The House last week passed a law providing for stiffer fines for fly-tipping but at the same time MPs cautioned that lax enforcement makes the legislation moot. Under the changes, the out-of-court fine issued by an inspector goes from €4,000 to €8,000, whereas the maximum fine issued by a chief inspector increases from €20,000 to…

For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird brains instead?” A Russian neurotechnology company linked to Vladimir Putin’s daughter is claiming to do just that, said The Times. Scientists at Neiry…

A clue saying a lot more than it seems may have been sitting right in Nancy Guthrie’s bedroom. Investigators have said Guthrie’s pacemaker app showed a key moment in the hours surrounding her disappearance: the pacemaker connection to her phone disconnected around 2:30 a.m., a timeline detail law enforcement has pointed to in the abduction…

Michael Grimes, the longtime Morgan Stanley rainmaker, spent years laying the groundwork for his bank to land a role leading the initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX. But by the time Musk finally decided to take SpaceX public, Grimes was working in the Commerce Department, having followed the billionaire to Washington, D.C.…

Google is quietly rewriting the rules of Gmail, and this time it is not a cosmetic tweak or a new sidebar. The company is rolling out artificial intelligence inside the inbox, letting people change long‑standing addresses, and ripping out some legacy features that power users have relied on for years. For more than 2 billion…

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The Department of Homeland Security has switched to a mobile facial recognition system that combines two of the worst qualities a government surveillance tool can have: it tramples privacy and doesn’t work, especially when analyzing non-whites. Under claims of “efficiency,” DHS and its subagencies are now using the smartphone app “Mobile Fortify” to identify people…

Two Americans, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut said Sunday they are eager to blast off Wednesday on a flight to the International Space Station, replacing four crew members who cut their mission short and returned to Earth last month because of a medical issue. Crew 12 commander Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, European Space…

Discord, a social platform popular in the gaming community, announced Monday it is rolling out new age assurance technology that will require users to submit a video selfie or another form of identification to fully access the platform’s features. Starting in early March, the platform will begin shifting all users to a “teen-appropriate experience” by…

The new Formula 1 regulation cycle is here for all teams on the grid, but for Aston Martin Formula One Team, 2026 represents something far bigger. The Silverstone-based team has officially launched their 2026 season with the unveiling of the AMR26 livery at the Ithra, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia in…