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Grok produces sexualized photos of women and minors for users on X – a legal scholar explains why it’s happening and what can be done

Since the end of December, 2025, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real people by turning photos of the people into sexually explicit material. After people began using the feature, the social platform company faced global scrutiny for enabling users to generate nonconsensual…

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Taming the moral menace at capitalism’s core

Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force crucial moral questions. Who will be held accountable for the human cost? What will it take to transform business culture so that those costs are not treated as inevitable and acceptable?

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What 2026 could hold for the UK housing market

For many UK households, 2025 marked the beginning of the end of the mortgage rate shocks of the previous year. And while that did not mean a return to cheap borrowing, the easing of interest rates was clearly visible over the course of the year.

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How medieval monks tried to stay warm in the winter

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this.

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Hamnet: by centring Anne Hathaway, this sensuous film gives Shakespeare’s world new life

For films and books about Shakespeare’s life, there is little source material to draw on beyond the few known facts of the great writer’s parentage, hometown, marriage, children, property and death. Shakespeare biopics therefore require considerable speculation and invention on the part of writers and directors.

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Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world

Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials and batteries all depend on our ability to make new molecules. But discovery of new substances is slow, expensive and fragile. Each molecule is treated as a bespoke craft project. If a synthesis works in one lab, it often…

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Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

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Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt, dating to 4,000 years ago. It was a black, toxic residue on bone arrowheads from a tomb at the Naga ed Der archaeological site.

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Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?

Running counts among today’s most popular sports. Sometimes the race is on even before the competition itself has started, as tickets for events sell out within hours. In France, this has got people talking about a “race for the runner’s bib”.

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As the US eyes Greenland, Europe must turn a global problem into an opportunity

The so-called world order and the international rule of law are both officially dead in the wake of operation “absolute resolve”, the US infiltration of Venezuela to capture its president Nicolás Maduro.

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Stopping weight-loss jabs leads to much faster rebound than thought – so are they still worth it?

Weight-loss injections, like Wegovy and Mounjaro, have been hailed as gamechangers. In clinical trials, people lost an average of 15%-20% of their body weight – results that seemed almost miraculous compared to traditional diet and exercise programmes.

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Your dog’s dinner could be worse for the planet than your own – new research

Cutting down the amount of meat we eat helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture. But what about the meat that our pet dogs eat?

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My home is in a district facing extreme or catastrophic fire danger. What should I do?

Across Australia there are a number of fire districts facing extreme or catastrophic fire danger ratings in this ongoing heatwave.

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Victoria bushfires at a glance

Victoria is bracing for potentially catastrophic bushfire conditions on Friday, with temperatures expected to top 40°C for the third day in a row in parts of the state and winds up to 100 kilometres per hour.

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Older people are more vulnerable in heatwaves. Here’s why – and how to stay safe

Southeast Australia is enduring a record-breaking heatwave, with temperatures rising above 40ºC in many areas.

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Roads can become more dangerous on hot days – especially for pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists

During heatwaves, everyday life tends to feel more difficult than on an average day. Travel and daily movement are no exception.

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Thermal drones can track dolphin health without having to touch or disturb them

Marine mammals are sentinels of the sea. When dolphins and whales show signs of stress or illness, it often signals deeper problems in the ocean ecosystems we all depend on.

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Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences

Canadian cultural resource management archeologists — professional consultants involved in environmental assessment and compliance processes — are increasingly finding themselves in the public eye when their work intersects with the development or disaster response related infrastructure projects.

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Cuba’s leaders just lost an ally in Maduro − if starved of Venezuelan oil, they may also lose what remains of their public support

Footage of a handcuffed Nicolás Maduro being escorted to a Brooklyn detention center will come as uncomfortable viewing for political leaders in Havana.

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Stephen Miller: portrait of Donald Trump’s ideologue-in-chief

During a recent interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, laid out what appears to be the core of the new ideology driving US foreign policy: the notion that might is right. Or, as he put it: “We’re a superpower. And under…

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US boards a ship sailing under a Russian flag: what we know and don’t know about the legal position

Relations between the US and Russia have hit a fresh bump after the US coastguard boarded a vessel sailing in the Icelandic waters, claiming it was in breach of sanctions on Venezuela. The incident immediately sparked claim and counter-claim from the US and Russia.

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Canada risks missing out on Africa’s trade boom under Mark Carney

At the G20 summit in South Africa in November, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced several new initiatives, including talks toward a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with South Africa.

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Why grieving a pet can be as hard as grieving a person

For many of us, pets are more than just animals. They are family. So, when a beloved pet dies, the grief can feel overwhelming.

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Kate Mildenhall’s fast-paced thriller The Hiding Place skewers middle-class pretensions

Eight old friends and a gaggle of kids. A weekend away in the group’s recently purchased rural retreat. Simmering tensions, old and new. And the stage is set for Kate Mildenhall’s new literary thriller, The Hiding Place.

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Maduro’s capture: ‘Trump has taken an unprecedented and very risky gamble,’ according to a historian

The United States military recently carried out a covert operation to capture and then remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, transporting them from Caracas to New York. The pair is accused of narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering.

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