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‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action
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‘Halloweenmas’: how the spooky one-nighter turned into a month-long spectacular
Welcome to Halloweenmas, weeks of themed fun and gifts – from costume parties to decorating trees – without the stress, rules or cost of Christmas The tree is up, the wreath is hanging on the front door and you’ve just opened your advent calendar . All told, it’s beginning to feel a lot like … Halloween . If it sounds like the stuff of nightmares then that’s the point: Britons are increasingly decorating their homes with ghoulish versions of Christmas traditions. Think of it as Halloweenmas. Continue reading...
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‘You have a meeting’: the calendar phishing scam growing exponentially
Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims’ calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page You’re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There’s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten. The note that pops up when you click on it says you’ll be reviewing a project and includes a link to more details. Confused, you follow it to find out more; the website you land on asks for logon details, and you provide them. Unfortunately, this was not a failure of your memory but a calendar phishing scam. You have handed your name and password to fraudsters who will sell it on in a batch with other people’s details, use it to break into your work email, or to persuade you that they are contacting you from your bank , or another institution. Continue reading...
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Developing nations face triple shock from energy crisis, El Niño and borrowing costs, UN warns
UN’s development arm calls for urgent action as crises could ‘throw tens if not hundreds of millions back into poverty’ Developing countries face a triple shock from the energy crisis, El Niño and surging borrowing costs and need urgent support from the international community, the UN’s development arm has warned. Speaking before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok this week, the UNDP’s administrator, Alexander De Croo, called for “solidarity and global action”. Continue reading...
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Microsoft's Nadella says AI needs an ‘emergency brake’ that humans control
Nadella joined other tech moguls and researchers in calling for stronger safeguards and, in some cases, for the pacing of frontier development.
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Why we’re stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich | Jonathan Wilson
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Stocks saw new highs and big declines: How the volatile AI trade moved last week's market
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