The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknownWas this the year that British democracy as we have known it began to turn into something else? Politicians, voters and journalists have made this claim before – when …

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink’s first president, Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods.

Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. today announced that Nvidia Corp. will license its technology on a nonexclusive basis. The deal will also see the graphics card maker hire several key Groq employees. They include founding Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra.…

Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists, and Indigenous peoples.

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.

For nearly a decade, MAGA and Donald Trump were synonymous.Today, the movement's most consequential fights are unfolding beyond the control of its term-limited president — empowering rival factions to shape MAGA in their own image.Why it matters: MAGA entered the year with a sheen of invincibility, …

CBS News pulled a segment on Trump administration deportations of Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison from "60 Minutes," causing staffers and media onlookers to question whether the decision was politically motivated. Why it matters: The decision comes days after President Trump publicly …

Astrobotic said Dec. 19 it has won $17.5 million in NASA and military contracts to develop three new reusable suborbital vehicles for technology demonstrations and other applications.
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A first launch of the Long March 12A Chinese state-owned reusable rocket reached orbit late Monday, but attempted recovery of the first stage downrange failed.
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The leaders of Guinea and the Central African Republic aim to consolidate power after Sunday's polls.

The search engine optimization discipline that has guided web marketing efforts for more than two decades is now being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence systems that deliver direct answers rather than lists of links. The good news is that much of what makes content rank highly on searc…

A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship...

10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – I would like to thank you for the invitation to address the opening of the Earth In…

Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

New pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.

Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A tablet is only as good as its battery, so it's time to start taking better care of it.

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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.

True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s energy balance – the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, th…

There's been a surge in remittances going back to Honduras amid Trump's immigration crackdown.

A federal judge blocked Trump administration efforts to reallocate Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism and security grants away from states that won't cooperate on the president's immigration enforcement policies.Why it matters: New York's attorney general called the Trump-appointed jud…

You might be shocked at how many 'vampire devices' could be in your home, silently draining power.

The final regulation allows the federal government’s HR agency to delegate its authority to offer recruitment and relocation incentive payments to other agencies.

Drummer Chuck Redd reportedly called off his Christmas Eve performance after a vote by the board to rename the site.

Every day, millions of small-scale fishers set out to sea with simple gear and big purpose. These local fishers sustain coastal communities — casting nets not for large profits, but for meals, livelihoods, and survival. While the definition of a “small-scale fisher” differs across countries, these f…

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Marine snow isn’t the kind you can sled on — this continuous underwater snowfall sustains life in the deep sea and helps regulate Earth’s climate.  WHAT IS MARINE SNOW? Marine snow is made up …

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.

The signals intelligence titan and combatant command have been without a permanent leader for months since far-right activist Laura Loomer pushed for the firing of Gen. Timothy Haugh in April.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For 72 years, in order to serve as a shortcut for crude oil from production fields in western Canada to refineries in eastern Ontario, Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline has transported 540,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids daily beneath the forests and wetlands of north…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in …

PLYMOUTH COUNTY, WISCONSIN — On a warm fall afternoon, dairy farmer Chris Kestell pushes through prairie brambles taller than himself, tracing a path overgrown with thickets and swarming with bees as he hikes toward a hidden waterway. Though the route is unidentifiable to the untrained eye, Kestell,…

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The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.

Researchers from the ATLAS collaboration have introduced a new neural simulation based-inference technique to analyse their datasets
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This bargain batch is dangerous in that very specific way where titles you already love suddenly feel like sensible purchases.

A mid-infrared femtosecond laser tuned to the collagen absorption peak can ablate pancreatic cancer while preserving healthy pancreatic tissues
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A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines to supply continuous power to large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. The proposal comes from HGP Intelligent Energy LLC, which, according to filings with the U.S…

OpenAI Group PBC is looking to hire a head of preparedness, a senior safety role tasked with anticipating potential harms from the company’s artificial intelligence models and guiding how those risks are mitigated as capabilities advance. According to a job listing published on OpenAI’s careers site…

HCLSoftware Inc. plans to acquire Jaspersoft Inc., a provider of business intelligence software, in an all-cash deal reportedly valued at $240 million. The company announced the transaction on Monday. In conjunction, HCLSoftware disclosed that it’s buying Wobby, an early-stage startup with an artifi…

If someone orders shapewear from Spanx LLC’s website today, a humanoid robot handles that package. At a GXO Logistics Inc. distribution center in Georgia, Agility Robotics Inc.’s bipedal machines move merchandise with mechanical precision. And at BMW Group’s Spartanburg plant, Figure 02 robots achie…

France’s national postal service,  La Poste and its banking arm, La Banque Postale, were knocked offline on Monday in a distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted services at the height of the Christmas season. The attack rendered La Poste’s online services, including its website, mobile ap…

Information technology services provider Coforge Ltd. today announced plans to acquire rival Encora Digital LLC for $2.35 billion. Coforge, which is listed on two stock exchanges in India, will finance the deal with shares. It will take out a bridge loan worth up to $550 million to refinance the deb…

Freight shipping artificial intelligence startup Kargo Inc. said Tuesday it has closed on $42 million in new funding in order to scale up deployments of its smart loading dock and warehouse technology. The Series B round was led by Avenir and saw participation from a host of other backers, including…

Beijing-based startup DP Technology Co. Ltd. today outlined a plan to use its artificial intelligence tools to accelerate scientific research in everything from battery design to drug development after raising 800 million yuan ($114 million) in funding. The Series C round was led by Fortune Venture …

A new report out today from managed detection and response company Expel Inc. details a newly identified variant of the Shai Hulud malware that is demonstrating how software supply chain attacks are evolving beyond isolated package compromises into self-propagating campaigns that turn developers the…

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. has revealed plans to jack up its already heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure next year as it races to catch up with U.S. technology giants, according to a report in the Financial Times. Tuesday’s report, which cites two people familiar wit…

Dazzle AI Inc., a startup founded by former Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, today announced that it has raised $8 million in funding. Prominent venture capitalist Kirsten Green led the investment. She was joined by Mayer, Kleiner Perkins, Greycroft, Offline Ventures, Slow Ventures, Bling C…

Google LLC is giving Indian users the opportunity to change the @gmail.com address associated with their existing Google accounts in a dramatic shift away from its long-held policy on usernames. For more than 20 years, anyone who has created a Gmail account has been stuck with the username they firs…

Artificial intelligence industry darling OpenAI Group PBC is reportedly mulling the idea of embedding advertisements into ChatGPT’s responses amid pressure from investors to start making money from the chatbot. A report in The Information today suggests that OpenAI is already exploring possible ad f…

Video game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA has been forced to take its popular multiplayer game “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege” offline following a breach that manipulated core gameplay systems and injected massive amounts of value into player accounts. Players logging into the game on Dec. 27 w…

ServiceNow Inc. today announced plans to acquire Armis Inc., a startup with a cybersecurity platform optimized to protect connected devices. The all-cash transaction is worth $7.75 billion. That’s a more than $1.5 billion premium to the valuation Armis received after its most recent funding round in…

A decade on from its first commit in 2015, 2025 marks a significant milestone for the Cilium project. The community has published the 2025 Cilium Annual Report: A Decade of Cloud Native Networking, which reflects on...

The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support...

New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for...

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of a recent security audit of KubeVirt, a Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime for managing virtual machines. With the continued support of Quarkslab...

Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a...

On November 6th, the Lima project team shipped the second major release of Lima. In this release, the team are expanding the project focus to cover AI as well as containers. What is Lima ? Lima...

It’s time to recap the key Kubernetes security highlights from 2025 and outline features likely to graduate to stable in early 2026. From a DevSecOps perspective, 2025 brought several meaningful security improvements that directly influenced day-2...

A few weeks ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Kyverno community had the opportunity to participate in ContribFest, one of the most energizing and community-driven initiatives in the cloud-native ecosystem. While ContribFest...

It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could...

10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the invitation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – to address the opening of COP 30. As the Chair of the UN body ma…

GENEVA, Nov 27 – More than six hundred experts appointed to the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will gather in Paris from 1 to 5 December 2025 to begin the drafting of the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). Hosted by the French Government, through th…

GENEVA, Nov 19 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling for nominations of the authors for the 2027 Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage. Carbon Dioxide Removal refers to anthropogenic activities that remove CO2 f…

GENEVA, December 5 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened this week registration for experts to serve as Expert Reviewers on the First-Order Draft (FOD) of the 2027 Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers. This Methodology Report, produced by the Task…

27 October 2025, Lima, Peru. Check against delivery Your Excellency, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hugo de Zela, Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources at the Ministry of Environment, Ms Raquel Hilianova Soto Torres, Director of Climate Change Division of the UN Envi…

LIMA, Oct 30 – The member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agreed on the scientific content of the 2027 Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage at the Panel’s 63rd Plenary session, which closed this evening …

LIMA, PERU, Oct 27 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today opened its 63rd Plenary Session in Lima, Peru, bringing together some 300 delegates from IPCC member governments and observer organizations to advance its work in the seventh assessment cycle. Over the four-day session, …

Paris, Dec 1 – More than six hundred experts appointed to the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are gathering in Paris this week to commence work on the first draft of IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). This is the first time in IPCC’s history that the…

1 December 2025 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame la Ministre, Monsieur le Maire, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for your warm welcome and for your support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As Chair of this UN body mandated with assessing climate science, I am …

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chornobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

As the world looks to incorporate more renewables into energy grids, centuries-old systems that can balance supply and demand are being reappraised and innovated upon.

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes.

Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

The administration’s pro-industry tilt—across three executive agencies—is feeding the MAHA movement’s growing discontent.

Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has entertained a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance?

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.

Conditions in the US should be perfect for the final meteor shower of 2025, with no moonlight present to interfere with spotting shooting stars.

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide will soon be available in a daily pill Americans can take for weight loss.

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure has dropped by two-thirds. The reasons why, experts say, are complicated.

More accurate and individualized health predictions will allow for preventative factors to be implemented well in advance.

On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, a…

Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate deniers, DeSmog can reveal. The C3 Energy Summit on “American Leadership in Energy Innovation,” which took place in Washington, D.C., this week, fea…

Several Canadian media outlets gave prominent coverage in December to a new report arguing that exporting massive amounts of natural gas from British Columbia to Asia will be good for the global fight against climate change. But stories in Canada’s national newspaper of record, The Globe & Mail, as …

Several Gulf Coast LNG and utility executives dismissed the importance of sustainability for LNG projects at the Reuters Energy LIVE 2025 conference in Houston, Texas, last week. “So, at the end of the day, all the sustainability stuff, I’m not going to belittle it too much,” Vivek Chandra, CEO of G…

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda that has already changed our worl…

Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell, and Ara…

Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new report. And now, with the Trump administration pushing for even deeper cuts at the agency in 2026, many states across the country may be in a dire pos…

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? The reality is that U.S. capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and that American ownership of the Canadian oil r…

The world’s largest salmon producer stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “noisy” and “polluting” fish farms. Seafood giant Mowi produces more than a fifth of the world’s farmed salmon and is the market leader in Scotland, where it farms a third of the…

At a lavish New York City party last Saturday, dozens of European politicians brushed shoulders with powerful Republican Party elites and allies. DeSmog has identified more than 20 elected lawmakers from Germany and Italy who attended the event — the annual New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) gal…

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite t…

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This week Earth from Space features a wintery image: a red and white sphere that, if seen from a distance, resembles a festive decoration.

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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures a spectacular geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania: the Richat Structure.