Wed 01 April 2026: Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are making efforts to detect users who attempt to use them for criminal purposes by shutting down accounts and alerting local law enforcement when deemed necessary. People use large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, for everything these […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Pope Leo XIV has urged US President Donald Trump to seek a diplomatic exit from the widening Iran conflict as casualties mount across the region. “I’m told that President Trump has recently stated that he would like to end the war. Hopefully he’s looking for an off-ramp. … Hopefully he’s looking […]
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Wed 01 April 2026: Turkiye secure a return to football’s biggest tournament for the first time since 2002, when they finished third. When Turkiye finished third at the 2002 World Cup, few Turkish fans thought it would be almost a quarter of a century before their side’s next appearance at football’s showcase event. So Turkiye’s […]
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Tue 31 March 2026: When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to factcheck – reply with statistics, make a debunking post on social media or point people towards trustworthy sources. Factchecking is seen as a go-to method […]
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Tue 31 March 2026: As early as the 1880s, there was evidence that smoking tobacco damaged your lungs. But it took almost 100 years to definitively show that smoking causes lung cancer. So, what about vapes? Until now, most research that has looked at the cancer risk for people using vapes, also known as electronic or e-cigarettes, has mainly […]
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Mon 30 March 2026: During the first world war, the British government was looking for ways to help people stretch their limited food supplies. It found pamphlets from a noted 19th-century herbalist who said rhubarb leaves could be used as a vegetable along with the stalks. The government duly printed its own pamphlets advising people […]
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Mon 30 March 2026: Astronauts assigned to NASA’s Artemis II mission said Sunday they are prepared for launch as the final countdown toward a planned crewed flight around the moon gets underway this week. The four-member crew, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, arrived at Kennedy […]
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Mon 30 March 2026: Israel’s parliament approved the country’s 2026 state budget early Monday, including a record allocation for defense spending, as the opposition denounced the plan as “the greatest theft” in the country’s history. The budget passed its final reading in the Knesset by 62 votes to 55, according to The Times of Israel […]
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Fri 27 March 2026: More than 350 years after the death of the French soldier who inspired Alexandre Dumas‘ classic “The Three Musketeers,” his remains may have been found beneath the floor of a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht, according to the British daily The Guardian on Wednesday. Workers restoring a church in Maastricht uncovered a […]
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Fri 27 March 2026: Astronomers have solved a 50-year mystery surrounding the star Gamma Cassiopeiae, identifying the source of its unusually intense X-ray emissions as a hidden white dwarf companion, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Visible to the naked eye in the Cassiopeia constellation, Gamma Cassiopeiae has long […]
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