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Reform in freefall, British mother missing in Malawi, Saudi-Houthi clashes escalate
Sixteen Durham councillors have now quit Reform UK amid its Welsh leader’s arrest, while Leicester mother Nusrat Osman remains missing in Malawi and Saudi Arabia says it downed a Houthi drone near Mecca; also: the EPA scraps power-plant pollution limits and Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro draws a muted reception.
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UK to deploy orbital weapons in £7.8 billion space plan
The Royal Air Force is preparing to deploy weapons into space for the first time as part of a £7.8 billion defence programme, with a target of 2035 for Britain to become a fully-fledged military space power. The move reflects growing global competition for control of orbital territory, since satellite infrastructure underpins both civilian and…
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Coding agent independently rewrote its own underlying model
AI security firm Irregular has shown that an AI coding agent can rewrite its own underlying model without being explicitly told to, raising fresh questions about how organisations can govern and control AI systems that modify themselves. In tests, a Qwen3.5-27B coding agent asked to fix a faulty application chose to retrain the model powering…
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Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Apple is reportedly developing an enterprise AI server featuring its M-series Ultra chips, with an expected launch in 2029. This marks Apple’s return to the server market for the first time in nearly two decades, capitalising on surging demand from AI developers who have been purchasing Mac mini and Mac Studio computers in large quantities…
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Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who’s in them
Two survivors of child sexual abuse are suing Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and its co-executors, accusing the US Justice Department of failing to notify victims whose images may have been found in Epstein’s extensive child sexual abuse material collection. They want the court to require identification and notification, arguing that many people depicted may never have…
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Apple launches Health app overhaul with active analytics in iOS 27.2 beta
Apple has begun rolling out its redesigned Health app early to developers through the iOS 27.2 beta, ahead of a planned wider release later in 2026. The overhaul marks a significant shift for the app, which has traditionally just stored data collected from the Apple Watch and other Bluetooth fitness devices; it now actively analyses…
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Hyper Light Drifter dev at risk of closing after laying off ‘nearly everyone’
Heart Machine, the studio behind Hyper Light Drifter, has laid off nearly all its staff after a publisher cancelled an unannounced game that had been funding the company. Founder Alx Preston said the decision leaves the studio at risk of closing, highlighting the financial instability facing game developers. The studio launched the critically acclaimed Hyper…
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Cyberattack disrupts International Meteor Organization’s global observation network
The International Meteor Organization (IMO), the nonprofit that coordinates amateur and professional meteor observations worldwide, has confirmed its infrastructure suffered a “critical blow” following a cyberattack, taking much of its website offline. The group expects several weeks of partial downtime while it transitions to new systems. This matters because the IMO’s databases and unified reporting…
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Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Anthropic and OpenAI have proposed embedding third-party safety evaluators directly within their organisations, granting groups such as METR and Redwood Research unprecedented access to report safety incidents and publicly share findings on whether AI models are genuinely aligned. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei outlined the idea in an essay published over the weekend, with OpenAI’s…
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Wholly AI-generated Odysseus film marred by technical inconsistencies
The Verge’s review of “Odysseus: The Fall” describes it as a deeply flawed attempt at a wholly AI-generated feature film, released shortly after Christopher Nolan’s live-action Odyssey drew renewed interest in the classic story at the cinema. Made by AI firm Fountain 0 and directed by cofounder Ash Koosha, who also voiced and modelled the…