A paramilitary the Sudanese state once built now encircles a city of half a million

World

The RSF has surrounded el-Obeid in central Sudan, and governments warn of a massacre if it attacks — the latest turn in a war fought by a force the army created.

Finance

Tech's biggest names slid as investors questioned the vast sums being poured into AI, with SpaceX falling a third straight day even as it sat on $100 billion in cash.

Tech

A rare joint Five Eyes statement says frontier AI will supercharge cyberattacks within months, as OpenAI and others race to patch the world's software first.

Mind & body

Your blood is balanced between clotting too readily and not enough, and the system is tuned toward the threat that kills fastest.

Climate

A flood of speculative AI data center requests has gummed up the power grid; FERC and Texas are now changing the rules to sort real projects from phantom ones.

Space

An experimental spacecraft measured how badly GPS is being scrambled across Europe and the Middle East, revealing that even satellites high above the jammers are losing the signal.

Biotech

As the US cut money for HIV research and care, hundreds of millions poured into commercially attractive biotech — a snapshot of how funding, not need, decides which science advances.

Money

Inflation is a slow, near-invisible tax on cash — and the same force quietly forgives a borrower while it punishes a saver.

Sports

A record crop of athletes is competing into their forties — built by recovery science, money, and a lot of survivors you never see.

Gaming

Epic and big publishers leaned hard into generative AI to cut content costs — and the bill came back as player distrust, fixing-up work, and partners walking away.

Food

A California law on how pigs are housed lands hardest on farmers in states that never voted on it — and the fight over who decides reaches the Senate floor.

Cyber

A third-party license seller for Texas Parks & Wildlife was breached, exposing driver's license and passport numbers for 3 million people, alongside a wave of breaches that all began at a supplier rather than the named company.