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An unmanned aerial vehicle at the AeroVironment Inc. booth during the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida, May 17, 2022.Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDrone stocks rallied on Friday after President Donald Trump announced import tariffs in an effort to boost U.S. manufacturing and protect national security.Unusual Machines popped 10%, while Red Cat rallied about 5%. Aerovironment and Kratos also climbed.”U.S. drone production needs to be expanded rapidly to ensure U.S. national and economic security,” the White House wrote in a release, adding that outsourcing parts poses major security and cybersecurity concerns.The White House said the tariffs…

The government has issued a temporary ban on the sale of disposable barbecues as they pose a “significant risk to the public” during the current drought and heatwave conditions, according to advice published online.The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade said the product has been the cause of “a number of serious wildfires across the country over the summer months”.It added disposable barbecues “cannot be considered a safe product” in the current conditions and they “must not be made available for sale either in store or online at the current time” in Great Britain.Prime Minister Andy Burnham advised people…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Engineers undertook a safety inspection around the area where a train derailed on Thursday afternoon in East Sussex less than 24 hours before the incident, according to the company operating the affected train.In a post on X at 5.46pm on Wednesday, Southern Railway said: “A safety inspection of the track is taking place between Lewes and Haywards Heath.” It warned of potential delays through the 11-mile section of track.Just before 4pm on Thursday afternoon, the last three carriages of a Southern Railway…

ArianeGroup decides not to halt MaiaSpace. ArianeGroup has decided against dissolving MaiaSpace after the company posted a 37.5 million euro loss for 2025, pushing its shareholders’ equity below zero, European Spaceflight reports. Shareholders’ equity fell from a positive 35.82 million euros at the end of 2024 to negative 823,375 euros. Shareholders’ equity is what remains after the company has paid all its liabilities. A negative figure means MaiaSpace owes more than it owns. Yes, most rocket startups lose a lot of money … Under French corporate law, when shareholders’ equity falls below half of the company’s share capital, the shareholder,…

Here’s a look back at previous by-elections in the east of England.The Mid Bedfordshire by-election in 2023, won by Labour, drew attention to the lack of infrastructure on new housing developments and the Corby by-election of 2012 put the future of Kettering Hospital into the spotlight.Was it any coincidence that after the Wellingborough by-election in 2024, which thrust the issue of “left-behind communities” into the spotlight, the town became one of the first places to receive Labour’s “Pride in Place” funding?When Clacton’s last by-election took place in 2014, it was triggered when the sitting MP Douglas Carswell quit the Conservatives…

Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri called it “leaner and more modern, with references to the original and the simplicity and craft that’s always made it Instagram.” Sure, Adam. Simplicity and craft are definitely what everyone thinks of when Instagram comes to mind. I might be more inclined to think ruthless algorithmic capture, relentless influencer hype cycles, and don’t forget mining every last gram of your personal data to be packaged and repackaged and sold. Potato, potahto. Still,…

Disabled and terminally ill campaigners have written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham urging him to reform social and palliative care before assisted dying legislation is introduced in England and Wales.The Assist Us To Live group says people are currently being “failed by society” and “introducing assisted dying in these circumstances will put sick and disabled people’s lives at risk”.Burnham believes the funding of palliative and social care should be “fixed” before assisted dying is considered. The government is likely to remain officially neutral, but the PM’s remarks suggest he personally will not back the bill proposed by Labour MP Lauren…

NATO fighters shot down a drone over eastern Latvia on Friday, the country’s armed forces said, in an incident authorities linked to “Russian electromagnetic warfare.”The drone was destroyed over the Balvi region by aircraft taking part in NATO’s Baltic Air patrol mission. Latvia said airspace alerts were issued across several eastern and southern regions and lifted at 4:50 a.m. local time.Latvia said the downed drone was “a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle” that had “flown into Latvia as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare,” according to the translated statement. The country’s armed forces didn’t immediately respond to a CNBC request for…

This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.Few investors can claim to have witnessed every major technology wave of the last four decades. Hermann Hauser co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm — one of the world’s most critical chip companies — and today backs some of Europe’s most important deep-tech startups through Amadeus Capital.When I sat down with Hauser this month for The Tech Download podcast, our conversation ranged from artificial intelligence and semiconductors to quantum computing and Europe’s fight for technological sovereignty. His central message was striking amid…

Max Barrett was one of the 9,455 people who voted for self-styled intergalactic space warrior Count Binface.”It would be nice if he won, because it would be good for the area,” Barrett said.”There’d be a lot more tourism and it’d just be interesting him representing this area.”The Clacton resident said despite split opinions on the by-election, there were plenty of positives to take out of it.”The whole community has come out. We’re all talking to each other, which is very nice, no matter the difference in opinion,” he said. “We haven’t had that for a very long time.BBC East’s political…