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Sunday, 15 November 2026

51 stories across 7 sections

The Takeaway

Chancellor John Healey's Autumn Budget has introduced new measures giving the UK's tax authority, HMRC, enhanced powers to collect taxes, including the ability to seize money from bereaved families and investigate AI chatbot conversations. In Sri Lanka, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced plans to broaden the existing Free Trade Agreement with India, with a dedicated committee formed to pursue this goal.

In other news, the first BIMSTEC Health Ministers' Meeting was held in Colombo, where member states adopted a joint ministerial statement and a revised public health action plan. Meanwhile, in the tech world, Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes has been featured, highlighting its origins and notable storylines, such as the Spaceman Spiff comic strips.

Written by urgent.news from the day's reporting.

Tech

Tech

Cheap, Simple Webhook Task Processing for Node.js SaaS

Short answer: for a Node.js SaaS that sends a weekly digest to active logistics customers, start with a durable queue, an explicit rate limiter, idempotent delivery records, and bounded exponential backoff; choose the cheapest simple option only after it can prove those delivery guarantees. I have been paged by missed jobs and duplicate deliveries. The failure pattern is predictable: a timer…

To build a reliable webhook task processing system for a Node.js SaaS, begin with a durable queue, a rate limiter, idempotent delivery records, and controlled retries. Do not rush to implement cheap solutions; ensure they meet the necessary delivery guarantees first. The author has experienced missed jobs and duplicate deliveries firsthand.

The root cause is predictable: a timer fires, a webhook is sent, the process crashes before logging the result, and the next retry sends the same business event again. Similarly, ignoring the recipient's rate limits can turn a minor outage into a queue storm, delaying deliveries for all customers.

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Where was Nvidia’s security team?

Nvidia’s security chief quietly left in August, and now that CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down over his relationships, including one with an executive at a company suspected of funneling chips to…

  • David Reber stepped down as Nvidia's chief security officer in August due to health reasons.
  • Saša Zdjelar, a cybersecurity expert, became Nvidia's new security head in September.
  • Security team's awareness of Nvidia's scrutiny over Megaspeed and CEO's affairs is unclear.

Business

Business

The HMRC stealth powers to take your taxes

HMRC is set to receive sweeping new tax powers to seize cash from bereaved families, scour the AI chatbot history of taxpayers and slap huge fines on those who made inadvertent errors in documents, under changes quietly pushed through after the Budget. Following John Healey’s maiden Autumn Budget a raft of new proposals were added [...]

The UK's tax authority, HMRC, is set to receive enhanced powers to collect taxes. These new measures, introduced after Chancellor John Healey's Autumn Budget, include the ability to seize money from bereaved families, investigate AI chatbot conversations, and impose substantial fines on those who make inadvertent errors on tax documents.

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Ole Miss flips 4-star safety from Michigan

Ole Miss football moved its SEC showdown with Oklahoma to Sunday . But that didn’t stop coach Pete Golding and his staff from delivering a huge Saturday move. This one involving flipping a four-star safety on the College Football Recruiting trail from Michigan.

Finance & Markets

Finance & Markets

The Lookback Window Problem in Concept-to-Stock Mention Rankings: Getting the days Parameter Right

"Which stocks are carrying the discussion around this theme right now?" is one of the most common questions people ask a heat monitoring dataset. In Lava, the answer comes from the concept member ranking: GET /concepts/stocks , exposed to agents as the MCP tool get_concept_stock_heat . It returns the stocks most mentioned by institutions and influencers under a given concept, along with how many…

When discussing which stocks are currently generating the most conversation around a particular theme, a common question is: <source>13b9d36e-6cb</source>. Lava's answer is provided through the concept member ranking endpoint: GET /concepts/stocks. This API returns the stocks that have been mentioned by institutions and influencers under a given concept, along with the number of distinct sources that have mentioned each stock.

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Electrifying Ambitions Meet Tough Reality in Europe

European Union leaders are among the most enthusiastic proponents of maximum electrification to reduce dependence on imported energy commodities. A lot of EU policy pursues precisely that. Yet EU electricity prices last week surged to over 600 euros per MWh on a wind drought, and the bloc still gets over 70% of its final energy…

  • European Union leaders aim for maximum electrification to reduce energy imports.
  • Electricity prices in Europe surged to over 600 euros per MWh due to a wind drought.
  • EU plans to increase electricity share in final energy consumption from 23% to 46% by 2040.

World

World

Israeli military says senior Hamas commander targeted in airstrike

The Israeli army said it targeted a top Hamas military commander in Khan Younis, with sources confirming the death of Samir Abu Younis in an airstrike.

Israeli military forces reportedly struck a senior Hamas military commander in the Khan Younis area, with sources confirming the death of Samir Abu Younis, according to the wire material. The Israeli military announced on Sunday that they had targeted a high-ranking member of Hamas' military wing. Hamas sources reported to Reuters that the airstrike claimed the life of Samir Abu Younis, who was identified as the commander of the Rafah Brigade within Hamas' armed forces.

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Mobolaji Johnson Arena hosts basement clash

Preview of the Nigeria Premier Football League basement clash as bottom-placed Inter Lagos host 19th-placed Abia Warriors at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena. Read More: https://punchng.com/mobolaji-johnson-arena-hosts-basement-clash/

Science

Science

Keep health at the center of public discussions on nuclear risk, researchers urge

In response to growing geopolitical tensions, editors of more than 100 international journals have jointly published an editorial urging health professionals to keep health at the center of public discussions on nuclear risk.

Health experts are urging the public to prioritize health discussions surrounding nuclear risk, as tensions between nations rise. In 2025, nuclear-armed states collectively spent nearly $119 billion on their nuclear arsenals, a 19% increase from the prior year. With over 12,000 warheads globally, even a limited nuclear conflict using just 2-3% of these weapons could lead to global starvation and the collapse of modern civilization.

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Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

Japan study links tooth loss in older people to major dementia risk

TOKYO -- A Tohoku University research team found tooth loss among older people is a major risk factor for dementia, based on follow-up data from about

TOKYO - A recent study by Tohoku University researchers suggests tooth loss in older individuals is a significant risk factor for dementia. The team examined data from approximately 50,000 Japanese adults, and found tooth loss accounted for 7.2% of dementia cases. This risk factor ranks even higher than preventable factors like high LDL cholesterol and air pollution, and is the most significant risk among men.

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Culture

Culture

Tuchel and Luis de la Fuente comment on racism ahead of group decider

England head coach Thomas Tuchel stressed that he does not expect any racism in Madrid having been angered before the Spain match by his remarks about protocols being “twisted”. Sunday’s Nations League Group A3 decider is England’s first in the Spanish capital since a friendly in November 2004, when Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips were subject to racist chanting from sections of the home…

Ahead of their UEFA Nations League Group A3 match against Spain at the Metropolitano Stadium, England manager Thomas Tuchel and Spain coach Luis de la Fuente discussed the issue of racism. Tuchel expressed his displeasure with the way Spain's protocols were "twisted" and stated that he did not expect any racist abuse during the game.

He mentioned that the England team would be reminded of the protocol if there was a precedent in Madrid. De la Fuente responded by telling Tuchel that "there is no racism," emphasizing that neither Spain nor England are racist nations. Tuchel clarified that he never expected racism in Spain and that the dressing room is an anti-racist environment.

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Law firm transforms office into art gallery

Lagos law firm Odujinrin & Adefulu has transformed its office into an art gallery to celebrate Nigerian art and culture ahead of its 54th anniversary. Read More: https://punchng.com/law-firm-transforms-office-into-art-gallery/

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