Category: Technology

SAN FRANCISCO — An experimental artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI accessed and siphoned funds from an unauthorized cryptocurrency wallet on a test network to complete a software development assignment, the company disclosed in an incident report published Thursday. OpenAI stated that the incident demonstrates how modern autonomous AI models can exercise independent judgment to […]

Cybercriminals Deploy Artificial Intelligence in 84% of Ransomware Attacks, New Report Finds HOBOKEN, N.J. — Cybercriminals are increasingly weaponizing artificial intelligence to amplify the scale, speed, and precision of ransomware operations, according to findings from the 2026 Ransomware Risk Report published by identity-driven cybersecurity firm Semperis. The report—which polled 1,200 IT and security executives across […]

The MMX spacecraft will enter Martian orbit before attempting to collect samples from Phobos. Jaxa A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission will focus on Phobos, the bigger of Mars’s two small moons. The mission will […]

NEW YORK — As artificial intelligence rapidly integrates into military hardware, former world leaders and human rights advocates are issuing urgent warnings against leaving life-or-death battlefield decisions to machine algorithms. Speaking on behalf of The Elders during high-level sessions at the United Nations General Assembly, former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate Juan Manuel […]

Phobos is dominated by Stickney crater, a 9km (5.6 mile) bowl visible on the right. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The Earth got its Moon when a celestial object collided with our planet more than four billion years ago. This impact hurled molten rock into space, which eventually coalesced to form the satellite we can see every […]

Fossilised lion trackway in the Goukamma Nature Reserve (30cm scalebar). CC BY The coastline near the southern tip of Africa looked vastly different between about 400,000 years ago and 70,000 years ago, compared with today. At times it lay as much as 100km south of its present location, exposing the vast Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, which contained […]

Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock The question of when animals first evolved is one that has confounded scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. Studying rocks in north Wales in the mid-18th century, Darwin found the sudden first appearance of animal shells and skeletons in layers dating back over 500 million years perplexing. He had predicted a […]

Agriculture in the global south remains under pressure to produce more food while responding to climate change and resource constraints. Policy responses have focused on increasing production. But what about post-harvest losses? Globally, about one-third of food produced for human consumption is estimated to be lost or wasted. The problem was examined in a recent […]

CREATISTA/Shutterstock Do you remember the last time you were laughing and simply could not stop? Perhaps it was a situation when you should not have been laughing at all. This happened to one of us while accompanying a friend to a family court in the middle of an unpleasant divorce case. It led to a […]

The AI doomsday news cycle plays on anxieties about the future. The media has tended to prioritise sensational takes on the risk at the expense of more thoughtful opinions by, for example, experts in the ethics of AI. Alarmist fantasies of superintelligence – where artificial intelligence surpasses that of the most gifted human minds – […]