Who knows where this is going to land. But against the almost melodramatic last couple of months in the world of AI, replete with rogue agent swarms, unprecedented mathematical breakthroughs and 2 trillion dollar stock market pushes, it’s almost as though the one thing we were missing was an international espionage fuelled sex scandal!

WIRED has published an investigation, by Vittoria Elliott on 29 October 2026, that alleges an Accenture contractor connected a personal Claude Code account to a system used by the Department of Defense. (That’s the Department of War to some but that’s not important.)

Less than a week ago, the biggest theft of all time occurred. Let me repeat, THE. BIGGEST. THEFT. OF. ALL. TIME.

As if AI hasn’t been in the news enough lately. Rogue agents, epochal maths discoveries. Well now one of the real big boys asks the public if they want a piece of the action.

What's Snapchat like in North Korea? Spoiler alert, not great. But three handsets, one of them smuggled out by defector networks, plus some terrific Washington Post reporting, have given us a look at what being connected means in the world's least connected country.

North Korea earns hundreds of millions of dollars by getting undercover workers hired into remote jobs at Western companies. On Friday Australia sanctioned two North Koreans and two dodgy companies over exactly this sort of stuff.

Timekeepers meeting in Versailles have voted to stop adding leap seconds to the world’s clocks from May 2027. Official time and the spinning Earth will now be allowed to drift apart by up to an hour, and the reason is our planet has started spinning a little faster.

Way back in 1991, a tiny visitor from outer space arrived on Earth carrying a truly ridiculous amount of energy. 35 years later, scientists are still asking WTF?

Way back in 1991, a tiny visitor from outer space arrived on Earth carrying a truly ridiculous amount of energy. 35 years later, scientists are still asking WTF?

OpenAI has dropped another MASSIVE bundle of maths proofs. NerdNews asks what this means for knowledge itself, and gives you 4 cool examples you can seriously flex with by explaining to mates.

Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, for IceCube: 5,160 light sensors frozen into a cubic km of Antarctic ice that caught the first high-energy neutrinos from deep space.

A researcher dreamt up an eight-faced shape with three holes, where every face touches every other face. Now he has the numbers to prove it’s real.

If Tuesday’s cute little newest cat ever discovered wasn’t geekily gorgeous enough for you, how about the youngest planet we’ve ever seen. Just look at its chubby cheeks! Who’s. beautiful bubba?

Researchers discover in Bolivia the first new cat species in over a century. And the story of how they found it is as cute as the cat itself.

Animal experimentation and organ transplant waiting lists are issues replete with ethical challenges and real suffering. Could we one day grow and harvest purpose built fully functioning organs? What about your own personal headless human body as a spare parts depot?

Neutrinos are fascinating particles. More than a trillion a second flood through your body, but science has only ever caught a sliver of them. Well now a sphere holding 20,000 tonnes of liquid, buried under southern China, has out-measured every previous experiment combined. It is one of physics’ oldest puzzles. Do these ghosts weigh anything, and how would we ever find out?

Deep questions. Fundamental breakthroughs. Allegations of theft and scandal. Fascinating times in the world of maths.

One tweet by one researcher has captured the zeitgeist and got us asking deep questions about the impact of AI on, literally, humanity.

The annual Eureka Prizes have been run, and won, by some awesome Aussie scientists. NerdNews profiles a few.

Perhaps the most famous piece of maths in history, and an absolute brute of a problem, has been given the AI treatment. What happened and why might it change mathematics forever?