Author: Vidya Saras

ReutersSmoke rose over Beirut’s southern suburbs after they were targeted by new Israeli air strikes on TuesdayIsrael is expanding its ground invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah, sending thousands of additional troops into a new zone in the south-west of the country.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a fourth division had joined the eight-day-old ground operation seeking to dismantle Hezbollah targets and infrastructure.Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told officers that the successor of assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “was probably also eliminated”.He spoke hours after Nasrallah’s former deputy, Naim Qassem, insisted the Iran-backed group had overcome the recent “painful blows”…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Former home secretary James Cleverly surged into pole position in the Conservative leadership contest on Tuesday, after ex-security minister Tom Tugendhat was knocked out. In the third round ballot of MPs on Tuesday, Cleverly won 39 votes, up 18 on the previous round, after he picked up momentum at the party’s annual conference last week.He was followed by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick on 31 votes, down two votes on the last round. Former business secretary Kemi Badenoch gained 30 votes, up two votes. Tugendhat…

The number of products we’re buying online keeps going up and up, and that means you’re likely to have more and more packages coming to your address. When something you’ve ordered doesn’t show up, that can be hugely frustrating—and potentially very expensive, too. Here’s what to do should that worst-case scenario happen. Note that most retailers and postal services will act differently depending on whether your package has gone missing in transit (which is clearly their fault) or has been marked as delivered and has subsequently gotten lost or been stolen (which may or may not be their fault, depending…

Recently a big snafu was made about changes to the BIP 85 repository. For those not familiar with the BIP, it’s a very simple scheme to allow generating new word seeds from a derivation path in a pre-existing word seed that you have. The logic of the BIP is to enable people who utilize multiple wallets to manage the chaos of having to maintain individual isolated backups for numerous wallets. By generating new seeds based on the entropy of a derivation path, users can simply make a single backup of one “master” word seed, and from there be able to…

Crisis is a cruel teacher. It can draw us together in our shared fragility, but paradoxically it can also distance us from our shared humanity. In times of great crisis, the institutions and structures of society that are supposed to protect and support us may become twisted, corrupted, or rendered impotent – and sometimes, the very things that make us humans can play a role in our collective dehumanization. In Syria, my political activism became the grounds for denying me the most basic forms of identification. I was detained and tortured as a means of political repression. My academic pursuits…

PRESS RELEASE – The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that the Siemens factory in Erlangen, Germany, will become a Digital Lighthouse Factory, part of its the Global Lighthouse Network. The award recognizes leading technology companies that are at the forefront of applying fourth industrial revolution technologies. By following the Green Lean Digital approach, which combines innovative technologies and sustainable practices, the plant has made significant progress, increasing productivity by 69 percent and reducing energy consumption by 42 percent in four years.

Game development studio Faraway aims to integrate open-economy gaming within the blockchain space with an open platform for designing and creating NFT assets.The team, comprised of professionals from renowned studios such as Glu Mobile and Scopely, is focused on establishing an ecosystem that fosters collaboration between creators and players.At the heart of this initiative is the Faraway Creator Suite, a platform that allows users to design, mint, and sell in-game assets across various titles, including Mini Royale: Nations, Serum City, and Dookey Dash Unclogged. Source: FarawayWhat is Faraway Creator Suite?The Faraway Creator Suite is a digital platform that enables users…

Politics / October 7, 2024 The Democratic nominee is acting like protecting her small lead is more important than energizing her base. We’ve seen this story before—and it didn’t end well. Ad Policy Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at Ripon College on October 3, 2024, in Ripon, Wisconsin.(Jim Vondruska / Getty Images) Since the week of the Democratic National Convention in mid-August, Kamala Harris has run an exceptionally cautious presidential campaign. Prior to the DNC, in the month where the Democratic Party was coalescing around her candidacy, Harris presented herself as a break from…

In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Alzheimer’s is one of many debilitating neurological disorders that together affect one-eighth of the world’s population, and while the new drug is a step in the right direction, there is still a long journey ahead to fully understanding it, and other such diseases.”Reconstructing the intricacies of how the human brain functions on a cellular level is one of the biggest challenges in neuroscience,” says Lars Gjesteby, a technical staff member and algorithm developer from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s…

Of course, the coverage offered by standalone policies varies, Shey notes, but it typically covers costs associated with business interruption, incident responses, forensics, and other standard services arising from a cyber event. Some also cover the costs of ransom payments and negotiator fees. Still, Shey says coverage “can be very carrier- and country/region-specific, and a lot can be negotiated.” The insurance market has seen several years of volatility, says Andy Moss, a partner in the Insurance Recovery Group in the Litigation Department at law firm Reed Smith. A spike in cyber events in the late 2010s set off a wave…