A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party researchers. It is one of the first reported “rogue” AI events involving Chinese companies, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the US, including from OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems. Agents running...
Read full articleArchaeologists excavating what millions of Christians believe is the site of Jesus' tomb have uncovered an ancient pathway that may reveal Christ's final moments before the crucifixion.
Read moreSomeone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide the wrong person. Old bugs are finding new victims, familiar tools are being put to strange uses, and
Read moreThe images were taken on Tuesday morning - with the glowing cloud witnessed by masses of sky watchers across multiple states in North America.
Read moreHillingdon Council has shared social media posts showing people allegedly dumping rubbish illegally.
Read moreUkraine's president has told Elon Musk that any restriction on the Starlink's system cost lives.
Read moreCandiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in some cases the ad loaded out of sight, in the background. The Citizen
Read moreOver 20 million people have been warned to prepare for widespread power outages and possible wildfires as hurricane-force winds are expected to last for days.
Read moreThe threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives
Read moreParts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban.
Read moreAcross the sun-baked plains of the African savannah, elephants are bringing new meaning to life after death. At least, that’s according to the findings of a new study by an international team of researchers who examined the sites of elephant carcasses in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
Read moreA 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.
Read moreIt comes after a £15m investment from UK Research and Innovation's Local Innovation Partnerships Fund.
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