Five Venezuelans plead guilty to failed ATM 'jackpotting' plot in Kansas
A federal investigation found the group drove from Indiana to Kansas to break into cash machines with malware, but both attempts failed and triggered alarms.
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Bill Gates warns AI could bring 'turbulent' global upheaval
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has published a lengthy essay reversing his optimism on artificial intelligence, warning of job losses, weakened critical thinking and security threats unless governments act now.
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France's CNES Seeks Partner to Mass-Produce Compact Telescopes
The French space agency has issued a request for information for an industrial partner to build compact optical telescopes at volumes exceeding 1,000 units, for use in future satellite constellations.
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Samsung's Unreleased Exynos 2700 Reportedly Beats Next Snapdragon Chip
Internal Samsung tests claim its unreleased Exynos 2700 chip outperforms Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 in speed, graphics and power efficiency. The figures come from Samsung itself and have not been independently verified.
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GitLab Rushes Emergency Patch as Critical Flaw Faces Active Exploitation
GitLab broke from its regular patch schedule to fix a critical GraphQL vulnerability that lets attackers alter or delete data without logging in. Security researchers say they saw exploitation attempts within days of disclosure.
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AI Coding Assistant Suggested Malware Package, Engineer's Checks Caught It
A developer at technology firm Softjourn nearly installed a malicious software package after an AI coding assistant recommended it. A routine verification step stopped the install, highlighting a new supply-chain risk known as 'slopsquatting'.
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GTA 6 footage leaks online days before Netflix gameplay premiere
Videos claiming to show unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay have spread across social media ahead of Rockstar's official Extended Look, due to stream on Netflix on 27 August.
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SpaceX Tows Starship Wreckage to Christmas Island After 24 Days at Sea
SpaceX has completed a month-long operation to recover its Starship upper stage, hauling the spacecraft roughly 3,700 miles across the Indian Ocean to shelter near the Australian territory of Christmas Island.
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Insomniac Confirms Marvel's Wolverine Will Be Linear, Not Open World
Game director Mike Daly says the PlayStation 5 exclusive breaks from Insomniac's open-world Spider-Man formula in favour of a tighter, mission-based structure. The studio argues the format suits Wolverine's character better than a sprawling sandbox would.
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China's Kimi K3 AI model rattles Washington, sparks US regulatory push
Moonshot AI's release of the free, open-weight Kimi K3 model has matched top US systems on key benchmarks, triggering White House accusations of technology theft and a scramble over how to regulate Chinese AI.
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NASA's Robotic Rescue Craft for Swift Telescope Spins Out of Control
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.
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Heart Aerospace flies largest electric aircraft on $5 of power
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.
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Dutch agency warns of active exploitation of Mac screen-sharing flaw
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.
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Italian Defence Firm's Plate-Reader Add-On Also Tracks Phones
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.
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US regulator orders Kalshi to keep operating despite New York lawsuit
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.
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US Startup Uses NASA Data to Map Moon's Mining Sites
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.
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US courts strike down Trump administration blocks on wind energy
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.
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Valve Extends SteamOS Beta Support to More Handheld Gaming PCs
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.
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Xi Tightens Grip on Minorities as World Watches Other Crises
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.
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Amazon Seeks US Approval for 5,105 Satellites to Reach Phones Directly
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.
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Guardian Letters Challenge China's Claim to AI Openness
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.
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The AI Layoff Trap: Why Companies Cannot Stop Themselves
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.
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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to Windows PCs
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.
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AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic breached real systems during safety tests
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.
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Google's AI watermark works, but bad actors can still strip it
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.
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China's CXMT raises $8.6bn in Asia's biggest IPO, surges 470% on debut
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.
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South Korea fines TikTok $7m for secret cross-app user tracking
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.
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Autonomous AI completes first known ransomware attack without human direction
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.
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India's Skyroot launches first private orbital rocket, joining US and China
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.
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China launches first satellites for 1,000-strong orbital AI computing network
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.
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UK puts Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle under financial oversight
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.
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Newspapers accuse OpenAI of lying to court over copyright evidence
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.
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US robot spacecraft launches to tow falling NASA telescope to safety
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.
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Chinese AI model GLM-5.2 closes gap with US frontier labs
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.
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Lab-grown diamonds emerge as critical material for quantum computing and electronics
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.
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EU moves to designate AWS and Azure as digital market gatekeepers
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.