As Star Trek celebrates its 60th birthday, the long-running franchise is also grappling with the challenges of timing and technology. "Its audience is aging," says Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount.
GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people. The article GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own appeared first on The Decoder .
Government forces and Saudi Arabia carry out air attacks to stop Houthis' advance as thousands displaced by conflict.
Indonesian rescuers said about 130 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people sank in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday.
Indonesian rescuers said about 130 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people sank in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday.
Israeli strikes on Palestinian territory persist despite a 'ceasefire' brokered by the United States.
Campaigners say at current glacial pace some unpaid carers will die before receiving a refund Unpaid carers who were pursued for bills for thousands of pounds after welfare officials unlawfully changed benefit rules could wait years before learning whether they will get the money back, campaigners have warned. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working through 200,000 cases where carer’s allowance benefit recipients were incorrectly given overpayments. An estimated 25,000 carers could receive full or partial refunds. Continue reading...
The kingdom’s traditions and institutions have endured through colonial rule, independence and decades of upheaval.
Rescue efforts have been slow after a South Pacific inter-island ferry sank in bad weather on Friday. An investigation has already begun into negligence on the part of the operator.
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers
The northwestern state of Lower Saxony is holding local elections that are being seen as a gauge of support for the far-right AfD party. DW has more.
The ship was carrying over 240 people in the Java Sea when it ran into bad weather. Officials say six people have died and 130 are still missing.
Ships and helicopters are searching for the remaining 130 missing people from the Virgo Transport 8 ship, which had encountered bad weather.
A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researcher writes, who had assumed that AI without guidance would do more harm than good. The article Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off appeared first on The Decoder .
Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused Female asylum seekers are reporting rapes and sexual assaults by British men but many say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecutions. Their voices are rarely heard but some have spoken to the Guardian at a time when the far right is intensifying tropes about endemic rape of English women and girls by “fighting age” male asylum seekers. Continue reading...
One person isn’t a lecture, it’s lunch. Three people is office hours. Six people is a seminar. At some point, we shift from interaction to performance–but the people are the same people, the very ones that were happy to simply sit and have lunch with us. Bring in some cameras and it goes from a […]
A young Canadian mother shares her memories of being an ISIS bride, and her harrowing escape from the extremist group.
New chief of staff appointed after failed mutiny tested military rulers' grip on power.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns. The article Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight appeared first on The Decoder .
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The far-right Sweden Democrats party could enter government for the first time if right-wing bloc wins.
Mosque and homes damaged in Saudi Arabia after alleged Houthi strike
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Olympic flame arrives in Senegal for first ever Olympic event in Africa