My sister's kids wreck every party, so I didn't invite them to my son's birthday. Now she won't talk to me. Was I wrong?

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There's no correct book about children's sleep - only the one that matches how you want to parent

The shelf runs from the entirely gentle, no-tears end to the structured, method-driven end, and both have books worth reading. The question isn't which is right; it's which fits your values and your child's temperament. Which also means a book that made your friend's life easier…

Germany's parliament gives its spy agencies the power to hack and sabotage adversaries

Germany's Bundestag passed a reform of the country's intelligence laws on November 13, with 308 votes in favour, 190 against and 71 abstentions. According to the Bundestag, the foreign intelligence service BND and the domestic Federal Office for the Protection of the…

Teenagers are not being lazy: their body clock really does shift one to two hours later

Melatonin starts arriving closer to midnight while school still starts at eight, and that gap is chronic sleep loss rather than defiance. Three things work: bright light in the morning, limits on screens and light in the evening, and a fixed wake-up time instead of sleeping half…

They finish filling up, get in the car and just sit at the pump for two more minutes. What are they doing in there?

I buy my son $45 shirts. Grandma bought him 50-cent bubbles and the stains never washed out. Two more designer outfits died in her garden dirt. What now?

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An hour of walking a day does more for most people than running. Agree?

The guy behind me kicked my seat the whole movie. I turned around, he kicked harder. What would you have done?

Police seize servers of three malware networks and find over 6 million stolen logins

Police in nine countries, coordinated by Europol, have taken down the servers behind three malware families: the Gootloader loader, the CastleRAT remote access trojan and the StealC password stealer. According to Europol's 12 November announcement, 235 servers and 257 domains…

Staying married is the biggest money move most people will ever make. True?

Cancelling plans an hour before by text is now normal. Is it?

Which doctor do you take a child's sleep problem to?

Start with the paediatrician: the general picture first, the referral second. Then it branches. A neurologist if there's reason to suspect a neurological cause. An ENT for snoring, mouth breathing, pauses in breathing. A gastroenterologist if reflux is suspected. A sleep…

Latvian SMS provider exposed 125 million texts with login codes and bank alerts

The Latvian branch of CSCTelecom, a company that sends text messages on behalf of businesses, left a database of more than 125 million SMS messages open to anyone on the internet. Cybernews reported on 11 November that the messages date from October 2022 to September 2026 and…

With their father they fall asleep in twenty minutes. With me it takes two hours.

It is not that he is better at it, and not that I am doing something wrong. With their mother children stop holding themselves together - and that is exactly why bedtime with her runs longer. Part five, about what is happening in our house right now.

New car headlights are so bright that oncoming drivers can't see the road. Should they be made dimmer by law?

Reverse engineering your own gadgets with Codex or Claude now risks refusals and bans

People who used AI coding agents to take apart their own gadgets say the tools have started pushing back. 404 Media reported on 10 November that Claude Code users hit "safety checks" when they ask it to decompile programs, and that some Codex users received warnings or lost…

DeepMind's AI proved that Signal's encryption code keeps its key security promises

Google DeepMind says its AI agents have mathematically proven that the code behind Signal's encryption for one-to-one chats delivers its main security promises. The work, announced on November 10, used a new framework called AlphaProof Code and checked the compiled program…

A child's internal clock is set by light, not by willpower

Newborns barely have a circadian rhythm at all; it forms at around three to four months. After that the main tuner is light: bright daylight says awake, darkness lets melatonin through. So the routine that actually works is unglamorous and physical. Daylight and a walk in the…

He got vaccinated while his wife was pregnant, and the baby turned out not to be his. So the vaccine DOES change DNA?

I lent my friend my $300 dress. It came back with a red wine stain that won't come out. Should she pay for it?

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