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Labour MPs and the European Greens have demanded clarity from the Green Party over a "Zionism is racism" motion.

Plus, why the U.S. to abruptly pulled bombers from a U.K. base and new Trump Account rules will put individual stocks kids’ portfolios.

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The U.S. charges a woman for surveilling the son of Taiwan’s president.

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Flavio Bolsonaro finishes first but faces an Oct. 25 runoff against Lula da Silva.

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The Michigan Governor plays Secretary of State to unionize a Mercedes plant in Alabama.

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It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game. Ever imagined skateboarding in Call of Duty? Or playing the original Halo right in your web browser, complete with multiplayer?  

These are unofficial versions of games, so they may sit in a legal gray area. It seems unlikely that Nintendo, for example, is particularly happy about people finding ways to play The Legend of Zelda on non-Nintendo hardware. Many of these projects are also made with the assistance of AI, which, for some people, is a non-starter given ethical or environmental concerns surrounding the technology.

Below, you’ll find our coverage of gaming decomps, recomps, and all the other ways gamers are reverse-engineering games to go previously unimaginable places.

• Just think: You could be playing Halo in a web browser right now.
• This unofficial Lego Racers remake runs in your browser with split-screen and online multiplayer.
• How an online community took back the Legend of Zelda

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban.

Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with.

Here's what's actually happening: On October 2nd, the FCC added the original Matic, model 4MA0001, and its charging dock model 4DK0008 to its ban waiver list. That allows the FCC to approve these radio products for import, marketing, and sale.

But the Matic doesn't need a waiver, because its radios were already approved years ago. The FCC's foreign drone, robot, and router bans only keep future products from getting imported into the United States, not existing o …

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The yield on the 10-year Treasury touched a fresh 24-year high, as a global bond rout and AI-investing boom ripple through markets in tandem.

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Private-capital funds have proliferated in recent years as investors seek to reduce reliance on public markets.

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Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission that they will sue the agency to block its controversial repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits the number of broadcast TV stations a single company may own.

The cable groups said that larger broadcast TV station groups will have leverage to demand higher retransmission fees from TV providers, resulting in "higher monthly TV bills for consumers." They said the FCC repeal order "arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the harms that will surely follow from allowing broadcast station groups to exceed the National Cap."

The cable lobby groups represent top providers Comcast, Charter, and various other cable operators. Top cable companies have also expanded through mergers. Charter completed a purchase of Cox in August after the FCC rejected protests by advocacy groups that said the cable deal "would create unchecked gatekeeper power over Internet distribution" and make it easier for the biggest cable companies to raise prices.

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The musician received five Oscar nominations, and soundtracked dozens of memorable nature films.

As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees—including charging tens of thousands or even millions—to get information about how police departments are using and potentially abusing AI-enabled camera systems that track every vehicle that passes them.

On Monday, the Texas Tribune reported that city officials in a Fort Worth suburb, North Richland Hills, asked one group to pay $2.3 million before it would fulfill a public records request for Flock data. To reach that high fee, officials claimed that searching “about a terabyte worth of communications about errors, misuse, and effectiveness of the Flock system” would take approximately 14 years of labor at a rate of $15 per hour.

Phil Mynona, who filed the request using a pseudonym on behalf of his group, the Texas Privacy Coalition, told the Tribune that the fee seemed “ludicrous” and designed to stifle his public records searches.

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Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.

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Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor.