AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.

Plus: RIP, Tim Curry.

Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China after discovering that hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders.

The dark, twisted logic of the agency’s new electric-shock gloves.

In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.

In Nova Scotia, Mi’kmaq work to keep Komqwejwi’kasikl alive through music and memory

The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.