Russian politician sentenced to 11 years for opposing war in Ukraine

Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the Yabloko party, was sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison on Monday.

An increasing number of British police forces are using Palantir technology

Numerous UK police forces are now using Palantir technology for surveillance and tracking. The far-right genocide-linked tech firm has been capturing UK public ...

Russia maintains election ban on opposition Yabloko, jails deputy head

Supreme Court ruling supports Kremlin's clampdown on the political party ahead of September's parliamentary vote.

Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.

Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment building...

Cameroon seal first women’s Africa Cup of Nations crown to make history

Cameroon claimed their first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title with a composed 3–0 victory over Malawi, completing a tournament run defined by organisation, e...

EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents explode Unite’s denials of Graham’s husband’s bullying of staff

Earlier in August 2026, Maddison Wheeldon exposed, for the Canary and Skwawkbox, bullying and misogyny toward staff by Jack Clarke, husband of Unite union gener...

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

DWP PIP claimants are being tricked into voting Reform

On 16 August, Reform UK announced its intention to abolish Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence Payments (PIP). As we noted, this was an...

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

CAIR slams Texas governor’s ‘anti-Muslim stunt’ on airport washing stations

Abbott accuses airports of religious discrimination over wudu stations, calls for federal investigation.

Clashes between government and opposition fighters in Somalia’s Baidoa

Heavy clashes broke out in Baidoa, Somalia between federal troops and armed opposition groups.

Syria launches probe into death of ‘White Helmet’ rescuer in police custody

Family members allege security officers ignored warnings about the man's hemophilia and subjected him to severe abuse.

Explosion reported at school in Afghan capital Kabul

The cause of the blast and the number of casualties have not been confirmed, with the Taliban government yet to comment.

Manchester University to restart Tel Aviv partnership despite student opposition

The University of Manchester plans to restart research collaboration with Tel Aviv University, three years after the partnership was suspended during the Gaza w...

Britain deploys military as wildfires spread across Europe

Britain deploys military as wildfires spread across Europe

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and custo...

Netanyahu’s Likud Party holds primaries ahead of Israel’s general elections

On Monday, Israel's governing party will determine its candidate list for the next election.

ABC’s livestreamed news show is powered by trending topics

ABC News has officially introduced Searched, a livestreamed show that highlights stories people are discussing on social media and searching on the web, as repo...

Palestinians, Israelis sceptical of Gaza plan as Kushner visits region

US envoy Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt and Israeli PM Netanyahu to push Trump’s 15-point Gaza roadmap.

British PM Burnham duped by White House impostor

The FBI has warned of 'malicious actors' misusing AI to impersonate senior government officials.

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

Israel records staggering 140,000 migration deficit as people leave in droves

A recent official Knesset report has shown a sharp decline in the number of Israelis returning to the apartheid nation in recent years, alongside a rise in the ...

War on Iran: Phase II, Day 37

Iran is offering $30,000 for captured or killed US soldiers. Trump cuts back South Korea drills.

Somali army clashes with rebel forces for control of key city Baidoa

Somali forces repel rebel fighters in Baidoa after intense fighting involving explosives and dozens of casualties.

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footpri...

Democrats rebuke Trump over scaling back military drills with South Korea

Republican Senator Thom Tillis says the decision allows North Korea to provide more support to Russia in Ukraine.

How Russian dissidents are being punished by both Russia and Europe

While Moscow is stripping citizenship rights, European states are curbing access to legal status for Russian emigres.

The Scuttling of the Armistice: Israel, Lebanon, and the Geopolitics of 1967

The June 1967 Arab-Israeli War dramatically altered the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, leaving Israel in firm military occupation of the Sinai Penin...