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Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them.

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How does the menopause drug Veoza work? And how is it different to hormone therapy?

Hot flushes and night sweats – collectively called vasomotor symptoms – are among the most common and disruptive symptoms of menopause. They affect almost 40% of women in the lead up to menopause, known as perimenopause.

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Is pasta a type of noodle? The surprisingly serious debate over two beloved carbs

Certain taxonomic debates resurface time and again.

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Australia’s data centre build-out carries risks for the economy – and inflation

Australia is in the middle of a data centre construction boom. Driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and growing demand for digital services, global technology companies are expected to invest up to A$150 billion in Australian data centres by 2030.

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Bird flu has claimed its first Australian sea lion and dolphin. How does the virus get into these animals?

A rare Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) on Kangaroo Island has been confirmed to have died from highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu. The sea lion had recently been attacked by a shark, weakening it. Testing revealed the cause of death was the virus. Another dead sea lion is being tested.

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How would One Nation’s immigration plan affect the labour market and economy?

One Nation this week promised to tighten visa rules and cut immigration to “net negative” for three years, in a suite of policies it said would help reduce pressure on housing and essential services. It also vowed to further restrict the ability of migrants to bring family members to Australia.

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Trump’s thumbs-up to Irish reunification breaks with precedent, but evokes earlier age of White House support

Donald Trump is a Republican and self-avowed nationalist. That, apparently, is true in an Irish sense, too – even if those terms have very different meanings across the Atlantic.

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How bacteria hijack viruses to shuffle their own DNA

When you think of viruses, you probably think of flu-like symptoms and quarantines. Humankind has suffered from viral diseases ranging from smallpox to COVID-19, hantavirus and Ebola since the dawn of recorded history.

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Pittsburgh’s kindergartners fall below the measles safety threshold, testing the city’s vaccine legacy

It takes a lot to knock football out of the headlines in Pittsburgh. But reports of measles cases, exposure alerts and calls for residents to double-check their vaccination status have dominated local news since August 2026.

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Incorporation law gave Big Tech state-like power. Can it now help rein it in?

The Scottish historian William Dalrymple recently argued that Big Tech has become the 21st-century equivalent of Britain’s famous East India Company.

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A Cree psychotherapist reflects on relationship, belonging and the illusion of a fixed self

Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from Carry Your Heart: Indigenous Helping Wisdom and the Science of Psychological Flexibility by Louis Busch, released on Sept. 15, 2026. Copyright © 2026 Louis Busch. Published by Simon & Schuster Canada, a division of Simon & Schuster. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher.…

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Why £72 million doesn’t come for free – the risks to Reform UK of taking cash from mega-donors

British politics looks set to be dominated in the coming weeks and months by the £72 million donated to Reform UK. This is because, and there’s really no other way to cut the cake here, this is an astonishing amount of money.

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How war and sanctions are reshaping how Russia governs its vast territory

As the world’s largest country that spans eleven time zones and shares land borders with fourteen countries, Russia’s geography has always posed a difficult problem for government: how to maintain economic activity, infrastructure and basic services across an enormous territory with a highly uneven population.

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AI music lawsuits raise questions about American companies and Canadian arts

A Canadian non-profit performance rights organization is suing Suno, an American genAI music creation platform, over streaming AI outputs that allegedly replicate songs without consent or compensation.

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Andy Burnham wants to run a ‘cost of living government’ – here’s what he can learn from families living through the crisis

Parliament is back in session, and Andy Burnham is set to put his promise of becoming a “cost-of-living government” into practice. Since 2021, economic and geopolitical instability has led UK households to struggle with a fall in real disposable income and inflation, particularly around food and energy prices.

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Abdominal aortic aneurysms can cause years of anxiety, even without symptoms

Some people describe it as a ticking timebomb. Others learn to live with information they can neither see nor feel, but cannot forget. This is what it can mean to be diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: a swelling in the body’s main artery that becomes more likely to rupture…

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How advertising turns our insecurities into profit — and how you can resist the manipulation

Have you ever bought something not because you wanted it, but because you were afraid of what might happen if you didn’t? Maybe you worried about looking older, falling behind at work or simply not fitting in.

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The demise of the single-handed backhand is a watershed moment for tennis

Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam. That 149 year streak ended at this year’s US Open when Stefanos Tsitsipas, the last remaining single-hander in the draw, exited the tournament in…

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Tech leaders are calling for an ‘AI slowdown’ – but what would that mean in practice?

On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game both the US and China could lose, potentially fatally, with AI…

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Plans to artificially dim the sun have divided scientists – here’s what they’re actually arguing about

No, President Joe Biden did not engineer Hurricane Milton. No, the ice-crystal contrails left behind high-altitude aircraft are not “chemtrails” sprayed by governments to control the weather or manipulate populations. No, state-run cloud seeding did not cause the record floods in Dubai.

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The real reason Britons are more medicated than Danes

It is tempting to tell a tidy story in which people in Britain take too many pills because they exercise too little and eat too poorly, while Danes stay slim by cycling everywhere. The assumption is that Britain relies on medication to fix lifestyle failures, whereas Denmark relies on prevention.

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Greyhound racing just turned 100, and says its dogs are fine. But are they?

This year, greyhound racing in Britain turns 100 years old. The first race ran on July 24 1926 in Manchester, where six dogs chased a mechanical hare around a track.

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History is being rewritten at an archaeological site in Morocco. What the discovery of an ancient wall tells us

In the hills of north-west Morocco, overlooking the river that gives the site its name, research at Oued Beht is bringing to light a previously unknown chapter of the region’s past. The discovery of a substantial built structure suggests that, during the second millennium BC, communities in north-west Africa were…

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Have South Africans always been hostile to migrants? Historians map a chequered history

Anti-immigrant violence began to sweep across South Africa once again in March 2026. Over the following months an estimated 56,000 Malawians and 115,000 Zimbabweans were forced to flee their homes. At least 11 foreign nationals were killed.

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Social workers who protect children in South Africa carry a burden of trauma – better preparation could help

When a child is raped, abandoned or removed from a violent home in South Africa, a child protection social worker is assigned to the wellbeing of that child. They listen to the details, assess the danger, make urgent decisions. Once the child has been placed somewhere safe, the social worker…

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