Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Atomic scientists have kept their Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight as they did last year, citing worry about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe. Here is…

Chinese satellite launch triggers alarm in Taiwan | Science and Technology News

Chinese satellite launch triggers alarm in Taiwan | Science and Technology News

The alert warns of a ‘missile flyover Taiwan’; however, Taiwan’s foreign minister assures people it was a satellite. Taiwanese authorities have sent out an emergency message following the launch of a Chinese satellite over the island’s airspace. The mobile phone alert was sent on Tuesday as Chinese state media confirmed…

Jelena Begovic: Serbia’s tech rise in East vs West power struggle | Science and Technology

Jelena Begovic: Serbia’s tech rise in East vs West power struggle | Science and Technology

Serbian minister of science explores how the country’s growth in technology navigates the East-West rivalry. Following the Cold War’s ideological rift, East-West rivalry persists, fuelled by advances in AI, cybersecurity, telecommunications and biotechnology. Emerging from conflict, Serbia, once a war-torn nation, has left its pariah status behind. Two decades after…

Israel’s AI-powered ‘mass assassination factory’ | Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel’s AI-powered ‘mass assassination factory’ | Israel-Palestine conflict

‘Accountability can’t be transferred to any software system,’ software engineer Laura Nolan unpacks use of AI in war. “A mass assassination factory” was the headline of the investigation by +972 magazine and Local Call that unveiled the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) based targeting system by Israel. The system,…