Cut off from Europe, Russia will have to rewire its Arctic gas trade
From 2027, Europe will no longer buy Russian LNG from Yamal. Getting the gas to Asia means longer trips, costlier ships and contractual workarounds.
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Did El Niño cause an early breakdown in the polar vortex?
The polar vortex winds have undergone an unprecedented weakening, which could bring cold weather to Europe. Some scientists suspect the record El Niño is to blame
How it feels to battle with a flood of AI-generated complaints | Letters
An investigator writes that a human-written grievance at least gets to the heart of the issue immediately. Plus letters from Dexter Jandoo and Pete Bibby Re your article ( ‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints, 8 November ), I’m a complaint investigator for a housing association. I’ve worked here for nine years, and the scope of my job has completely changed within a few months. I am well-versed in policy and legislation, and I love my job, but it can be unbearable sifting through hundreds of pages of extremely wordy complaints. You only need to look at the awful case of Awaab Ishak to know how important it is that a housing provider’s complaints process is accessible to tenants, but AI-generated complaints don’t help with this. Sending a complaint can be intimidating and time-consuming, and using AI can give someone confidence, but when we speak to customers in person or over the phone, and reference the same technical language that’s in their AI-generated complaint letter, they often don’t understand what we are saying. Continue reading...
If Gen Z are asked to go to war, it might not be in the way they expect | Brief letters
Fighting for your country | Starbucks | Sparta | Itching powder Jason Okundaye addresses the issue of whether Britain’s youth would be willing to lay down their lives in defence of our country ( Gen Z doesn‘t relish going to war – so what! You should worry more about the reckless generations that do, 10 November ). A more likely scenario is that they will be asked to fight and die for the sake of a Nato ally on Russia’s border, such as Poland or Lithuania. Matthew J Smith New Malden, London • Starbucks’ plans ( Starbucks plans to hire 7,500 staff in major UK expansion plan, 9 November ) coupled with the inexorable advance of AI would suggest a career as a barista might now be more secure than that of a barrister. Philip Clarke East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Continue reading...
Russia sends major business delegation to Kabul for business talks with the Taliban
A Russian deputy prime minister led a 70-strong Russian delegation to Afghanistan, pursuing deals on transport, logistics, agriculture, and health products with the Taliban.
Jensen Huang was reckless with the environment, too
Under cofounder Jensen Huang, Nvidia has become the engine for the AI boom - and one of the tech industry's biggest environmental liabilities. Its sought-after chips have triggered a new wave of water- and chemical-intensive factories, drained power grids from inside massive data centers, and set the stage for a looming e-waste problem. Under Huang's […]
Gen Z hasn’t made up its mind on AI, survey finds
A new survey from Milltown Partners, shared first with Semafor, found that 73% of Gen Z adults haven’t made up their minds on AI, while half said they expect AI to harm society.
My partner moved in with me — and my 30-year-old daughter. It hasn't always been easy, but it's worked for 9 years.
When my partner moved in with me, my adult daughter was living at home. The three of us still live together, and have made routines that help it work.
France and Germany near deal on De Cos for ECB top job as EU confirms two candidates
Two candidates are vying to succeed Christine Lagarde at the ECB, an EU official stated on Friday as EU leaders met in Dublin, while reports coming out of Spain said France and Germany are close to a deal on the central bank's top jobs with Spain's Pablo Hernández de Cos as favourite for president.
Microsoft outage renews European calls to detox from US tech
Lawmakers across Europe call for action to reduce reliance on a handful of foreign tech companies.
Microsoft reports progress in restoring service after global outage
The outage is the kind of issue that reminds the world how much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on just a few companies.
Perplexity Brings Teammates AI Agents to Mac, Challenging OpenAI's Enterprise Grip
Perplexity extends its persistent agent product to the Mac desktop, letting Max subscribers delegate long-running jobs across engineering, marketing, QA, and legal.
Your coding agent shouldn't grade its own homework
AI coding agents can now write design docs, mock up frontends, and implement entire projects end to end. But can they be trusted to verify that their own code actually works?
Vercel Labs' UI SDK Gives AI Agents 50+ Open Source Building Blocks
Vercel Labs released UI SDK, a headless library that breaks components into agent-friendly behaviors with built-in accessibility across five frameworks.
Jensen Huang’s biggest mistake was getting too involved in DC
For a while, it seemed like Huang was one of the few technologists to find success in DC. But it was all a mirage.
Iran MPs debate possible shift in nuclear doctrine and exit from NPT
Although the US midterm elections result appears to have reduced for now the prospect of a new full-scale US and Israeli attack on Iran, the fundamental US objective of stopping any Iranian nuclear programme is generating an intense debate in the Iranian society and its power circles.
Generative KI stiftet Chaos in Brüssel und Straßburg
Chatbots sorgen in Brüssel und Straßburg für eine Flut an Änderungsanträgen und Anfragen. Beamte und Abgeordnete schlagen Alarm wegen demokratischer Risiken.
WOKE feminist EXPOSES left-wing anti-meme (NOT CLICKBAIT)
content warning: discussion of abusive relationships Some ideas are memetic: they're catchy, they spread widely and easily, people have a reaction to them that induce them to propagate them further. Others are anti-memetic: for whatever reason, they have naturally self-censoring tendencies that reduce their reach. My grandmother was a late-in-life convert to Christianity, who dragged the rest of the family along for a bit. I was an earnest, credulous bookworm of eight or so, and I took the youth pastor at his word when he encouraged all of us to read more of the bible in our own time. As it turns out, the youth pastor is actually not thrilled when you do, and come back with inconvenient questions. Parts of the bible can be anti-memetic in some Christian circles. A bit later, I found myself in very socially progressive circles. I was an earnest, credulous bookworm of eighteen or so, who took the community leaders at their word when they told us that it is important to read theory, but even more important to do direct work and listen to the oppressed when their viewpoints diverged from the theory (which was written by dead white men). This I spent my early career doing, first at a remove at domestic violence policy summits and deep inside the federal public service, and then more directly at food banks and homeless shelters. I care deeply about improving the world, and I learned much about the kinds of work that are required to bring about the healed one. However, I did not di…
The Microsoft Outage Is a Warning for the World
Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company’s systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.
At 40, I moved my family of 4 to Spain. We spent that first year abroad learning from our mistakes.
After moving my family from the US to Spain, we've spent the past year learning new lessons and making mistakes around local culture and food.
The smallest version of Camp Snap’s retro digital camcorder fits on your keychain
Last week, Camp Snap launched a miniaturized version of its screen-free CS-8 video camera that was half the size of the original with a smaller grip designed to be easier for kids to hold. But it turns out the company wasn't done shrinking its hardware. Camp Snap's new CS-8 Micro is even smaller than the […]
The best pumpkin pie I've ever made uses a surprisingly easy recipe from Bobby Flay
Of all the celebrity-chef recipes I've tried for pumpkin pie, this was my favorite. Here's how to make this seasonal dessert and what I'd change.
Economistas publicam carta aberta em apoio ao PL 4.675/2025, sobre concorrência em mercados digitais
Signatários destacam a proteção dos pequenos negócios digitais e a criação de capacidade permanente no Cade para acompanhar plataformas de relevância sistêmica. O post Economistas publicam carta aberta em apoio ao PL 4.675/2025, sobre concorrência em mercados digitais apareceu primeiro em Data Privacy Brasil Research .
This compact Brother printer is over 50% off, and does everything you need
Brother makes excellent printers, and this compact all-in-one model is worth considering at only $99 for Black Friday.
Berlin clan boss Issa Remmo appears as 'state guest' at EU Parliament event
The head of the so-called Remmo clan in Berlin, Issa Remo, has officially joined a conference against Islamism in the European Parliament. This is fuelling debate in Germany and Brussels, and many are asking how this is possible.
Scott Bessent blames the Commerce Department for not cracking down on Megaspeed
"Commerce has the pen," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. "You all will have to ask them about their internal processes."
Order of Operations for the Order of the Phoenix at the Hinge of History (OOO-OOP-HOH)
Phoenix in my room at the time of writing Phoenixes have always been my spirit animal, and I bought this tapestry long before reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, however, yes, this is also the group house in which HPMOR was completed, Godric’s Hollow, which if I’m not mistaken does give us the non-exclusive, non-copyrighted, non-commercial, completely unrelated to J. K. Rowling rights to use the term “Order of the Phoenix” Originally written November, 2025. I still endorse maybe 50-70% of this memo [1] . 0. Preamble With this memo, on the top floor of the tallest tower of Godric's Hollow, I instantiate the real-life Order of the Phoenix, and begin the proceedings with our group cheer which carries the initials of this memo and is hereby imbued with the full force of our collective energy-wisdom-intentionality: OOO-OOP-HOH!!! Now that that’s out of the way… This memo began as a response to an email from Dony which I found deeply energizing and epic. In the spirit of "Yes-And," I am responding in kind. I grouped together all Dony’s ideas that seemed similar, noticed they fell into a few main categories, and prioritized them in what I believe is very roughly the order of operations in which they should be enacted. I'll start each section with some of Dony's text and then add my commentary. Table of Epicness 1. Prioritization: Comprehensively list best project ideas and carefully pick the #1 hinge-iest project for preventing x-risk, then take the #1 hinge-iest a…
Latest news bulletin | November 13th, 2026 – Evening
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this November 13th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
Researchers build the first ever quantum clock that uses sunlight
Quantum clocks usually rely on advanced lasers and isolated atoms in the lab, but a new experiment showed that the same clock design can work with sunlight instead
Election Advertising Drove 10% of Viewers to Seek Ad-Free Options
Survey shows many viewers also muted ads or switched channels.
AI Now Statement on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) to US Congress
The AI Now Institute has released a statement outlining concerns with the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), which serves as a backdoor bailout of the AI industry. The statement’s key points are as follows: Last week, voters across the country made their position clear by rejecting the AI buildout and electing representatives who […] The post AI Now Statement on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) to US Congress appeared first on AI Now Institute .
More live news, more conversations, more Europe: Euronews reinvents itself for its new season
Euronews launches its new season on 16 November with more live journalism, new weeknight programmes and a brand-new studio. Its journalists and editorial expertise take centre stage, with more perspectives and deeper insight into the stories shaping Europe. More Europe than ever, in 12 languages.
The Data Center Industry Is Using Propaganda to Fight Opposition
Maia Woluchem, as part of her work with the University of Pittsburgh's Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL), writes with coauthors in The Guardian about their new research that finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation, and information control to mold public opinion and undermine community opposition. The post The Data Center Industry Is Using Propaganda to Fight Opposition appeared first on Data & Society .
The new Apple TV has a YouTube problem
People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying "YouTube is not yet available on this device." In […]
I paid more for a house in a top school district. Then I sent my daughter somewhere else.
My daughter left a top-rated school district for a Title I charter school. I have no regrets about our decision.
SAG-Wiki Indexes 1M Characters in 200ms Without Vectors or Embeddings
Zleap-AI's open source SAG-Wiki indexes local files without embeddings or LLM calls, then feeds precise cited passages to Claude Code and other agents.
‘Ahead of his time’: AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of man who transformed maths
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems , published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age. After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gödel published only a few papers. His unpublished work, however, runs to tens of thousands of pages, and is of great interest to historians of science. Continue reading...
I tried 5 fast-food chicken sandwiches. The best one surprised me.
I tried chicken sandwiches from McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Popeyes, and Bojangles.
What Rewarding Misbehavior During RL Does to Character-Trained Models
TL;DR Research done as part of MATS. See here for the full paper. Character training teaches models a consistent and “good” character, often specified by a constitution. Reinforcement learning can work directly against it, for example when a grader or coding environment rewards behavior the constitution forbids. We character-train gpt-oss-20b on a semi-realistic constitution. We then apply RL that rewards breaking its rules, either by answering harmful requests rewritten as math problems or by reward hacking in agentic coding environments. The character-trained models learn both behaviors easily, though they are slightly slower to answer harmful requests than the same model without character training. They also engage in motivated reasoning. The reasoning before 92% of their harmful answers argues that their rules do not apply, compared with 34% without character training. One character-trained model, for instance, reasons that a shiv is “just a small weapon”. The constitution stays in the models’ reasoning after RL, but they use it to justify the behavior it was meant to prevent. After reward-hacking RL, they hack on some tasks which monitors find harder to catch. It appears to make little difference whether the constitution justifies its rules with a value or only assigns them. Character-trained models still learn to break their rules after opposing RL, and when they answer harmful requests, they show more motivated reasoning. gpt-oss-20b and a character-trained model afte…
Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI directly into factory software to automate industrial workflows
Anthropic's new Claude for Manufacturing plugin connects the AI directly to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, and Infor. Its 17 specialized skills let the AI draft quotes, compare suppliers, and place backup orders when deliveries are delayed, all after human approval. The plugin doesn't control physical machines yet, but Anthropic is separately developing the Model Hardware Standard for that. The article Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI directly into factory software to automate industrial workflows appeared first on The Decoder .
Ex-Labour MP accused of sexual harassment joins Plaid Cymru
Geraint Davies has joined Wales' ruling party.
My month with the Surface Laptop Ultra: The future of Windows is exclusive
The Surface Laptop Ultra is a PC made for power users and developers, harnessing the bleeding edge of AI workflows. For everyone else, it’s overkill.
EU countries to announce deportation hub deal with Rwanda
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands aim to make the centers operational as of next year.