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Labour chief whip tells Vogue she takes tough approach to keeping MPs in line

Anneliese Midgley surprises colleagues after Burnham said whips’ office should not be ‘something to be feared’ If Andy Burnham has been accused of being a people pleaser by his critics, the same most certainly cannot be said of his chief whip. “I’m not going to take any shit and I don’t fuck about,” said Anneliese Midgley, the Labour government’s newest head of party discipline, shedding some light on her direct approach to keeping MPs in line. Continue reading...

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Crypto

Why Private AI is More Important Than Ever

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Why Private AI is More Important Than Ever Mark Suman, co-founder and CEO of Maple AI, joins BMTV to talk about private AI built so that even its own team cannot read your chats. This post Why Private AI is More Important Than Ever first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Crypto

PNC Bank Insider Accused of Stealing $86,107 From the Lender and Spending It on Gambling

A PNC Bank supervisor has been accused of stealing more than $86,000 from her employer and spending it on gambling. Jacqueline Clinton, 48, of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, allegedly misused her position as Bank Reconcilements Operations Supervisor at PNC Bank to make false credit adjustments and direct the money to her personal account, the Allegheny County District […] The post PNC Bank Insider Accused of Stealing $86,107 From the Lender and Spending It on Gambling appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

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Finance

The folly of just-in-time supply chains | Letters

Hannah Walker says systems designed to minimise expenditure in the name of efficiency can end up less capable of fulfilling their actual purpose The article by Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend on the dangers of excessive optimisation identifies a problem extending far beyond mathematics and artificial intelligence (The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly, 8 November). The widespread adoption of just-in-time supply chains illustrates it perfectly. By eliminating inventories and spare capacity, businesses reduced costs and improved efficiency, but frequently transferr

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Politics

No 10 considering expanding under-25s benefits overhaul to older age groups

Exclusive: Plans to replace key disability benefits for young people with work and training could affect adults Downing Street is considering whether plans to replace key disability benefits with work and training for people under-25 should be expanded to older age groups, the Guardian has learned, in a move that risks reigniting Labour tensions over welfare changes. Andy Burnham and other cabinet ministers are looking at applying the idea of “participation first” to all people of working age, meaning spending billions more on support to enter the workplace while cutting or removing some disab

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International

Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams

Tech firm says it is ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption that took services down and has now addressed the underlying issue What caused the outage and when will it be fixed? Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and police Tell us: have you been affected by the outage? Microsoft has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”. The company said the outage was a “technical issue” not related to cyber-attacks or AI agents, and that it continued t

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