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Millions of households are to receive a £100 payment to help with energy bills, news organisations reported. Chancellor John Healey reportedly said the £100 would go to 20m households in bands A to D of council tax, at a cost of £2.6bn, funded by a windfall tax on banks.
28 Oct 2026, 17:39 UTC
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28 Oct 2026, 17:36 UTC
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NIST has released NISTIR 8547, a finalized road map for moving from quantum-vulnerable encryption to its post-quantum standards. It supports federal deadlines of 2030 for key establishment and 2031 for digital signatures on high-value systems, and 2035 overall.
28 Oct 2026, 17:35 UTC
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Commissioner Jørgensen said Europe faces another energy crisis due to geopolitical turbulence, comparing it with 2022. He spoke in Brussels after the Dialogue with European refineries.
28 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC
Earlier stories Times in UTC · written with AI · every story checked before publication 28 Oct 2026 15:12 UTC Economy Istat says industrial producer prices rose 13.8% on the year in September 28 Oct 2026 15:11 UTC Science Rubin Observatory finds a possible new dwarf planet beyond Pluto 28 Oct 2026 15:10 UTC AI Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model with real-time audio 28 Oct 2026 15:08 UTC Economy US offers Constellation conditional loan of up to $5 billion for nuclear uprates 27 Oct 2026 10:44 UTC Technology European Commission accepts Temu plan to fix its Digital Services Act breach 27 Oct 2026 09:50 UTC Economy South Korea's economy outpaces forecasts on strong demand for chips 27 Oct 2026 09:49 UTC Economy German banks tighten business lending standards again as loan demand falls 27 Oct 2026 09:48 UTC Economy Euro area M3 money growth holds at 3.5% in September 27 Oct 2026 09:47 UTC Economy ECB survey: euro area banks tighten credit to firms as loan demand falls 27 Oct 2026 09:46 UTC Companies Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 staff 27 Oct 2026 09:45 UTC AI Anthropic files to go public, showing rising revenue and warning of AI risks 27 Oct 2026 09:44 UTC Economy ESM prices first digital bond for settlement on Eurosystem's Pontes platform 27 Oct 2026 09:43 UTC Economy European Commission launches T-MED platform with up to €4.5bn in EU guarantees 25 Oct 2026 09:39 UTC Companies Audi plans a car factory in the US state of Georgia 24 Oct 2026 15:12 UTC Economy Moody's leaves France's sovereign rating unchanged against expectations of a downgrade 24 Oct 2026 15:10 UTC Economy Chancellor John Healey to outline UK tax plans in 28 October budget 24 Oct 2026 15:09 UTC AI Share of firms using AI in EU strategic sectors rose to 18% in 2025 24 Oct 2026 15:08 UTC Economy Great Britain retail sales volumes estimated down 0.4% in September 24 Oct 2026 15:06 UTC Economy Euro area consumers' 12-month inflation expectations rise to 3.1% in September 24 Oct 2026 15:05 UTC Economy Bank of Japan says banks can withstand stress, flags AI investment risks 24 Oct 2026 15:04 UTC Technology Tails 7.15.1 emergency update blocks compromised eMudhra certificates 24 Oct 2026 15:02 UTC Companies EU Commission opens formal antitrust probe into Omya over paper customers 24 Oct 2026 15:00 UTC Companies Barclays would shed 5,000 jobs, with the bank using more AI 24 Oct 2026 14:59 UTC Companies Google and Voltus expand deal to a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant 24 Oct 2026 14:58 UTC Companies Musk says SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a possible combination 24 Oct 2026 14:56 UTC Companies Meta faces $25bn penalty in a case over user data privacy 24 Oct 2026 14:55 UTC Science USGS estimates 96 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered gas on Alaska's North Slope 24 Oct 2026 14:53 UTC Science JRC method tells bird flu apart from seasonal flu in wastewater 24 Oct 2026 14:52 UTC Economy France's benchmark 10-year bond yield passes 5%, a first since 2002 24 Oct 2026 14:51 UTC AI Google and Meta release TorchTPU to run PyTorch natively on TPUs 24 Oct 2026 14:49 UTC Economy Energy Department announces about $967 million in grid resilience grants 24 Oct 2026 14:48 UTC Economy Euro area current account surplus narrows to €9 billion in August 24 Oct 2026 14:46 UTC Economy German household financial assets rise €335 billion in second quarter, Bundesbank says 24 Oct 2026 14:43 UTC Science Japan launches probe to bring back material from the Mars moon Phobos 24 Oct 2026 14:42 UTC Economy Energy Department to put up to $42 million into proposed Constitution Pipeline 24 Oct 2026 14:40 UTC AI EU publishes reference to first harmonised standard for the AI Act 24 Oct 2026 14:39 UTC Economy Energy Department plans up to $50 million in defense funding for proposed Virginia grid project 24 Oct 2026 14:37 UTC Science NIST researchers show microchip frequency comb free of bulky laboratory equipment 24 Oct 2026 14:36 UTC Economy Istat: exports fell 1.5% and imports 1.6% in August 24 Oct 2026 14:35 UTC Economy Annual inflation in Italy rose to 4.2% in September on energy prices 24 Oct 2026 14:34 UTC Economy Basel Committee tightens G-SIB rules to curb window dressing by banks 24 Oct 2026 14:33 UTC Science Google says magic state cultivation cuts errors about 40x on Willow chip 24 Oct 2026 14:32 UTC Economy Producer prices for final demand rose 1.3% in September, bureau says 24 Oct 2026 14:26 UTC Economy White House eases some Canada tariffs and adds new ones before midterms 24 Oct 2026 14:24 UTC Economy European Banking Authority names USDC the EU's first significant e-money token 13 Oct 2026 19:44 UTC AI UK AI minister says breach of country's cyber defences is likely 13 Oct 2026 19:06 UTC Companies EU clears Kimberly-Clark's proposed Kenvue acquisition on conditions 13 Oct 2026 18:31 UTC AI Google details cyber and biology safeguards as Gemini 4 Argon rolls out broadly 13 Oct 2026 17:58 UTC AI Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, which it calls its latest frontier model 13 Oct 2026 14:16 UTC Economy Robert Hall and Michael Woodford win Nobel Prize in economics 13 Oct 2026 14:14 UTC Economy US energy secretary issues emergency order to curb mid-Atlantic blackout risk 13 Oct 2026 14:13 UTC Economy Dutch inflation rises to 3.4% in September as motor fuel prices climb 13 Oct 2026 14:11 UTC Economy Bank of Japan survey: 58.2% say economy worse than a year ago 11 Oct 2026 19:02 UTC Economy Energy Department authorizes emergency oil exchange of up to 4 million barrels 11 Oct 2026 19:00 UTC Economy Von der Leyen fully supports Zelenskyy's call for a ceasefire 10 Oct 2026 02:37 UTC Economy Fed survey finds median family income up 7% from 2022 to 2025 10 Oct 2026 02:36 UTC AI EU scientific panel on AI meets over loss-of-control incidents 10 Oct 2026 02:35 UTC Science Isaias upgraded to major hurricane ahead of possible Florida Panhandle landfall 10 Oct 2026 02:33 UTC Science Category 3 Hurricane Isaias expected to make landfall on northern Gulf Coast 10 Oct 2026 02:32 UTC Economy Dutch factory output climbs 12.0% from a year earlier, biggest rise in over four years