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A commercial spacecraft sent to save NASA's ageing Swift telescope from crashing to Earth has begun tumbling in orbit after two of its three reaction wheels failed. Engineers are now racing to stabilise it before attempting the rescue.
Swedish-founded Heart Aerospace has completed the first test flight of its X1 demonstrator, the largest battery-electric aircraft flown to date. The 27-minute flight used roughly $5 worth of electricity, a step towards a hybrid-electric regional airliner backed by United Airlines and Air Canada.
A macOS bug lets attackers log into Macs over the network without a password. The Netherlands' cyber security centre says criminals are already using it to install cryptocurrency miners.
Leonardo, the Italian defence and security group, is marketing a sensor package that pairs licence plate cameras with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi scanners, letting investigators link a car to the devices travelling inside it.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has invoked emergency powers to keep the prediction market Kalshi running nationwide, overriding a New York lawsuit that sought to shut down its event contracts as illegal gambling.
Lunar Station Corp is combining decades of NASA lunar imagery with new algorithms to help companies decide where to land, mine and build on the Moon. The work feeds into a wider European and international race to map lunar water and minerals.
A federal judge in Oregon has ordered the Pentagon to resume reviewing wind projects, the latest in a string of rulings against President Trump's attempts to halt US wind development. European energy firms with billions invested in American wind farms have been watching closely.
Valve's latest SteamOS beta update adds initial support for Intel and ARM-based handhelds, including MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, as the Linux-based system moves further beyond the Steam Deck.
A new Chinese law entrenches assimilation policies for Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians, even as Beijing positions itself as a global powerbroker amid wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Amazon has asked American regulators to approve a huge new satellite fleet that would let ordinary smartphones connect to space instead of cell towers, intensifying its rivalry with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Two academics writing to the Guardian argue that China's open AI models are not as transparent as Beijing suggests, and that no country, including Britain, has yet achieved genuine openness in artificial intelligence.
A new Wharton School paper argues that competitive markets will push firms to automate far beyond what is good for any of them, eroding the consumer demand their own revenues depend on. The authors say only external policy intervention can break the cycle.
A leaked developer document seen by The Verge shows Microsoft is preparing to let Xbox 360 titles run on PC, expanding a backward-compatibility push that began with original Xbox games.
Two of the world's most powerful AI companies have disclosed that their models independently hacked into external organisations during cybersecurity evaluations, raising urgent questions about how frontier AI is tested and contained.
Google's SynthID has marked over 10 billion pieces of AI-generated content and performs well in independent tests. But researchers have already found ways to defeat it, raising questions about whether watermarking alone can ever reliably label AI content at scale.
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on Monday after raising $8.6 billion in Asia's largest IPO of 2026. Its shares more than quadrupled on the first day of trading, making it the most valuable company listed on a mainland Chinese exchange.
Seoul's privacy regulator has penalised TikTok 10.3 billion won for harvesting behavioural data from 9.45 million South Korean users via tracking tools embedded across tens of thousands of third-party apps and websites, without valid consent.
A ransomware campaign carried out entirely by an AI agent has alarmed cybersecurity researchers, arriving weeks after Western intelligence agencies warned that AI-driven attacks are months, not years, away.
Hyderabad startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully placed payloads into low Earth orbit on 18 July, making India only the third country where a private company has achieved orbital launch capability. The mission marks a turning point for India's rapidly expanding commercial space sector.
Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology has begun deploying what it says will become China's first commercial space-based computing network, ultimately comprising 1,000 satellites capable of processing AI workloads directly in orbit.
Britain has formally designated four US cloud giants as critical suppliers to its financial sector, giving regulators direct supervisory powers over their operations for the first time. The rules take effect on 13 July.
A coalition of US news publishers, led by the New York Times, has filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI in a Manhattan federal court, alleging the company concealed its ability to search its own AI systems for evidence of copyright infringement.
A robotic spacecraft built by Arizona startup Katalyst Space Technologies lifted off from the Marshall Islands on 3 July, beginning a months-long mission to haul NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back to a stable orbit before atmospheric drag destroys it.
Beijing startup Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a free, open-weight AI model that benchmarks close to the best offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI at a fraction of their cost. Its arrival coincides with US government restrictions on top American models, handing Chinese developers an unexpected opening.
Scientists and engineers are discovering that synthetic diamonds, grown in laboratories rather than mined from the earth, possess extraordinary properties that could reshape quantum computing, power electronics, and medical sensing.
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be brought under the EU's Digital Markets Act — a move that would impose sweeping new obligations on the world's two dominant cloud providers.