A system with winners must have losers, and in this case, they are the places, mainly prosperous cities, watching their tax revenue flow elsewhere.

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information. Continue reading...

While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ​said it was up to the United States to ‌choose when the Iran war will end, when asked if the conflict could end by the end of the year.

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

Hundreds of real estate investors in a company run by a media-savvy realtor that owns dozens of buildings across Ontario got a shock over the weekend when they were told their rent payments are in limbo.

Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead

As Congress faces calls to regulate artificial intelligence, NBC News asked members how — and whether — they use it.

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face. Continue reading...

Release conditions for Ricky Manz were loosened Thursday in Leader Provincial Court, with the court removing his curfew and a condition preventing contact with co-accused Romana Didulo. Manz, the form...

After being read charges, Layne Lundeen said: ‘I assaulted a police officer? Is that what it says? I don’t have my glasses’