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Official analysis has revealed the full cost of workers being guaranteed shifts and receiving compensation if they are cancelled.

Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old who allegedly gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, has requested a surprise hearing on Friday morning.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm

Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify

The drop suggested the Fed and its new chairman Kevin Warsh (pictured) will keep US interest rates in the range of 3.5% to 3.75% next month.

Mike Ashley's first swing at Britain's luxury market didn't go well in 2002 when he bought Britain's upmarket sports emporium Lillywhite's.

The CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in New York, claiming the state's lawsuit against the prediction market created a "market emergency." They said it acted "to ensure market stability" and "ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act's Core Principles." Ars Technica reports: The market emergency alleged by the CFTC is that New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Kalshi on July 31. James' lawsuit seeks a court order to permanently enjoin Kalshi "from operating an unlawful gambling business" in the state. The lawsuit also demands that Kalshi "make full restitution to customers who have engaged in betting" and pay financial penalties. "New York intends to make event contract derivatives waste away under its iron curtain of state gaming laws before the courts get the chance to issue final rulings," CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said yesterday. "Congress did not intend for derivatives exchanges to be regulated under a patchwork of state gaming laws... New York has no business regulating these interstate financial markets. The commission is required by law to ensure order in these markets, and that is what we have done today." [...] The CFTC says it alone has the power to regulate platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket under the Commodity Exchange Act, a US law that gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over designated contract markets (DCMs). "These are financial exchanges that offer financial instruments and operate across state lines," Selig said yesterday. "They match the bid from a resident of one state with the offer of a resident from another state and submit the trade to a clearinghouse that backstops the transactions of customers throughout the country."

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Lionel Messi has thanked fans for their support following an 'incredibly painful time' for the footballer and his family after the death of his father.

Emergency services rushed to an address in Coventry on Tuesday night, where they found a girl with a serious stab wound as well as a 42-year-old woman who suffered minor injuries.

William Hill has closed more than a fifth of its betting shops in the past year with the loss of hundreds of jobs as it is battered by Labour's tax raid on the gambling industry.

A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted the 32-year-old on murder charges in relation to the deaths of his parents inside their LA home last December.

Adjoa Andoh, 63, fought for her driving licence, saying she needs her car to visit her frail 85-year-old mother, who lives alone in a town in Shropshire.

One year after buying a controlling interest in the Los Angeles Lakers from the Buss family, team owner Mark Walter is now selling the historic NBA franchise.

As hundreds of thousands of sixth formers pick up their A-level results tomorrow, almost one in three entries will get at least an A grade.

Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure

Sally-Anne Bowen, 64, allegedly flirted with the teenager at the north London comprehensive boy's school in north London, before having sex with him '20 to 30 times' in the late 1980s.

Getting a good job after university is vital to cover the ever-growing costs of a degree. But the chances of achieving that goal vary enormously according to where you study.

Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulted in the theft of more than 2,500 personnel records from Taiwanese systems. Tom's Hardware reports: The campaign reportedly ran for four days at the beginning of July and at times deployed as many as eight autonomous agents in parallel. Dream said the system mapped 21 government systems before compromising user accounts and extracting personnel information. The attackers subsequently expanded their activity to Taiwan's nuclear safety agency, at least seven energy companies, government suppliers, and other government systems. Dream says it found the evidence inside a 160-megabyte (160MB) online archive that surfaced during its broader tracking of cyberthreat actors. The archive reportedly held 1,395 files showing that the tool was built on two open-source AI agent systems -- Hermes and OpenClaw -- both of which can be downloaded freely and are designed to let large language models carry out multi-step tasks on their own. Researchers could not determine which underlying model powered the agents, but the data reportedly showed the model's safeguards had been sidestepped by presenting the intrusion as an authorized penetration test rather than a real attack. Of particular concern is that the toolkit for the hack comprised such easily available systems, neither of which was purpose-built for offense. The operators appear to have assembled a capable autonomous tool out of components any developer can pull down and run. What the researchers describe as the tool's most striking feature was its ability to continuously devise attacks on its own, rather than follow a preprogrammed route. The platform continuously assessed available evidence, ranked possible attack paths, and reprioritized them as circumstances changed. When one technique failed, the tool tasked another agent with searching the internet for information and developing an alternative approach.

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The Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to be visible over Essex tonight, will follow the solar eclipse that was seen over the county.

The Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to be visible over Essex tonight, will follow the solar eclipse that was seen over the county.