The dump detectives on the trail of the fly-tippers

BBC - Oct 26, 2026

The BBC joins environmental enforcement officers as they sift through illegally-dumped waste for clues.

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Oct 26, 2026

Alibaba Cloud founder on how AI can unlock human potential

Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it. In 2008, he joined Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – as chief architect and founded Alibaba Cloud in 2009, convincing the company’s leadership to invest heavily in building a cloud computing infrastructure from scratch. Today, Wang’s purview has expanded considerably. As an academician at the...

Oct 26, 2026

Weapon or armour? The contentious debate over China’s open-weight AI

Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? The dilemma has become a growing concern as Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Z.ai and Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – continue to challenge their American rivals by releasing models that anyone can download, modify and deploy. The growing impact of advanced AI on global cybersecurity has also forced governments...

Oct 26, 2026

China shoots ahead on AI video models

While few dispute that China is narrowing the gap with the United States in developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is one area where Chinese firms are already the undisputed leaders: video. China has seen a proliferation of advanced generative AI video models – systems trained on visual data to generate or edit video content based on user inputs such as text prompts, images and audio. The country’s vast short-video ecosystems and looser copyright rules have helped give Chinese...

Oct 26, 2026

From agriculture to AI-griculture: How tech is changing farming

From remote monitoring of cattle to automation of processes that took up valuable time, farmers in NI are rapidly becoming skilled in technology.

Oct 26, 2026

See the early universe like NEVER before: Incredible simulation reveals exactly what happened in the first 2 billion years of our history

An incredible simulation has revealed the earliest moments of our universe as they have never been seen before

Oct 25, 2026

Majority of homes in NI have power restored after Storm Boelo

Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE) said around 12,500 properties were without power at one stage.

Oct 25, 2026

Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms - here's what you need to know

Data centres are the lifeblood of our digital world, but there are growing concerns about their environmental impact. The BBC explores their rise in charts.

Oct 25, 2026

Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint plans retail stablecoin as HSBC RedCoin launches

After HSBC RedCoin launched on Friday, Anchorpoint – the stablecoin-issuing joint venture led by Standard Chartered – said it plans to launch a retail product on a public blockchain, even as it takes a “prudent approach”. “Our next major milestone is to [help] bring regulated digital money into everyday payments and commercial applications, while connecting traditional payment infrastructure with this emerging digital finance,” said Dominic Maffei, CEO of Anchorpoint. “This is a public...