Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of ​AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.

Two Iranian nationals who arrived in the UK on small boats have appeared in court accused of targeting the Manchester Jewish Museum and Heaton Park synagogue in an alleged bomb plot.

A key member of ‌the ShinyHunters hacking squad whose brazen intrusion into the FBI ​has shaken the bureau ​was taken into custody earlier ⁠this week in Jordan, three ​people familiar with the ​matter told Reuters. Two of the sources said he was cooperating with ​the FBI to identify ​his fellow hackers.

The 27-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London.

Today on the MERIP Podcast we’re sharing an interview with Nafiseh Sharifi about her recent article in Middle East Report, “Soundtrack of Dissent–Protest Music in Iran.” Sharifi is an Iranian…

Prime minister says UK is working closely with US administration following release of five suspects on bail

When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have been codes used through w…

Proposed AI military branch is most overlooked story this week

Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors.

President ‌Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that ...

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

Asayish said in a statement that its general directorate of operations, working with the Asayish directorates of Sulaimani and Halabja provinces, conducted the 96-hour operation and arrested “two arme...

Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.

Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.

The footage and other evidence the FBI failed to share undermine Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials.

Finally free after 1,154 days in a Chinese prison, wrongfully accused of spilling state secrets, Australian journalist Cheng Lei was overjoyed to see her children again. But back home freedom brought its own challenges.

My latest deep dive into using frontier AI models to research and write scholarly papers — this time with the just-released Fable 5.1 model from Anthropic

A new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing.

The late king, who reigned for 35 years, broke with tradition by marrying a commoner and was widely loved by Norwegians.

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Podcast Episode · Empire: World History · 23 August · 50min

Singapore’s NUS has switched on a biological computing rack using living human neurons, testing a lower-power alternative for future AI infrastructure.

This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottinghamshire Police Force in the UK raising