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World · Deutsche Welle

India: Testing agency revamp follows renewed criticism

India's education ministry has directed the NTA to audit its exam process amid renewed calls for the agency to be dissolved. Meanwhile, Indian sailors are allegedly being pressured to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.

World · Al Jazeera

Russia says more than 600 drones targeted Moscow region

The attacks injured at least three people, including a girl, and damaged a Wildberries warehouse, Russian officials say.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates

The bugs could be exploited to crash Safari, corrupt memory, leak sensitive data, escape the sandbox, and exfiltrate data. The post Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Business · BBC Business

Job vacancies at five-year low as smaller firms scale back recruitment

Small firms cite labour and operating costs as reasons for scaling back hiring, the UK's statistics body says.

World · Al Jazeera

Vessel hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says

British maritime agency says the incident caused one casualty and damaged the vessel's engine room.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than

World · Al Jazeera

Can China’s new Arctic Sea route to Europe replace Middle East chokepoints?

Beijing's new 'Ice Silk Road' cuts through a melting Arctic, and could prompt fresh tensions with the US, say analysts.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Maccess

Your Mac, in your pocket — trackpad, screen, and AI Discussion | Link

Society · The Guardian Society

Burnham urged to intervene over ‘zero-hours’ custody officers in private prison

Exclusive: Prison officers’ union strongly opposes HMP Millsike offering flexible work escorting prisoners amid staff shortages Andy Burnham is under pressure to intervene in a privately run prison that is seeking to recruit custody officers on zero-hours contracts for the first time across England and Wales’ prison estate. Managers at HMP Millsike, a category C prison for 1,500 prisoners near York operated by the outsourcing company Mitie, have signed off online adverts for £25-an-hour prisoner escort roles “on a flexible, task-based basis”. Continue reading...

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Ukrainian Lessons by Charlotte Higgins review – when art and war collide

A vivid and hopeful study of how culture endures in the midst of extreme violence Towards the end of her subtly piercing book about art in wartime, Charlotte Higgins recounts an autumn visit to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in the north-east of the country, a short drive from the Russian border. In a tranquil park, she sees a man standing in a stream, making stones balance on top of each other in a teetering tower – “a metaphor of life in that city,” she writes, “that would have seemed too obvious for a novel”. Still, as a good novelist would, Higgins doesn’t seem to beg telling details from a place so much as have them leap to her open eye and ear. The cartoons a boy is watching that fall silent in a power cut, allowing the distant boom of explosions on the frontline to be heard. A cityscape tattooed on a young poet’s arm that cuts off suddenly where skin from his leg was grafted after he was torn up by shrapnel. Cataracts of larkspur, as Higgins describes them, in a field in the frontline Donbas region, “pouring down the hill, pooling at the bottom into a great lake of blooms … Larkspur thrives on ground where there has been recent disturbance.” Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Controller AI

Build deterministic agents that actually follow your process Discussion | Link

Society · NPR Top Stories

A dispute about fact vs. fiction at the trial over Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing

A prosecutor said that while few have been willing to speak about the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, Duane "Keffe D" Davis is the "one person who has a hard time being silent."

Society · NPR Top Stories

Palestinian American returns to his West Bank home, under siege by Israeli settlers

The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers traveled to his property on Monday to join other family members who have been defending it.

World · Al Jazeera

Trump says N Korea’s Kim has responded to his request for a conversation

US president says conversations with Kim Jong Un at a 'positive' stage and slams Seoul for refusing to join war on Iran.

World · Al Jazeera

Can Trump limit birthright citizenship? Legal experts are doubtful

Trump’s new order targeting ‘birth tourism’ faces an uphill legal battle after an earlier Supreme Court defeat.

World · Al Jazeera

A hero’s welcome as Cameroon parades its first Women’s AFCON title

Cameroon’s women’s football team received a hero’s welcome in Yaounde after winning its first Women’s Africa Cup

World · BBC World

Inside secret police warehouse as Germany targets small boats gangs

German authorities seize dinghies and life jackets during their first raids under a new law that cracks down on smuggling.

Society · The Guardian Society

Rising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say experts

Psychiatrists in Channel 4 documentary argue it is more a ‘social construct’ than a medical condition People are increasingly seeking to an obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who have called for more research to understand why. Some people now regard ADHD as “an identity, rather than a disorder”, with the result that many obtain assessments from poor quality private providers, which lead them to “believe they have a condition needing treatment”, said the psychiatrist Dr Marios Adamou, the founder of the UK Adult ADHD Network. Continue reading...

World · BBC World

IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus

Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by the parents.

World · Deutsche Welle

Philippines: student livestreams school shooting

Two students, including the shooter, have been killed and at least two others wounded at a private university campus in the southern port city of Zamboanga.

World · Deutsche Welle

Zambia's Hichilema wins second presidential term

Hakainde Hichilema won over 60% of the vote in the first round of Zambia's presidential election, which also saw authorities launch raids against leading opposition figures on election night.

World · Al Jazeera

Hichilema wins second term as president of copper-rich Zambia

Hichilema wins Zambia’s election with 60% after attacks on election officials briefly halted the vote count.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time

Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.

Cybersecurity · Snyk Blog

Benchmarking Secure-and-Functional Remediation and How Snyk Agent Fix Lifts Frontier-Model Fix Rates by over 14%

A benchmark of secure, functional vulnerability fixes across JavaScript, Java, and Python shows Snyk Intelligence helps frontier models break past a 72–75% performance plateau.