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Holy Land discovery reveals ancient charred relics from one of Jerusalem’s darkest chapters
Archaeologists have uncovered charred wooden roof beams roughly 2,600 years old beneath a car park in Jerusalem’s City of David, in what researchers believe are remnants of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. The find offers a rare physical link to one of the most significant events in biblical history, the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem, and…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 Content Revenue Crashes on Rough Box Office Comps
Warner Bros. Discovery’s second-quarter 2026 results were dragged down by a sharp fall in theatrical revenue, which dropped 46% year-on-year after flops Supergirl and The Bride underperformed against strong comparisons with 2025 hits A Minecraft Movie and Sinners. The company pointed to streaming as a bright spot, with revenue up 9% to $3.1 billion, but…
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Microsoft’s Quantum Chief Doesn’t Care That Scientists Don’t Believe His Results
Microsoft’s corporate vice president of quantum, Zulfi Alam, has dismissed scientists’ scepticism about his team’s claims to have created Majorana-based qubits, saying he does not need to prove the work to critics. Physicists have questioned the results due to inconclusive data and a lack of peer review, echoing a 2021 episode in which Microsoft retracted…
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What does a signature song actually mean when you’re the biggest band in the world? A case study of ABBA’s 1976 ‘Dancing Queen’
An article for ABBA’s 50th anniversary of “Dancing Queen” questions what it really means for a song to become a band’s defining hit, arguing the 1976 single doesn’t tell the whole story of the Swedish group’s career. The piece contends that framing ABBA primarily through this one track undersells a broader catalogue that includes “Mamma…
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Apple’s Private Relay feature could reveal your IP address to websites and services
Security researchers have found that Apple’s Private Relay, a feature meant to hide users’ IP addresses while browsing in Safari, can fail to do so because of a flaw in WebKit, Apple’s browser engine. The issue arises specifically with passkeys, an increasingly popular passwordless login method, because authentication requests made via passkeys occur outside the…
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Security researchers at Zenity have shown that OpenAI’s Atlas web browser can be manipulated into sending unsolicited messages to a user’s WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorised purchases on Amazon, despite having stronger safeguards than rival AI browsers. The findings, presented at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, form part of a wider set…
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‘High-strength’ Omega-3 sold on high street often no stronger than cheaper alternative, study
A study has found that “high-strength” Omega-3 supplements sold on the British high street are often no more potent than cheaper alternatives, despite carrying premium pricing and marketing claims. The findings raise questions about value for money for the many consumers who buy fish oil supplements believing that paying more for products labelled “high strength”…
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Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon on Wednesday, in an event astronomers had prepared for but ultimately failed to capture on camera. Despite advance knowledge of the timing, no observatory managed to record a direct image or video of the impact flash, though scientists gathered indirect evidence confirming it…
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Prompt injection isn’t the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers have found 11 vulnerabilities, some critical, across major AI agent frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework and Google ADK, revealing that the security failure lies not in prompt injection itself but in how these frameworks handle it. The researchers argue that a bug in one agent framework amounts to…
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Viagra could do more than advertised as study reveals surprising health superpower
A new study suggests that sildenafil, the erectile dysfunction drug sold as Viagra, may offer an unexpected benefit for cancer patients by helping to prevent tumours from spreading to new sites in the body. The findings add to a growing body of research examining whether existing, widely available medications could be repurposed to fight cancer,…