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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Bridget Phillipson as Labour Party chair.A Labour spokesperson said Phillipson, who is also minister for women and equalities, will work closely with deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell to modernise the party ready for the next general election.Phillipson and Powell went head to head for the deputy leader position last year, after a race triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation, with Powell emerging victorious following 54% support from the party membership, external.Phillipson had been education secretary under Sir Keir Starmer but that job was also handed to Powell by Burnham when he appointed his cabinet last…
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The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A public notice issued by the FCC said Starlink routers received approval from the Department of War (also known as the Department of Defense). SpaceX’s exemption is good until February 1, 2028. The FCC kicked off an industry-wide scramble when it updated the Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers made at least partly outside the US, except those that are granted exemptions. The Covered List includes devices deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to national security. Given that routers are generally built…
Zhongji Innolight raises $6.81 billion in Asia’s second-largest listing of 2026 Source link
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour at TikTok Entertainment Centre in Sydney on April 23, 2026.George Chan | Getty ImagesMicrosoft on Monday talked up a new artificial intelligence model for spotting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The move marks the company’s first major push to rejuvenate its cybersecurity business since it brought back Google executive Hayete Gallot to run the unit.When paired with OpenAI’s general-purpose GPT-5.4, Microsoft’s MAI-Cyber-1-Flash outperforms Anthropic’s Mythos 5, Google’s 3.5 Flash Cyber and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber on the CyberGym benchmark, the company said.”We have world-leading performance at 50% of the cost,” Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of…
The plans for technical education reform will build on local initiatives like the MBacc, or Greater Manchester Baccalaureate, which was announced in 2023 by the now prime minister when he was the city’s mayor.Launched there in September 2024, it has provided a framework for pupils to pick GCSE subjects in both academic and technical subjects which align with growing local industries, like green energy or digital.The government said it would be working with regional mayors, local leaders, schools, colleges and employers to deliver its plans nationally.Education Secretary Lucy Powell said the announcement “marks the start of a real shared effort…
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Microsoft said MDASH with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash received a 96 percent score on CyberGYM, a standard benchmark test. The rating is 12 points higher than Anthropic’s Mythos and also beats Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT. The new MDASH costs half as much to use as the previous MDASH offering. The second tool Microsoft announced on Monday is named Project Perception. It too is a collection of specialized AI agents that perform red-, blue-, and green-team functions for finding vulnerabilities, investigating them to determine their risk, and taking corrective actions, respectively. Microsoft said the platform selects the models to use based on the…
Senator Mitch McConnell and Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao on Sunday, July 26, 2026.Source: Office of Mitch McConnell.Sen. Mitch McConnell is recovering from his debilitating fall last month but still has not been cleared to return to work, the congressional physician’s office said Monday, more than six weeks since the Kentucky Republican was last seen in public.Doctors from the Office of the Attending Physician, or OAP, are meeting with the 84-year-old senator at a rehab facility every day, “discussing all aspects of his rehabilitation care,” the office said in a statement shared by McConnell’s staff in a press release.The release…
US Senate votes to advance Trump nominee Clayton to be top US spy Source link