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Artificial Intelligence
AI-Generated Images: How to Tell What’s Real
AI can fake anatomy, physics, detectors, metadata, and context–but it can also leave clues. Here are the key ways to spot deepfakes and AI-generated images.
Money Shift
Lebanon Can’t Trust Cash Anymore, So People Are Uploading Their Savings
In wartime Lebanon, even cash no longer feels safe. With banks distrusted and fintech access restricted, some families are turning to stablecoins.
Health
A Cure for Osteoarthritis? This Treatment Could Reverse Joint Damage With a Single Injection
Osteoarthritis has no cure, but today, researchers have developed new therapies that help ageing or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks.
trade wars
The Strait of Hormuz Is Becoming a Toll Booth Under Blockade
A ceasefire slowed the fighting, but not the pressure on Hormuz. Iran wants ships to pay to pass, and the US says it will block vessels that do.
Trauma Tech
Years of War Made Lebanon a Blueprint for Mental Health Tech
Years of conflict forced Lebanon to rethink how care is delivered. Now its locally built mental health platforms are emerging as a model for the wider Arab world.
Business
Planet Labs Blocked Satellite Images of Iran
The commercial imagery provider says it halted access to images of Iran and the Gulf at the request of the US government, limiting a key tool used to verify events during war.
Digital Borders
Apple Says Southern Lebanon Villages Weren’t Removed From Maps. It Never Had Them
Social media users accused Apple Maps of erasing towns in southern Lebanon amid Israeli occupation – Apple says they were never featured on the platform.
Health
How Do Mosquitoes Find and Target Humans? Flight Patterns Reveal the Mechanism.
A US research team has recently succeeded in quantifying how mosquitoes seek out humans. A mathematical model derived from a vast amount of flight data based on experiments unravels the mystery.
Artificial Intelligence
Meta’s New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kids’ Table
Muse Spark is Meta’s first model since its AI reboot, and the benchmarks suggest formidable performance.
Under Pressure
Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz Don’t Get a Ceasefire
As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.
Shipping Shock
Strait of Hormuz Reopens, but Global Shipping Faces a Slow Restart
After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz – but backlogs, infrastructure damage and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.
Crisis Response
“We Were Not Ready for This”: Inside Lebanon’s Improvised Crisis Infrastructure
As nearly 1.3 million people are displaced, Lebanon is tracking aid in real time – but the system reveals a deeper problem: the country is managing a modern crisis without the digital infrastructure it was supposed to have.
Energy Shock
The Strait of Hormuz Disruption Changed Life in Cairo
Early shutdowns driven by energy disruptions linked to the Strait of Hormuz are compressing when the city works, eats and socialises – with effects already visible across daily life.
Space
Artemis II Mission Successfully Passes “Behind” the Moon
“We will explore, we will build ships, we will revisit,” said astronaut Christina Koch, once communication with Orion was reestablished. “But ultimately, we will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.”
Connected Conflict
Telecom Is Becoming a Target in the Gulf
A strike on a du-linked building didn’t disrupt services – but in a system run by just two operators, it shows how central telecom is to everyday life.
Space
5 Moon Mysteries That the Artemis Missions Could Finally Solve
The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.
Psychology and Neuroscience
On-Demand Culture Is Rewiring How We Experience Time
From 15-minute deliveries to instant streaming, speed has become the baseline. Neuroscience suggests it’s not just changing habits – it’s reshaping how we perceive time, attention and delay.
Space
The Trajectory of the Artemis II Moon Mission Is a Feat of Engineering
The astronauts will break all previous records for distance travelled from Earth. Here’s how they’ll get there – and back.
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Business
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
Space
Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems
The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?
Water Risk
A Single Strike Won’t Shut Off the Gulf’s Desalination System
The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.
Computers and Software
Inside the Hack That Exposed Syria’s Digital Fragility
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic – but it revealed something more troubling: a state still failing at the most basic layer of cybersecurity.