The UK government will not intervene to stop a pilot drug consumption room in Scotland, Alister Jack has said. The Scottish secretary said ministers at Holyrood now have “no more excuses” to act after he made the commitment in the House of Commons. SNP MPs had pressed the Westminster government to outline its position after
Month: September 2023
From the pensions triple lock to the cost of mortgages, Brexit to tuition fees: many of the biggest political questions of recent years have been framed as a contest between the often-conflicting interests of younger and older voters. The intergenerational friction has come to the fore this week amid the debate about the pensions triple
The Conservatives reportedly dropped two potential candidates to become MPs after MI5 warned that they could be spies for China. The security service contacted the Tory Party last year and in 2021 advising the pair should not be included on the central list of candidates, according to The Times. The newspaper reported the pair had
Sir Keir Starmer has branded the prime minister “inaction man” over the problems facing the UK’s schools and prisons. Mr Sunak has been greeted with a number of problems on returning to Westminster from the summer recess, including a crisis involving concrete in public buildings, the escape of a terror suspect from prison and allegations
The chair of the Commons’ defence committee, Tobias Ellwood, has resigned from his role following criticism over a video he posted on social media, Sky News understands. The Tory MP, who had been the chair of the cross-party group since 2020, came under pressure to quit after sharing the clip on X, the platform formerly
A group of New York City pension funds, along with others from the state of Oregon, have sued Fox Corp. and its officers and directors for “consciously disregarding defamation risk.” Fox News 2020 election coverage promoted “political narratives without regard for whether the underlying factual assertions were true or based on sources worthy of credit,”
Days of Wine and Roses, a musical adaptation of the classic 1958 teleplay and 1962 feature film about a married couple struggling to come to grips with alcoholism, will open on Broadway in January starring Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James reprising their performances from an acclaimed Off Broadway production earlier this summer. The limited
TV analytics firm 605 has been acquired by ad measurement company iSpot, the company’s fourth acquisition in five years and its largest to date. Kristin Dolan, who founded 605, became CEO of AMC Networks earlier this year. The Dolan family controls the shares of AMC Networks and the Madison Square Garden companies. Financial terms were
In the first public comments by a Charter executive since a carriage renewal with Disney, CFO Jessica Fischer said the deal “met all of our objectives” and a preceding blackout resulted in only moderate TV subscriber losses. The closely watched Disney-Spectrum carriage dispute was resolved Monday as the companies reached a precedent-setting multi-year pact. Eight
Tech CEOs and other industry leaders converged on the stately top floor of a Senate office building on Wednesday for a closed-door forum with lawmakers focused on potential regulation of AI. The sessions, organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, were meant as a listening session for lawmakers as some sound the alarm over the
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Liv Tyler has signed with CAA. The move comes just a few months after the conclusion of principal photography on Captain America: Brave New World, the superhero flick marking her return to the MCU which will have her reprising her role as scientist Betty Ross. Tyler first played the part in 2008’s The
MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin told lawmakers, tech CEOs and labor groups about the industry’s position on AI at a landmark Senate forum on the technology on Wednesday. According to remarks released by the MPA, Rivkin told the closed-door session that “my industry welcomes the opportunity to discuss legislation…legislation that seeks to address the downside risks
Netflix’s chief financial officer said today that ongoing Hollywood strikes are bad for the business, and the company is focused on getting back to work. “I think really kind of cutting through it, the main thing…is there’s a lot of folks out of work and the business isn’t moving forward,” chief financial officer Spencer Neumann
Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios and seven of its subsidiaries have voted 32-0 to unionize with IATSE in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. The union called the unanimous vote an “historic first” for the industry’s VFX workforce. The next step for IATSE is to engage in collective bargaining with Marvel
An NFT-backed animated series production featuring the voices of Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Chris Rock, Dax Shepard, Jane Fonda and Seth MacFarlane has been fined $1 million for misleading investors. Stoner Cats, which was funded through the sale of $8 million in non-fungible tokens [NFTs] to investors in 2021, was part of a scheme to
Sep 12, 2023THNSoftware Security / Vulnerability A new vulnerability disclosed in GitHub could have exposed thousands of repositories at risk of repojacking attacks, new findings show. The flaw “could allow an attacker to exploit a race condition within GitHub’s repository creation and username renaming operations,” Checkmarx security researcher Elad Rapoport said in a technical report
Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Browser Security Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser. The shortcoming, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-4863, is a heap buffer overflow
Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Zero Day Adobe’s Patch Tuesday update for September 2023 comes with a patch for a critical actively exploited security flaw in Acrobat and Reader that could permit an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26369, is rated 7.8 for severity on the CVSS scoring system
Sep 13, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Zero Day Microsoft has released software fixes to remediate 59 bugs spanning its product portfolio, including two zero-day flaws that have been actively exploited by malicious cyber actors. Of the 59 vulnerabilities, five are rated Critical, 55 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. The update is
Sep 13, 2023THNCyber Attack / Malware Microsoft is warning of a new phishing campaign undertaken by an initial access broker that involves using Teams messages as lures to infiltrate corporate networks. The tech giant’s Threat Intelligence team is tracking the cluster under the name Storm-0324, which is also known by the monikers TA543 and Sagrid.
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