‘They’ve become complacent’: Greens face battle to hold on to Brighton seat

The Green party hopes to convince voters in its only seat in parliament that there is life after Caroline Lucas

Locking up her bike on a busy Brighton street, cafe manager Bridget Weston might seem a good bet to back the local Green party, but she is sceptical. “I think they have become complacent,” she says. “There’s almost this presumption that because of the way Brighton is, people are just going to vote Green.”

A general election is most likely still over a year away, but the starting gun has been fired on one of its most fascinating micro-battles: whether the Greens can hold on to their sole Commons seat in an area where, these days, they arguably represent the political establishment.

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Generating FLIRT signatures for Nim and other non-C programming languages

Adversaries are increasingly writing malware in programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Nim, because they present challenges to investigators using reverse-engineering tools designed to work best against the C family of languages.

It’s often difficult for reverse engineers examining non-C languages to differentiate between the malware author&

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Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives

Dr Stephen Brearey says officials ‘absolutely’ need to be regulated in similar manner to medical practitioners

NHS executives should be regulated similarly to medical practitioners, the paediatrician who first raised the alarm on Lucy Letby has said, after clinicians’ concerns about her were “turned on the head”.

The behaviour and accountability of senior officials within the health service “absolutely” needed to be regulated, said Dr Stephen Brearey, who first carried out an urgent review into the nurse sentenced on Monday to a whole-life term for the “sadistic” murders of seven babies.

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Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. The Snatch ransomware group added the Department of Defence South Africa to its data leak site. The mission of the Department of Defence is to provide, manage, prepare and employ defence capabilities commensurate with the […]

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A cyber attack hit the Australian software provider Energy One

The Australian software provider Energy One announced it was hit by a cyberattack last week that affected certain corporate systems in Australia and the UK. The Australian software provider Energy One announced that a cyberattack hit certain corporate systems in Australia and the UK last week. Energy One is a global supplier of software products […]

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CISA adds critical Adobe ColdFusion flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added critical vulnerability CVE-2023-26359 in Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical flaw CVE-2023-26359 (CVSS score 9.8) affecting Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Adobe fixed the critical flaw in March 2023, it is a deserialization of untrusted data issue in Adobe ColdFusion that can […]

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The Onion's Essential College Shopping Guide

College can provide a rich, rewarding experience for students if they really prioritize materialism and bring cool stuff. Here is The Onion’s essential college shopping guide.

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Jeremy Hunt plays down tax cut plans despite lower borrowing than expected

Chancellor says government must not alter course as interest rate rises add to cost of debt

Jeremy Hunt has played down the prospect of pre-election tax cuts despite news that the public finances are in less bad shape than the government’s spending watchdog forecast in the spring budget.

Stronger tax receipts from an economy that has so far avoided recession meant the UK’s budget deficit stood at £4.3bn last month – the fifth highest for a July since modern records began in 1993 but £1.7bn below the estimate from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

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Starmer claims he could not afford university if he were student now due to Tory policies – UK politics live

Labour leader criticises government over increasing costs for students

Good morning. We’ve had energy week, small boats week and NHS week. At the Downing Street lobby briefing yesterday the PM’s spokesperson was asked if this was education week (according to the No 10 news grid), and replied categorically that it wasn’t. But it certainly feels like it. Yesterday the Department for Education put out a story about childminding, and fielded a junior minister for the morning broadcast round. This morning Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, is in the radio studios, promoting an announcement about free schools. And on Thursday the GCSE results are out.

And Keir Starmer is getting in on the act too. In a statement released overnight, he criticises the government for increasing costs for students and claims that, if he were a young person today, because of his working class background he would not be able to afford to go to university. He says:

There wasn’t any spare money knocking around to fund me going to Leeds. I worked before I went and then got by on grants, as many young people do. I vividly remember carefully calculating rent, bills and food.

Going to Leeds to study was a turning point for me; it will be a deep betrayal if one of the legacies of this Tory government is university, apprenticeships and skills becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

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Dio Kemp inquest: doctors say there were no signs of infection when toddler first taken to hospital

Dio died of sepsis eight days after she was initially assessed at Monash Medical Centre

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The two doctors who initially assessed Victorian toddler Dio Kemp, who died of sepsis eight days later, have told an inquest there were no signs she had the infection when she first presented at hospital.

Dr Timothy Martin and Dr Tobias van Hest, who were working at Monash Medical Centre’s emergency department when the three-year-old first presented in November 2019, gave evidence at a coronial inquest into her death on Tuesday.

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Things To Never Say To Your Freshman-Year Roommate

While acknowledging their existence or uttering a single word isn’t recommended, here is what you should definitely never say to your freshmen-year roommate.

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