The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station ā the crown jewel of the apartheid state ā pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta's AI systems.
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new āsuper steelā that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mechanism thatā¦
The undersea cables carry a large share of global data traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Tehran proposes to impose a toll for submarine cables that provide internet communications. Iran also wants all managemeā¦
Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit redā¦
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
Tech layoffs 2026: Over 92,000 tech jobs vanished by May 2026, with April seeing the worst layoffs in two years. US tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are cutting staff, citing AI efficiencies and past over-hiā¦
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1% and 3% of the total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the extent and depth of pervasive and multifacetā¦
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time ā all without a warrant.
A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach.
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath.
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of todayās AI boom: āYou can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.ā
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps ā with little evidence they work and few regulations.
We revisit Starfield on PS5 Pro to see how much it has improved since launch and what sort of upgrade the PS5 Pro delivers compared to PS5, Xbox, and more.
Atlassian is enabling AI training data collection by default for Free, Standard, and Premium customers from August 17, with no opt-out for metadata on lower tiers.
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven heā¦