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Shanks, speaking to BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast, said he had arranged for Swinney to have a security briefing following his comments in April. He said it was therefore “surprising” that “having had that security briefing” the first minister was continuing to pursue the matter.The Scottish Labour MP told the programme: “I think it is for him [Swinney] to answer why he is balancing what seems to be a political intervention against the country’s national security.”I think it is irresponsible for the first minister to do that.”He added: “There is no inherent reason why the UK government would not want to…

A shopper browses fresh fruit at a grocery store in Wilmington, North Carolina, US, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA key inflation reading Wednesday showed prices moderating across a range of goods and services, possibly taking the urgency out of an imminent interest rate hike.The consumer price index, part of the Federal Reserve’s inflation dashboard, showed a seasonally adjusted increase of 0.1% during July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Excluding food and energy, the so-called core CPI rose 0.2%.On an annual basis, the inflation rates were 3.4% and 2.5%, both down 0.1 percentage…

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attend an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan Feb. 3, 2025. Kim Kyung-Hoon | ReutersSilicon Valley leaders from Elon Musk to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have hyped the deflationary effects of the artificial intelligence boom. “Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp,” Altman wrote recently. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the world’s richest person, has argued that AI and robotics will create extreme abundance and drive down cost. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son said he expected a 40% drop in prices and that “unnecessarily hard…

Wilby told the court he had hoped to continue their previous conversation about the constituent on the Tube, but claimed Creasy “became quite agitated” and that he was “quite shocked by her reaction”.He said he started recording on his phone “for my safety”.Wilby denied standing in front of Creasy and claimed she spoke to him first. He also denied telling her in 2024 that he had been diagnosed as a psychopath.Delivering his verdict, Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram referred to footage in which Wilby said: “I don’t care about your feelings, your feelings don’t matter to me”.He added: “She made…

A view of the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant as low flow rate of the Danube River has raised the risk of a shutdown of both operating reactors in Cernavoda, Constanta, Romania, on August 4, 2026. The Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant, Romania’s only nuclear power facility, produces about 20% of the country’s electricity.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA hot and exceptionally dry summer has disrupted Europe’s nuclear power plants, prompting governments to take extraordinary measures to keep energy supplies running. In Romania, the state-owned nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica warned it may shut down its last working reactor as soon as Thursday…

The trend is worst in the tropics, even though overall warming is stronger at higher latitudes. The researchers say this is because temperature variability increases in the tropics, making extremes more frequent. Hot nights The number of hot hours also increases more at night than it does during the day. This is where the hourly analysis can start to seem more relatable than metrics of temperature change or counts of days. Days that fail to qualify as “hot days” still see an increase of several hot hours—mostly at night.  This wouldn’t show up if you just counted the number of…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he accepts his announcements aimed at tackling the cost of living are not enough on their own and hinted at further support. Burnham told BBC’s Wake up to Money he will deliver an “accumulation of smaller things” that “combine to take the pressure down” on household budgets.He spoke of an overhaul of train fares and “more public control” of energy, water and housing but did not give details on how he would bring this about.Burnham has made a number of announcements to help people with the cost of living since taking office, including the…

Chinese tech company Tencent is a gaming giant and the parent company of WeChat, the ubiquitous social messaging app in China.Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTencent posted a beat on second-quarter revenue thanks to an acceleration at its China gaming unit and AI-driven advertising, but its core profit missed analyst expectations.The Chinese tech giant also reported a rise in capital expenditure in the quarter. Here’s how Tencent did in the second quarter versus LSEG estimates:Revenue: 204.78 billion Chinese yuan ($30.36 billion) versus 202.17 billion yuan expectedNet profit: 56 billion Chinese yuan versus 61.82 billion yuan expectedRevenue rose…

Andy Burnham has said the government is considering a ban on disposable barbecues amid increased wildfire risk driven by this summer’s droughts.The prime minister told reporters single-use grills had been behind a number of recent blazes and people should not be using them “at this moment in time”.Some retailers have already decided to voluntarily stop selling the devices, which have previously attracted warnings from fire chiefs. It comes as Burnham chairs an emergency Cobra meeting on the government’s response to record temperatures in recent months.A No 10 spokesperson said the government understood firefighters, farmers and NHS staff were all facing…

Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Feb. 27, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersAI cloud giant CoreWeave was up in premarket trading on Wednesday after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers for AI compute capacity. The company, which rents out high-powered computing capacity needed to run and build AI, reported after the bell Tuesday that its second-quarter revenue came in at $2.6 billion, up 112% from $1.2 billion in the second quarter of…