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The government did not advise to stock your freezer, the contents of which are at risk in the event of an extended power cut. They said shelf stable, manual tin opener, no cook foods.
As it stands:
Power cuts are one of primary risks in the short term (thanks, climate zealots).
The medium term is food shortages in 2027 due to super el niño, fertiliser and diesel shortages.
The curve ball is AI can take down anything and everything, tomorrow or in 3 years.
Call your parents more, get to know your neighbours and seek the Lord while he may be found.
Bit of a different response to the government's latest prepper advice compared to September. Was the messaging really that different or is it the darker, colder days?
Ultimately people don't panic buy because they are told to, but rather if it looks like everyone else is.
Rainy Britain short of water
Exclusive from @breeallegretti
Ministers have been secretly warned that some English reservoirs are at risk of running dry, hitting water supplies to homes in the run-up to Christmas
The government’s emergency committee, known as Cobra, is meeting up to twice a week to discuss the situation in the southwest of England and Sussex
A secret “reasonable worst-case scenario” was drawn up, anticipating that several reservoirs’ water stocks could fall to 0 per cent — dubbed “day zero” — within weeks
Officials warned that without action, supplies to some homes could be affected, along with disruption to the construction of a nuclear power station and operations at a prison
Wimbleball reservoir, which supplies more than 400,000 people in Somerset, has 13 per cent of its capacity, while Ardingly, which serves 280,000 customers across West Sussex, is at 17 per cent
Ministers battling to avoid reservoirs running dry by Christmas
thetimes.com/article/7812e10…
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Did you know?
Britain is getting HAMMERED by a storm.
Yet the Government may be about to shut down public swimming pools and car washes.
Because of DROUGHT.
Yes, really (it’s nearly November).
Ministers will decide next week whether to impose "non-essential use bans" across southern England.
The first in 20 YEARS.
Businesses could be forced to close.
We are a country famous for its rain. We should not be forced to RATION water.
England has not opened a single new reservoir since the 1990s.
Gov. must take emergency action & approve new reservoirs TODAY.
What do you think?
Exclusive:
Public swimming pools and car washes in parts of southern England face closure within days because of severe drought.
The Defra secretary Angela Eagle will decide next week whether to impose “non-essential use bans” in West Sussex and Somerset at the request of two water companies.
She has sped up the process because of severely low reservoir levels. It would be the first time the bans have been used in Britain for 20 years.
The restrictions would stop any businesses from using excessive water for non-essential services. They would effectively shut down all car washes and swimming pools in the areas and business owners may be eligible for compensation.
Defra officials believe that without heavy rain this winter, reservoirs won’t return to normal levels before next summer.
Story: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Someone somewhere has cracked the language required to get Labour to create an environment conducive to starting businesses. Entrepreneurship over employment is good for growth.
Exclusive:
Benefit claimants will be given advice on how to set up their own businesses, turning side hustles into full-time work.
A pilot scheme starting next year will give young entrepreneurs advice on setting up a business bank account, registering for VAT and putting together a business plan
Pat McFadden tells @Telegraph that young people want to “do their own thing” and that new businesses are one way of tackling the NEETs crisis.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
And yet the gov press on with online ID in April
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Feels like March 1, 2020 for Cyber. Not normal, something is happening. Internet lockdowns in a couple of months?
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Another British Fumble!
£2bn AI data centre in Essex. 23,000 Nvidia chips, planning permission sorted, Microsoft signed up as the anchor tenant
Microsoft has reportedly now walked. Because the grid told them they can't have the power until 2033/34
The government literally named this site in its own AI action plan. They talk about AI growth zones every other week. And we can't get 90MW to a field in Essex for 8 years
Same story as the reservoirs. We don't build the boring stuff, so the exciting stuff can't happen here
Leadership.
J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.
Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.
Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.
La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
'chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders'
Courage is contagious
I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
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🚨NEW: Cabinet Ministers are turning on Ed Miliband as it's revealed he is blocking AI investment into Britain over concerns it harms Net Zero
[@Telegraph]