The BBC’s Damian Grammaticas explains the controversy surrounding China’s mega-embassy plan. Beijing’s plans for the sprawling new embassy have sparked fears its location – near London’s financial district – could pose an espionage risk. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has now given China two weeks to explain certain aspects of their plans. Source link
OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent), SWE-Lancer (GPT-5-thinking scored 55 percent), and Aider Polyglot (scored 88 percent), which test the model’s ability to fix bugs, complete freelance-style coding tasks, and work across multiple programming languages. During the press briefing on Wednesday,…
Foreign secretary David Lammy is to host US Vice President JD Vance at his official country residence Chevening House, in Kent, on Friday. “The vice president and foreign secretary will discuss a variety of topics pertaining to the US-UK relationship,” the White House said in a statement. Vance and his family are in the UK…
Researchers have for the first time isolated a compound that could open new doors in understanding the chemistry that supports life in space. Ryan Fortenberry, an astrochemist at the University of Mississippi, Ralf Kaiser, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and Alexander M. Mebel, computational chemist at Florida International University, are…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “are now facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they risk their lives to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.” Noem said in a post on X that…
Anna Meisel BBC File on 4 Investigates Getty Images The UK generates about 50 million waste tyres every year The Environment Agency said it is introducing enhanced checks on the export of tyres from the UK after the BBC revealed millions were being sent to furnaces instead of being recycled in India. A report by…
Cuts of $500 million to vaccines research have been announced by the US government. Source link
Trials of a daily obesity pill have shown it can help patients lose around 12% of their body weight over 72 weeks. The manufacturer, Eli Lilly, says the drug, which is not yet licensed, could be available next year. The daily pill, called orforglipron, works by suppressing appetite and making you feel more full. Preliminary…
An illustration of a spaceship sailing close to a black hole liuzishan/Getty Images An interstellar probe sent to a black hole could complete its journey and send data back to Earth in less than a century – if we can find a black hole close enough. Cosimo Bambi at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, has developed…
Nic Marko Local Democracy Reporting Service BBC Hartlepool’s former Conservative council leader Mike Young has defected to Reform UK A former borough council leader has defected from the Conservatives and joined Reform UK, saying he no longer has “confidence” in the party’s leadership. Councillor Mike Young, who previously led Hartlepool Borough Council, said he quit…
