A U.K. court shut down Key Coin Assets Ltd. after nine investors who complained to Action Fraud paid more than £300,000. Investigators found no evidence of genuine trading and described its operation as displaying hallmarks of a Ponzi-style scheme.
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Nine investors who complained to Action Fraud paid more than £300,000.
Investigators found no evidence that any genuine trading…
My favorite thing in the night sky appears on Aug. 28 — and it proves Earth is a sphere
August 24, 2026
What’s your favorite thing in the night sky? Maybe it’s the Pleiades, that sparkling open cluster that dominates winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Perhaps it’s a sight of the Milky Way arching across the summer sky. Or could it be Saturn, a close-up sight…
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
August 24, 2026
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of “dark photons,” it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists previously thought. If correct, this discovery could represent a paradigm shift in the hunt for the universe’s most mysterious…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
August 24, 2026
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How to view a partial lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007. (Image credit: Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
One of the wonderful things about a lunar eclipse is that it can be witnessed by everyone who happens to be on the night side of Earth as it occurs, weather permitting.
You don’t need any special equipment like eclipse…
Vivo T5 5G India Launch Teased, Price Range Revealed
August 24, 2026
Vivo T5 5G India launch has been teased and the device’s side profiles have been revealed. The company states that it is going to have an “ultra-slim” body along with a curved display. The price range of the handset has also been confirmed, suggesting it…
Poco M8x 5G has been announced in India with a huge 7900mAh battery under the hood along with a Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 processor. Poco says the M8x 5G is the first smartphone in India to be powered by this processor. Here’s everything to know about the new device.
Poco M8x…
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
August 24, 2026
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic…
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. A harness is the software wrapper around an AI model – the tools, memory…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round. The extension values the company at $2.3 billion.
The additional capital will allow…
I’ve been stopped by security guards when photographing architecture in London so many times, I’ve always felt that very few people understand the basics of photography law in the UK.
And if a recent pamphlet released by the government is anything to go by, I feel vindicated, because it would seem that not even the Home Office can make it make sense.
The document in question, which can be…
