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A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in the kernel of many Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53359, allows guest virtual machines—such as those used in cloud platforms to isolate one user’s instance from the host OS and other user instances—to break out of that container. Januscape: A threat to cloud platforms The vulnerability affects KVM running on both AMD and…

On Tuesday, after months of scandal about his finances, Nigel Farage tried to take back the initiative. He was resigning as an MP, he explained, to trigger a byelection in his Clacton seat – giving “the people” a chance back him against “the establishment”.But, as the Guardian political correspondent Ben Quinn explains, things may not have gone quite to plan. After all Reform’s political rivals announced they wouldn’t take part in Farage’s “stunt”, it left him the prospect of six weeks of campaigning against the novelty candidate Count Binface.Helen Pidd asks if Farage might come to regret it, and if…

A new theory developed by physicists at Heidelberg University brings together two long competing ideas in quantum physics, offering a unified explanation for how an unusual particle behaves inside a crowded quantum environment. The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless within a large collection of fermions, a system known as a Fermi sea. The framework, created by researchers at Heidelberg University’s Institute for Theoretical Physics, explains how quasiparticles emerge and links two previously disconnected quantum states. The team says this advance could have important implications for experiments exploring quantum matter.…

Twice in a span of four days, a pitcher in Major League Baseball was pulled with a perfect game intact. First came Eury Pérez of the Marlins in his start against the Athletics. On Sunday, manager Clayton McCullough pulled Pérez after seven perfect innings and 92 pitches. Soon thereafter, reliever Lake Bachar walked a batter to end the (combined) perfecto bid and then allowed a single to end the no-hitter threatThen came Pirates right-hander Jared Jones on Wednesday night. He twirled six perfect innings at the expense of the Braves before Pittsburgh manager Don Kelly gave Jones the Dugout Handshake of Removal…

In Jonathan Houlston’s strikingly astute and utterly gripping debut play, a school’s locker room is a retreat for its pupils. Here, hypermasculinity is performed en masse, first dates are held in secret and reputation-threatening confessions are whispered cautiously.We first meet the boys as a pack, and collectively they play up to the tropes we’ve been on high alert about since the TV drama Adolescence. Banter sprinkled with “your mum” jokes flows, chat about sex reduces their female classmates to goals, and nude pictures are shared around like trophies.Well-worn familiarity … Luke Rhodri and Michelle McTernan in Physical Education. Photograph: Kirsten…

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Nigeria’s tennis  Sensation, Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin, 17, and his Botswana partner, Ntungamili Raguin, have qualified for the Boys’ Doubles Quarter-finals at the 2026 Wimbledon Junior Championships. The African pair defeated the American duo of Safir Azam and Vihaan Reddy in straight sets: Oluwaseun Peter Ogunsakin (Nigeria) / Ntungamili Raguin (Botswana) beat Safir Azam / Vihaan Reddy (USA) 6–1, 6–0 The emphatic victory sends the Nigerian-Botswana partnership into the quarter-finals of the Boys’ Doubles event, where they will continue their impressive run at Wimbledon.  Seun Ogunsakin  is coached by his father from Ekiti State. He  trains at the Atrum Tennis Academy in Abuja.  Ogunsakin…

The race for FIFA World Cup 2026 glory enters its decisive stage this week as eight nations battle for four semi-final places, with football’s biggest stars and one of the tournament’s greatest surprise packages set to take centre stage live on SuperSport. Argentina captain Lionel Messi, France forward Kylian Mbappé, Norway striker Erling Haaland and England captain Harry Kane headline a quarter-final lineup that also features the tournament’s last remaining African representatives, Morocco, unbeaten Spain and an in-form Belgium side. The action begins today at 9pm when France takes on Morocco in a clash between one of the tournament favourites…

By Progress Godfrey  Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has intensified its engagement with banks, fintech firms, and other financial institutions as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) moves to enforce the local storage of payment transaction data. The digital infrastructure and shared services provider, in a statement yesterday, brought together Chief Information Officers, fintech leaders, and technology stakeholders at its second-quarter webinar to discuss digital trust, regulatory compliance, and resilient infrastructure for the financial sector. The webinar followed the CBN’s directive to banks, fintech companies, mobile money operators and other payment service providers to store payment transaction data generated in Nigeria on local…

“The presumption against preemption, therefore, applies to this case, and the Court must analyze whether Kalshi has demonstrated that, in enacting the CEA, it was the ‘clear and manifest purpose of Congress’ to preempt New York’s authority to regulate gambling where a DCM, like Kalshi, offers sports-event contracts on its platform,” Torres wrote. No clear intent from Congress to preempt Torres does not see any clear intent from Congress to preempt New York gambling laws. While the CEA gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over transactions involving swaps on a DCM, it says this power does not “supersede or limit the…