South Africa’s Ramaphosa says troops will deploy to tackle crime gangs
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the military will work with the country’s police force to counter ‘gang wars’.
Month: February 2026
US and Taiwan sign ‘pivotal’ deal to cut tariffs
Taipei agrees to buy some $85bn of US energy, aircraft and equipment in exchange for 15 percent tariff rate.
Sussan Ley and the glass cliff: Does Australian politics still have a problem with women?
The Liberal Party elected its first female leader at a time of crisis. She lasted less than a year.
‘Everyone knows somebody affected’ – small Canadian town united in grief after mass shooting
The shooting in British Columbia has been met with shock and sadness, with residents saying nearly everyone has been impacted in some way.
Taylor Swift asks US government to block ‘Swift Home’ trademark
Her team argued that a bedding firm’s designs showed similarities to her trademarked signature.
Analysis: Trump takes victory lap after biggest climate rollback yet
The move marks the culmination of a decade-long push by the president to tear up climate policies he argues stifle industry.
This inside-out planetary system has astronomers scratching their heads
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
Image doesn’t depict attacker in Canadian mass shooting with assault rifle
An AI-altered image placed a gun in the hands of a social media influencer who had nothing to do with the February 2026 mass shooting.
Contextualizing claims school photo company Lifetouch is in Epstein files
Nothing in the Epstein files directly links Lifetouch to the late sex offender’s criminal activity.
Sheriff accused of blocking FBI access to crucial evidence in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping
Federal officials are accusing the Pima County Sheriff’s Office of withholding “key evidence” in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, Reuters reported on Thursday. “The FBI
Border Patrol agent under criminal investigation after shooting Montessori teacher 5 times
The Border Patrol agent who shot a Chicago teacher five times is now under criminal investigation, MS NOW reported on Thursday. “Christopher Parente, an attorney
Hackers turn bossware against the bosses
A threat actor is abusing an employee monitoring application and a remote monitoring and management platform in an attempt to deploy ransomware and steal cryptocurrency.
Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs
A new fine-tuning technique aims to solve “catastrophic forgetting,” a limitation that often complicates repeated model updates in enterprise deployments. Researchers at MIT, the Improbable
NASA telescope spots the building blocks for life spewing out of comet 3I/ATLAS
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its closest approach to Earth in December.