DeBriefed 16 January 2026: Three years of record heat; China and India coal milestone; Beijing’s 2026 climate outlook
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Hottest hat-trick STATE OF THE CLIMATE: Scientists have announced that 2025 was either the second or third hottest year on record, with close margins between last...New Vulnerability in n8n
This isn’t good: We discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21858, CVSS 10.0) in n8n that enables attackers to take over locally deployed instances, impacting an estimated 100,000 servers globally. No official workarounds are available for this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to...Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth
Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory. CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections, allowing an attacker who is in Bluetooth range of the targeted device to pair with it. The...
Pitti Uomo: A fine fragrance emanates from Florence
Pitti Uomo in Florence Credits: Ole Spötter for FashionUnited This week at the Pitti Uomo menswear trade fair, brands offered a first glimpse into the upcoming autumn/winter 2026 collections. For this season's edition in Florence, 758 brands presented their collections, with 47 percent...
Textile EPR: What the 2026 policy outlook means for US fashion companies
Textile-to-textile recycling. AI-generated image for illustration purposes. Credits: FashionUnited Textile Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is no longer a distant, future policy concept. With growing awareness and policy debate about the scale and challenges of textile waste across the...
Topshop launches European site across 23 countries
Topshop campaign imagery. Credits: Topshop. Topshop is continuing its rollout, this time on the digital front. The British brand has now introduced a dedicated European website, launched across 23 EU countries. The Shopify-based platform offers curated edits, new collections, hero categories,...
The AI Fix #83: ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers
In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he’s taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a “Godwin’s Law” for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus. Also in this episode, a marriage is...
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