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Democrats prepare investigation into Trump's Russian diesel deal
Democratic Party figures in the US are demanding that major banks and ports preserve all documents related to the potential import of Russian diesel.
Bank of Korea Warns: If US Tech Giants’ AI Spending Cools, Chip Exports Could Shrink by Up to $100 Billion — BigGo Finance
The Bank of Korea’s latest estimates show that if major US tech companies hit the brakes on artificial…
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https://www.europesays.com/korea/203981/
The U.S. midterms are playing out against a controversial new scoreboard, as the nation votes in its first major elections since prediction markets went mainstream. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/27/world/prediction-markets-us-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #polymarket #kalshi #republicans #democrats
Brandon Woodruff’s Full-Circle Moment Made Brewers’ Game 3 Win Even Sweeter
The Brewers’ eight-run fifth inning was undoubtedly the defining moment of Milwaukee’s Game 3 win in Tampa Bay,…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/942446/
Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Proposed lifting of paywall would reveal who owns vast majority of land in England and Wales
#Landownership #England #UKnews #Planningpolicy #Housing #Wales #Communities #Politics #Society #TheGuardian #FionaHarveyEnvironmenteditor
Oil today: Iran, US, crude, wti, brent, trump https://www.byteseu.com/2478871/ #@LCO26V #@LCO26Z #BreakingNews:Major #BusinessNews #Conflicts #DonaldTrump #ForeignPolicy #GovernmentAndPolitics #ICEBrentCrude(Oct'25) #Iran #LP #OilAndGas #SaudiArabia #Tehran #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOilFund #WTICrude(Sep'25)
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/343209/ Oil today: Iran, US, crude, wti, brent, trump #@LCO26V #@LCO26Z #BreakingNews:Major #BusinessNews #DonaldTrump #ForeignPolicy #GovernmentAndPolitics #ICEBrentCrude(Oct'25) #Iran #LP #OilAndGas #SaudiArabia #Tehran #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOilFund #WTICrude(Sep'25)
Israel election live: polls open in most consequential vote in country’s history
By Jonathan Yerushalmy
Most polling shows prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will lose its majority, with Gadi Eisenkot the leading opposition contender
#Israel #IsraelGazawar #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Worldnews #BenjaminNetanyahu #TheGuardian #JonathanYerushalmy
Britain Doubles Down on AI Safety: £120M for Security Institute and a World-First AI Biosecurity Lab
In a budget package that signals just how dramatically the AI safety conversation has shifted from think pieces to treasury line items, the UK government has announced a major expansion of funding for artificial intelligence security — including an additional £120 million ($161 million) for Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) and £100 million to establish what officials are calling a world-first national AI Biosecurity Lab.
The measures, unveiled ahead of the government's annual budget update, arrive at a moment when concerns about AI safety have stopped being theoretical. In recent months, models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, and it emerged that a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government health statistics website. Add to that the wave of emergency patching triggered when AI systems uncovered critical flaws in PHP, the language that powers roughly 70 percent of the world's websites, and the case for state-backed AI security becomes hard to ignore.
What the money actually buys
The £120 million top-up goes to the AI Security Institute, the body tasked with testing the most powerful AI models before they are released to the public. The institute has become Britain's frontline defence against the emerging class of AI-enabled threats — cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, manipulation of model behaviour, and the more exotic risks that frontier labs themselves sometimes struggle to anticipate.
The more eye-catching announcement is the AI Biosecurity Lab. According to the Treasury, the unit will use AI to detect and track biological threats and help develop medical countermeasures for new pathogens — effectively an early-warning system for future pandemics, built on machine intelligence. What makes the lab unusual is its funding structure: alongside the £100 million from government, it is backed by up to £200 million from OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the very companies whose models are reshaping the threat landscape.
AI minister Kanishka Narayan pulled no punches about the framing. "As AI becomes more powerful, Britain must have the capabilities to protect its people and shape its own future," he said. "That means staying ahead of emerging threats, from cyberattacks to biological risks, while building more of the critical technology our security depends on."
Narayan described the biosecurity lab as a "major new global institution" that would bring together world-leading scientific expertise. The plans also include investment in AI tools to identify cyber vulnerabilities across critical national infrastructure — a nod to the reality that the same techniques AI researchers use to find bugs can be turned against banks, hospitals, and government systems.
A defensive turn in the AI race
The government's own framing is blunt: "The economic opportunities from AI will only be realised if our critical infrastructure, public services and businesses are resilient to cyber, biological and emerging AI-enabled threats."
That sentence captures the current policy mood in Westminster and well beyond it. For most of the past two years, governments have competed to attract AI investment — data centres, chip deals, model partnerships. Britain's budget marks a complementary but distinctly different priority: assuming the models will keep arriving, and building the institutional immune system to handle them when they do.
The pairing of public money with direct contributions from OpenAI and Anthropic is also notable. Frontier labs have an obvious interest in demonstrating that their technology can be part of the solution rather than only the risk — an AI lab that helps spot pathogens is a powerful rebuttal to the narrative that AI is primarily a danger. Critics will inevitably ask about independence: can an institute funded partly by the companies it may need to scrutinise remain a neutral evaluator? The government will need a clear answer as the lab takes shape.
Why this matters beyond the UK
Britain is not acting alone, but it is moving faster than most. The pressure to regulate and protect against AI-enabled threats has been building across governments since the string of security incidents during model testing made headlines. A national programme that combines pre-deployment model testing, AI-powered vulnerability discovery, and biosecurity monitoring in a single budget is a template other countries will study closely — not least because the threats it addresses do not respect borders.
For the AI industry, the message is twofold. Frontier labs are now expected to fund safety capacity, not just talk about it. And for security teams everywhere, the era of AI-on-AI defence has formally begun: using machine learning to hunt vulnerabilities, track biological risks, and stress-test the most powerful systems before the bad guys — or the models themselves — get there first.
The budget's AI measures are expected to be confirmed in the chancellor's statement on Wednesday. Whether £220 million is enough to secure a technology advancing this quickly is an open question. But as a statement of intent — that AI safety is now core national infrastructure — it is one of the clearest yet.
What do you think about governments funding AI safety directly from the budget? Is this the right model, or should the labs carry the cost alone? Drop your thoughts in the comments.#ai #cybersecurity #uk #policy #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Britain Doubles Down on AI Safety: £120M for Security Institute and a World-First AI Biosecurity Lab
Israel elections 2026 live: Netanyahu and far-right coalition face first vote since October 7 and Gaza invasion
Poll trackers point to Knesset deadlock With voting less than 24 hours away, consensus across major Israeli broadcasters…
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/343040/
Bipartisan brutal white supremacy from the disgraceful ALP and Coalition.
'UN experts are disappointed that bills to ban shackling during childbirth and strip-searching children were blocked by the major parties.
The independent senator Lidia Thorpe introduced the bills to the Senate, where Labor and the Coalition blocked their progress.'
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/oct/27/one-nation-pauline-hanson-independent-jacqui-lambie-labor-anthony-albanese-coalition-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6adfe76f8f085119a57b4976#block-6adfe76f8f085119a57b4976 #IndigenousX #auspol #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy
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This is all we have to do America. Turn out. Show up and vote. Fascists are not in the majority. They never will be. Get out and vote.
I guess I shouldn't really find it surprising that I have been getting more MAGA-related SMS messages than scams this last week.
But I am surprised that the vast majority of them are threatening and/or intimidating. Is that really proving to be effective in getting people to respond to these?
More than 220,000 #overseas #buyers from 197 countries and regions have pre-#registered for the 140th #CantonFair, one month before the major #sourcing #event opens in #Guangzhou. The #autumn edition of the #China #Import and #Export #Fair will run across three phases from October 15 to November 4, 2026, at the China Import and Export Fair Complex. According to the #organiser’s announcement, professional buyers account for nearly 80% of current overseas #registrations. https://chinaexpohub.com/140th-canton-fair-draws-220000-overseas-buyer-registrations-ahead-of-opening/
Report: Israel Used “Where’s Daddy?” AI to Murder Palestinian Journalists & Their Families in Their Homes
"Of the 68 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in the first three months of their genocidal campaign, the majority were targeted & killed while at home with their families."
#USPol #EUPol #palestine #gaza #gazaGenocide #GazaJournalists .
John Middlekauff believes the Steelers feel like a lock for the playoffs: “Let’s face it. At 5-2, unless they get a couple of major injuries, they kind of feel like a playoff lock. Back-to-back years, keeping the Steelers in the playoffs, that’s really commendable. And the way they play, you never know; you could win a playoff game.” #Steelers #NFL
Props to those who do actual software programming -- everything from designing UIs to actually writing the programs to doing "not sexy" but VERY important things like writing good documentation or debugging, and maintaining existing code.
Those of us who are left willingly doing this for a living have major obstacles in our path: vibe-coded "AI" slop, needlessly-bloated middleware, intentionally non-optimized software that gives us a bad name, etc.
That we've not quit by now is a miracle.
How tall are the AI datacentre power poles that sparked a community backlash in Melbourne? | Datacentres – Australia
In something of a David v Goliath battle, Australia’s largest datacentre operator has faced a major setback in…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/941932/
Meta has confirmed that Quest headset sales fell in the third quarter, with Reality Labs revenue down 6% to 443M USD, partly offset by strong growth in AI glasses. Zuckerberg said the company will now only ship new VR devices when it achieves major breakthroughs, hinting at longer gaps between Quest generations as Meta VR Glasses target prosumer and professional buyers. https://roadtovr.com/meta-declining-quest-sales-major-breakthroughs/ #Metaverse #VR #AR #Meta
Israelis head to the polls tomorrow. @CFR_org breaks down what's at stake, the leading challengers to Benjamin Netanyahu, and what could determine the election's outcome. "Neither side has a clear path to a majority in the Knesset. Netanyahu is constricted by being significantly less popular than in previous runs and will have to build a coalition with far-right parties. The change bloc is restricted by some of its members’ unwillingness to build a government with any Arab party," write Ezra Hess and Ittai Ronen.
Five Central Banks, Tech Earnings and Oil Risks Set Up a Week of Cross-Market Repricing
Five Major Central-Bank Decisions, Heavyweight Technology Earnings, Critical Inflation and Growth Data and Oil Supply Uncertainty Compete to…
#Economy #BOC #BOJ #Canada #centralbank #CentralBanks #ECB #Eurozone #Fed #japan #newzealand #oil #RBNZ #stocks #UnitedStates
https://www.europesays.com/3333289/
Japanese Yen lags British Pound ahead of UK Budget and BoJ decision
GBP/JPY posts modest gains on Monday as the Japanese Yen (JPY) underperforms its major peers. However, price action…
#Economy #centralbank #CentralBanks #CentralBanksoftheEuropeanSystem #DeutscheBundesbank #ECB #ESCB #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #EuropeanCentralBanks #THEBANKOFENGLAND #TheBankofFrance #TheBankofItaly
https://www.europesays.com/3333288/
Algeria’s military deployment to Niger: What’s behind the move? | Explainer News
Algeria’s parliament has approved a proposal to deploy troops to neighbouring Niger, in a major shift in the…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/785484/
@anilineapps Recent changes to Indigo are amazing, and the app went from a secondary client to my primary. Thanks!
My only major complaint now is that it’s very often weidly slow, on both Mastodon and Bluesky. Recently I discovered that it gets fast again if I close the app, and I think I found a reproducible case that might help getting to the root cause: quickly open and close a conversation that hasn’t been loaded yet 4–5 times, and seemingly all network operations for that particular account die for a few minutes.
[#TRADESHOW] The 29th FHC #Shanghai #Global #Food #Trade #Show 2026 will be held from November 10 to 12, 2026, at Shanghai New #International #Expo #Center. As a major international food and #beverage #exhibition #event, FHC Shanghai provides a mature cross-border #sourcing #business #platform connecting global #suppliers with professional #buyers in #China and international #markets. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/29th-fhc-shanghai-global-food-trade-show-2026/
Welcome to the Valley of Pain
An explosion of #AI-powered hacks will reshape life online.
This week could go down as the worst in the history of #cybersecurity. On Wednesday, news emerged about two major vulnerabilities in #PHP used by 70% of websites, which prompted governments, hospitals, and companies around the world to take digital services offline as a precaution. There have already been millions of attempts to exploit these weaknesses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/the-safe-internet-is-shrinking/689130/
https://archive.is/20261024140417/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/the-safe-internet-is-shrinking/689130/#selection-611.0-625.0
NFL Week 7: Falcons upset 49ers, Miami earns first win, Bengals rally past Ravens
The NFL’s Week 7 action on Sunday, Oct. 25, featured major upsets, dramatic finishes and several significant divisional…
#NFL #CincinnatiBengals #Cincinnati #Bengals #Football
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1037586/
Make Yourself
#incubus #makeyourself #90smusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #90srock #rock #rockmusic #altrock #alternativerock #numetal #funkrock Incubus release their third album October 25, 1999. It was the band's major breakthrough album ... for many, it was their first introduction to Incubus' music. The album produced three big singles that charted on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart: "Pardon Me," "Stellar," and the massive crossover hit "Drive." The music…
Japanese Yen underperforms as US Dollar bounces back, Fed-BoJ takes centre stage
The Japanese Yen (JPY) trades lower against its major currency peers on Monday. In the European trade, the US Dollar (USD) is up 0.35% at around 157.36 against the Japanese currency. Japanese Yen Price Today The table below shows the percentage change…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1558389/japanese-yen-underperforms-as-us-dollar-bounces-back-fed-boj-takes-centre-stage/