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BBCTypical gas and electricity bills will go up slightly on 1 October when the new energy price cap takes effect.It follows a drop in prices at the start of July, but there are concerns that bills remain unaffordable for some.The energy price cap sets the maximum amount customers can be charged for each unit of energy, but actual bills depend on how much gas and electricity you use.What is the energy price cap and how is it changing?The energy price cap covers around 20 million households in England, Wales and Scotland and is set every three months by the energy…

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, the security firm that discovered it. He said that the insufficient fix was meant to patch CVE-2024-10237, a high-severity vulnerability that enabled attackers to reflash firmware that runs while a machine is booting. Binarly discovered a second critical…

Nigel Farage has refused to criticise Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol, sold in the US as Tylenol, could cause autism, saying “science is never settled” and he would never “side with” medical experts.The Reform UK leader said he had “no idea” if the US president was right to tell pregnant women to avoid taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, and suggesting that those who could not “tough it out” should limit their intake.Scientists and global health agencies including the World Health Organization have strongly dismissed Trump’s false claims, calling them misguided and saying the evidence linking paracetamol use…

Eve Myles (Hijack, Cold Water, Keeping Faith) will return for season 2 of the original drama series The Crow Girl, based on the bestselling novels by Erik Axl Sund, the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander Sundquist, Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland said on Wednesday. Produced by Buccaneer Media (In Flight, The Burning Girls, Marcella), the second season will begin filming in Bristol this year. Picking up the morning after the events of season 1, “Bristol Police Detective Jeanette Kilburn has ended her marriage and found herself in bed with enigmatic psychologist Dr. Sophia Craven,” reads a plot description…

Mark SchlabachCloseMark SchlabachESPN Senior WriterSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of GeorgiaPaolo UggettiSep 24, 2025, 05:00 AM ETThe 2025 Ryder Cup will tee off Friday with the first match of the day going off at 7:10 a.m. The parings for the first four matches will be announced Thursday afternoon by the two captains, Keegan Bradley (Team USA) and Luke Donald (Team Europe).With the U.S. looking to regain the Cup in front of a home crowd, there will be no shortage of storylines to follow.How will Bethpage Black play? Which players are…

The sunscreen market in the United States has remained largely stagnant for the past 25 years, as many skincare and cosmetic companies have failed to get new active ingredients approved. Legislation recently introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate seeks to change that. Both versions of the bill, called the SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act, were introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers who say that consumers need more effective sunscreens to help prevent skin cancer. In contrast to some European and Asian countries, sunscreens in the U.S. are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as over-the-counter drugs instead of cosmetics, meaning they…

Whether it’s clinking steins of pilsner at Oktoberfest in Germany, lingering over a Guinness Extra Stout in a Dublin pub, or washing down seafood with a lager at a Goan shack, beer is often the most democratic of drinks. Affordable, easy on the palate, and effortlessly social, it’s a longstanding favorite around the world. But in our global economy, beer is cheaper or more expensive depending on where you are and what exactly it is that you’re drinking. Deutsche Bank’s 2025 “Mapping the World’s Prices” report breaks down the cost of a bottle of domestic beer (half a liter, or…

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera conceded defeat Wednesday, acknowledging rival Peter Mutharika’s “insurmountable lead” in last week’s election and vowing a peaceful transfer of power after a vote dominated by the country’s deep economic woes.

Elon Musk’s X has called for a delay in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, arguing it has “serious concerns” about the lawfulness of the “punitive” policy.X was one of over a dozen companies the eSafety commissioner wrote to earlier this month, asking whether they believed they should be required to ban children under 16 years of age from their platform from 10 December, when the law is due to come into effect.The company has said in a submission to a Greens-led inquiry on age verification systems that compliance obligations for the ban should commence at least six months after the…

Theo Von, comedian and host of popular podcast “This Past Weekend,” objected to a video posted by the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, which uses a snippet of him saying, “Heard you got deported, dude — bye” to promote the agency’s deportation numbers. On Wednesday, DHS shared a 31-second video clip on X with the caption “Bye.” It begins with Von’s comment then displays the claim that 2 million illegal immigrants have been deported in the first 250 days of President Trump’s second term. It also shows Trump saying, “They simply stopped coming. They’re not coming anymore,” before concluding…