Netanyahu told the head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council that a solution had already been found to the explosive drones, although he would not share details, Davidovich told 103FM.
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Haifa resident arrested for implied death threats against LGBTQ+ community
One of the suspected threats on social media appears to target former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who said he would work towards civil unions and same-sex marriage within Israeli law if elected.
Royal Navy helicopter crashes into field in Devon
Emergency services at scene of incident at Sourton Down, near Okehampton
A Royal Navy helicopter has crashed into a field in Devon, police have confirmed.
Emergency services are at the scene of the incident at Sourton Down, near Okehampton.
Minister condemns riot but urges review of police anti-racism guidance following Henry Nowak death – UK politics live
Sarah Jones appeals for calm after rioting over the death of Nowak, who was handcuffed while dying from stab wound
Yesterday Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said that, althought the NPCC would listen to concerns about how the anti-racism commitment was worded (see 9.29am), the overall intent behind was sound and justified. He said:
It is essential that we police without fear or favour in keeping the peace and enforcing the law. We must do so to earn the confidence of all communities.
This historic and ongoing mistrust between the police and black communities risks, for example, people not reporting things to the police if they are in trouble, or aiding our efforts to catch criminals, fight crime and protect all communities.
Everyone should be treated equally under the law and I think it’s right that they are reviewing this document and looking at the language.
This particular document is a values document, it’s quite a short document and I don’t think it forms the basis of any training or any police activity.
Producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances and experiences, with understanding that these will be racialised and with the aim of reducing harm.
It does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’ (racial equality).
UK media websites given power to block Google using their articles in AI search
Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue
Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement would “put publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google”.
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Ukraine hits St. Petersburg as ‘Putin’s Davos’ gets underway
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones at Russian targets early Wednesday, sending black smoke rising above the historic heart of St.
TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update
Microsoft has released Aspire 13.4, with the key feature being general availability of the TypeScript AppHost, as well as new integrations for Go, Bun, Blazor and WebAssembly. The company currently describes Aspire as a “code-first orchestration and observability layer for distributed applications” which makes it sound like some kind of service, but it is not. Developers use the Aspire CLI (command line interface) to model, develop and debug distributed applications, originally just for .NET, but now for a variety of languages, with TypeScript now first-class so that even the core Aspire file, called the AppHost, can be written in the language. Aspire can also deploy applications, though it is not a service that runs in production. Instead, developers add targets to an Aspire project to enable commands including publish, which builds the artifacts to be deployed, and deploy, which deploys the artifacts to the configured target, such as Azure container apps, Azure app service or Kubernetes. Other targets include Docker Compose, AWS services, and others via third-party integrations. The AppHost in the .NET variant is a C# project and for TypeScript, a code file called apphost.mts which imports an Aspire module. The AppHost configures and assembles the distributed application. For example, by running aspire add postgres the AppHost gains the ability to add PostgreSQL support with a few lines of code, including options to add a container image to run the database engine, creating a database, adding a web-based admin dashboard, mounting a data volume outside the container, adding health checks and telemetry for the database server to the Aspire dashboard, and injecting connection properties as environment variables to selected projects. The Aspire dashboard is a development feature that consumes OpenTelemetry data to monitor the health of a running application and show data such as memory usage. It is not primarily intended for use in production but can be run standalone or even used in environments which do not otherwise use Aspire, available in a Docker image. Aspire 13.4 adds critical features for Kubernetes deployment, including support for cert-manager, Gateway API, manifest resources and external Helm charts. There are also enhanced resource commands, which execute commands exposed by resources in a running AppHost, and new AppHost APIs for Go and Bun, so that applications using these can be added. Python, Java and Rust were already supported. A new aspire-skills bundle is provided for AI agents. The full list of new features is here. Aspire was first released in 2024 but its roots go back further, to an experimental tool called Project Tye that appeared in May 2020. It is a bold effort to simplify and improve the developer experience for distributed applications, though held back from wider adoption by its .NET and Azure flavor, which Microsoft is now attempting to broaden. Another issue is that articulating what Aspire is has proved difficult, leading to questions like, why not use Aspire in production? “You don’t run Aspire in production. You develop your app with it locally and then deploy to the platform you want,” said James Newton-King, a principal software engineer at Microsoft working on the project. Distinguished engineer David Fowler acknowledged the communicating exactly what the project is has been difficult and added that “lots of the impressions about what Aspire is and how it worked is outdated because it’s changed so much.” ®
Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out
The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’
Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother when he was 16, his father at 21. He writes of them in passing here, as he did in his first book, In the Dark Room, but with little overt display of grief. Narrated in the third person, with young Dillon a removed he rather than an emotionally manipulative I, this isn’t a weepy orphanhood memoir. It describes instead his awkward Dublin education, as he struggles to carve out an identity for himself and to accommodate his passion for avant garde music and literature within academe.
He grows up surrounded by the books acquired by his father, who left school early and went to university late. He reads them avidly and adds to them with library borrowings and purchases of his own. But, to begin with, his greater attachment is to music magazines and to David Bowie, whose excitingly ambivalent sexuality echoes his own. His father speaks of duty – to homework, weekly mass and getting a decent job. But his commitment is to jouissance, if only he can find it.
Madfabulous review – Callum Scott Howells shines as flamboyant aristocrat in hedonistic period romp
Howells puts in a strong turn as Henry Paget, a Victorian marquess who blows his inheritance on hosting wild parties and staging gender-defying theatrical performances
Playing the shy Colin in Russell T Davies’s 2021 TV drama It’s a Sin, Callum Scott Howells had to be the humble caterpillar compared to Olly Alexander’s extravagant butterfly. But now Howells gets an upgrade to full butterfly status in this high-spirited and good-humoured drama from screenwriter Lisa Baker and director Celyn Jones, reclaiming a forgotten chapter in queer Victorian history.
With a moustache resembling that of Proust, Howells amusingly plays the flamboyant aristocrat Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, a delicate consumptive and aesthete who, in the late 19th century, blew his vast inheritance on colossal private theatricals, wild parties and jaw-dropping performances in which he would appear in gender-challenging costumes, including a diaphanous veil he wore as a “butterfly dancer”. He caused scandal with his behaviour and apparently unconsummated marriage to first cousin Lily (Ruby Stokes), whose attitude to him here is perhaps more affectionate and tolerant than it was in real life.