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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s preventing the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a major vulnerability. Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. Updates from mirror sites, however, have continued to work normally. A Canonical status page said: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it.” Other than that, Ubuntu and Canonical…
MP Jess Phillips on the 14-month bin dispute in Birmingham ahead of next week’s local elections. Source link
If next week’s jobs report shows a still resilient labor market, that could relieve investors wary of a weakening economic outlook. The U.S. economy is expected to have added just 50,000 jobs in April, far below the prior blowout reading of 178,000, according to FactSet consensus estimates. The unemployment rate is expected to have held steady at 4.3%. A “goldilocks” report could alleviate fears of a weakening U.S. economy, as some recent signals have suggested. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product grew at a 2% seasonally adjusted annualized pace in the first quarter, higher than 0.5%…
Purdue Pharma dissolves in bankruptcy, names board of nonprofit successor Source link
In this Club Check-in, CNBC Investing Club’s Paulina Likos and Zev Fima break down what really matters for investors after a flurry of earnings reports that highlighted both strong demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and a continued surge in spending. The AI trade faced a major test this week as several of the key hyperscalers reported quarterly results. The early read was that Alphabet , Microsoft , Meta Platforms , and Amazon all passed with flying colors, but beneath the strong headline numbers, a more nuanced debate is taking shape. Even as costs rise, particularly for memory and other hardware…
President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 16, 2026.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that hostilities in Iran “have terminated” since he imposed a two-week ceasefire on April 7 that has been extended.Trump’s claim came on what would have been a deadline under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 for him to ask Congress to officially declare war against Iran or authorize the use of military force against that country.Friday marks 60 days since the war began in late February. Under…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a new way to save for retirement for workers who don’t currently have access to a 401(k) or another workplace plan.Roughly 56 million Americans lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan at work, according to 2025 research from the Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent public policy nonprofit.The order calls for the launch of a new website next year, TrumpIRA.gov, where workers could research, compare and enroll in private-sector individual retirement accounts through which, if eligible, they could collect a matching contribution from the federal government.”You’ll then be able to access the same type of retirement…
Exxon net income falls, output hit by Iran war Source link
Kalshi also issued a five-year suspension and a penalty of $6,229.30 to independent Mark Moran, a Senate candidate in Virginia, who did not agree to a settlement. “YES, I did bet ~$100 on myself on Kalshi because I wanted to get caught,” Moran wrote in an X post. Moran said he refused a settlement offer that would have compelled him to make a public statement, and that he made the bet to draw attention to Kalshi and his own campaign. “For $100, I just got more attention from CNN, Fox, WSJ, etc than any media consultant ever,” he wrote. “In…
The footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday appeared in a Conservative Party video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act. Source link