Category: Technology

Machines don’t have to become superintelligent to cause catastrophic harm. As artificial intelligence spreads through military decision-making, they just have to be wrong – and trusted by the humans in charge. In 1991, Terminator 2: Judgement Day gave us one of popular culture’s most enduring images of AI gone wrong. Humanity builds Skynet, an artificial […]

The fossilised skull of a new species of mysterious meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight has been rediscovered in the collections of the Natural History Museum after over 100 years in storage. Over its nearly 150-year history, this London museum has become home to over 30 million specimens, making it fairly easy to forget […]

A patrol boat off the coast of Gabon intercepted three trawlers in July 2026, inside the Grand Sud Reserve. This is one of west and central Africa’s largest marine reserves, where industrial trawling is banned. None of the trawlers held a valid licence. The patrol found them because analysts at the non-profit Global Fishing Watch […]

Reports that SpaceX temporarily restricted its satellite internet service for Ukraine’s armed forces have generated serious concern in Kyiv and among the country’s allies. SpaceX operates the civilian Starlink system and its lesser-known military-grade counterpart, called Starshield. But many news stories leave an important question unanswered: what does a Starshield “slowdown” mean on the battlefield? […]

Until recently, buying a car meant obsessing over horsepower, transmission types and brand heritage. But step into the market today and the showroom floor looks entirely different. With the aggressive expansion of electric vehicle production and the entry of smartphone giants like Xiaomi and Huawei into the car market, vehicles are rapidly transforming into rolling […]

Piquez/Shutterstock What happens when scientists start changing the brain – the very system through which an animal’s mental states are expressed in behaviour? In a recent study published in Nature, researchers implanted human brain organoids – small, simplified structures grown from human stem cells – into the brains of living mice. Over time, these organoids […]

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 […]