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See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet
New images and footage of the Sun show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.
bbc.co.uk
Anthropic AI used fake profiles to target people in hack then hid the evidence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthropic AI created fake profiles to deceive people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
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Huge SpaceX rocket part believed to have hit Moon as Nasa prepares to study crash www.bbc.com/news/live/cr... #SpaceX #Moon #TheMoon #rocket #NASA
SpaceX rocket expected to have crashed into Moon - live updates
The stray upper section of the Falcon 9 rocket is about the size of a five-storey building, with a mass of at least 4,000kg.
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality www.theguardian.com/environment/... #immortality #biology #science
‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality
Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again
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Japan's population falls below 120 million for first time in 42 years as birth crisis deepens The number of Japanese nationals declined by a record 917,000 to 119.7 million, while foreign residents reached an all-time high www.firstpost.com/world/japans... #Japan #population #demographics
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Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
Continued drought could cause shortage of certain foods, head of farmers' union says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought could cause shortage of certain foods, head of National Farmers Union warns
NFU President Tom Bradshaw calls on the government to take action to prevent extreme weather impacting UK food supply.
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The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026 Fascist empires and deadly sea monsters are on offer in the science fiction out this month, says Alison Flood www.newscientist.com/article/2582... #sciencefiction #scifi
The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026 | New Scientist
Fascist empires and deadly sea monsters are on offer in the science fiction out this month, says Alison Flood
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Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth
Reddit delivered strong earnings, but the numbers beneath the surface tell a different story. Slowing logged-in user growth and AI-powered search could threaten the platform's long-term value.
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SURELY, with wildfires causing the worst damage in Europe since WWII, politicians will take the opportunity to transform our approach to the climate crisis, right?? Report from me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @mjflepage.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Sn...
Heatwave and Wildfire Crisis: Why 2026 Is So Dangerous
YouTube video by The World, The Universe And Us
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Concerns are growing that new wildfires could start in Greece, Italy and Central Europe over the coming days, while short-term outlook remains "very difficult" for France. If current fires in Portugal and Spain don't burn out by then, "we will have all Europe on fire". news.sky.com/story/france...
Europe wildfires latest: Continent could be on fire in days, warns EU agency
It's particularly warm today, and that risks spreading wildfires on the continent. The head of the EU's Emergency Response Coordination Centre has warned "all Europe" could be on fire in days if flame...
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DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.
DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business | TechCrunch
DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.
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OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company. Hugging Face was thought to be the only victim of the unprecedented hack - but OpenAI now admits its bot attacked several "public services". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #OpenAI #ChatGPT
OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies
The out-of-control AI found four logins which allowed it to access multiple unnamed online services.
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Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #datacentres #datacenters #datacenter #space #SpaceX #ElonMusk #AI
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction
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The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK's largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its funding and could now close All scientific observations are expected to cease on 1 April 2028 unless alternative funding can be found www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #astronomy #JodrellBank
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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From ISRO insiders to unicorn status, Skyroot’s first orbital shot hints at how India plans to compete with SpaceX rideshares.
India’s First Private Orbital Launch Puts Skyroot in Elite Company
Startup Skyroot nails an orbital launch on the first try
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"Claude Opus 5 is available today. It comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. On coding and knowledge work evaluations, Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks." www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... #Opus5
Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
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What is China’s Kimi K3 and why is the US so rattled by it? www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/t...
What is China’s Kimi K3 and why is the US so rattled by it? | CNN Business
Remember DeepSeek? The Chinese artificial intelligence startup that rattled the US tech industry? China may have done it again.
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“‘It’s a mix of the race being extremely fast and everyone trying to get to bigger capabilities as quickly as possible,’ said one person close to #OpenAI, who added that it was a combination of ‘underestimating the model’s capabilities’ and ‘not being as well prepared on the safety side.’” #GenAI
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2w agoThe incident highlights how OpenAI doubled down on training methods that rewarded a relentless pursuit of goals even as warnings grew that they could compromise safety.
New hope for treating deadliest brain cancer Engineered immune cells have eliminated glioblastoma in preclinical models, raising hopes for future treatments against a cancer with very poor survival rates. www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/07... #glioblastoma #braincancer #cancer #CAR-T #science
New hope for treating deadliest brain cancer
Engineered immune cells have eliminated glioblastoma in preclinical models, raising hopes for future treatments against a cancer with very poor survival rates.
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‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed
CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins
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#Ukraine’s ground robots patrol, report, and fire weapons, all while evading Russian drones. 50,000 will be on the ground by the end of 2026. spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-grou...
Global population growth peaked six decades ago— The increase in the world’s population is not exponential. The global population is growing, but the growth rate has declined since its peak six decades ago.
First confirmed atmosphere on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet: astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, a super-Earth 48 light-years away and a promising target in the search for habitable worlds. 👽🌘☁️🔭 www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/07... #exoplanet #exoplanets #astronomy
First confirmed atmosphere on a rocky habitable-zone exoplanet
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, a rocky super-Earth around 48 light-years away in its star's habitable zone, providing the first observational confirmation of an atmospher...
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Thanks to the rapidly developing major El Niño event, global surface air and sea surface temperatures are approaching new record values. Typically it is the year following the event that yields new global temperature record, but it's possible we could see this year.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest "plume" of El Niño forecasts, via @climate.columbia.edu. Consensus dynamical forecast is now an HISTORICALLY STRONG max Nino3.4 ~3.0C (statistical forecasts are pointing toward still very strong ~2.5C). There is still a wide range of estimates, with some models reaching astonishing ~4.7C.
