"...a future where news coverage amplifies manipulable betting odds and turns politics, geopolitics, and even tragedy into speculative gambling theater"

This article from IEEE Spectrum discusses the CRASH Clock, a warning system that predicts the time before a catastrophic satellite collision in low Earth orbit

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?

In the first half of the 2020s alone, researchers delivered the first effective vaccines against four different diseases: Covid-19, malaria, RSV and chikungunya. No previous decade matched that output

Musk's AI startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the previous quarter, according to a Bloomberg News report

The feature creep is industry-wide

New York has passed a law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels on addictive features, such as infinite scroll and autoplay, in an effort to reduce harm linked to excessive online use

Poland’s parliament has debated a government report showing that most Ukrainian refugees in the country are working and contributing more to public finances than they receive in support

A study from University College Cork reveals that AI-generated writing, despite being polished and fluent, displays distinct stylistic patterns that set it apart from human prose. Using literary stylometry, researchers found that AI systems like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Lama 70B produce uniform styles, while human authors show greater stylistic range and individuality

Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test

This article discusses the invention of a new type of plant-based plastic by researchers in Japan that fully degrades in seawater without leaving behind any microplastics

A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.

California administrative law judge has ruled that Tesla's marketing of its 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving' systems was deceptive, leading to a 30-day suspension of the company's licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state

GTA-Schöpfer warnt vor einzigartiger Bedrohung durch KI in Debütroman

This news article details an investigation by German journalism students into Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast. The students connected these ships to drone swarms over military bases, uncovering a pattern of suspicious activity involving multiple ships and drone incidents. The investigation revealed connections to Russian military-linked facilities and raised concerns about potential espionage and sabotage activities

On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a significant outage due to a configuration change intended to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components. The outage lasted approximately 25 minutes, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic

A quantum internet is no longer just theory after scientists successfully teleported the polarisation state of a photon between two completely different quantum dots located in separate buildings

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.

This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of today’s platforms.

To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled