For the first time, artificial intelligence has designed complete, functional viral genomes from scratch.

Oh dear.

Stanford University and Arc Institute researchers used generative AI models to produce 16 novel bacteriophages that successfully infect and kill bacteria in the lab. 

Officials insist the viruses "pose no threat to people," yet biosecurity experts are already sounding the alarm that the same technology opens the door to inventing dangerous pathogens.

The breakthrough, published in the journal Science, marks the first time generative AI has written entire viable viral genomes. 

Researchers trained genome language models known as Evo 1 and Evo 2 on millions of natural genetic sequences. They then tasked the systems with designing complete bacteriophage genomes based on the well-studied ?X174 template that infects E. coli. 

Of 302 synthesized designs, 16 proved fully functional: they assembled into virus particles, replicated inside bacterial cells, and in some cases outperformed the natural virus, even overcoming bacterial resistance when used as a cocktail.

Oh dear.

Brian Hie, assistant professor at Stanford who led the work, called it new

In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic.

Commentator Laurence Fox stood to argue that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He held up the envelope and indicated it contained a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. The chamber erupted in frantic attempts to stop him opening it. Rules were suddenly invoked. Relevance was questioned. Respect was demanded.

The Muslim president of the Union interjected that her very presence should have been enough to persuade Fox that Muslims believe in free speech.

Best clip from the Oxford Union in a long time. A speaker suggests that he is about to display a cartoon of Muhammad to prove that Islam has a problem with free speech.

People scramble frantically to stop him: It is against the rules, unnecessary, irrelevant, disrespectful, and… pic.twitter.com/oRJ6MCXQOz

— Champagne Scar (@champagne_scar) August 6, 2026

"My wife asked me not to show this for fear of repercussions for my family," Fox said. "But I told her that if I did not, I would have submitted to Islam." He continued that the West should resist Islam

Some absolute lunatic’s been walking around Charlotte for weeks attacking white women on camera and they’ve only just arrested him.

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Yet another one… A gender-based violence activist Red Cross worker was murdered by her Moroccan migrant boyfriend in Spain.

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A Nottinghamshire welder has delivered the ultimate response to the people who treat Britain's national symbols as hate speech. 

Simon Brocklehurst, a 41-year-old father of three from Sutton-in-Ashfield, watched someone rip down the flag flying outside his home and run off shouting "racist." His answer was direct and sinple: he spent days covering the entire front of his four-bedroom house in a giant Union Flag.

They cannot rip this one down.

Deranged lib rips down a patriots' flag and calls him "racist".

So he painted his full house in the Union Flag 🇬🇧

Legend. pic.twitter.com/khEV6d1rNx

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 7, 2026

Brocklehurst has lived in the house since he was five. He has always flown the flag as a sign of respect and hope, the same flag his grandfather fought under in the Second World War. 

When locals tore down his St George's Cross and labelled him a racist, he went bigger. First he painted a massive England flag across the façade. Then he turned the whole

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A federal judge's decision that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025 could open a path to end a 40-year-old ban on new civilian machine gun sales.

In the 66-page opinion, United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, said that because taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items had been reduced to $0 by legislation signed by President Donald Trump in July 2025, the registration and paperwork imposed by the NFA exceeded Congress' authority under the taxation power. Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced H.R. 8921 on May 20, which would remove the $200 transfer tax on machine guns and "destructive devices," potentially leading to the demise of registration requirements for machine guns and possibly the Hughes Amendment as well.

"I believe that if they got

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Folic acid has been sold for decades as the vitamin B9. But in fact, vitamin B9 is folate, a reduced molecule that is essential for function in every cell. Folic acid, on the other hand, is a synthetic oxidised molecule which is never found in nature and is only slowly converted by the body into molecules that can be used. It's a drug by any definition and the NHS tells people with cancer, a heart stent or B12 deficiency not to take it without medical advice.

Earlier this year a minister was asked in Parliament what people who have been told to avoid folic acid should do once it is in the nation's flour. The answer was that they should read the leaflet that comes with their medicine and speak to their doctor. But no leaflet comes with a loaf.

Folic acid, when sold in a box, is a licensed medicine. It carries a patient

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In July 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced two programs that, read together, form a pipeline for turning indirect machine readouts alone of purported "unknown biothreat" samples into operationalizable digital protein sequences—using algorithms rather than direct observation to determine the sequences that will digitally represent those alleged threats—then "predicting" what the digitally represented biothreats supposedly do and characterizing them as threats now requiring government response, with the ultimate goal of using those digital reference sequences to accelerate