Mon 15 December 2025: A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon once rattled the stock market. A tearful video of a frightened young “Ukrainian conscript” went viral: until exposed as staged. We may be approaching a “synthetic media tipping point”, where AI-generated images and videos are becoming so realistic that traditional markers of authenticity, such as visual flaws, […]
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Sun 14 December 2025: The Trump administration is forming a coalition to build a secure and innovation-driven silicon supply chain — covering critical minerals, energy, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and logistics — in partnership with key allies, according to the State Department. Called “Pax Silica,” the initiative will formally launch with the […]
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Sat 13 December 2025: The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment – and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD diagnoses rise around the world, a key question has emerged: could the growing use of digital devices be playing a role? To explore this, we studied more than 8,000 children, from when they were […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: Tourists from 42 countries may soon need to also disclose email accounts, extensive family history and biometrics to enter US. Visitors who are eligible to enter the United States without a visa may soon be required to provide the Department of Homeland Security with significantly more personal information, including details about […]
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Thu 11 December 2025: In November 2026, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, will achieve a groundbreaking milestone by becoming the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth. A “light-day” refers to the distance light travels in 24 hours—about 16 billion miles, or 26 billion kilometers. Suzy Dodd, project […]
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Illustration of Blue Origin’s Mark 1 lunar lander. Blue Origin Wed 10 December 2025: The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies to build the landing vehicle […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: Google and Apple have issued a new round of cybersecurity warnings to users in more than 150 countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, after detecting attempts to hack phones using advanced spyware linked to the Israeli company Intellexa, according to media reports. The companies said the alerts are part of efforts […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its windows has been struck by space debris. Astronauts […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: A new UN Development Programme (UNDP) report warned Tuesday that artificial intelligence (AI) could accelerate global inequality unless countries strengthen digital readiness and governance systems to manage the transition. The report, The Next Great Divergence: Why AI May Widen Inequality Between Countries, said that while AI offers significant opportunities for growth, […]
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Thu 04 December 2025: Meta has started removing Australian users under 16 from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook in preparation for the country’s groundbreaking social media age ban for minors. “While we are working hard to remove all users who we understand to be under the age of 16 by 10 December, compliance with the law […]
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