Mon 11 August 2025: At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an audition, where he was abducted by criminals and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar. Wang was reported missing and, within […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: The acting chief of US space agency NASA is reportedly set to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, in a bid to boost US space dominance amid growing competition from China and Russia. According to internal documents obtained by Politico, NASA will seek proposals from private industry […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: WhatsApp banned more than 6.8 million accounts linked to scam operations in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta said in a statement Tuesday. “As part of our ongoing proactive work to protect people from scams, WhatsApp detected and banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to scam centers,” the company said. […]
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NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov splashed down off the coast of San Diego in their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Sun 10 August 2025: Four astronauts safely returned to Earth after a five-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), where they assisted stranded Boeing Starliner test […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: In the US-China technology rivalry, which came to light with the bans the US imposed on Huawei in 2019, the biggest competition in recent years has been in the chip sector. In recent days, allegations of espionage and theft have risen to the top of the agenda in a process that has continued […]
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Clifford Berry stands by the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Courtesy of Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives, CC BY-ND Sat 09 August 2025: The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 at Iowa State College, […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Think about how many things you have done online today. Paid a bill? Logged into your bank account? Used social media or spent time answering emails? Maybe you have used your phone to pay at a supermarket or train station. We are all plugged in, and that’s not necessarily a bad […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Leaked documents reveal Israel’s spy agency used Microsoft’s cloud to store Palestinians’ phone calls and target them. Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit stored vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s cloud servers, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call. The surveillance system, operational since […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Google on Wednesday announced a $1 billion commitment to support education, job training, and artificial intelligence research at US universities. “This includes making our AI and career training free for every college student in America through our AI for Education Accelerator — over 100 colleges and universities have already signed up,” […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Microsoft has accused one of the Russian government’s premier cyber-espionage units of deploying malware against embassies and diplomatic organisations in Moscow by leveraging local internet service providers. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said the campaign by Russia’s Federal Security Service, also known as the FSB, “has been ongoing […]
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