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Where do America’s X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?

What’s the evidence that oily fish is good for your brain health? And what if you don’t actually like eating it? Mykyta Osadchyi dives in.

A rogue OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website in June and accessed private data in what experts say is the first known case of its kind in the world.The agent “infiltrated” a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to disclose the breach and said there would be “legal consequences”.OpenAI said it only learnt of the breach in August while reviewing “misaligned model activity” and emailed a general inbox…

Ketamine abuse in children and young people is on the rise in the UK.The Alder Hey doctors, external saw one young patient in 2023, nine in 2024, and then “a rapid escalation” in 2025, which led them to open the bespoke clinic in May.They get about one referral every week from GPs or emergency departments in Cheshire, Merseyside and other nearby regions. Of the first 60 they saw, 43 were girls. Despite its name, “ketamine bladder” can affect the entire urinary tract, including the kidneys and ureters.Symptoms include an urgent and frequent need to urinate. This can be very painful…

Ofcom has launched an investigation into Pornhub owner, Aylo, over whether the site’s new age checks are effectively stopping children from accessing adult content.The regulator said in May that Pornhub started using a new age verification process for some users, which relies on a third party, in this case Apple.It said it had concerns that Aylo “may not have conducted sufficient due diligence and testing” before implementing this new process, and so it “may not be highly effective” at preventing children from seeing pornography.Under the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), sites that host pornographic material must use highly effective age…

Prof Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety at NHS England, said the expansion of Martha’s Rule would give families and NHS staff “a critical new lifeline” to help improve care and save more lives.Prof Fowler told the BBC that a Martha’s Rule call would mean a patient receives an “appropriate response”, for example, a senior nurse or member of the critical care outreach team could conduct a review of the case.Staff can themselves also ask for a review from a different team if they are concerned the appropriate action is not being taken.During an eight-month pilot of the scheme…

Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, was among top industry leaders attending.Nvidia is a central player in AI infrastructure, supplying chips to leading AI model developers including OpenAI and Meta.It is also the world’s most valuable company, with a stock market value of around $5.15tn.Huang told the room he believed safety was “paramount”, adding that companies should hold back a product and “keep engineering” if it was not safe enough.The Nvidia boss also highlighted the value of open models – systems which give users direct access to the software – as a way to “ensure that people and countries are…

Accusations that the young are a snowflake generation are wrong, the head of an independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism has told the BBC.

Australia is considering banning the use of smart glasses with camera recording abilities in government offices, as privacy fears over the technology grow.The BBC’s Tabby Wilson is in Sydney to find out what people think – and where else they might want them banned.

As a 75-year-old lesbian, Mindy Meleyal has lived through every major milestone in the modern LGBT rights movement, from the start of decriminalisation in 1967 to the first same-sex marriages in 2014.But now she says this important part of her identity is frequently overlooked due to her age.She’s part of England’s older LGBTQ+ community, which a new report suggests often experiences poorer health, more limited finances and greater social isolation than the wider older population.The report, from the Centre for Ageing Better, says without specialist support, this growing demographic could be forced “back into the closet” when accessing care, warning…