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Nearly 10,000 people were referred to the government’s anti-terrorism scheme Prevent in the year to September 2025, Home Office figures show, a record number for the programme.Figures show 10,293 referrals were made in England and Wales for 9,957 people – up by 39% from the previous 12 months and the highest number in a single year since records began in 2015.Where the age is known, 393 referrals were for children under 10, the largest proportion concerned 11 to 15-year-olds at 36%, followed by 16 to 17 year-olds at 13% of referals. The Home Office said the spike was in part…
In a vacuum, these changes might not look so bad. After all, Hassabis isn’t leaving the company, and Google has a deep bench of AI talent. But this isn’t the only change in Google’s roster of late. Earlier this summer, Google saw a string of high-profile departures, including Noam Shazeer, Google’s previous vice president of engineering and a co-lead of Gemini. Shazeer was the lead author of the seminal 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which first described the transformer architecture that powers today’s expansive generative AI systems. He’s now at OpenAI, a real coup for the Google rival.…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Only one in seven of England’s rivers, lakes and estuaries meet standards for water quality, wildlife and other metrics, according to government figures that have reinforced concerns that the country’s waters are among the “filthiest in Europe”.The Environment Agency watchdog said on Thursday that 14.3 per cent of England’s surface waters had been ranked as having a “good ecological status” under standards set out under the Water Framework Directive Regulations.“The results show that too many water bodies are still not achieving the…
Riding a wave of enthusiasm for defense tech, manufacturing startup Hadrian said on Thursday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $7.9 billion valuation, more than quadruple where investors valued the company in January. Hadrian, which builds advanced factories for defense and aerospace companies and agencies, raised nearly $1.4 billion in a round led by Baillie Gifford, J.P. Morgan Strategic Investment Group, and a number of others, including Washington Harbor Partners.”It enables us to make massive investments to scale our workforce, our software platform Opus that powers our factories, and frankly, get ahead of the massive…
This frame grab taken from AFPTV video footage on July 12, 2026 shows cargo ships anchoring near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan.AFPTV | Getty ImagesIran and Oman are in the final stages of drafting an agreement on how to handle commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, said Wednesday.That proposed deal would give Tehran more control over vessels passing through the vital oil shipping route, Reuters later reported, citing a senior Iranian source and two regional officials.Baghaei’s remarks at a news conference came…
The city of Houston, where I live, has been ground zero for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. So far this year there have been two named storms, Arthur and Bertha, that have formed. And the centers of both have passed near or directly over Houston. Two “strikes” in a year might seem notable, but like the middling hurricane season to date, Arthur and Bertha were both middle-of-the road tropical storms in terms of intensity. As a resident of a coastal region prone to hurricanes, one never wants to tempt fate. And in truth, since it is only early August, the…
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks during a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event in Washington, April 14, 2026.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesRep. Ro Khanna is introducing what he calls a “data center bill of rights” as voters nationwide recoil from potential utility rate hikes by the facilities that power artificial intelligence.Khanna, D-Calif., who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, said the resolution would give local communities “the right to say no” to data centers. Khanna recently traveled to Pennsylvania, where he said he heard feedback on data centers. “The biggest feedback I heard was in opposition…
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People queue to refuel their cars at a Gazpromneft petrol station in Yaroslavl on July 15, 2026. Russia — one of the world’s largest oil producers — has introduced a swath of restrictions on petrol sales across the country, as Ukrainian strikes on its refineries, depots and logistics crimp domestic supply.Igor Ivanko | Afp | Getty ImagesUkraine’s military on Thursday struck two Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles from its border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv continues to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Ukraine’s armed forces struck the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan and the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in the Yaroslavl…
HONG KONG, CHINA – 2026/03/06: A young shopper walks past a commercial advertisement for the Nintendo Switch, depicting the gaming character Mario, in Hong Kong. (Photo by Sebastian Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesNintendo reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday, beating analysts’ revenue and profit estimates, even as its Switch 2 console sales saw a sharp decline.Here’s how Nintendo did in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, compared with LSEG median estimates:Revenue: 517.8 billion Japanese yen ($3.28 billion) versus 444.96 billion yen expected.Net profit: 147.4 billion yen versus 78.30 billion yen expected. Shares of…