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Although shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell restaurants has been a prime suspect in an explosive outbreak of the diarrheal parasite Cyclospora, a new report from the Food and Drug Administration finally reveals where all the contaminated lettuce was sold—and only a sliver of it went to Taco Bell locations. The feces-tainted lettuce was sourced from Mexico and sold by Taylor Farms, a mammoth produce provider based in California. Taylor Farms has drawn scrutiny for its ties to the Trump administration and reluctance to provide information amid the outbreak, which has now sickened over 23,000 people across 47 states, killing…
On Tuesday, probation officers voted in favour of strike action over the scheme, with probation union Napo saying 90% of its members had backed potential industrial action.”This ballot wasn’t about members being too busy,” Napo national chair Ben Cockburn said. “It was professionals warning they cannot protect the public properly when there are not enough people to do the work.”The MoJ said it was “disappointed” by the ballot outcome.Inspectorate reports published between January and March 2026 highlight staffing gaps in probation, a lack of experience, significant issues with information sharing, as well as “the burden placed on overstretched staff by…
Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, during a news conference in Oslo, Norway, on Jan. 29, 2025. Naina Helén Jåma | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNorway’s $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund reported a record half-year profit of more than $184 billion on Wednesday, as a rally in Asian technology stocks helped the fund return 9.4%. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) manages the fund, which was set up in the 1990s to invest revenues from the country’s oil and gas industry. The fund — currently valued at around $2.34 trillion — is an investor in more than 7,000 companies across more…
The Cobra meeting will be attended by ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Home Office, and Department for Health, as well as the Environment Agency.It will be the second Cobra meeting this year on heatwaves, after one took place amid high temperatures in June.A spokesperson for No 10 said this summer was proving “challenging” in the UK, particularly for “firefighters tackling wildfires, farmers working in drought conditions, and NHS staff in busy A&E units”. “We will continue to take the action needed to keep communities safe, protect water supplies and safeguard the environment,” they said.The hottest…
World oil demand is set to fall further than previously expected this year, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, as the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz deepens. The IEA forecast demand will drop by 1.6 million barrels a day in 2026. That’s 510,000 barrels a day more than its last monthly prediction in July. High fuel prices will continue to weigh on consumption, the institution said, though demand is expected to pick up through the year and return to growth in the final quarter. The situation in the Strait of Hormuz remains mired in confusion, with…
Google has been all-in with Gemini for the last several years, and despite some animosity online, the bet is paying off. CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users (MAUs), an important milestone for any Google product. While 13 other Google products have managed that feat, Gemini has done it faster than any other. Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google’s flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming…
UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast the UK’s power infrastructure had undergone decades of “woeful underinvestment”.He said he understood the objections of those living nearby, but added the pylons were “crucial” to ensure the National Grid maintained future resilience.”I totally accept that people might not like that, but it is critical national infrastructure and it has to be built somewhere,” he said.”Building any kind of infrastructure in these communities does cause disruption. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t build any kind of infrastructure and I’m afraid in this country, for too long, we have taken that…
Gemini AI signage during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDeepMind’s new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.OpenAI and Anthropic have released new systems in recent months that have been both hailed for and prompted concern over their advanced capabilities. On the other hand, Google, which acquired DeepMind in 2014, hasn’t unveiled a frontier model since early 2026.Koray Kavukcuoglu, who was previously the AI unit’s CTO and parent company Google’s chief AI architect,…
The Aviva Plc logo inside the offices containing their headquarters at 80 Fenchurch Street in the City of London, UK, on Tuesday, March, 5, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchFew turnarounds in corporate Britain this century match the one achieved in the last six years at Aviva.The U.K.’s second-largest insurer by stock market value — Prudential is at No. 1 — had been a serial disappointment since its creation in May 2000.That partly reflects Aviva’s history. It was formed by the merger of…
DBSCs are an antidote to session cookie theft. Once a website sets a session cookie, the visiting browser must send a form of the cookie that’s signed with the key stored in the silicon. Properties in the TPM or secure enclave isolate the key in a way that prevents it from being extracted. Apple explains the process here. “The attacker can’t steal the private key from the device because the TPM / Secure Enclave will not release it. That is the core protection here,” Scott Helme, a researcher and founder of Report URI who blogged about the new protections on…