There is a quiet kind of trust we place in what we see with our own eyes. We assume that our memories, however faded or imperfect, are still fundamentally ours — a personal archive of real moments, real faces, and real truths. But that assumption is being quietly eroded. Researchers are now warning that artificial intelligence has crossed a dangerous threshold: it is no longer just helping us find information or automating tasks. It is actively reshaping the stories we tell ourselves about the past. AI-generated photos, videos, and text summaries are now so realistic, so seamless, that they can…

In recent days, the strange and shadowy world of cyberwarfare suddenly became very physical. Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russia’s largest data centre, a massive facility owned by Sberbank, the country’s biggest bank and technology company. This came right after Ukraine had already struck three data centres belonging to Yandex, the tech giant often called “Russia’s Google.” The impact on ordinary life in Russia was immediate and severe. Yandex’s traffic reportedly plunged by 94 percent, meaning millions of people suddenly found their email, search, maps, music, ride-hailing, marketplace and even financial services either broken or frozen. For a few days, the…