World
A jet with an anteater’s nose and a cockpit so far back the pilot flies by camera
The X-59 is designed to flatten the sonic boom that kept Concorde off routes across the US. It is the latest in a line of experimental NASA…
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Technology
Washington wants every country to pick a side on AI. For most of the world, China is making the easier offer
Chinese models went from under 15% of global usage to over 54% in a year. The pitch is not that they are better — it is that you can…
Technology
The Foodpanda case turns on a slip of paper every supplier in Bangladesh signs and nobody keeps
Strip out the warrants and the court and what is left is a fight about Return to Vendor slips and deductions — the ordinary plumbing of…
Technology
A mother typed her daughter’s symptoms into ChatGPT. The diagnosis it pointed to affects six people in the UK
Lily is 19 months old and has Multisystemic Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Syndrome, known in only about 70 people worldwide. Her family says AI…
World
Washington is asking an EU court to let it take Elon Musk’s side against a €120m fine
The European Commission fined X over paid blue ticks it said deceive users. The US Department of Justice has filed to intervene, arguing…
Technology
A court issued a warrant and the accused were already on bail. Here is how that is possible
The Foodpanda headlines confused a lot of readers: warrants issued, yet nobody arrested and everyone on bail. That is not a loophole. It is…
Technology
Students fear the essay they submit to be checked could end up training the AI that checks it
York students have raised concerns about licence changes at Turnitin, the plagiarism checker almost every university runs coursework…
Technology
A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants against five Foodpanda Bangladesh officials. All five already hold High Court bail
The managing director is among those named in two cases brought by a supplier over allegedly unpaid dues and fraudulent return slips…
Health
She thought it was IBS. It was a rare ovarian cancer, and within a month the cyst was the size of a football
Lisa Carroll was 47 and back from a family holiday when the pain started. A 12cm cyst was found and judged not particularly sinister. A…
Laravel
Laravel for beginners: from an empty project to your first working page
Install Laravel 13, understand what each folder is for, and build one working page end to end — route, controller, migration, model, Blade…
Technology
If a person had done what that AI agent did, they would be facing jail. The company is saying accidents happen
Meta retired the slogan in 2012. The pattern is back, and this time the thing being broken is a government health system. The awkward…
Technology
Apple has put its own adverts inside the iPhone Settings app, and dismissing them often does nothing
Prompts for iCloud+ storage, Apple Music and TV trials and AppleCare+ now sit at the top of the Settings screen. Tap the dismiss control…