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Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos AI is so good at finding software vulnerabilities that the company has restricted its release, and treasury officials, central banks, and the global Financial Stability Board are now holding emergency meetings about what it means for the security of the world’s banking systems

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In April 2026, the leaders of the U.S. financial system held a meeting nobody had quite expected to be holding.…

In 1985, a 14-year-old in Britain could legally drive a Sinclair C5 down a dual carriageway at 15 miles per hour with lorries thundering past at chest height, because the Department of Transport had quietly classified the battery trike as an electrically assisted pedal cycle rather than a motor vehicle.

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Sir Clive Sinclair launched the C5 at Alexandra Palace on 10 January 1985, promising a £399 electric machine that could…

In 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb 250 miles above the Pacific in a test called Starfish Prime, and the electromagnetic pulse knocked out streetlights, burglar alarms, and a telephone company microwave link in Honolulu nearly 900 miles away, on an island most engineers had assumed was safely out of range

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On July 9, 1962, a Thor rocket carrying a W49 thermonuclear warhead detonated roughly 250 miles above Johnston Atoll in…

When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes’s fingerprick blood analyser toward soldiers in Afghanistan, and the only reason it never reached the battlefield was an Army regulatory officer named David Shoemaker who kept warning the FDA the device was not approved.

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General James Mattis joined the Theranos board of directors in July 2013, a few months after retiring as head of…