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A woman said she never gave an MP consent to touch her breasts at London’s Groucho Club and described him as a “bit of a pest”.Patrick Spencer, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, is accused of coming up behind two different women and putting his arms around them before touching their breasts on a night out in August 2023. One of the victims gave evidence during his trial at Southwark Crown Court and said he had insisted she have a drink despite her saying no before he touched her.Spencer, 38, who lives in Suffolk and was elected as an…

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Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching on Tuesday and what’s on the radar for Wednesday’s session. Jamie Dimon live on ‘Squawk Box’ JPMorgan’s CEO joins “Squawk Box” a day after his company reported earnings . The stock hit a new high on Tuesday, and closed at $342.89. Shares are up 7% in a month. JPM YTD mountain JPMorgan performance year to date Big data The producer…

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Further complicating the process, even the expiration of the Microsoft certificate that signed the shims, which took place late last month, isn’t enough to revoke the ones ESET identified. A rogue’s gallery of defective shims The shims identified by ESET authorize secondary components that are known to be vulnerable to various exploits. The Oracle shim, for instance, signs a binary vulnerable to CVE-2015-5381. Smolár said the skill required to exploit the vulnerability is low. Other vulnerable shims fail to support protections, such as MOK deny-list enforcement and SBAT enforcement, both of which came into effect after the affected shim was…

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After it begins its summer recess on Thursday, the House of Commons is not due to return until 1 September.Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle can recall Parliament during the recess if asked to by the government, once deciding whether it is in the public interest.Shadow Commons leader Jesse Norman claimed the government “could not bear the idea of a new prime minister facing any scrutiny before September”. He described the decision not to debate adding sitting days as a “total humiliation and embarrassment for the government”. “It is the worst possible start for a new prime minister,” he told MPs…

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Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of September despite a recent lawsuit filed by state attorneys general challenging the deal, Paramount’s lead trial counsel Jeffrey Kessler told CNBC’s David Faber in an interview on Tuesday. On Monday, a group of state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking the merger due to antitrust concerns. Later in the day, the group filed court papers seeking a temporary restraining order to put the deal on hold so that legal proceedings could move forward. Either way,…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that IBM has landed on the wrong side of a major shift in corporate technology spending.”That’s the new reality, and I have no idea when it will change, which is why I can’t recommend IBM, not even after today’s severe decline,” the “Mad Money” host said.IBM shares tumbled about 25% after the company preannounced disappointing second-quarter results ahead of next week’s scheduled earnings release. Revenue, earnings and software revenue growth all fell short of Wall Street expectations, prompting CEO Arvind Krishna to acknowledge the company “faltered” as several large customer deals failed to close.Cramer said…

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Sir Keir Starmer has become the first serving UK prime minister to be awarded France’s top honour, the Legion d’honneur.He received the award at the end of a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing – the group of countries Sir Keir and French President Emmanuel Macron helped set up to help Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of 2022.In his tribute, Macron praised Sir Keir’s “decency” and expressed his gratitude for the “commitments for obviously your country, but the security of Europe, Ukraine, the bilateral relationship”.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was among those to pay tribute to…

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Yum Brands’ Taco Bell said on Tuesday it had removed limited items from some restaurants as a precaution but said U.S. health officials have not linked the widening outbreak of cyclosporiasis to the chain or any specific food product.Cases of the disease, which causes diarrhea, nausea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, have risen steadily across the country in recent months. Thirty-four states have reported cases, according to the U.S. Centers ​for Disease Control and Prevention.Shares of Yum fell as much as 4.5% after the Washington Post reported federal and state health officials were investigating whether lettuce served at Taco Bell may have been associated with the current outbreak of…

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