Billionaire Man United owner loses moral high ground after tax exile, Labour chair says
The Labour Party chair has said Sir Jim Ratcliffe loses "the moral high ground" by making statements about the UK while living in tax exile.
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RNLI warns supporters their personal information may have been hacked
Supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been warned that their personal information may have been stolen by hackers amid targeting of the charity by far-right agitators.
UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars
The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avata…
China’s stranglehold on rare earths must be ended, says hopeful supplier to EU
The head of a mining company hoping to supply the EU with rare earths in two years’ time has said it is “paramount” to end China’s stranglehold on the supply of the raw materials used in everything from cars to wind tur…
UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget
Bridget Phillipson says Burnham’s past criticisms of US president not an issue as PM prepares to meet Trump at UN
What to expect from upcoming summit between Presidents Trump and Xi
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 — The US military honour guard has been rehearsing and the new White House helipad is ready. But will Xi Jinping and Donald Trump achieve lift-off at their summit next week?
Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack
You’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it asks you to click on has none of the usual red flags: there are no weird numbers or extra parts to the URL. You feel safe to proceed.
Chiltern Railways enters public ownership in Labour nationalisation push
Chiltern Railways has become the latest train operator to enter public ownership as the government closes in on its ambition to renationalise all major passenger rail services.
Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan.
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
British politics is increasingly being funded by individual billionaires with a wave of mega-donations having flooded into UK political parties over the past two parliaments.
Kevin Warsh may be the adult in the room. But can he calm the US economy?
In the end, Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve acquitted itself well. For all the uncertainty he had sparked at the previous meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, when he refused to provide any indication of what he …
Students scramble for accommodation after provider goes bust in Dundee
Nearly 70 students in Dundee have been left scrambling to find accommodation for this academic year after the latest in a string of university housing schemes went bust amid severe financial strain on the sector.
Scottish Labour’s new leader backs Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gasfields
Scottish Labour’s new leader Michael Marra has backed the development of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gasfields in the North Sea in one of his first acts after being elected, calling for a “more rational” approach t…
Domestic datacentres: how computer power can help heat your home
Attached to the hot water cylinder in his London home is a compact computer server that generates heat and then transfers it as it operates.
‘A losing battle’: will UK public service broadcasters survive amid US onslaught?
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC or Channel 4 disappeared,” says one of the thousands of TV staff at risk of redundancy, as British broadcasters face what has rapidly become a fight for survival against US digital ri…
Harrods seeks to recover abuse compensation costs from Mohamed Al Fayed’s estate
Harrods is seeking to recover the cost of the compensation paid to hundreds of women allegedly sexually abused by Mohamed Al Fayed from his estate, the Guardian understands.
Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud
From 2017 onwards, Rehan Ahmed styled himself as a savvy business owner. But behind the facade of a successful entrepreneur lurked one stark fact: his empire was built on fakery.
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK
One of Britain's richest people, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, says he has lost confidence in the UK, describing the country as "on the slide".
Trump signs bill imposing sanctions on Russia and giving him more power to levy tariffs
Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation enabling sweeping sanctions on Russia aimed at pressing it into ending its war with Ukraine, and also giving him the power to impose additional tariffs on countries breaking the…
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You expect traffic jams on Chicago streets. You probably do not expect one on the sidewalk caused by a bunch of food delivery robots. That is exactly what runner Becca Ostien encountered near Lincoln Park. At least a do…
Warren Buffett steps down as chair of Berkshire Hathaway after over 50 years
‘Father Time always wins,’ Buffett, 96, says as his son, Howard, steps in as the $1tn conglomerate’s new chair
Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error
A software defect in part of the UK’s air traffic control system corrupted flight data “in the space of a millisecond”, leading to a six-hour outage and mass airline cancellations and delays across the UK last week, Nat…