The two weeks of leave for a woman and her partner is paid at the statutory level of just more than £194 per week, or 90% of weekly pay if that's lower.

It can be taken as one continuous period, or as two separate weeks, within 56 weeks of miscarriage and parents do not have to provide medical evidence - they only have to tell their employer what happened.

Before the change, parents in Northern Ireland were only entitled to two weeks' paid bereavement leave following a stillbirth after at least 24 weeks of pregnancy, if they had been in their job for 26 weeks.

That remains the law in the rest of the UK.

However, the Westminster government is planning to bring in a change for England, Scotland and Wales in 2027 – to provide parents with a right to take unpaid leave for a minimum of one week following a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy.

Across the UK, parents are also entitled to paid statutory maternity and paternity leave after a stillbirth at 24 weeks or later.

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On March 5, 2026, a threat actor exploited a classic "Pwn Request" vulnerability in the CI workflow of kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el, a popular Emacs package for managing Kubernetes clusters. The attacker stole the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN (with full write permissions), exfiltrated CI/CD secrets, defaced the repository, and injected destructive code.

The package has since been removed from MELPA (a popular third-party Emacs package repository) and blocked from updating on the Emacsmirror, affecting users who depend on it for Kubernetes management within Emacs.

Ninety-nine per cent of trans people in the UK told non-profit TransActual that anti-trans coverage by right-wing media outlets had harmed their metal health in some capacity.

Nearly all of the 4,008 people surveyed as part of the Trans Lives 2025 report said they had seen or heard a politician express transphobic sentiments, which had impacted their mental health greatly.

Ninety-eight per cent of respondents, surveyed between December 2024 and January 2025, who said they had experienced transphobia from their own family members believe that anti-trans media coverage had affected their loved ones’ thinking on the community.

In total, 97 per cent of respondents have experienced some form of transphobia, with 84 per cent experiencing it in 2024 alone.

The most common sources were through online harassment (82 per cent), strangers on the street (71 per cent), and from family members (80 per cent). Nearly 2,000 respondents say they had faced transphobic comments or harassment while using public transport.

Many trans children socially transition, such as taking on new names, pronouns, haircuts and uniforms, to better embrace their gender identity.

But new advice published yesterday says this needs to be agreed by the school and parents must be involved in the ‘majority’ of cases.

Social transition should only happen ‘very rarely’ in primary schools, stressing that decisions ‘may not be the same as a child’s wishes’.

This is a far cry from a 2023 draft produced under the Conservatives, which said youngsters should not be able to use different pronouns.

Unomelon, the developer of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Allumeria, says a DMCA from Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft, got the game removed from Steam.

"The Allumeria Steam page is currently down because Microsoft has filed a false DMCA claim on it," Unomelon said on Bluesky on Tuesday. "They sent an email earlier today claiming that this screenshot infringes on their copyright. I am taking a moment to figure out what my path is going forward, will update soon."

The screenshot in question (above) is a simple wide shot of a forest filled with birch trees, what look to be oak trees with green and autumnal leaves, and a few pumpkins and weeds checkering the grassy dirt. There are definitely some similarities to Minecraft; if you told me this was a screenshot of a Minecraft mod, I'd probably believe you, but that's true of many voxel-based games, including Hytale.

Direct link to the Bluesky post (Skylib)

Full clarity, I edited this so that the image wasn't miles long, full original can be seen here.

Early today, the Department of Justice released more than three million pages of files connected to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And as people have started digging into all the new emails and documents, we are learning a lot more about Epstein and his elite inner circle. Oh, and apparently, he would sometimes send people links to porn featuring characters from Five Nights at Freddy’s.

On May 4, 2017, Epstein sent a message to Karyna Shuliak, his last known girlfriend, that simply contained a link to an animated gif uploaded to 4chan that featured multiple characters from FNAF engaging in sexual activities. The animation was apparently made in Source Filmmaker and was shared on 4chan in April 2017. Epstein simply commented “amazing animations” in the subject line of the email.