Microsoft says it helped shut down EvilTokens, a subscription scam platform that used an AI chatbot to streamline email-account compromises. The article explains how the service analyzed inboxes, picked lucrative targets, drafted convincing fraud messages, and relied on device code authentication to take over accounts.

It shows how AI is being packaged into industrialized fraud, not just used for experimentation.

A new paper outlines a roadmap for scientists to rebuild climate-assessment work after the White House terminated the US national report process. It suggests topics ranging from model evaluation and machine-learning simulations to regional impacts, adaptation, and the growing electricity demand from AI data centers.

It is a clear look at how researchers are trying to preserve climate reporting despite political disruption.

The article says an internal Fish and Wildlife Service memo would narrow the Endangered Species Act so that only actions specifically intended to kill animals count as prohibited takes. It traces that approach to a Scalia dissent and explains why conservation advocates see it as a major weakening of protections for endangered species.

It connects a technical legal shift to real-world consequences for wildlife protection.

A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men over their role in the 2019 Easter bombings and sentenced each to at least 200 years in prison. The attacks killed 267 people, wounded nearly 600, and were among the deadliest in the country’s history.

It is a major accountability ruling in one of Sri Lanka’s worst modern attacks.

King Charles has referred Jamaica’s slavery reparations petition to the UK privy council for legal advice. Jamaican officials say the move could shape future negotiations, though it would not itself force the UK to pay reparations.

It is a notable legal and diplomatic development in the wider reparations debate.