You still need to go to work tomorrow
But keep an eye on how these stories develop overnight
- France logged its hottest day on record as a heat dome put six European countries under red alert, killing dozens and triggering transformer failures and power cuts across the northwest. [Al Jazeera]
- Ukraine blacked out Sevastopol and said it is “isolating Crimea with drones” so the peninsula could “become an island,” after striking a railway bridge, a power plant and fuel depots. [Al Jazeera]
- A US senator said an Anthropic AI model used in a classified exercise “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks but in hours.” [SecurityWeek]
- The WHO-tracked Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has passed 1,155 confirmed cases and 300 deaths, with 37 new cases logged in a single day across an active conflict zone. [WHO]
- Australia confirmed the H5N1 bird-flu strain on its mainland for the first time — a dead migratory skua near Esperance — ending its status as the last continent on Earth free of the virus. [The Conversation]
- Iceland’s Met Office says about 26.6 million cubic metres of magma have pooled beneath Svartsengi — more than at any point in the current cycle — with a dike intrusion and eruption still the likeliest outcome. [Icelandic Met Office]
- University of Toronto researchers demonstrated a self-propagating AI “worm” that reasons out a fresh attack for each machine it meets, compromising 73.8% of a 33-computer test network in seven days. [TechXplore]
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its history, citing nuclear, climate and AI risk. [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]