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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kensington-chelsea-westminster-council-cyber-attack-b2872495.html
Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’

Multiple London councils hit by ‘cyber attack’ and initiate ‘emergency plans’
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it is ‘too early’ to determine whether any data has been compromised

Russia’s customs service starts concealing import data on sanctioned goods: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/russias-customs-service-starts-concealing.html

🦠 Microbial glues go from foe to friend with a simple chemical tweak
... my takeaway from the paper is that biofilms are an extension of the bacterial cell wall!
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-microbial-foe-friend-simple-chemical.html

Microbial glues go from foe to friend with a simple chemical tweak
In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently introduced a new theory to help scientists engineer biofilms, which are the gluey scaffolds made by bacteria and microbes to house and protect cells from environmental extremes.

There are two open consultations about digitising the information about properties for use in the home selling process.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/material-information-in-property-listings

Material information in property listings
​​This consultation seeks views on guidance to make important property information available upfront for home buyers and sellers.

The journalist who initially revealed that Trump’s administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing
reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea.
Just days after Trump announced the September 2 bombing on social media, Intercept journalist Nick Turse exposed the follow-up strike that killed survivors, citi…

Before Executing 2 Shipwrecked Sailors, US Admiral Consulted Top Military Lawyer: Report | Common Dreams
The journalist who exposed the Trump administration's killing of boat bombing survivors has now revealed that the admiral in charge consulted a top military lawyer before ordering the second strike.

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone sets the scene, as does the government's National Planning Policy Framework.  That means that there are some very real constraints on what can be put into a so-called Local Plan (not very local - in the case of…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

6000 Flights Delayed/Canceled Before NYC-Area Storm - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/6000-flights-delayed-canceled-before-nyc-area-storm/

Wow.
“Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, incl. the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.”
Treasury Cancels Contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-r

Treasury Cancels Contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced the cancelation of all contracts with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. The Treasury Department currently has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton totaling $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. “President Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans’ trust in government,�…

A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigrationand Customs Enforcement (ICE),
whose attorneys say is an American citizen
but the government insists is Mexican.
Agents arrested #Dulce #Consuelo #Diaz

ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.