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Built for two years, it ran for twenty-two: NASA has switched off Swift, and the archive it leaves is the point
Swift’s trick was speed: it swung its own cameras onto a burst in seconds and told every other telescope where to look. Its data will…
Technology
She gave up her garden because of the delivery drones — and the startups trying to quiet them have found buyers in the military first
Drone noise annoys out of proportion to its volume, and the research explains why. The same quieting tech has a market in surveillance and…
World
Researchers will ask 1,500 British teenagers what adults actually send them in direct messages — because nobody has asked the children before
Grooming evidence usually comes from cases that were reported. This asks the people it happens to, which is the gap that has made private…
Health
Dogs can smell prostate cancer in a urine sample — a £100,000 donation is funding the attempt to build a machine that does the same thing
The dogs already work. The hard part is turning what they can do into something that scales, and that needs more data than hand-recorded…
Technology
Britain’s cyber agency says stop using passwords where you can — here is what a passkey actually is, and the one thing nobody mentions
A passkey stays on your device and is confirmed with your face, fingerprint or PIN. The question to settle before you switch is what…
World
A thief painted a scroll over the lamb to disguise a stolen Saint Agnese — the software matched it anyway, twenty years and 500km later
This is AI policing that works, and the reason is instructive: the task is narrow, the answer is checkable, and a human decides what…
Technology
Apple will replace iPhone Duos with cracked inner screens — but the queue for a new one now runs to January, and some of the “proof” circulating online may itself be AI
The engineering problem is familiar from every first-generation foldable. The supply problem is what makes a replacement promise hard to…
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A publican photographed a wall the storm knocked onto her neighbours’ cars, and the internet told her she had made it up
The damage was real, corroborated by other photographs and eyewitnesses. The cost of generated images is not only that fakes spread — it is…
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Microsoft is offering about 60,000 staff money to leave while it spends tens of billions on AI — and it has not said which of those two facts explains the other
An earlier round of 9,000 saw more than 30 per cent accept. Whether this is AI productivity or the cost of AI infrastructure is the…
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Two mathematicians kept their drafts in OpenAI’s own coding tool, then OpenAI announced it had solved the problem — and the row is really about who can still be trusted to check science
The dispute will probably never be resolved. What it exposes is a journal system already failing to keep AI-written material out, and no…
Technology
A seven-day plan for learning AI at ten minutes a day — and the three things it leaves out
The plan is sound and the safety warning is the right one. Wednesday is the day that matters, and the article is too modest about why.
World
“Maxxing” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, and “data centre” was on the shortlist it beat
A suffix that attaches to anything, chosen by a dictionary measuring social media. The runners-up say more about 2026 than the winner does.