London Cycling Velodrome Now Where Speed Meets the Steepest of Banks
London Cycling Velodrome Now Where Speed Meets the Steepest of Banks | The Olympic track lets riders defy gravity on two wheels
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AI Builds Island Society Without a Government
MIT's Eko agents build, play and learn; Whitehall demands paperwork LONDON - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have stumbled upon a discovery potentially more dangerous to modern government than artificial intelligence itself: a machine left alone for 30 hours managed to accomplish several useful things without a single…
UK Government Websites Go Offline Over PHP Flaws
Whitehall Says Most Services Weren't Working Anyway LONDON, October 22, 2026 - British civil servants have reassured the public that a major international cybersecurity crisis affecting software used by approximately 70 percent of the world's websites will have minimal impact on government services, primarily because many taxpayers had already accepted…
AI Finds PHP Flaws, Humans Form a Committee
Machine Offers to Fix Everything Today, Chairman Declines LONDON, October 22, 2026 - Artificial intelligence has caused considerable embarrassment among the world's technology administrators after helping cybersecurity researchers expose serious vulnerabilities in software used across much of the internet, apparently without first establishing a steering committee, appointing a chairperson or…
AI Experts Tell Britain to Prepare for 1973
Britain Points Out It Has Already Done the Three-Day Week WHITEHALL, LONDON - American artificial intelligence researchers have warned that their own technology could force society back to 1973, a prediction that has been received in Britain as a reasonable summary of last winter. The warning follows concern that powerful…
