Pete Hegseth defends ongoing war in Iran and requests $88bn more to pay for it during Senate committee testimony – live

Protesters removed at start of testimony as defense secretary claims billions of additional funding are needed ‘sustain vital operations without disruption’ Sign up for US Breaking News email US gas prices have continued to rise since the conflict with Iran resumed this month. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), a gallon of fuel is now just over $4 – almost a dollar more than a year ago. It comes as Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, is now up by almost 2% to $90.92 a barrel. Continue reading...

Australia news live: Wong pushes Chinese counterpart on submarine missile launch in face-to-face Manila meeting

Australia’s foreign affairs minister discussed the importance of peace in the Pacific at her meeting with Wang Yi in the wings of Asean. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says the state’s Labor party is under threat from One Nation and “we’ve got to fight for those votes”. Appearing on ABC Radio National this morning, Minns was asked if One Nation was a “racist party”. He said people who had concerns about the levels of immigration weren’t necessarily racist but some of the things Pauline Hanson had said were. Certainly some of the things Pauline Hanson says are definitely racist, when she said there’s no such thing as a good Muslim. I mean, how else do you characterise that? You’ve got to be straight with people. And that clearly is. But I don’t think everyone who’s supporting them currently is racist at all … And we’ve got to fight for those votes. I think that we are under threat in a whole bunch of seats as a result of the surge of votes for One Nation … So we’re doing some what we regard as practical commonsense changes to policy in New South Wales. When people join the Do Not Call Register or unsubscribe from marketing messages, they are making a clear choice. Those choices must be respected – especially given the heightened risks of financial loss and psychological harm from gambling marketing. The scale and range of these breaches point to serious weaknesses in TAB’s compliance systems. Continue reading...

Trump pledges to ‘take care of’ Houthis if group blocks Saudi ships and says US airlines can resume direct flights to Lebanon – live

The Iran-based group said it plans to impose an immediate maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea Lebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, is due to meet Donald Trump for the first time today as he wraps up a four-day visit to Washington. The meeting coincides with ongoing US-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel. The two sides announced a “framework agreement” on 26 June which stipulates the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon as well as the disarmament of Hezbollah. Continue reading...

Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov ‘prominent position’

After nationwide protests Oleksandr Syrskyi is to be replaced in reshuffle and popular defence minister returns to government Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and offered a “prominent position” to the defence minister he sacked last week in a move that sparked nationwide protests. In a late-night TV address, Zelenskyy said he was appointing Mykhailo Drapati, a popular and innovative general, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Drapati would oversee a reorganisation of the army’s command structure, Ukraine’s president said. Continue reading...

고혈압도 우울증도 아니었다…국내 치매 위험 요인 1위는? [노화설계]

우리나라 고령층에서는 조절 가능한 치매 위험 요인 가운데 낮은 교육 수준의 영향이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다.세계적인 의학 학술지 랜싯(The Lancet)의 자매 학술지인 ‘랜싯 건강한 장수(The Lancet Healthy Longevity)’에 게재된 이번 연구는 국가마다 치매 위험 요인이 다르며, 치매 예방을 위해서는 각국 실정에 맞춘 전략이 필요하다는 점을 강조한다.미국 서던캘리포니아대학교(USC)가 주도하고 존스 홉킨스대와 브라운대 등이 참여한 연구진은 고소득 국가와 저소득·중간소득 국가를 아우르는 14개국·지역 고령자 21만4251명의 데이터를 통합해 조절 가능한 치매 위험 요인을 분석했다분석 대상은 랜싯 치매 위원회(Lancet Commission on dementia)가 제시한 위험 요인 가운데 12가지였다. 저학력(중등교육 미만), 청력 손실, 높은 저밀도지단백(LDL) 콜레스테롤(고콜레스테롤혈증), 우울증, 신체 활동 부족, 당뇨병, 흡연, 고혈압, 비만,

“뭐라도 사 먹어요” 우는 女승객에 5000원…택시기사의 위로

부산의 한 택시에서 눈물을 흘리던 20대 여성 승객이 택시기사로부터 5000원짜리 지폐 한 장과 함께 위로를 받았다는 사연이 잔잔한 감동을 주고 있다.18일 스레드에는 ‘부산 카카오 택시 기사님께 닿아라’라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다. 이 여성은 지난달 24일 부산 벡스코에서 문현동까지 택시를 이용했다고 밝혔다. 그는 “그날은 개인적인 이유로 너무 힘들었다”며 “평소 자주 탈 일이 없었던 택시를 타게 됐고 택시에서 가족과 전화하며 하루 동안 참아왔던 눈물이 터져버렸다”고 했다. 여성은 최대한 울음을 참으려고 했지만 쉽게 진정되지 않았다고 했다. 목적지에 도착하자 택시기사는 그에게 “집에 들어가기 전에 간단하게 뭐라도 사 먹고 들어가라”며 5000원을 건넸다고 한다. 여성은 “제가 20대 초반의 나이라 기사님께서 딸처럼 안쓰럽게 봐주셨던 것 같다”며 “내린 곳이 좁은 골목길이라 뒤에 차가 있어 얼떨결에 감사하다고 말씀드리며 돈을 건네받고 황급히 내렸다”고 말했다. 그는 택시기사에게 받

“새벽 1시까지 게임만”…결혼 두 달 앞두고 파혼 고민한 예비신부

결혼을 두 달여 앞두고 동거를 시작한 예비신부가 예비남편의 반복되는 게임 습관 때문에 파혼까지 고민하고 있다는 사연이 공개돼 온라인에서 관심을 모으고 있다.최근 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 ‘게임 때문에 파혼하기도 하냐’는 제목의 글이 올라왔다.작성자 A씨는 결혼을 앞두고 지난달부터 함께 살기 시작했지만, 예비남편의 생활 습관을 알게 되면서 갈등이 커졌다고 털어놨다.A씨는 “예비남편이 퇴근이 이른 날이면 새벽 1시까지 게임을 하는 일이 일주일에 서너 차례 반복된다”며 “게임을 하는 날에는 집안일도 거의 하지 않는다”고 설명했다.또 자신이 불만을 드러내야만 예비남편이 집안일을 하겠다고 말하지만, 이조차 당일에는 미루고 다음 날 처리하는 경우가 많았고 결국 참지 못한 자신이 대부분의 집안일을 하게 된다고 토로했다.A씨는 “따로 살 때는 몰랐는데 같이 살아보니 방에 들어가 게임만 하고, 나는 혼자 밥을 차려 먹고 집안일을 한다”며 “이럴 거면 왜 같이 사는지 모르겠다”고 답답함을 드러

[단독]노란봉투법에 강한 노조만 더 강해졌다… 사용자성 판단 신청 89%가 양대노총 소속

‘노란봉투법’(개정 노동조합법) 시행 이후 4개월 동안 노동위원회에 원청 기업의 ‘사용자성’을 판단해 달라고 요구한 사건 10건 중 9건은 양대 노총 소속의 하청 노조가 제기한 것으로 나타났다. 노란봉투법이 당초 하청·비정규직 노동자들의 교섭권을 확대한다는 취지로 도입됐지만, 양대 노총에 속하지 않거나 노조가 없는 하청 노동자들은 오히려 법의 적용을 받지 못하는 것이다. 노란봉투법이 조직력을 갖춘 강한 노조를 더 강하게 만들어 ‘교섭 양극화’를 심화시킨다는 지적이 나온다. ● ‘진짜 사장’ 판단해 달라… 89%가 양대 노총 소속 21일 조지연 국민의힘 의원실이 중앙노동위원회에서 받은 자료에 따르면 3월 10일 노란봉투법 시행 이후 이달 10일까지 하청 노조가 노동위원회에 원청의 사용자성을 판단해 달라고 신청한 사건은 458건으로 집계됐다. 이 가운데 89.1%(408건)가 전국민주노동조합총연맹(민노총), 한국노동조합총연맹(한국노총)이나 산하 산별노조에 속한 하청 노조가 신청했

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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by "an autonomous AI agent system." Hugging Face's AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models' cybersecurity capabilities. OpenAI says "all e … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Dogs have a great sense of smell. Now machines are being trained to sniff out odours.

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The tool is powered by an AI detection company called Pangram and is rolling out across the web and the iOS app, with an Android launch coming "soon." Readers can analyze content longer than 100 words by choosing the "Scan for AI text" option from the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of a post. Substack co-founder and CEO C … Read the full story at The Verge.

Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in

I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a finder tag to a camera is always cumbersome. I currently have them hanging off my camera straps like a phone charm circa 2001. They're ugly, and very much get in the way when I'm trying to focus on shooting. But Peak Design thinks it has a solution in its new Field Bracket system, which it launched today on Kickstarter, starting at $150 for early birds. The Peak Design Field Bracket is p … Read the full story at The Verge.

PFAS treatment 'could cost £210m and higher bills'

The final report from a scientific panel recommends Jersey Water adheres to a lower PFAS levels.

Record number of osprey chicks for nature reserve

Cumbria Wildlife Trust says it is delighted to see a new breeding pair boosting numbers.

Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position Astronomers have found evidence that the Milky Way was flipped on its side following a direct hit from a wayward galaxy long before the solar system was born. The cataclysmic collision took place about 10bn years ago when the Milky Way was struck head-on by an incoming dwarf galaxy known – for purely astronomical reasons – as the Gaia Sausage. Continue reading...

Parts of the UK move closer to drought

Eight areas across England are now in prolonged dry weather – the stage before drought.