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A new benchmark called Real-SWE arrives today from Specific Labs, and it shifts the ground under how we measure AI’s ability to write code. Unlike existing tests that draw from public GitHub repositories, Real-SWE evaluates frontier models on private, real-world enterprise codeb…
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, is drafting a policy to tokenize its own assets — including electricity transmission infrastructure — on a blockchain to fund new public projects. The idea, reported by CoinDesk, is that citizens could invest in these tokenised claims and shar…
Spain’s Congress has approved legislation granting citizenship to Sahrawi people born in Western Sahara before September 29, 1977, along with their descendants, in a move that could affect between 70,000 and 110,000 people. The vote—168 in favor, 31 against, and 145 abstentions—…
Sagal Abdi-Wali’s selection as Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras raises a question that goes deeper than electoral strategy: what does it actually mean when a politician’s life story becomes inseparable from the policies their party claims to champion?
The UK government has announced it will force Apple and Google to block the taking, sharing, and viewing of nude images on children’s smartphones through legislation, after months of voluntary talks failed to produce a breakthrough. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the House of…
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce a ban on trade in goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a move the Guardian describes as a significant shift beyond rhetorical support for a two-state solution towards active measures to preven…
For many Muslim Americans, the act of holding elected office means navigating a space where their faith is both visible and scrutinised. This week, Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El‑Sayed used a major address to speak directly about that experience — not defensively, but as a way…
The strongest U.S. jobs report in months has pushed the odds of a September rate hike above 50%, putting President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh in a difficult position. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials have publicly pressured th…
A new CVE-2026-85046 is actively being exploited in the wild — a sandbox escape and remote code execution that affects every Chromium-based browser. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to Google, which fixed it and paid the researcher a $1,000 bounty. As one Hacker News…
The decision by Standard Chartered to offer spot bitcoin and ether trading through its Dubai International Financial Centre branch, putting crypto on the same electronic FX rails as dollars and euros, marks a quiet but significant milestone. It is the first top-tier global bank …
The past 24 hours have seen the most serious direct military confrontation between the United States and Iran in decades. After a US strike hit a wedding party in the Middle East, Iran launched retaliatory strikes on American bases, and President Trump threatened further attacks…
The UK’s National Crime Agency has frozen more than £10 million ($13.5 million) from a Premier League bank account as part of an investigation into Sorare, the fantasy sports platform that signed a $140 million sponsorship deal with the league. Law enforcement has been clear t…
Nvidia’s $3.5 billion convertible bond investment in MediaTek, announced on Monday, sent the Taiwanese chipmaker’s shares soaring 10% to hit their daily trading limit in Taipei. The deal, Nvidia’s largest direct investment outside the United States, pairs the world’s most valua…
Almost half of all terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9⁄11 have occurred in the past year alone — a figure that demands more than a headline. The Home Office recorded 6,539 terror-related arrests since 2001, with 3,021 of those in the year to March 2026. The single largest…
The BBC reports that by August 2026, the number of Afghans forced to return from Pakistan and Iran had reached another million, bringing the total to six million since the Taliban takeover. Many of these deportees have never set foot in Afghanistan before — they are second- or t…
Shein’s shares fell 8% on their first day of trading in Hong Kong, a city that has been trying to position itself as a welcoming hub for global capital. The drop is not just a reflection of jittery markets; it signals that even the most aggressive growth stories are now being we…
On 1 September 2026, Google reached a milestone that has been years in the making: all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store. Among them was uBlock Origin, one of the most effective and widely trusted content blockers ever built for the browser.…
Blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk shows that wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group moved more than $30 million in bitcoin through the derivatives platform Hyperliquid in just the last three weeks. The group, infamous for cyber heists that fund Pyongyang’s weapons progr…
A bird identification system running silently on a home server. A walkable cyberpunk city crafted entirely from letters and symbols in a single HTML file. A weathered phone booth on a desert playa that lets strangers call anyone in the world for free. At first glance, these are …
The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, is putting real weight behind the idea that stocks, bonds and other traditional assets can live on a blockchain. ICE announced it will license technology from tZERO, a regulated venue for tokenized securiti…