Long waits for disability benefit claims unacceptable, MPs say
Some people are waiting more than a year to have their claims processed, the Public Accounts Committee says.
AI is intensifying a ‘collapse’ of trust online, experts say
For years, people could largely trust, at least instinctively, that seeing was believing.
December jobs report will provide a final read on U.S. employment in a year of uncertainty
Friday’s December jobs report offers the last read on U.S. employment in 2025. Layoffs, government cuts and AI made 2025 a year of uncertainty for
Gavin Newsom hits back at ‘senile’ Trump’s ‘incompetent leaders’ Truth Social rant
Gavin Newsom’s Press Office has hit back at Tweety McTreason’s Truth Social post mocking the California Governor. The president called Newsom “incompetent” in a post
‘Obey or die’: Stephen Colbert denounces ICE Minneapolis shooting and rages at Trump
Stephen Colbert has denounced the recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis and says Tweety McTreason’s administration are operating on “obey or die” rules. Speaking during the
‘She was trying to flee’: Minneapolis on edge as ICE’s techniques provoke anger
The snowy street where Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer has now become a memorial to her.
In an AI-perfect world, it’s time to prove you’re human
Take everything you ever learned and practiced about business communication and throw it out the window. Because of the AI revolution, the world of “content”
Global AI adoption is growing, and so is the digital divide
Global adoption of AI in the second half of 2025 rose by 1.2 percentage points compared to the first half of the year, a report
‘I didn’t set out to break records’: Pakistan’s first female MMA fighter
Anita Karim retraces her journey into combat sports ahead of the country’s first ever professional women’s MMA fight.
Iran internet cuts a “classic ploy” by leadership
Sina Azodi on Iran’s escalating protests and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent.
It’s not the oil. It’s Florida
Nicolas Maduro’s kidnapping is about the US state’s politics, not Venezuela’s oil.
Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France’s prestigious ‘Grand Mathematics Prize’ is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are ‘lost in the mail’ — Jan. 9, 1816
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France’s most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the
NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: ‘every astronomer is going to find something of value here’
NASA’s SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic.
9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.