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Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators scrambling to protect their systems. Developers of the PHP programming language said Tuesday they had identified two critical vulnerabilities and urged users to update their sites as soon as a fix was released. They said around 1345 GMT on Wednesday that a new version fixing the vulnerabilities was live. But with reports that hackers were exploiting the flaws to break into websites, government agencies in the Netherlands and Finland were among those that took sites...

Today we're doing something a little different. We're taking Curator's Corner on the road! Wiltshire Museum in Devizes has very kindly lent us the objects excavated from Bush Barrow for our upcoming 'The world of Stonehenge' exhibition. But before they were taken off display, we grabbed some time with director David Dawson, to find out what makes the Bush Barrow Chieftain such an important figure for our understanding of British prehistory and the world of Stonehenge. Stonehenge's Richest Man | The Bush Barrow Chieftain Curator's Corner S7 Ep2 | 7:34 The British Museum | 799K subscribers | 221,962 views |...

Artificial-intelligence tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever. Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it. First, artificial intelligence heralded the Bugmageddon. Now it is triggering an all-hands-on-deck cyber emergency. The creators of PHP, a technology that powers as much as 70% of the world’s websites, disclosed a critical security issue Wednesday that could be leveraged by hackers to take control of any system running its software. That would allow an attacker to steal information or launch a cyberattack on anyone visiting a hacked website.Security researchers found the vulnerability using...

Don’t forget to tip your robots. A recent TikTok has exposed an airport store for prompting customers to select an 18% tip at a self-checkout kiosk. Dr. Clay Moss, a longevity specialist, recently posted a TikTok where a self-service payment terminal automatically nudged him to tip. In an undisclosed airport, the doctor was stunned when he tried to purchase a bottle of water — which was already overpriced — and saw that he was automatically encouraged to tip — 18%. Dr. Moss showed the store’s kiosk, which revealed the software — that seemingly uses a preset function — prompting customers...

President is considering restoring a pool once used by Roosevelt, which would lead to the eviction of the media from West Wing, according to reports President Trump has suggested replacing the White House press room with an indoor swimming pool, effectively removing news outlets from the building, according to reports. Trump proposed the idea to Karoline Leavitt, the former White House press secretary, several times before she stepped down from her post in August, the New York Times reported, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions. “America is rightly distrustful of the fake news media because they fabricate stories...

We’re in the final weeks of the 2026 midterms, and some say a blue wave is coming. That’s just not happening. It won’t be like 2018 — a 25+ seat flip isn’t in the cards. Those days are over. Now, some top pollsters are skeptical of the latest tranche of surveys, including Frank Luntz, who admitted he got 2016 wrong and that Trump supporters don't respond to pollsters. Now, we have New York Times reporter and Michigan native Jeremy Peters noting that the thing we knew could happen — Jewish Democrats voting Republican — is a real thing in the...

Astonishing video shot on the worst day of the current anti-government insurrection shows the confectionery outlet in his home town of Amiens, northern France, surrounded by at least two platoons of CRS police. The elite Republican Security Companies placed their vans in front of the 'Jean Trogneux' confectionery store while leaving others unguarded. It was founded in 1872 by Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, the great-grandfather of Brigitte Macron, Mr Macron's 73-year-old wife. Trogneux is her maiden name. The chocolatiers dynasty is renowned for its macarons, and profits from the sweet treats go to all family with shares in the business. Ordinary police...

The number of flags flying from lamp-posts has significantly reduced in the last year after hundreds were taken down, according to a city council. In a public meeting on 19 October, Bristol City Council said the number of St George and Union flags on lamp-posts have fallen from more than 1,000 to 371. Flags first started being put up across the country in 2025 following the nationwide social media movement Raise the Colours campaign. ... Since the summer of 2025, thousands of St George flags have appeared in towns and cities across England, with individuals and groups behind them saying...

Does anyone in the Democrat Party own a mirror? Because Bill Clinton lecturing Americans about civility in this country is absolutely hilarious, given that he might want to spread the word to his fellow party members. Starting with his wife. Hillary Clinton. She who dubbed anyone who would dare to vote for Donald Trump "a basket of deplorables." Former President Bill Clinton was campaigning for Democrats in Florida on Tuesday night when he issued a warning against politicians who try to win elections by demonizing their opponents. Clinton criticized what he characterized as negative campaign tactics by Republican gubernatorial candidate...

Trump on Tuesday night touted the amount of settlement money his administration has already provided and appeared to urge attendees to get out and vote to keep Congress in GOP control so that additional settlement money can be provided. =================================================================== The first Camp Lejeune water-contamination case will go to trial Oct. 26, with the Justice Department using a questionable expert to argue that the water didn’t cause illnesses at the military base. Meanwhile, the department under President Trump has paid over $421 million in settlements to compensate service members exposed to contaminated water and announced another $175 million in settlements...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodal church reverses Our Lord’s mandate to proclaim the Gospel Cardinal Ferrão’s words about the family stem from the Synodal mentality which is essentially rooted in the heresy of Universalism.I have recently read the statement by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão regarding the family at the Amoris Laetitia Summit in Rome. I was disturbed but not as utterly shocked as I should have been.I would have been more shocked had the statement not been a part of a whole host of alarming comments and actions from some of the hierarchy of the Church rooted in the so-called Synodal Way.Ponder...

Pakistani authorities acting on intelligence arrested a man Tuesday accused of running an online counterfeit postage operation that U.S. prosecutors say caused more than $126 million in losses to the U.S. Postal Service, Pakistan’s cybercrime investigation agency said. Faheem Akram, 33, was arrested after a weekslong search involving raids across several parts of the country, a senior official at the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, Atif Ameer, told reporters. Akram, a resident of Khanewal in eastern Punjab province, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district said in...

The polling industry needs major reform. Our statement below:

Even before Trump entered office, although well after the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton and the FBI had already begun working on destroying Trump. Chuck Schumer gleefully told Rachel Maddow that the intelligence community was going to go after Trump and that they knew how to do it. A few weeks after the election, both Maddow and Schumer were discussing the fact that Trump had angered the IC, and Schumer dropped his bombshell: ["Six Ways from Sunday" video at article source] Well, those folks have spent a decade trying to take Trump down, concocting hoaxes (Steele Dossier and countless other bulls**t...

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on a controversial ad featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother, but it seems to be catastrophically backfiring on him as his odds of winning the election have cratered. In the ad, Donna Arthur, the candidate’s estranged mother who lost custody of her and her younger brother when Acton was 12, lambasts her daughter as a “liar” and urges viewers not to vote for her. Acton has publicly spoken about her troubled childhood for years, well before she ran for office, including the reason her mother lost custody: documented neglect...

Ashley Davis, the former Bush White House official who regularly appears on CNN as a house Republican, delivered a performance on Tuesday’s CNN This Morning that could have come straight from a Democratic or DSA talking-points memo. [snip] Once the images of smashed storefronts and fires appeared, she pivoted: the protests had been “hijacked, in my mind, I have no idea where they’re from, it doesn’t matter, but they’ve been hijacked by thugs that are starting to destroy stores.” Translation: She knows darn well “where they’re from”—but that doesn’t fit the liberal narrative. Get the rest of the story and...

On November 5th, I will load up a bus with neighbors from my Woodlawn community on Chicago’s South Side and drive north to New Trier High School to see a documentary called “White Guilt,” being hosted by community group New Trier Neighbors. I am a pastor and community organizer. I run Project H.O.O.D., a community center in one of Chicago’s most challenged neighborhoods. I appear in the film. And I cannot wait to see it with my neighbors, and this includes the North Shore families who have been told not to go. That’s right. I have heard that there are...

Trump has so effectively closed the southern border that illegal aliens are exploring new routes. These new routes are even more dangerous. 'Coast Guard personnel provided lifesaving first aid during transport to San Diego, where all 16 individuals were transferred to awaiting emergency medical services personnel for further evaluation and treatment at local hospitals,' the agency said in the statement. Reports to the Coast Guard 'indicated that there may have been 27 people aboard,' according to the agency. The Mexican consulate in San Diego confirmed that all of the rescued were Mexican nationals. The U.S. Coast Guard doesn't get enough...

Former President George W. Bush’s brother, Neil Bush, has revealed he voted for Democratic candidate James Talarico for U.S. Senate in Texas, calling President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election "an affront to our democratic institutions.""I voted early today, and I voted for James Talarico for the United States Senate," the Texan businessman wrote in a post on Facebook on Tuesday in a snub to Republican candidate Ken Paxton.

The unfinished work of ensuring there will never be another Donald Trump will be a total effort. In a previous piece for American Greatness, I said accountability would be the dividing issue in the fast-approaching midterm elections. On the one hand are Democrats, seeking to hold Trump himself and those around him—cabinet members, prominent supporters like Elon Musk, and even corporations that have done deals with the administration—responsible for their role in the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of Trump’s second term in office. On the other are Republicans, wanting to take the Democrats to task for failing to stop the...