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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Former business secretary Kemi Badenoch and ex-immigration minister Robert Jenrick will go head to head in the final of the Tory leadership contest, after James Cleverly was knocked out in a surprise result on Wednesday.A moderate Tory, Cleverly had been increasingly viewed as the frontrunner in recent days, having gained momentum during last week’s party conference and secured the most votes on Tuesday.His departure leaves two rightwing contenders in the run-off, a result that could help the party fend off the threat…

A haunting set of maps from NASA’s Earth Observatory reveal the incredibly warm gulf waters that gave rise to Hurricane Milton, which is set to make landfall on western Florida tonight. Hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30, and describes when the coastal Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico warm up, causing hurricanes. Hurricanes are nothing new, but in the last year and change the waters in the Mexican gulf and the Atlantic Ocean around Florida have been much warmer than usual—we’re talking bathtub temperatures—which can be a breeding ground for intense hurricanes. Lo and behold: two Category…

Hulu/Disney+(Credit: Hulu/Disney+)The TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is full of “terrible people” and “inappropriate jokes” – it’s also brilliant fun.If you’re not yet familiar with the fictional worlds of British author Dame Jilly Cooper, then the opening sequence of Rivals – the new Disney+/ Hulu adaptation of one of her best-selling “bonkbusters” – gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect.Seconds into the first episode we’re confronted with a man’s bare buttocks furiously humping away in an airplane toilet, as his partner at the mile-high club grinds her red stilettoed heel into the bathroom wall. The ecstatic intro…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Murad Mahmudov has (once again) garnered major attention in recent weeks, establishing himself as one of the leading crypto analysts—analogous to Keith Gill, also known as “Roaring Kitty,” in the stock market. Mahmudov has reportedly transformed an initial investment of just $2 into a fortune exceeding $100 million over the past five years. This astounding feat was detailed by Pix (@PixOnChain), an advisor to Mintify and researcher at Jirasan, and further analyzed by crypto analyst Rekt Fencer (@rektfencer) on X. This is Murad In 2020, he went bankrupt during the COVID crash Now,…

For EIP-4844, Ethereum clients need the ability to compute and verify KZG commitments. Rather than each client rolling their own crypto, researchers and developers came together to write c-kzg-4844, a relatively small C library with bindings for higher-level languages. The idea was to create a robust and efficient cryptographic library that all clients could use. The Protocol Security Research team at the Ethereum Foundation had the opportunity to review and improve this library. This blog post will discuss some things we do to make C projects more secure. Fuzz Fuzzing is a dynamic code testing technique that involves providing random…

Ubisoft has announced a 10,000-piece NFT collection linked to its upcoming game Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E.. The collection will be available on Magic Eden and minted on the Ethereum Layer-2 network Arbitrum.Holders of the NFTs—called Niji Warrior IDs—will gain early access to the top-down multiplayer shooter featuring characters from Assassin’s Creed, Rayman, and Beyond Good & Evil.The NFTs will evolve with player progress, offering perks and governance participation within the game. Source: Magic EdenWhat are the benefits to holding Niji Warrior ID?The Niji Warrior ID NFT collection consists of 10,000 unique tokens that will allow players early access to Captain Laserhawk:…

Politics / October 8, 2024 MAGA partisans, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk, have unleashed their own flood of disinformation regarding the federal emergency response. Ad Policy A member of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force surveys a flood-damaged property with a search canine in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on October 4, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina.(Mario Tama / Getty Images) As communities in the Southeast continue to dig out from the devastation of Hurricane Helene—and as western Florida prepares for Category 5 Hurricane Milton to make landfall later this week—hurricane victims and…

A recent award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) brings together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of Alloy Structures (METALS) program. The team will research novel design tools for the simultaneous optimization of shape and compositional gradients in multi-material structures that complement new high-throughput materials testing techniques, with particular attention paid to the bladed disk (blisk) geometry commonly found in turbomachinery (including jet and rocket engines) as an exemplary challenge problem.“This project could have important implications across a wide range of…

Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 “Sequoia” update that broke many cybersecurity tools. One of the zero-day flaws — CVE-2024-43573 — stems from a security weakness in MSHTML, the proprietary engine of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. If that sounds familiar it’s because this is the fourth MSHTML vulnerability found to be exploited in the wild so…

Joanne from 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way doesn’t want to ditch her kids and live in Ireland. However, that may be the case if her kids don’t want to move. So, many fans feel that she isn’t putting her kids first. 90 Day Fiance: Joanne Talks to Son About Ireland Move Joanne dropped big news on her two sons. She and Sean told their kids that they got married two years ago. They thought their kids would be happy. But they didn’t get the reactions they were hoping for. However, her kids are only in Ireland for a week.…