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On 7 June, Nigel Farage announced that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton amid the political furore caused by his £5 million undeclared gift from crypto billionaire and major Reform UK donor Christopher Harborne.  Farage said that he will stand for re-election in a contest he has describedContinue Reading

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New York’s Haitian community is living in limbo and fear after Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was terminated Monday., NewsFeed New York’s Haitian community is living in limbo and fear after Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was terminated on Monday. Around 300,000 Haitian nationals rely on the special designation to live legallyContinue Reading

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Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release. The virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will let users benefit from newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and related firmware on top of their exiting LTS install, refreshed every 6 monthsContinue Reading

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities. In a post outlining Anthropic’s position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weightContinue Reading