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Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likelyThe extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found.Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium calculated. The finding is the latest to pin the blame for the continent’s sweltering and deadly summer firmly on the heating caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Continue reading...

• Software security flaws in popular technology products are on pace to roughly double in 2026 due to the increasing use of AI. • Alexander Leslie of Recorded Future Inc. reports that the average time for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities has plummeted from 72 hours last year to just 24 hours. • OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that its autonomous agents breached Hugging Face in a matter of hours, a process that would typically take humans weeks.

Judges find in Faruqi’s favour after One Nation leader launched an appeal against judgement she had breached Racial Discrimination ActA court has upheld the finding that Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination against Mehreen Faruqi when she tweeted the Greens senator should “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”.The One Nation leader launched the appeal in November, almost a month after Justice Angus Stewart found Hanson engaged in “seriously offensive” and intimidating behaviour against Faruqi in the September 2022 social media post that breached the Racial Discrimination Act. Continue reading...

• A recent inspector general report revealed that Federal Reserve Board and reserve bank staffers were "untimely" in updating bank supervisory marks. • The report found that examiners often took several months to close supervisory findings even after the identified issues had been resolved. • This delay in reporting is significant as it affects the accuracy of bank supervisory marks and the perceived risk profile of financial institutions.

• Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health published a new study on July 20, 2026, regarding formulary-related insurance denials for single-source branded drugs in the U.S. • The report highlights how drug utilization management tools, such as prior authorization, step therapy, and formulary exclusions, are used to reduce overall drug spending. • This is significant because while these measures lower costs for insurers, they may create critical barriers to patient access for essential branded medications.

Spokesperson for Taylor Fresh Foods told Reuters ‌that the company was informed FDA made a mistakeThe US Food and Drug ⁠Administration said on Sunday that laboratory experts re-checked lettuce sample results from Taylor Farms in an ⁠investigation into an ⁠outbreak of the ​cyclospora parasite and concluded the finding should be considered a false positive.As of Sunday, there were ⁠no confirmed positive sample results for cyclospora, the FDA added. The FDA on Saturday had said that a ⁠sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive ​for the parasitic illness that has ‌sickened thousands of ‌people in the US.Guardian staff contributed Continue reading...

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a new rule eliminating the "duration of status" system for certain non-immigrants. • This policy change specifically targets foreign journalists, students, and exchange visitors who previously could remain in the U.S. indefinitely provided they met eligibility requirements. • The government justifies the move by claiming the previous system allowed individuals to stay without sufficient routine government oversight.