Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund

BBC - Sep 17, 2026

A new study says climate change was a likely factor in the massive flood on the Nepal-Tibet border last month.

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Digital travel platform Agoda has begun the beta rollout of its new AI Assistant, designed to help travelers turn their travel ideas into personalized, bookable trips. Available initially to a select group of Agoda mobile app users, the AI Assistant marks a new chapter in how travelers can plan, book, and manage an entire trip in one place.

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Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft

Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft

Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".

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BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS

BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released BIND 9.20.29 and 9.21.26 to fix fourteen security flaws it disclosed on 16 September in BIND 9, its open-source DNS server software. One of them affects any BIND server that answers DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). A sender with no credentials can crash the server process, named, with a single request that carries an invalid SIG

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Millions of fish tested Canada's largest nuclear plant. The incident points to a growing climate risk

Millions of fish tested Canada's largest nuclear plant. The incident points to a growing climate risk

A freak fish event that 'challenged reactor safety' at Canada's largest nuclear plant shows why the nuclear energy governments are relying on to fight climate change must also become more resilient to it.

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NASA finds 'once-in-a-century' moon crater bigger than Roman Colosseum

NASA finds 'once-in-a-century' moon crater bigger than Roman Colosseum

NASA finds ‘once-in-a-century’ moon crater bigger than Roman Colosseum NASA scientists have discovered a giant and massive crater on the moon that appeared bigger than the Roman Colosseum. The discovery left the researchers in awe as they called it a rare occurrence that only...

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Gyazo Breach Exposes 23.62 Million User Records and 490 Million Image Metadata Records

Gyazo Breach Exposes 23.62 Million User Records and 490 Million Image Metadata Records

A security breach at Gyazo, Helpfeel's image-sharing service, exposed about 23.62 million user records, including email addresses and password hashes, the Kyoto-based company said in a notice published Wednesday. It also exposed about 490 million image metadata records, mostly for images from January 2019 or earlier, including the IDs that make up Gyazo image links. Helpfeel said

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Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks

Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks

Cisco has warned of a fresh maximum-severity security flaw impacting Identity Services Engine (ISE) that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76460 (CVSS score: 10.0), could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication. "This vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication control on an API endpoint," Cisco said. "An attacker

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Hyderabad leads emergence of India’s new data centre hubs

Hyderabad leads emergence of India’s new data centre hubs

By end-2030, Hyderabad and other emerging hubs are expected to see a six-fold rise in data centre capacity to 1.1 gigawatts (GW),  implying an annualized growth of 58%.

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Semicon India 2026: PM Modi says India taking steps to become preferred Semiconductor manufacturing

Semicon India 2026: PM Modi says India taking steps to become preferred Semiconductor manufacturing

PM Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi on September 17, bringing together over 600 exhibitors and 300 international companies. The three-day event focuses on India’s semiconductor manufacturing, chip design, investment, innovation and talent development.

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Samsung launches new AI fridge in India that recommends recipes; check Bespoke AI lineup and prices

Samsung launches new AI fridge in India that recommends recipes; check Bespoke AI lineup and prices

Samsung India unveiled its 2026 Bespoke AI lineup led by a Family Hub Refrigerator with Google Gemini AI Vision that suggests recipes and tracks food freshness. New WindFree Pro and Infinite Cassette ACs offer AI energy savings up to 30%, PM1.0 purification and SmartThings control.

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CMG shines at 2026 Arab Media Summit

CMG shines at 2026 Arab Media Summit

The 2026 Arab Media Summit, held in Dubai from September 15 to 17, attracted 250 media organizations from 23 countries, bringing together senior government officials, heads of media institutions, prominent figures and content creators.

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Does This Bird’s Return to Britain Restore History or Rewrite It?

Does This Bird’s Return to Britain Restore History or Rewrite It?

Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.

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Once in a thousand year storm feared as life-threatening floods to wash out millions in four US states

Once in a thousand year storm feared as life-threatening floods to wash out millions in four US states

Potentially historic rainfall threatens millions this week in a region of the US that often struggles to see any rain at all.

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U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks

U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the court-authorized seizure of internet domains associated with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire service known as NightmareStresser. The domains in question are: nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org. Visitors to the site are now greeted by a seizure banner that states - "This domain has been seized by the

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Rare tree offspring given lifeline at Scottish botanic garden

Rare tree offspring given lifeline at Scottish botanic garden

Logan Botanic Garden is helping save a species native to Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific.

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Samsung One UI 9 rollout begins: Galaxy S26 series gets Android 17 update with new AI features

Samsung One UI 9 rollout begins: Galaxy S26 series gets Android 17 update with new AI features

Samsung has started the stable One UI 9 rollout, based on Android 17, for the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra. The update introduces new Galaxy AI features, including My FanCam, Now Nudge, Creative Studio and an upgraded Interpreter.

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OpenAI reveals six more safety issues and unveils plan to disclose incidents

OpenAI reveals six more safety issues and unveils plan to disclose incidents

The firm also announced a new system to track, investigate and disclose cases of models misbehaving, or "misalignment".

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Huawei unveils latest tech to boost AI power in push to break China’s Nvidia reliance

Huawei unveils latest tech to boost AI power in push to break China’s Nvidia reliance

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its latest Ascend 960 SuperPoD computing cluster and an upgraded version of its UnifiedBus interconnect technology, a key component of the Chinese tech giant’s strategy to build advanced artificial intelligence systems despite US semiconductor-related restrictions. At the Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai, the Shenzhen-based firm introduced near-packaged optics (NPOs) – a placement structure enabling higher speeds and lower energy use – to the...

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Semicon India 2026: PM Modi to inaugurate 3-day semiconductor event today - All you need to know

Semicon India 2026: PM Modi to inaugurate 3-day semiconductor event today - All you need to know

The conference and exhibition brings together global and Indian companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, start-ups, academic institutions and students from across the semiconductor and electronics value chain, an official statement said.

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EU to launch climate insurance alliance after extreme summer

EU to launch climate insurance alliance after extreme summer

EU to launch climate insurance alliance after extreme summer

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'Will have disastrous impact on humanity': MicrosoftAI CEO flags Anthropics AI development model, says it will make alignment difficult

'Will have disastrous impact on humanity': MicrosoftAI CEO flags Anthropics AI development model, says it will make alignment difficult

Suleyman says he has great respect for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his team but warns against walking down this line of AI development.

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