Saudi Arabia has redirected oil exports away from the Strait of Hormuz, but most Gulf producers still lack a reliable backup option to the world's most important energy choke point. Months of ...

Here are hints and the answer for today's NYT Strands puzzle for Aug. 18, 2026.

AI companies’ penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice. Now, a ...

Plans to deploy permanent live face recognition cameras on Oxford Street have triggered claims from civil liberties groups that the move would be a step too far and a lurch towards a surveillance ...

A woman described as ‘an absolute gem’ by neighbours has died after a suspected burglary at her north London home despite a ...

As anyone who’s ever hurried through one on an organic chemistry exam knows, NMR problems can be very puzzling. “It’s this ...

Anthropic published a detailed account on August 14, 2026 of how the text watermark in future Claude models works, identifying it as a version of the SynthID-Text technique Google DeepMind published ...