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WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are “urgently warning” private-sector companies nationwide that Iranian actors are conducting cyber operations targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, a campaign that has already caused disruptions, according to a government notice. The activity comes as President Trump threatened Iran’s infrastructure, particularly its bridges and power plants. Iran’s attack targeted products by Rockwell Automation’s Allen-Bradley, one of the most widely used industrial automation brands, according to the notice, which was first reported Tuesday by The Times. The advisory said that cyber actors affiliated with Iran were exploiting “programmable logic controllers across U.S. critical infrastructure.” Tehran’s targeting campaigns against U.S. organizations “have recently escalated, likely in response to hostilities between Iran and the United States and Israel,” the notice added. The advisory was issued Tuesday jointly by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and Cyber Command. In its own notice, the EPA warned that Iran’s cyberattack had already disrupted “commonly used operational technology at drinking water and wastewater systems,” and that the …
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Bill Maher was surprisingly amenable when it came to the White House attempting to block his prestigious Kennedy Center award. The comedian will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a ceremony to be aired on Netflix in June. The Atlantic first reported the news last week, though President Trump’s officials at the time blasted the report as “fake news.” On Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the 70-year-old host addressed the drama, joking, “We have reached a compromise. I am going to get [the award] and then I’m going to give it to him.” However, he went on to play down the drama, saying, “I just want things to work out. I’m not looking for a fight, and I’m not mad that he did this.” He continued, “Me and the president, we have a complicated relationship… …
(RNS) — I was in Miami a few weeks after Nicolás Maduro was forcibly removed from office by a U.S. military strike in December 2025. Miami’s Venezuelan community — many of whose members had fled persecution and repression — were openly celebrating in the streets. For them, the end of an authoritarian regime was personal, and in that moment relief and hope were equally palpable. Yet for many watching from a distance, the manner of Maduro’s removal — swift, decisive and legally contested — carried a moral weight that celebration could not quite lift. There was gratitude for the possibility of freedom and, at the same time, a lingering unease about the means by which that freedom was secured. The outcome inspired hope. The method raised questions. Two months later, the current military action against Iran produces the same unease. Few can defend the Iranian regime’s record of repression of dissent at home, its entanglements in regional violence and international terror abroad. Genuine peace and freedom for the Iranian people are things to work toward …
Migrants have been spotted attempting to cross the Channel in small boats this morning (Image: PA) Border Force is bracing for more Channel migrant arrivals after dozens were spotted leaving a notorious beach in northern France. Scores of asylum seekers were seen piling into a rubber dinghy in Gravelines, northern France, after high winds prevented smugglers from launching boats bound for Britain. French patrol vessels are believed to be shadowing at least two migrant boats in French waters. Border Force was overwhelmed on Wednesday as criminal gangs exploited the hottest day of the year so far to launch dinghies destined for the Kent coast, carrying hundreds of people. The French rescue ship Abeille Normandie even escorted one migrant vessel four miles into British waters because Border Force Volunteer and Border Force Typhoon were already tied up with arrivals. It waited until the British ships were able to come and pick up the migrants onboard. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to introduce new legislation on migration this week in a bid to take on Reform UK. …
Cuba said it thwarted gunmen trying to infiltrate from the United States as its coastguard opened fire Wednesday (February 25) at a Florida-registered speedboat near its shores, killing four people and wounding six. But what do we know so far about them? For more on that topic, FRANCE 24’s Haxie Meyers-Belkin is joined by Emily Morris, honorary senior researcher associate at UCL’s Institute of the Americas. Keywords for this article Source link
Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an AI research nonprofit whose name stands for “Model Evaluation & Threat Research,” updates a now-iconic graph that has played a major role in the AI discourse since it was first released in March of last year. The graph suggests that certain AI capabilities are developing at an exponential rate, and more recent model releases have outperformed that already impressive trend. That was certainly the case for Claude Opus 4.5, the latest version of Anthropic’s most powerful model, which was released in late November. In December, METR announced that Opus 4.5 appeared to be capable of independently completing a task that would have taken a human about five hours—a vast improvement over what even the exponential trend would have predicted. But the truth is more complicated than those dramatic responses would suggest. Read the full story. —Grace Huckins This story is part of MIT Technology Review Explains: our series untangling the …
A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination suit last month filled with such scandalous allegations against the company’s famed CEO, Jack Hidary, that plaintiff himself redacted the most salacious details. On Friday, the company’s lawyers filed a blistering response, calling the former employee a “serial liar” and stating his lawsuit “asserts false claims for improper and extortionate purposes.” Even the visible portions of the lawsuit — which TechCrunch has obtained — contain eyebrow-raising allegations, should a court find them valid. (A copy of the lawsuit is available here.) The case offers a rare inside look at how employee lawsuits can become a public airing of dirty laundry from otherwise opaque internal happenings, thanks to the ubiquitous private arbitration clauses in Silicon Valley employee agreements. The suit was filed by Robert Bender in mid-December. Bender worked as Chief of Staff to Hidary from August 2024 through July 2025, the complaint states. He contends in his suit that he was wrongfully terminated after raising concerns about a number of alleged incidents, some of which, he said, involved …
This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. As I have noted here before, NYU Law School’s radical MOTH (More Than Human Life) program embraces neo-earth mysticism as part of its efforts to promote “nature rights.” Here’s the latest example. MOTH participants are seeking to force the Ecuadorian Copyright Office to grant a copyright to a forest as the supposed co-composer of music called Song of the Cedars. From “Giving Back to Nature,” published on the MOTH website: The aim of the song and its accompanying legal petition is to recognize—legally and culturally—the inextricable agency and participation of the natural world in the making of art. The song could not have been made without Los Cedros, legally and philosophically justifying the effort to acknowledge the forest’s “moral authorship” in the song’s creation. Moreover, the hope is that pushing for recognition of Los Cedros’ authorship will trigger a change in the profoundly anthropocentric realm of copyright law. While human musical creations have used sounds of nature since time immemorial—and some have recognized nature’s role in them—this …
