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Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, pictured during CYBERUK 2024 on May 14, 2024, in Birmingham, England.Matthew Horwood for CYBERUK | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBritain and its allies have a “narrowing window” to keep ahead of security risks posed by China, Russia and other adversaries, the U.K.’s top intelligence agent will warn on Wednesday. In a rare public speech, Anne Keast-Butler, the director of GCHQ — the U.K.’s intelligence, cyber and security agency — will say Britain is at a “moment of consequence,” with the country facing increasingly brazen behavior from hostile nations.”China is now a science and tech…

A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th brigade prepares equipment of FPV drones as the Russia-Ukraine war continues.Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesRussia has passed a law authorizing its central bank and other financial institutions to repel drone attacks with their own defense systems, as the country struggles to defend against Ukrainian strikes.The law, passed by Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday, will allow staff at Russia’s central bank to be armed and to operate the systems used to down unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) attacks without the involvement of special forces. Ukraine’s military has increasingly opted for longer-range drone…

Aroundtown reports 7% decline in first-quarter FFO per share Source link

MUNICH—One of the defining car industry trends of the early 21st century was the global, or world, car. Spread the development costs out across multiple markets, the thinking went, and efficiency takes care of the rest. At least that was the idea; post-COVID, post-Ever Given, and in a world now erupting into trade wars and actual shooting wars, plans need to change. “With Audi, we have to be flexible on a global perspective,” said Audi AG CEO Gernot Döllner, and the new Q9 is an example of that. “It’s really the car where US requirements were at the center of…

The former MP has pleaded not guilty to all 18 charges he faces, including one count of rape. Source link

SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips, front, and a LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory module arranged at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025.SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from London. Welcome to today’s edition of the Daily Open newsletter.The $1 trillion club just got bigger, as the AI-fueled rally propelled more companies into the mega-market-cap space. The race to scale continues at breakneck speed, and is keeping tech-heavy indices across the world at record levels. It’s one of the first days when developments in Iran have not…

UK grocery inflation eases with Iran conflict yet to fully hit prices Source link

If you owned a Windows computer in the late ’90s or early ’00s, you probably remember 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, a surprisingly competent virtual table included for free with multiple Microsoft OS releases through Windows XP. Despite the game’s authenticity to real pinball, Space Cadet wasn’t based on an extant physical table, but was merely one part of the Full Tilt! Pinball software collection sold by Maxis starting in 1995. In the intervening years, hobbyists and enthusiasts have discussed the possibility of crafting a homebrew physical table based on Space Cadet many times, without much tangible progress…

A household using a typical amount of energy will pay £221 a year more, under the regulator’s new price cap. Source link

Luxury properties in the Kensington and Chelsea district of London, U.K.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchJockeying for position in the as-yet-unlaunched contest to lead Britain’s governing Labour Party, Wes Streeting, the former health secretary, has promised a wealth tax if elected leader.”We need a wealth tax that works,” he told the BBC last week. “A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day’s work.”Strictly speaking, Streeting is not actually proposing a wealth tax. Rather, he…