Watchdog clears £142M Post Office subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill Summary The Competition and Markets Authority’s Subsidy Advice Unit (SAU) has given conditional advice in favour of a…
China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science Article Date = 11 March 2026 Article URL = https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00770-y Article Image = https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00770-y/d41586-026-00770-y_52157906.jpg Summary China has announced plans at its Two Sessions…
National statistics are in crisis around the world — and the impacts will be severe Summary Researchers and statisticians warn that official national statistics — the data governments and international…
Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers Summary Students are creating viral, student-run Instagram and TikTok accounts — dubbed “slander pages” — that use AI image-to-video tools…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Summary WIRED’s longread examines why OpenAI — the company widely credited with mainstreaming large language models — finds itself on the…
Physics at risk: UK science leader on what’s wrong with the latest funding cuts Summary The UK’s main research funder, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has paused some grant-review processes…
AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before Summary The author argues that the rise of autonomous AI agents has exposed the limitations of…
Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic Summary The Trump administration refused to promise it won’t take additional punitive steps against Anthropic at the AI startup’s first court…
Middle East Conflict Highlights Cloud Resilience Gaps Summary Recent military strikes and retaliatory actions in the Middle East disrupted Internet connectivity and caused direct physical damage to cloud data centres…
Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack Summary CVE-2026-26144 is a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can be chained to the Copilot Agent…
