Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on Saturday arguing the industry should pace itself, with a three-step plan. Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed it within hours. On Sunday Donald Trump called the people asking for it negative forces.

By Oliver Grant

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OpenAI closed the hole fourteen hours after it was reported and paid a 6,500 dollar bounty. The figure that matters to anyone running a website is the cost: a two-month campaign that also probed Slack and Meta ran on under 3,000 dollars of tokens.

The version of this story that travelled was the catchy one: a team used one AI lab's model to get inside another AI lab. That is documented and true. The detail worth your attention if you run a website sits halfway down the report instead. Start with what happened. On 25 July, three researchers at a security startup called Hacktron AI reached OpenAI staff accounts and, through them, an internal code repository. To prove the access without reading…

Zunder's station at junction 19, outside Caldas da Rainha, went live on 11 September with 400 kW CCS points and a solar canopy. The bays sized for heavy vehicles are the first public ones in Portugal.

If you drive an electric car between Lisbon and Porto, range has quietly stopped being a conversation. If you drive an electric lorry, it is most of the conversation, because until this month there was nowhere public in Portugal to stop halfway and put charge back into a heavy vehicle. The station the Spanish operator Zunder opened on 11 September at Caldas da Rainha is the first answer to that, on a modest scale. It sits at junction 19 of the A8, beside…

It went up on a Vega-C from Kourou on 15 September, the first satellite built specifically to measure photosynthesis. It flies at 814km, has three and a half years of life and revisits the same spot every 27 days.

A struggling plant does not change colour on the day it starts struggling. It slows down internally first, and the leaf gives the game away weeks later. Catching that earlier stage is the whole reason the European Space Agency put a satellite up this week. It is called FLEX, and it launched on 15 September aboard a Vega-C from Kourou in French Guiana, on flight VV30. It had company. Copernicus Sentinel-3C rode the same rocket, sitting on top of the launch…

MEO says the outages were a distributed denial-of-service attack and that no data was accessed. Under the cybersecurity regime in force since April, the operator now owes a 24-hour notification, a 72-hour update and a final report within 30 working days.

If your internet and television dropped out three separate times between Monday night and Tuesday morning, that was not a fault on the line. MEO's own technical analysis points to a distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at its infrastructure, with enough traffic thrown at it to congest the network and degrade service temporarily. The operator was precise about two things. Nobody got into the data, its own or its customers'. And the instability in BGP…

Portugal closed the second quarter of 2026 with 4.9 million fixed broadband lines. Connections at 1 Gbps or faster overtook the 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps tier for the first time.

Something quiet happened in the regulator's quarterly figures. At the end of June, fixed internet connections running at 1 Gbps or more made up 47.4% of the total, against 46.9% for those between 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps. It is the first time the top tier has come out in front. For years it was the small slice. Now it is the biggest one. Portugal ended the second quarter with 4.9 million fixed broadband accesses, 102,000 more than a year earlier, a rise of…

The Amazon Leo contract with Arianespace grows from 18 to 24 launches through 2031, with the new flights starting in 2029 on the heavier Ariane 64. Three missions have already put 100 satellites in orbit this year.

Amazon has ordered six more launches from Arianespace, lifting the total number of contracted Ariane 6 flights for its Amazon Leo constellation from 18 to 24. The added flights begin in 2029 on the higher-capacity Ariane 64, and the programme now runs to 2031. It is the largest commercial contract in Arianespace's history, and Amazon Leo is its single biggest customer. That tells you something about where the money in European spaceflight currently sits:…

ANACOM's draft rules on switching internet providers close for comment on Friday. They hand the whole process to the incoming company and carry a €5,750 ceiling that is already law for phone numbers.

If you have ever switched broadband in Portugal, you may know the gap. The old line is cut, the new one is not up yet, and the two companies spend the week pointing at each other while you tether off your phone. Nobody is responsible, so nobody pays. ANACOM wants to close that gap. The regulator has a draft regulation on changing internet access providers out for public consultation, and comments close this Friday, 11 September. The core of it is a shift…

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum lifted off from Andøya on 5 September and reached orbit around seven minutes later, deploying five CubeSats. Portugal's Santa Maria has the licence and the geography, but no flight yet.

Europe spent years saying it needed to be able to launch for itself. On Saturday it started being able to say that in the past tense. Spectrum, built by Germany's Isar Aerospace, lifted off from Andøya in northern Norway and reached orbit around seven minutes later, deploying its payloads there. It was the launcher's second flight and its first carrying satellites: five CubeSats plus a non-deployable scientific experiment. It is the first orbital flight…

The EU regulation gives every member state 24 months from the implementing acts to provide at least one European Digital Identity Wallet, which puts the deadline at 24 December 2026. The source code has to be open, and you choose what you hand over.

There is a date in the European calendar almost nobody has circled, and it changes how you prove who you are. The regulation that rewrote eIDAS says each member state shall provide at least one European Digital Identity Wallet within 24 months of the implementing acts entering into force. Run the clock and it lands on 24 December 2026. Article 5a states the aim plainly: everyone in the Union should have secure, trusted, cross-border access to public and…

A single particle interaction recorded nearly a mile underground in South Dakota has survived three years of scrutiny. It sits at 2.6 sigma, well short of a discovery, and a Coimbra team has been in the collaboration since it was founded.

One day in June 2023, a xenon atom inside a tank buried nearly a mile down in a disused South Dakota gold mine was nudged by something. It left a faint flash of ultraviolet light and a recoiling nucleus. Three years on, the collaboration that runs the detector still cannot pin that event on any known background. The announcement came this week at a conference in Japan. It is the strongest hint LUX-ZEPLIN has ever put forward, and the thing to say straight…

Portugal's telecoms regulator ruled on 7 July and published on 31 August: the change went through without 30 days' written notice and without telling subscribers they could leave free. NOS is appealing.

If at some point over the past year an advert started appearing whenever you opened an automatic recording on NOS television, and you do not remember being warned, you were not being careless. So were 821,641 other subscribers, and the regulator has now said the way it was done broke the rules. The fine is €350,000. ANACOM took the decision on 7 July and only made it public on 31 August. An operator that wants to change contract terms cannot simply change…

REPMUS 2026 has brought 36 navies, 1,500 people, 14 ships and more than 300 unmanned maritime systems to Tróia and Sesimbra, across 1,370 square kilometres of water.

The 16th edition of REPMUS started on Monday at Tróia and Sesimbra, and the scale still takes a moment to absorb. More than 300 unmanned maritime systems, 14 ships supporting them, and 1,500 people from 36 navies. It runs until 25 September. The Portuguese Navy has hosted it since 2010 and calls it, without much modesty, the largest robotics and unmanned-vehicle experimentation exercise in the world. The name is entirely literal: Robotic Experimentation…

In a California court, Sony argues no reasonable consumer thinks they own the games they buy on the PS Store. In Europe the fight was never about ownership, and the Commission's answer to 1.29 million signatures was still no.

The button says buy. The contract says licence. For twenty years almost nobody cared about the gap, and now it is being argued in two places at once: a federal courtroom in California and a Commission document in Brussels. The courtroom first. Four players sued Sony Interactive Entertainment in June, claiming the PS Store checkout breaches a Californian law in force since the start of 2025 that bars sellers from advertising digital content as a purchase…

The filing lodged with the Massachusetts regulator names 14 September as the effective date and carries no price at all. Reports put it somewhere between 200 and 300 million dollars.

A company that started in Porto is about to buy one of the best-known meditation apps in the world. Sword Health is taking over Headspace, and the deal surfaced where these things usually surface first: in a form handed to a regulator. The notice of material change was filed with the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission in July and only spotted afterwards. It says OrangeDot, Headspace's parent, will merge with an entity created for the purpose and…