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Saudi turmoil deepens; Manchester City guilty; British fuel costs soar
Houthi missile attacks intensify, forcing Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince between heavily guarded palaces as Trump weighs possible involvement. Manchester City found guilty of over 100 charges whilst British drivers face record fuel costs.
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The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centres have sparked widespread claims on social media that Russian disinformation bot networks were knocked offline. However, researchers have debunked these claims, clarifying that the data actually shows declines in automated web crawlers used by Yandex, Russia’s search engine equivalent, rather than bot farms spreading misinformation. This distinction matters…
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Sandi Toksvig backs Cambridge project to address Wikipedia’s gender and geographic bias
Sandi Toksvig has criticised Wikipedia as “deeply biased” against women and is backing a rival project called Mappa Mundi to address the gap. Only 19% of Wikipedia’s biographies concern women, a disparity she attributes to the site being edited primarily by white, middle-aged European men. The initiative, developed with the University of Cambridge, aims to…
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Baden-Württemberg recorded 358 child marriages since 2012, only eight annulled
Authorities in Baden-Württemberg recorded 358 marriages involving a child since April 2012, including cases involving girls as young as 11 and adult men. The figures have renewed attention on child marriage and the protection of minors, after state politicians sought the data through a parliamentary inquiry. Only eight of the recorded marriages were formally annulled,…
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Teenager detained after gun attack leaves two staff members injured at French middle school
A 14-year-old pupil has been arrested after shooting two staff members at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, near Marseille, on Monday morning. The teenager entered the school with a shotgun concealed in a guitar case and opened fire before being restrained by a member of staff. Crucially, no pupils were harmed, and the two injured…
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Drone strikes disable three Yandex data centres, disrupting cloud and payments
Ukraine’s drone strikes on three of Yandex’s five Russian datacentres have disrupted the technology company’s cloud platform and payment services. The outages have left some users unable to access Yandex Pay, while the company says customers’ money is safe and engineers are working to restore services. The strikes began overnight on 7–8 October at the…
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The OnePlus 16 is the company’s most interesting phone in years
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China today, marking its first flagship smartphone since exiting the US and European markets this summer. The release represents a significant milestone for the company, with meaningful improvements across performance, display, battery and camera systems. The phone features a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, up to 16GB…
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Deloitte ‘helped falsify documents’ to hide true extent of former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s wealth, documents suggest
Leaked documents cited by BBC Panorama and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest Deloitte and corporate services firm MeritServus helped former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich conceal assets and reduce tax liabilities by altering and backdating company records. The allegations matter because they raise questions about whether financial statements accurately reported billions of pounds in wealth…