El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

The UK has warned countries around the world that the climate and nature crises and the coming El Niño threaten their national security and defence, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of an explosive report suppressed under Keir Starmer.

Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, made a presentation to the foreign ministers of the EU as well as Kenya and other countries on Wednesday night at a private meeting during the UN general assembly in New York, based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and food shortages.

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Witness says T2 Hawk aircraft, which was being used for a training flight, ‘was basically on fire’ on takeoff

An RAF jet crashed and exploded moments after two pilots ejected during a training flight over Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in north Wales on Wednesday.

The aircraft, a Hawk T2, had just taken off from RAF Valley on the west of the island when the incident occurred, witnesses said.

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Far-right posters go up around Gosport, but some residents say there’s ‘another side’ to life in the town

Alan Dale was in two minds as he gazed across at Portsmouth harbour in the late September sunshine and reflected on the latest show of force by far-right activists on the south coast against a supposed disembarkation of asylum seekers.

A stone’s throw away, masked followers of the anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas had been cheered on Tuesday night by hundreds of people, many of them local, who had gathered after social media posts suggested authorities planned to land the migrants in the nearby town of Gosport.

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Malard, the summer signing from Man United, scored off the bench at the weekend, and I’m looking forward to seeing how she does tonight. With Beevor-Jones soon to be fit, there’s competition for her place, so this is a chance for her to assert herself.

I’m not sure we’ll see Chelsea play 3-5-2 that often this season. It makes sense tonight because Vienna are playing it and, if teams match up, the better one tends to win; it also make sense given the players Sonia Bompastor has available.

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Torcal SUV can travel up to 375 miles on a single charge and is part of a £350m investment in the VW-owned carmaker’s UK business

Bentley is launching its first fully electric car – complete with a drum soundtrack to replace the growl of a combustion engine – as part of a £350m investment in its UK business.

The vehicle, an SUV called the Torcal, is Bentley’s cheapest, starting at £173,000, and will be built at its factory in Crewe, securing the jobs of the 4,000 workers there.

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Kremlin yet to respond publicly to US invitation that is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries

The United States has invited Vladimir Putin to take part in the meeting of the G20 scheduled in Miami in December in what would be the first major summit with the Russian leader present since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The invitation, which marks a significant reversal by the Trump administration of Russia’s international isolation, was announced by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, during a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations conference in New York.

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Talk about digital sovereignty! Europe's most powerful supercomputer, Jupiter, is finally getting the domestic silicon infusion it's been waiting for. On Tuesday, French chip designer SiPearl began delivery of its long-anticipated Rhea1 CPUs to Bull for integration into the system. Jupiter, which came online last year, became the European Union's first exascale supercomputer. It currently holds the designation of being the fifth most powerful system on the Top500 ranking of publicly known supercomputers. But that feat wasn't achieved using European silicon. The Jupiter Booster, which set the EU record, was powered by 24,000 American-made GH200 superchips from GPU giant Nvidia. These high-end accelerators were the precursor to the Grace Blackwell superchips used in its AI rack systems and featured a single Grace CPU and H200 GPU. However, the Booster section is only part of the larger Jupiter system. SiPearl's chips will power a second CPU-only partition. Rhea1 has been under development for several years and marks a turning point for sovereign supercomputing. Based on Arm's Neoverse V1 core designs, the chip is already showing its age. Even the Grace CPUs powering the booster section use Arm's newer V2 cores. Yet, the Rhea1 is still notable. With 61 billion transistors, the 80-core chip was designed specifically for running HPC and scientific workloads not well suited to GPUs. In many respects, the chip is reminiscent of the Fujitsu A64FX CPUs that propelled Japan's Fugaku supercomputer to the number one spot on the Top500 back in early 2020. Each Rhea1 processor is equipped with four stacks of HBM2e totaling 64 GB and achieving 1.8 TB/s of bandwidth. Along with the HBM, each Rhea1 CPU has four DDR5 memory channels. Many HPC workloads benefit from a higher ratio of memory bandwidth to FLOPS. This is why systems like Fugaku have historically done so well on the Top500's HPCG benchmark relative to their positioning on the more commonly cited HPL bench. "Its high memory bandwidth is particularly well suited to applications that benefit from efficient access to large amounts of data. Bringing this European processor technology into JUPITER is an important step in making these capabilities available to the scientific community," Thomas Lippert, director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, said in a statement. For Anders Dam Jensen, executive director of EuroHPC JU, the delivery represents a major turning point for the EU. "This achievement demonstrates what Europe can accomplish by bringing together research, industry and world-class infrastructure to build a stronger European HPC ecosystem,” he said. When complete, Jupiter's CPU partition will fill 1,300 nodes totaling 2,600 processors with estimates putting its total output at 5 petaFLOPS. While tiny compared to the booster, it remains relevant as not all workloads can take advantage of GPU-based compute. Jupiter isn't SiPearl's only win. The Alice Recoque supercomputer is slated to use the chip dev's Rhea2 chips in its CPU partition and AMD's MI430X accelerators in its GPU partition. ®

F5 has fixed a critical zero-day bug in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) that unknown miscreants are exploiting to remotely execute malicious code. BIG-IP APM is a centralized access management and security proxy that allows users to connect to enterprise networks, applications, APIs, and cloud services via a single login. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-94127, is a heap-based buffer overflow that affects BIG-IP APM systems configured as an OAuth Authorization Server, with an access policy and OAuth profile on the same virtual server. It received a critical 9.3 CVSS v4.0 score - so patch now. “We have learned that this vulnerability has been exploited,” F5 said in a Tuesday security advisory. F5 did not immediately respond to our questions, including how many systems have been compromised, and whether criminals are abusing the vulnerability to deploy ransomware. Also on Tuesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2026-94127 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and gave federal agencies a Friday deadline to apply patches. This warning comes about a year after F5 and CISA warned “highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into the vendor’s network and stole BIG-IP source code, zero-day vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to some users. The attack posed an "imminent risk" to federal agencies, US cybersecurity officials said at the time. The US Justice Department allowed F5 to delay disclosing the intrusion after determining that delayed public disclosure was warranted. This only happens if public disclosure poses a substantial risk to national security or public safety. Neither the feds nor private researchers have publicly attributed the intrusion to a particular group or country, but a year earlier Google's Mandiant threat hunters linked exploitation of the critical F5 BIG-IP flaw CVE-2023-46747 to UNC5174, an access broker it assessed with moderate confidence as operating from China. The group attempted to sell access to US defense contractor appliances and UK government entities.®

TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco "aimed at turning high school graduates into founders," writes the SF Standard.

Or, as CBS News describes it, "One blue-chip Silicon Valley investor has a proposal for young people who are questioning whether to attend college — enroll in AI school instead...."

Specifically, the academy will provide instruction geared to subjects such as designing AI systems, fundraising for startups, selling businesses and storytelling. Students won't take tests or be assigned homework but will instead focus on building real projects. Courses will be taught by tech entrepreneurs, with the academy naming OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as either an instructor or guest lecturer.

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"There will be no traditional grades, tests, or homework," said the announcement. Instead, students will be encouraged to "build" in SF and work with partners from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and other firms. They'll be encouraged to live in campus housing in San Francisco. "The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era," Gagan Biyani, chief executive of the academy, wrote on X. Biyani cofounded the ed-tech startup Udemy...

The school is opening applications for a Founding Class Fellowship a one-year, tuition-free program for around 50 students... The academy said it will bring in notable Silicon Valley names, like OpenAI's Sam Altman, as guest speakers and faculty. Students in the founding class will receive about $50,000 worth of computing credit — the sought-after currency in Silicon Valley to run AI models — as well as a $5,000 travel and research budget. The school is receiving funding from tech executives, including Fidji Simo, formerly of OpenAI and Instacart; Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator; and Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify.

"In the AI era, it's more important to come out with a portfolio of projects that you worked on and work experience than it is to have a diploma or certificate," Biyani told the San Francisco Chronicle:

Biyani said the academy plans to grow its enrollment and open a two-year program, pending regulatory approval, starting in the fall of 2028. Tuition is expected to be on par with the cost of an elite private university...

The academy raised $42 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The ten founding partners are Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit and Stripe. A network of hundreds of instructors, hiring partners and guest speakers includes OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, according to the academy's website.

The FAQ describes a typical week by saying "Most of your time is yours to build. Each week, you share your progress with peers and practitioners, get direct feedback, and decide where to take your work next."

Q: Can I use AI to help with my application?
A: Yes. Use AI the way you'd use it on any project: to move faster, test ideas, and get past a blank page....

"The best assignments now are problems so hard they cannot be solved without AI," Andreessen Horowitz argued on X.com. "The Academy courses follow the same logic and will be taught by world-class leaders... The next generation will not be taught the way the last one was. The Academy is built for that world, and it begins in San Francisco."

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the news.

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Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon have previewed Williams' major upgrade package, which is set to debut at this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

We've assessed the latest betting markets and selected our pick of early bets offering the best value at the Baku City Circuit.

Lando Norris believes "I'm doing some things better than last year" after a strong recent run of form, but says that this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix "is the one I've not been looking forward to".

NEW YORK (ANP) - Oekraïne moet doorgaan met hervormingen. Premier Rob Jetten heeft de noodzaak daarvan benadrukt in een gesprek woensdag met president Volodymyr Zelensky van Oekraïne in de marge van de VN-top in New York.

De afgelopen maanden zijn enkele grote corruptiezaken in Oekraïne naar buiten gekomen. Zo is vorige maand nog het plaatsvervangend hoofd van Zelenskys kantoor ontslagen omdat zij verdachte is in een onderzoek van de anticorruptiedienst (NABU).

De aanpak van corruptie en het schrappen van overtollige regels is belangrijk voor de toetreding van Oekraïne tot de EU, zei Jetten tegen media. Hij wees op de grote innovatiekracht van het land, maar een groot deel wordt volgens hem niet benut doordat regelgeving en corruptie in de weg zitten.

Volgens Jetten is het ook lastig om de hervormingen door te voeren door de voortdurende Russische aanvallen. Het parlement in Kyiv kan daardoor "amper functioneren". Jetten heeft Zelensky kennis en expertise aangeboden om te helpen bij de bestrijding van corruptie en het schrappen van regels.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse regering werkt aan een plan om de export van diesel voor negentig dagen te verbieden. Dat melden ingewijden aan nieuwssite Politico. Daarmee probeert de regering van president Donald Trump volgens hen de energieprijzen te verlagen.

De stijgende energieprijzen in de Verenigde Staten zetten de Republikeinen onder druk in aanloop naar de tussentijdse verkiezingen in november. Door de oorlog die de VS in februari begonnen tegen Iran en door Oekraïense aanvallen op Russische raffinaderijen zijn de dieselprijzen tot recordhoogtes gestegen. Sommige Republikeinen eisen daarom een exportverbod.

De bronnen zeggen dat de meningen echter verdeeld zijn binnen de regering. Sommige Republikeinen en topmensen uit de raffinagesector zouden Trump ervan proberen te overtuigen dat een verbod een slecht idee is. Het plan kan volgens de critici averechts uitpakken doordat de prijzen voor benzine en andere brandstoffen uiteindelijk zouden stijgen.

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