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Jessica ParkerBerlin correspondentBBCLena’s family have been cooking on a camping stovePower is being restored to the last homes hit by a five-day blackout in Germany’s snow-covered capital, Berlin.The outage was caused by a suspected arson attack and came as temperatures dipped below freezing.It is reportedly the longest blackout in the capital’s post-war history. A far-left militant group has admitted being behind.This weeks’ images of residents – young and old – living through a prolonged blackout in the country’s capital has reignited a debate about Germany’s vulnerability to sabotage attacks, whether by domestic or foreign actors.Reinhold has been sleeping in a…

ReutersBridget Phillipson has blamed delays in publishing new guidance on single-sex spaces on the equalities watchdog’s “slow” response to government requests for further information.The women and equalities minister told BBC Two’s Politics Live the guidance would be published “as soon as possible” but refused to give a specific date, saying she had a responsibility to deal with the issue “thoroughly and carefully”.The new code of practice was submitted to the government by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for ministerial approval in September. In October the watchdog urged Phillipson to speed up her approval, saying some organisations were using…

No great surprise to see Man United’s far-reaching and widespread search for a former Fergie player to be interim manager and take over from a former Fergie player as caretaker manager dominating proceedings today. Even less surprise to see an awful lot of nonsense about it, and even less surprise to still see a few bits of nonsense about other things as well. For all our p*ssing and moaning, let Mediawatch not deny its gratitude for this unexpected and delightfully rich seam of early January content. Craptic clue There are lots of words that used to serve a perfectly good…

Diana Schildhouse, chief data and analytics officer at Colgate-Palmolive, describes herself as a data storyteller – but what does that mean in terms of day-to-day delivery? “To be successful in roles like this, you must have a deep connection with the business and understand what you’re trying to solve, what their questions are, and then devise solutions,” she says. “Those solutions could use advanced analytics. Sometimes, it’s about creating simpler solutions. But success is always about solving that business need.” Schildhouse joined Colgate-Palmolive in April 2021 as chief analytics and insights officer. She was previously at Mattel for eight…

CES 2026 is in full swing, but you don’t have to wait months to get your hands on everything announced in Las Vegas this year. A surprising number of products are already up for pre-order, if not outright available to buy today, from new chargers and docks to projectors, keyboards and smart home gear. CES is still a showcase for concepts and big promises, but these are the gadgets that have real pricing and an order button ready right now. Check out all of the CES 2026 gadgets you can buy right now below. This article originally appeared on Engadget…

A spell of freezing weather bringing heavy snowfall and ice has caused transport disruption across western Europe.Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at several airports, while Eurostar services and haulage have also been affected.More than 700 flights were cancelled at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, a major regional transport hub, on Wednesday. Meanwhile, France’s civil aviation authority has asked airlines to cut 40% of flights scheduled for the main international airport in Paris.At least six people have died in weather-related incidents across Europe this week -five in France and one in Bosnia.Dutch national airline KLM warned Schiphol Airport was close to…

Man Utd refused to buy seven players requested by Ruben Amorim during the Portuguese head coach’s time at the club, according to reports. INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe made the decision on Monday to sack Amorim with the Red Devils showing inconsistent form once again this season. The Man Utd hierarchy overlooked his 15th-place finish last term and failure to qualify for a European competition, as they looked to build something long term. However, Man Utd have won three of their last 11 matches and his falling out with Jason Wilcox over formations, playing style and the January window was…

“Whenever we say to people we work at Dennis Eagle, they say: ‘Dennis? Oh, the fire engines.” As reputations go, you could do worse than be associated with producing emergency response vehicles, but if you haven’t actually had anything to do with them for more than two decades, and have since become a market leader in quite another area, the misconception is probably a bit frustrating. “It wasn’t us that manufactured the fire engine. We manufactured the cabin at our plant in Blackpool, yes, but it was in 2004 they stopped manufacturing it,” explains the company’s managing director, Keith Day.…

Image: Apple If you’ve been waiting for a sign to upgrade your earbuds, Apple’s latest drop might just be the “gallop” you needed. The company has released a Year of the Horse Special Edition AirPods Pro 3, created to mark the upcoming Lunar New Year, which begins on Feb. 17, 2026. The limited-run earbuds feature a custom horse emoji engraving on the USB-C MagSafe charging case, a design not available on standard models. Apple has followed its annual Lunar New Year tradition by releasing zodiac-themed hardware, offering an aesthetic refresh rather than a technical upgrade. The earbuds themselves remain unchanged…

On January 25th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system. What is interesting about the so-called SQL Slammer attack, is that the vulnerability in SQL Server had been publicly disclosed at the Black Hat 2022 conference by Next Generation Security Software’s co-founder, David Litchfield, who discussed how SQL Server could be made to crash by sending a single byte of data to the open UDP port 1434. It is something that raised alarm bells at Microsoft in how it should respond to…