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