Watch: What does Starlink have to do with the Ukraine-Russia war?
Ukraine's president has told Elon Musk that any restriction on the Starlink's system cost lives.
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Oct 15, 2026
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared
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Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads
Candiru, 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
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Blackout warnings as furious 'devil winds' up to 80mph target millions in California
Over 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.
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Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks
The 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
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Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected?
Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban.
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The surprising afterlife of an elephant in the African savannah
Across 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.
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Was Neanderthal life violent? This wound suggests lethal fighting was more common
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.
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£15m for zero-emission testing at Belfast Harbour
It comes after a £15m investment from UK Research and Innovation's Local Innovation Partnerships Fund.
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
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New study sounds alarm as Doomsday Glacier melts more aggressively than thought
New study sounds alarm as Doomsday Glacier melts more aggressively than thoughtAccording to new research by a team of glaciologists, the planet’s widest glacier is experiencing accelerated mass loss beyond their models, meaning its significant impact on global sea level rise could be double...
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GTA 6 - all you need to know about Rockstar's blockbuster game
A new launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI reveals more details about what's set to be the biggest game of the year.
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Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery
A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.
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