When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would "shape the futures of millions of people".

Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental company that won top consumer pitch at Disrupt this year.

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram can better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.

The tech giant's adoption of Google Cast signals its interest in making Apple TV a more competitive streaming service at a time when the market is seeing increased consolidation.

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking collective stole Pornhub premium users’ data, including email addresses and viewing history.

With this funding, Digantara has raised $64.5 million in total.

The data intelligence company has just raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — up 34% from the $100 billion valuation that it achieved just three months ago.

A museum visit sparked a revelation when a Roman glass cup was turned around and its overlooked markings came into focus. These symbols, once dismissed as decoration, appear to be workshop identifiers used by teams of skilled artisans. The findings challenge centuries of assumptions about how Roman ...

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular processes can create voltage spikes similar to those used by neurons. These signals could help drive ion transport and explain key biological functions. The work may also guid...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising way to influence bacteria—not by killing them, but by changing how they communicate. Researchers studying oral bacteria found that disrupting chemical signals used in bacterial “conversations” can shift dental plaque toward healthier, less harmful communi...

Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year.

Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentials Three very different companies have now confirmed data breaches affecting millions of users – each insisting the damage stopped well short of passwords and payment details.…

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a powerful light burst appears. That early flash acts like a timestamped signature of the effect. The met...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface. The discovery could mean stronger shaking near faults like California’s San Andreas than current models predict.

Everbloom has also developed a chemical process to transform waste fibers and feathers into upcycled materials that resemble everything from polyester to cashmere.

The Nordic Web closes $6M Fund III.

Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked Music hosting and streaming service SoundCloud has admitted it suffered a cyberattack.…

Around 1,000 years ago, a major climate shift reshaped rainfall across the South Pacific, making western islands like Samoa and Tonga drier while eastern islands such as Tahiti became increasingly wet. New evidence from plant waxes preserved in island sediments shows this change coincided with the f...

The next consumer tech revolution may require an introduction of a new personal device.

Across Europe huge heat pumps are being installed that can heat tens of thousands of homes.

It comes after the government was urged to help close the UK tech sector's gender gap in order to meet its ambitious AI goals.

Chai is building foundation models for drug discovery, specifically to predict interactions between molecules so they could be reprogramed for cures.

'Sustained focus on Western critical infrastructure' Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin's snoops persisten...

Riverside's year-end review is amusing, but it represents a creative culture that's increasingly entwined with AI.

After the one year is up, Disney is free to sign similar deals with other AI companies.

Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.

Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.

The company is abandoning plans for a brand new all-electric pickup truck codenamed "T3" and ending production of the battery-only Lightning.

The organization offered support for this idea of an AI marketplace, and suggested several guiding principles.

The massive fund haul will allow the Silicon Valley firm to continue to invest in cash-hungry AI startups.

AI-generated content has dominated the internet over the past year, and America's dictionary took note.

Who hasn't exploited this max-severity flaw? At least five more Chinese spy crews, Iran-linked goons, and financially motivated criminals are now attacking React2Shell, a maximum-severity flaw in the widely used React JavaScript library, according to Google.…

A deal to sell TikTok has remained elusive, despite earlier claims that a deal was done.

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Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn from the environment, and coordinate socially. Surprisingly, birds show many of these same traits, f...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming stable structures that generate mass and symmetry breaking on their own. The approach may even exp...

Researchers discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, simulations, and lab experiments, they identified and altered a single amino acid that shut down viral entry. What once might have taken years was achieved far faster using computatio...

The child was trying to watch Diary of a Wimpy Kid - but a film with "strong sex and sex references" played instead.

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater rivers alongside dinosaurs and crocodiles. A massive tooth found in North Dakota, analyzed using chemical isotope techniques, reveals that some mosasaurs adapted to river sys...

Automaker admits raid that crippled its factories in August led to the theft of sensitive info Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reportedly told staff the cyber raid that crippled its operations in August didn't just bring production to a screeching halt – it also walked off with the personal payroll da...

The companies have been fined in the past over outages leaving customers unable to call emergency services.

Both admit attackers were already exploiting the bugs, with scant detail and hints of spyware-grade abuse Apple and Google have both issued emergency patches after zero-day bugs were caught being actively exploited in what the companies describe as "sophisticated" real-world attacks.…

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsi...

Former staff at the Grand Theft Auto creator are seeking an employment tribunal over alleged "union-busting".

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery. Scientists have long debated whether these giants were violently flung inward or peacefully drifted through their birth disks. A new approach from researchers in Tokyo crack...

Under the so-called pre-packaged Chapter 11 process, the main maker of its devices will take ownership of the firm.

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The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the plastids remain vital. Asexual reproduction appears to have evolved repeatedly, helping the plants su...

Scientists are uncovering a new possibility behind long COVID’s stubborn symptoms: hidden infections that awaken or emerge alongside SARS-CoV-2. Evidence is mounting that viruses like Epstein-Barr and even latent tuberculosis may flare up when COVID disrupts the immune system, creating lingering f...