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

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled its long-awaited “innovation exemption” Thursday, a new order aimed at clearing the way for tokenized stock trading in the U.S. The order creates...

Every release of the Unbound DNS resolver before 1.26.1 has a critical heap overflow in its DNSSEC validator, maintainer NLnet Labs said in an advisory on Wednesday. An attacker who controls a malicious...

Why US is preparing its troops for possible combat around moonTop US military officials including Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine stated that American forces must prepare for combat...

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology...

A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class...

Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide...

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

Would you stop flushing the toilet to save the planet? Scientists from the University of Surrey want Brits to give up flushing in favour of perfumed pellets.

The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August...

Dairy farmer Mervyn Kelso struggled with the sadness of the empty fields when he lost his entire herd to bovine TB.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for an antitrust waiver for AI firms to work together on a safety standard is being met with skepticism in Washington, where policymakers are questioning...

A rare 1,700-year-old fragment of Homer's Odyssey has been found tucked between the pages of a Dutch library book.

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning model behavior" that took place over the past six months, while sharing a new framework for reporting, tracking, investigating,...

Existential fears about AI have once again reared their head - here's what you need to know.

The US central bank raised its benchmark rate by .25 percent, with new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh defying President Donald Trump's desire for lower rates. Consumer banks and bond markets...

The US central bank raised its benchmark rate by .25 percent, with new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh defying President Donald Trump's desire for lower rates. Consumer banks and bond markets...

KRAFTON India is bringing Kiaraa, its first original BGMI character created by its in-house art team, with the 4.6 update. The BGMI 4.6 update arrives on September 16, while Kiaraa...

China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors...

The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.

The global hospitality technology provider, Unifocus, has announced the launch of its newest AI platform, Unifocus Claira. Unifocus Claira is an industry first end-to-end workforce management and operations platform, purpose-built...

Health Talk: The link between hormones, weight and sleep

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...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese technology giant Huawei launched new chip technologies in a challenge to global leaders such as Nvidia that highlights the narrowing gap between China and the U.S....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the...