Category: Technology

📍 New York, July 7, 2025 — AI cloud provider CoreWeave has announced a definitive agreement to acquire data center operator Core Scientific in a $9 billion all-stock transaction, marking the largest deal to date in the accelerating shift from cryptocurrency mining to artificial intelligence infrastructure. 🧠 Strategic Shift Toward AI The acquisition will give […]

During his recent public spat with Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if a new political party would better represent the 80% of voters in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people responded and more than 80% answered “yes”. The middle is still overlooked in US politics. This is because there is a […]

During his recent public spat with Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if a new political party would better represent the 80% of voters in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people responded and more than 80% answered “yes”. The middle is still overlooked in US politics. This is because there is a […]

📍 São Paulo, July 2025 — Brazilian authorities have arrested João Nazareno Roque, an IT employee at software firm C&M, in connection with a cyberattack that siphoned over 540 million reais (approximately $100 million) from the country’s banking infrastructure. The breach targeted PIX, Brazil’s instant payment system used by more than 76% of the population, […]

Countries have come to rely on a network of cables and pipes under the sea for their energy and communications. So it has been worrying to read headlines about communications cables being cut and, in one case, an undersea gas pipeline being blown up.. Critical undersea infrastructure (CUI) as these connections are known, supports about […]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague confirmed last week that it had detected and contained a “new, sophisticated, and targeted” cyberattack—its second major security breach in less than two years. The incident occurred as the city hosted the NATO summit, coinciding with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks reportedly launched by pro-Russian […]

4 July 2025 – China is finalising a new regulatory framework for driver-assistance systems, aiming to strike a balance between rapid innovation and public safety. The move follows a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SU7 sedan in March, which intensified scrutiny of assisted-driving technologies. 📋 Regulatory Overhaul in ProgressAuthorities are drafting rules that will require […]

Miljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock Sport supplements are hard to get away from if you like to exercise regularly. Even if you’re not interested in them, there’s a good chance your gym will have posters extolling their virtues or your sporty friends will want to talk to you about them. It can be hard to know what supplements […]

'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain inaccuracies. South Africans still have some of the lowest rates of acceptance […]

Giulia Acconcia grew up in the picturesque, historic town of Spoleto, nestled in the foothills of Italy’s Apennine Mountains. Already in secondary school, she became fascinated with modern technology – a passion that would shape her future.  Her love of electronics led her to the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, where she now finds herself […]