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Britain should work towards rejoining the EU in the next decade, Tony Blair has said, adding to growing pressure on Andy Burnham to abandon Labour’s reluctance to revisit the 2016 referendum.The former prime minister has urged Burnham to use his 10-year plan in November to put the country’s membership of the union back on the table, a decade after it voted to leave.In a paper entitled A Path to Rejoining a Reformed Europe, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) calls for the UK to accept free movement of people and make a financial contribution as the price of entry.The intervention comes…

Fish husbandryD. cerebrum13,14,15,33,35,54,60,61,62,63 were raised and maintained in conventional zebrafish housing systems (Aquaneering; system water temperature 29 ± 0.5 °C, pH 7.0, conductivity 600 µS cm−1), under 14:10 h light:dark cycles, and were fed 2–3 times a day. D. cerebrum were bred in communal tanks of ~40–60 individuals, enriched with ~5 cm silicone tubes to encourage spawning. Eggs were collected during the first 1 h of daylight, and 1–2 h after morning and afternoon feeding. Embryos (0–5 days post-fertilization (dpf)) were raised in egg-water (5 mM NaCl, 169 μM KCl, 330 μM CaCl2, 161 μM MgSO4∙7H2O, and 0.15% methylene blue dissolved in reverse osmosis purified water) in an…

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It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories. The company has been facing significant scrutiny because of how some users have been covertly recording other people using the glasses, meaning that one of the biggest announcements of the show could be its rumored camera-free pair.Connect has also traditionally been a venue for updates on Meta’s VR hardware and software. While the company has scaled back…

Hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have detailed data on thousands of FBI employees.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating a breach of its jobs website by a hacking group that claims to have obtained sensitive data on thousands of employees.“The FBI is aware of a cybercriminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the fbijobs.gov portal and alleged impact to FBI employee personally identifiable information,” the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“While the point of breach is still undetermined — whether a third…

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental drug called CS18 that may help cancer treatments work against tumors that have become resistant to therapy. The study, published in Science Advances, provides early evidence supporting further investigation of CS18 as a possible future cancer treatment. “Therapeutic resistance is a main obstacle to achieve effective and durable cancer treatments,” said corresponding author Dr. Weei-Chin Lin, professor of medicine – hematology and oncology and of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor. “While some therapies are effective at the beginning, many patients eventually relapse because cancer cells can activate compensatory and…

Some members of the House of Representatives operating under the banner of the Save Democracy Group (SDG), have called on the National Assembly to reconvene and determine whether Vice President Kashim Shettima should assume the functions of president in the absence of President Bola Tinubu. The group made the call in a statement on Wednesday and signed by its leaders, Awaji-Inombek Abiante (NDC, Rivers) and Abubakar Kusada (APC, Katsina). It followed the expiration of the 21-day period provided under Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution within which the president should be on leave. Tinubu’s extended vacation Pesident Tinubu left Abuja…

The BBC’s Laura Bicker is in Inner Mongolia where dozens of Chinese data centres are being built, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence. She explains how attitudes differ between people in China and the US when it comes to the data centre industry, ahead of leaders Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s meeting in Washington later this week.Read more on this story here.

People claiming universal credit (UC) would have their payments cut by a third if they have not paid enough national insurance, under a Conservative plan condemned by one charity as “a fast track to increased poverty”.Under the proposals, those who receive this “subsistence allowance” would have it paid into a dedicated debit card that would prevent from them buying alcohol or tobacco, based on an Australian system that was scrapped after trials found limited evidence it changed behaviour.While the proposals are billed by the Conservatives as a way to push people into work, the poverty charity Trussell said trimming incomes…

Ebola hasn’t gone away. In fact, the ongoing outbreak in Africa is among the most concerning epidemics the organization trying to tame it has ever seen.“Other than Covid, which affected the whole world, this is the thing that has frightened me the most,” says Nicole Lurie, who has worked for Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations since 2017 and now serves as executive director for preparedness and response and the US director.More than 7,000 people have contracted the Bundibugyo Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo since May, around half of whom have died, according to government data compiled by…