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Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a recent hack at one of its technology partners, marking the company’s latest data breach in recent years. In an email shared with TechCrunch from an affected customer, LastPass said the breach occurred at market research firm Klue, and not its own systems. However, hackers abused their access to obtain reams of data about LastPass customers. LastPass is the latest in a growing list of cybersecurity companies that have reported data thefts as a result of the breach at Klue, which…

Welcome to the ConversationWelcome to our latest Q&A with a Guardian journalist. Political columnist Rafael Behr is online now answering your questions.Sign up here to join the discussion and post your questionsShareUpdated at 18.05 CESTKey eventsHas the neoliberal ship run aground?thegreatfatsby asks: How difficult do you think it will be to pull the centrist neoliberal ship off the reef its foundering on and reverse course? double quotation markRaf: My instinct is that the era where the policies generally clustered as “neoliberal” enjoyed broad consensus and supremacy is over. Core aspects of liberal market economics will, of course, endure and liberal politics…

Scientists with the SETI Institute have completed a search for possible technological signals coming from 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at Northern California’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory, researchers examined a broad range of radio frequencies for evidence of extraterrestrial technology. As expected based on previous observations, they found no signs of artificial signals, further supporting the conclusion that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet-like object. First identified in July 2025, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed entering our Solar System. It follows the discoveries…

The Giannis Antetokounmpo trade saga lasted 13 months. The market reaction to the trade took seconds.Immediately after the news late Monday night that the Milwaukee Bucks had agreed to send the two-time NBA MVP to the Miami Heat, bettors jumped on the Heat. Miami went from +3000 at DraftKings to win the 2026-27 NBA title to +1800. In addition, the Heat dropped from +1200 to win the Eastern Conference—behind the Celtics (+225), Knicks (+250), Pistons (+800) and Pacers (+1100)—to +600 to win the East, behind just Boston (+225) and New York (+300).Bet on the 2026-27 NBA champion at DraftKings and…

Skateboarder-turned-actor Isiah Hilt has taken his lumps riding the deck. “I broke both my feet, and I broke my femur [skateboarding],” Hilt tells Deadline. “The doctor told me I broke my wrist. This was new news to me because I didn’t know… I had like a little fracture somewhere on my wrist.” Those knocks are nothing compared to what he has faced away from the cement skate parks. “I ran away from home when I was 12 years old. I been in 7 group homes, 1 foster home and 11 high schools,” Hilt writes in an Instagram post. “My adult…

Africa could be on the verge of its greatest-ever collective performance at a FIFA World Cup, with up to five nations still in contention to reach the knockout stage of the expanded 2026 tournament. With the group phase entering its decisive final stretch, the continent has already produced some of the competition’s most compelling stories, and there is growing belief that African football could surpass its previous benchmark for teams advancing beyond the first round. The current record was set at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil when Algeria, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire all progressed from their groups. Twelve years…

Germany will gradually raise its retirement age to about 70 by the early 2090s under recommendations backed by the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, as a means of future-proofing the pension system for an ageing population.Presenting its findings on Tuesday, an expert commission set up to explore reforms to the pension system said retirement age should be linked to rising life expectancy and early retirement should be scrapped.“No citizen needs to worry,” said Merz, as he said the measures would prevent the collapse of the creaking pension system and strengthen the social contract between generations. Young people, he argued, would be given…

Champion Breweries Plc has appointed Malolan Sampath as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, taking effect from 1 September. The company disclosed the leadership transition in a regulatory filing signed by its chair, Imo-Abasi Jacob, on Tuesday. The appointment followed the resignation of Inalegwu Adoga as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company. “The Board has approved the appointment of Mr. Malolan Sampath as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 September 2026,” the statement read. The board expressed its confidence that Mr Sampath’s expertise in manufacturing excellence, commercial execution, and…

In 2016, the Lagos State Government took a bold step to tackle youth unemployment, provide financial support, and create wealth for residents, which led to the establishment of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) under the Ministry of Wealth, Creation, and Employment. Ten years on, the fund continues to provide much-needed support to innovators and businesses in Nigeria’s centre of excellence through five key interventions: access to finance, access to skills development, access to capacity building, access to the market, and access to the technology ecosystem The fund marked its tenth anniversary on June 15th, 2026, in Lagos, gathering…

It is 10 years since the British public decided to pack up its troubles in its old kit bag, give Jacques Delors the final up yours and march off into an EU-free paradise. Opinions may differ on how that has worked out. Certainly several of the architects of the whole thing are enjoying lovely well-paid retirements on the speaking circuit or have seats in the House of Lords. Anyway, here are 18 questions about Brexit and the referendum campaign. How much do you remember about some of the weirder aspects of those few weeks, months and then years as the…