The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have taken a big step towards tackling growing threats to undersea pipelines and cables, which carry huge amounts of energy and data around the world. The three governments are planning to develop new unmanned undersea vehicles as part of their trilateral AUKUS defense pact. The agreement was announced at a meeting of the three countries’ defense ministers in Singapore, with deliveries due next year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/31/world/aukus-seabed-cables-defense-intl
A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed more than 45 people, according to rescue workers and independent media reports. About 70 other people were injured in the explosion that took place around noon in the village of Kaungtup, in Namhkam township. The area, located about 3 kilometers (2 miles) south of the Chinese border, is under the control of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, an ethnic armed group which has engaged in sporadic fighting against Myanmar’s central government.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/31/asia/myanmar-massive-explosion-dead-latam-intl
A California mom says she was scammed out of thousands of dollars this month after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter in distress. She now suspects it was an artificial intelligence-generated hoax. She’s one of many who have been targeted by so-called “voice cloning” scams as AI tools allow anyone to create a convincing replica of someone’s voice with only a few seconds of real audio. Americans lost more than $893 million to AI-related scams last year, including voice cloning attacks along with AI-generated phishing emails, romance scams and other hoaxes, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/29/tech/ai-voice-cloning-scams-protect-yourself
On May 10, 1996, more than 30 climbers became stranded high on the world’s tallest mountain by a powerful and unexpected storm. Oxygen-starved, exhausted and lost in the darkness, their story became a fight for survival against 70mph winds and -40 degree temperatures. Eight people lost their lives in what was then the deadliest 24 hours on Everest. But it was the media attention that followed, led by Jon Krakauer’s bestselling first-hand account “Into Thin Air,” that turned the disaster into a cultural phenomenon. Everest was no longer solely the domain of mountaineers. With a little training and a lot of cash, the average person could be guided every step of the way up the 8,849-meter (29,032 feet) peak to stand on top of the world.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/30/travel/everest-1996-disaster-guiding-industry-intl-hnk-dst-vis
The biggest two movies in America right now, “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” come from twentysomething filmmakers who honed their craft on YouTube. Their films were made with relatively low budgets and were marketed online. Now that they’re filling theaters with teens and young adults who rarely show up at the movies, all of Hollywood is paying attention, with experts predicting that studios will copy this moviemaking model many times over. “Obsession,” directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, opened in theaters May 15. Filmed for roughly $750,000, the darkly funny horror film has made almost $150 million to date, a jaw-dropping return on investment for Focus Features and Blumhouse Productions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/31/media/hollywood-movies-youtubers-gen-z