47 m. ago Chinese stole state secrets from No.10 for YEARS: Catastrophic blunder heaps fresh pressure on Starmer over collapsed spying case

Former No 10 aide Dominic Cummings said on Wednesday that the communist superpower stole 'vast amounts' of material, including some with the highest security classification.

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7 h. ago China 'stole vast amounts of classified material from UK government' for years but breach 'was covered up'

Dominic Cummings said he and ex-PM Boris Johnson were notified of the 'serious' breach - involving 'extremely dangerous' information - in 2020.

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2 w. ago Moon could have craters with vast amount of platinum, scientists find

It may be more advantageous to mine asteroids that have impacted Moon rather than ones in orbit, study says

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2 w. ago US cyber officials issue ‘emergency directive’ after hackers breach government agency

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was aware of an ‘ongoing exploitation campaign by an advanced threat actor’ targeting appliances made by Cisco Systems

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3 w. ago ‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish

Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happens when Brits throw things awayOn his way to a remote industrial zone at the edge of Istanbul, Adnan Khan compares it to something out of Mad Max. Packs of wild dogs roam around desolate wastelands; toxic chemicals spill out into the street, with corrugated metal sheets and “slapdash factories” scattered around. “It’s like a shantytown,” he says.However, once he sets foot inside some of these factories, he reaches for a different cinematic comparison. This time he’s thinking of the torture-horror film Saw, as he witnesses Afghan refugees working and living in conditions that he says fit the UN definition of modern-day slavery. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per daySomeone have a word with the chimps? Observations of the apes in the wild show them imbibing the alcoholic equivalent of a half pint of beer a day through the vast amount of fermented fruit in their diet.Researchers arrived at the first estimates of wild chimp daily alcohol intake after measuring ethanol levels in fallen fruit that the apes gather from the forest floor in Kibale national park in Uganda and in Taï national park in Ivory Coast. Continue reading...

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