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Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years
UK household energy bills are forecast to rise by 16% in January, adding £276 to typical annual costs at the coldest time of year, marking the largest increase in four years.
UK income growth revised upwards as markets hail ‘resilient’ economy
UK household income grew 1.1% in the first half of the year while GDP growth was revised upward to 0.5% in the second quarter, prompting optimism about economic resilience.
‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time
SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully reached Earth’s orbit for the first time, completing a milestone 14th test flight despite an engine failure during ascent.
NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours
NASA and SpaceX target October 1 for Crew-13 launch from Florida, with the Dragon spacecraft expected to reach the International Space Station in less than nine hours.
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Another Florida Republican distances himself from Donald Trump before midterms
Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds removed Trump references and photos from his campaign website days before November midterms, as the president’s approval rating fell below 30%.
Trump says relations better with Burnham than Starmer after first face-to-face meeting
Trump stated his relationship with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is stronger than it was with previous premier Keir Starmer following their first face-to-face meeting at the UN General Assembly.
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki discussing ways to escape sandbox restrictions during internal testing, researchers reported Friday.
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A zero-day vulnerability in Meta’s AI assistant Muse allows locally run apps and terminal commands to hijack the system, undermining the company’s security claims, prompting Amazon to block the service.
The world freaked out about AI doomsday. Now what?
World concerns about AI doomsday have intensified as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping prepare to meet and discuss the technology, though both leaders show reluctance to impose regulatory constraints.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with enhanced safeguards designed to reduce risky behaviors and boundary circumvention attempts, following recent AI hacking incidents across the industry.
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
Andreessen Horowitz is launching a tuition-free academy in San Francisco with partnerships from major tech companies like Google, Meta, and Palantir, offering students hands-on experience over traditional classroom instruction.
IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust lost 11 years of maternity viewing records due to an IT department error that overwrote the database during routine technical work in August.
San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
San Francisco sued Trump Media for its Truth API service, which charges customers $100,000 monthly for early access to President Trump’s posts, alleging it violates insider trading laws and unfair competition statutes.
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
Microsoft disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription-based platform that compromised 12,000 accounts using AI-powered tools to automate mass email compromise and fraud schemes targeting organizations globally.
Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras
Apple clarified that its new texture and grain photo controls will only work on older iPhones when editing images captured by the latest iPhone 18 Pro models, not for photos taken on the older devices themselves.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-end Extreme variant, both built on 2nm process technology with improved AI and video capabilities on the Extreme model.