk. De politie gaat uit van een ongeluk.

F1 moves on from Barcelona to Spielberg for the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend, where various car and power unit developments are expected to be rolled out. But what exactly will each squad be running? F1.com presents a round-up…

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Een welgemeende 'ach' maar een nog net iets gemeende 'HAHA' voor de (w)arme klimaatactivisten van Geef Tegengas, bekend van niet sporen. Die wilden vandaag en morgen de Rotterdamse haven blokkeren (deden ze al vaker) voor het klimaat, maar het klimaat laat het niet toe. Derhalve moeten klimaat en uiteraard ook 'genocide' eventjes wachten tot het weer een paar graden koeler is in Nederland. Geef Tegengas schrijft op Insta: "Helaas zien we ons door de extreme hitte als gevolg van klimaat verandering genoodzaakt onze massa actie op 26 en 27 af te lassen (nogal een warme bezigheid, dunkt ons, red.)." En dat terwijl er doorgaans juist sproeiers aanwezig zijn ter verkoeling. Zo blijkt het zonnetje machtiger dan een beetje zonnebrand, een petje, een fles water en het doorzettingsvermogen van de intersectionele klimaatactivist. Het goede nieuws voor hen: het klimaat verandert! Dus er komt vast wel een volgende keer.

De 'chille hang out' gaat door!

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Newly discovered spider uses ballista web to capture prey. A bizarre species of spider from the rainforests of Far North Queensland springs a nasty surprise.

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A high-severity flaw in Amazon's AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code meant that opening the wrong Git repository could allow an attacker to execute code on a developer's machine and potentially hand them the keys to the dev's cloud environment. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-12957 and assigned a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.5, centers on how Amazon Q handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configurations. Wiz found the extension would automatically load a repository's .amazonq/mcp.json file and execute the commands it contained when a developer opened the project and activated Amazon Q. "The security model assumes the user explicitly configures these servers. After all, you're granting an AI assistant permission to run arbitrary commands on your machine. This should require informed consent," the researchers write. "The vulnerability arose when this assumption was violated: Amazon Q automatically loaded MCP configurations from .amazonq/mcp.json within the workspace – no prompt, no consent, no workspace trust check." MCP lets AI assistants launch local processes to carry out tasks. In Amazon Q's case, those processes inherited the developer's environment, giving them access to AWS credentials, API keys, authentication tokens, SSH agent sockets, and other secrets already loaded into the session. "The combination meant that a single malicious config file could execute arbitrary commands with full access to the developer's credentials – no user interaction required beyond opening the folder and activating Amazon Q," Wiz said. To prove the attack worked, Wiz built a repository with a malicious MCP configuration. Opening the project and activating Amazon Q caused the extension to execute a command against AWS using the developer's existing credentials. Amazon fixed the bug in version 1.65.0 of its language server, which powers Amazon Q's IDE integrations. Existing installations should receive the patched component automatically unless you've blocked automatic updates. "We would like to thank Wiz for collaborating with us on this issue. We have remediated this issue in language server version 1.65.0," Amazon said in an advisory, though it didn't respond to The Register's questions. Wiz argues the bug is less an Amazon problem than an industry one. More and more AI coding assistants are adopting MCP to connect models to local tools and services, allowing them to execute commands on developers' machines. According to the researchers, similar workspace configuration flaws have recently surfaced in other AI coding tools. It suggests attackers have found a new place to lurk: the hidden files that developers rarely think twice about trusting. ®

De economische schade van een hittegolf is niet altijd even zichtbaar. Maar die is er wel degelijk: de productiviteit daalt erdoor. Met de opwarming van de aarde loopt vooral Zuid-Europa het risico op welvaartsverlies, óók als de airco’s vaker aanstaan.

A visual identity for Barcelona's Festa de la Ciència, transforming microorganisms, cells and invisible structures into a playful graphic system designed to spark curiosity and discovery.