Thames Water has decided to “pause” its scheme to pay out big bonuses to senior executives linked with securing its £3bn rescue loan. The decision comes after Downing Street said bosses at the troubled firm “rewarding themselves for failure is clearly not acceptable”. The company’s “retention scheme” was set to amount to 50% of senior…
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As a child, I was fascinated by reports and documentaries about field research and often wondered what it took to be there and what kind of knowledge was being produced. Later, as an ecologist, I felt the need for approaches that better connected scientific research with real-world contexts. I became especially interested in perspectives that…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Don Nelson has been invited to the NBA Finals countless times in recent years, always declining those opportunities. This time, his peers found a way to ensure he couldn’t say no. Nelson — a Basketball Hall of Famer and three-time NBA coach of the year — was announced Sunday as this year’s…
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC “Who was going to blink first?” A source involved in the fraught negotiations since the election over the future of British Steel told me that as time passed, and literally, coal to keep the furnaces burning started to run out, that was the question – was the…
It’s official: Portugal Fashion will return to face-to-face events at the beginning of July. The organization of the fashion week confirmed this Wednesday, June 18, the return to shows from July 1 to 5 with the Tram Museum in Porto as the nerve center, but extending to other cities. Miguel Vieira – Portugal Fashion –…
How is it already June when January lasted about three years? Well, somehow, we’ve made it to the halfway point of 2025 and the best streaming services are ramping up their offerings as we head into the summer season. With the rising cost of inflation kicking in pretty much everywhere, it’s not always optimal to…
Google’s Veo 3 Fast generates 720p AI videos twice as fast as standard Gemini Pro users can create three videos per day Flow Pro users pay just 20 credits per clip There’s a strawberry made of glass that someone is cutting like it’s made of jelly, then the same thing happens to several other berries…
In the 1980s Robert Solow, an economist, remarked that you could see the computer age everywhere except the productivity statistics. Today it could be said that the revolution in military affairs, playing out in the skies, trenches and seas of Ukraine, is visible everywhere except the European defence industry. America boasts three defence-tech “unicorns”, private…
#!/usr/bin/env python # # # Exploit Title: ABB Cylon Aspect 3.08.03 – Guest2Root Privilege Escalation # # # Vendor: ABB Ltd. # Product web page: https://www.global.abb # Affected version: NEXUS Series, MATRIX-2 Series, ASPECT-Enterprise, ASPECT-Studio # Firmware: <=3.08.03 # # Summary: ASPECT is an award-winning scalable building energy management # and control solution designed to…
