Researchers with apparent ties to military institutions attempted to use Anthropic’s Claude AI to advance biological weapons-relevant research. The company says it stopped them — but the cases expose how thin the line between legitimate science and weaponisation has become.…
On a quiet morning in a struggling Yorkshire shopping arcade, a twenty-week-old boy named Grayson finally received the polio and diphtheria jabs he should have had twelve weeks earlier. His mother, Lily, had not been swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. She…
When Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, the company framed the occasion as a milestone in commercial satellite servicing — a spacecraft designed to repair, refuel, and extend the working…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged Sunday that a laboratory result it had publicly reported the previous day — identifying cyclospora contamination in shredded iceberg lettuce produced by a Taylor Farms subsidiary in Mexico — was a false positive,…
NASA and Amazon Web Services have achieved what was, until recently, considered operationally implausible: a real-time 4K video stream transmitted by laser from the Moon to Earth, reaching an estimated 25 million viewers simultaneously. The feat rests on a convergence…
A government minister wrote directly to a local council chief executive to demand approval for a £2 billion AI data centre — an intervention that planning experts describe as highly unusual and that raises pointed questions about the relationship between…
The central argument driving a new legislative push in the United Kingdom is straightforward, if long overdue: that the regulatory asymmetry between broadcasters and social media platforms during election periods constitutes a structural vulnerability in democratic governance — one that…
Five Eyes Intelligence Agencies Warn Advanced AI Could Enable Government-Crippling Cyberattacks Within Months Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a rare joint warning that frontier artificial intelligence models are developing at a pace that could…
Cooper Pledges to Keep Pressing China on Jimmy Lai’s Detention After Beijing Visit British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has vowed to continue raising the case of imprisoned pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai with Beijing, following a two-day diplomatic visit to China…
Meta and Social Media Giants Agree to Pay Millions to Settle School District Lawsuit Over Youth Mental Health Harms Meta, Snap, Alphabet, and ByteDance have agreed to pay a combined total of approximately $27 million to settle a lawsuit brought…