The Best Housewarming Gifts (That You’ll Want for Yourself)
Housewarming gifts are tricky. They are tricky by scale: larger than a host gift, smaller than a wedding gift. And they are tricky by kind: housewarming gifts should be practical and also personal both to the person giving the gift and to the household receiving it. As I reach the home stretch...
Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries
The UK is roughly halving the climate aid it allocates to developing countries, when accounting changes and inflation are factored in, according to new analysis by Carbon Brief. On 19 March, the government announced that the UK would provide “around £6bn” of international “climate finance” over...
‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running
Arctic sea ice has reached its peak extent for this winter, clocking in as the joint-smallest in a satellite record going back almost half a century. Provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that sea ice extent peaked at 14.29m square kilometres (km2) on 15...Vivobarefoot to open its first-ever US flagship store in New York City
Interior of Vivobarefoot London Store, Covent Garden, ahead of its US flagship debut Credits: Vivobarefoot British footwear brand Vivobarefoot is set to open its debut flagship store in the United States in New York City. Located in the trendy neighborhood of SoHo, the new 1,500 square foot...
Estée Lauder loses 5.22 billion dollars on stock market after confirming Puig negotiations
Marc Puig, executive chairman of Puig, during the presentation of the 2025 financial year results on February 18, 2026. Credits: Puig. Madrid – In Spain, investors, the market and analysts have enthusiastically welcomed the talks between Puig and The Estée Lauder Companies for a potential merger...
How one man used 10,000 bots to steal $8,000,000 from music artists
A man has pleaded guilty to defrauding online music streaming platforms out of more than US $8 million, after creating hundreds of thousands of songs with AI, and then using bots to play them billions of times. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading →
Smashing Security podcast #460: Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called “Loot.” Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the...
Iran War’s Capacity Constraints Disrupt Majority of Air Freight Forwarders
While major Middle Eastern airlines are seeing recovery from the war’s initial disruption, Qatar Airways has only resumed one-fifth of its pre-war flights. Continue reading →
Tipping the Scale: How Recycled Cotton Is Weathering an Uncertain Denim Market
One area that mills hope will remain resilient is the denim industry’s commitment to circularity and recycled cotton. Continue reading →