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[ad_1] —Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. Kuglitsch, & Andrea Toreti The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 SpaceX is negotiating to sell the Pentagon AI computeIt would provide data center capacity worth billions of dollars. (WSJ $)+ Deepening ties between Elon Musk’s company and the DoD. (Reuters $)+ Meanwhile, Anthropic is in talks with Meta to acquire compute. (CNBC)+ The compute explosion is only just beginning. (MIT Technology Review)2 Trump Media wants $100,000 a month for early access to Trump’s postsThe premium feed is being pitched to trading firms and…

[ad_1] Cases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.In cases of sadistic online exploitation, perpetrators target vulnerable teens on social media platforms and online games. These predators then compel their victims into producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), harming themselves and others, or, in extreme cases, attempting suicide.“We often see that the offenders will communicate with that child and, through that initial communication, ask them for nude or explicit imagery of themselves,”…

[ad_1] Andy Burnham has formally become the UK prime minister after meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace, the fourth person to hold the role in less than four years and the sixth within a decade.Burnham, who took over from Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party on Friday, accepted the appointment as prime minister shortly after Starmer had gone to the palace to resign to the monarch.The former Greater Manchester mayor, who only returned to parliament a month ago, headed to Downing Street, where he spoke to the assembled media before announcing his cabinet.Burnham returned to parliament in a…

[ad_1] A Reform UK MP has complained that the standards system investigating Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is a “kangaroo court”.Sarah Pochin, the Runcorn MP, said Farage had called a byelection in his Clacton seat so voters could decide whether they backed him or not, and argued that “the media, the British state and the old parties have mounted a vicious and desperate campaign to stop Reform UK”.She posted on X: “We can’t call a general election, so rather than submit to a kangaroo court in parliament, Nigel Farage has handed the power back to the people of Clacton. P.S.…

[ad_1] The family of a woman who was killed as she slept in bed with her husband and three-month-old baby have said they want justice, and for her body to be returned to India.A man has been charged with murder over the attack on Kirandeep Kaur at her home in Hayes, west London, on the morning of 12 July. Kaur, who had reportedly been living in the UK since 2024 on a student visa, allegedly suffered a stab wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at 8.26am.Speaking from India to ITV News, her mother, Baljeet, said: “We send them…

[ad_1] AliExpress, the Chinese online retail platform, has been fined a record €550m (£470m) by the EU over its failure to stop illegal goods including harmful clothing, cosmetics and kitchen gadgets being sold through its site.The European Commission fine is the biggest yet exacted by the bloc under the Digital Services Act (DSA), legislation that came into force in 2024, to protect consumers from illegal goods, deceptive or addictive marketing techniques.Henna Virkkunen, the EC’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said: “The spread of counterfeit clothing, unsafe toys, dangerous cosmetics and other illegal and harmful products is not…

[ad_1] Thousands of protesters defied police orders and descended on Delhi to demand the resignation of India’s education minister in one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in years.A huge crowd, largely made up of students and gen Z-ers, filled the streets in the heart of India’s capital from early Monday morning shouting anti-government slogans, while hundreds had already camped out overnight.Delhi police, which are under the control of the central government, had denied permission for the march to take place. A ban was imposed on all public gatherings, roads across the city were barricaded and the internet was shut down…

[ad_1] Key eventsYou can keep up with all the latest developments in the US-Israel war on Iran in our Middle East live blog here:ShareVivian HoThe national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has jumped once again on Monday as the US and Iran launched more attacks, AP reports.The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now back to $4, almost an entire dollar more than the average price a year ago at $3.14 a gallon, according to motor club federation AAA.Average gas prices reached over $4 gallon at the start of the conflict at the end of…

[ad_1] Australian taxpayers could be forced to cover up to $65m in payouts to hundreds of abuse victims when a failing arm of the Catholic church disappears, new court documents reveal.Last month, the Christian Brothers, a Catholic order with a shocking record of child abuse, informed a court it was going broke and would not be able to afford to pay out survivors.The move has affected hundreds of cases brought either through the civil courts or through the government-run national redress scheme, which allows survivors to seek capped amounts of compensation without going to court.An actuarial report detailing the state…

[ad_1] Rather than continue fixating on the 2020 election defeat that ended his first presidency, Donald Trump could instead “do something positive”, including resolving the US war in Iran, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman said in an interview on Sunday.“I don’t know why the president is dragging up all this stuff,” Fetterman remarked on CNN’s State of the Union, three days after Trump dedicated a televised, primetime address to claims about Chinese meddling in the 2020 White House race that he lost to Joe Biden. “You’re the president. Do something positive – and you are talking about 2020; that’s been settled…