Scientists using the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia analyzed nine years of radio data to study the elusive 21-cm hydrogen signal from the universe’s dark ages. Their findings suggest early black holes and stars had already heated cosmic gas, marking the first observational evidence of this warming phase.
Continue ReadingOct 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce sectors with a previously undocumented .NET malware dubbed CAPI Backdoor. According to Seqrite Labs, the attack chain involves distributing phishing emails containing a ZIP archive as a way to trigger […]
Continue ReadingThe threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins). “The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao, […]
Continue ReadingPoki offers a wide selection of online games. The popular web gaming platform allows users to play games that are completely free and don’t require downloads. It lets users play directly in your web browser. After exploring the platform, we’ve rounded up the best Poki games you should try right now.
Continue ReadingElon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Top proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending that Tesla investors vote against a pay plan for CEO Elon Musk that would grant him nearly $1 trillion more […]
Continue ReadingA demo setup of racks of AI servers connected with Credo cables, displayed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California. Credo In July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims to turn into a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s […]
Continue ReadingSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump potentially sending federal troops to San Francisco, where his company is based. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the […]
Continue ReadingOracle’s extended rally, which has been driven by the company’s increasingly central position in the artificial intelligence boom, hit pause on Friday, with the stock tumbling 7%, its worst day since January. The slide came a day after the software company revealed a long-term outlook, boosted by AI, at an analysts’ meeting that was part […]
Continue ReadingThe impact of artificial intelligence is being felt across the health-care industry, from tools that help analyze medical images, aid in drug discovery and complete cancer screenings. But increasingly, AI is being used to fight one of the biggest challenges that health care is facing: a time-challenged (and often burned out) workforce of doctors, nurses […]
Continue ReadingTwo Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, carried out a six-hour spacewalk outside the ISS on Oct. 16, 2025. They installed the Ekran-M semiconductor experiment for growing ultra-thin materials in microgravity and safely jettisoned an outdated high-definition camera that will burn up upon re-entry.
Continue ReadingVast Space’s Haven-1, a single-module orbital lab, will launch in 2026 via SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Designed for four astronauts on short missions, it features life-support systems tested with NASA and a domed observation window, marking a milestone in private space habitats.
Continue ReadingThe WMO reports Earth’s atmospheric CO₂ reached 422.8 ppm in 2024 — the biggest annual rise ever recorded. Driven by fossil-fuel emissions, wildfires, and weakening carbon sinks, the surge intensifies global warming. Scientists warn that delayed emission cuts could entrench irreversible changes in weather, ecosystems, and sea levels.
Continue ReadingAstronomers detected a black hole 650 million light-years away devouring a star and then erupting twice with powerful flares months later. Observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility and tracked by ALMA and the VLA, this rare off-centre event hints at a rogue black hole cast out from its host galaxy.
Continue ReadingZoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Kremlin envoy proposes ‘Putin-Trump tunnel’ to link Russia and U.S. Reuters An investment envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday entreated Elon Musk and his tunneling business, the Boring Company, to commit to building an undersea rail tunnel through the Bering Strait to be partly funded by Moscow. Kirill […]
Continue ReadingHuawei has launched the Nova Flip S in China as a more affordable version of the Nova Flip, featuring two new colours. It sports a 6.94-inch LTPO OLED main display, a 2.14-inch cover screen, and a 50-megapixel dual rear camera setup with a 32-megapixel selfie sensor. The phone packs a 4,400mAh battery with 66W fast […]
Continue ReadingElectricity companies across the U.S. are struggling to figure out how much demand will actually materialize from the artificial intelligence boom, as the stock market speculates that vast sums of money will be spent on infrastructure to support a big data center buildout. “There is a question about whether or not all of the projections, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Assassin’s Creed franchise boss, Marc-Alexis Coté, has said he did not leave Ubisoft and was instead asked to “step aside” by the company. According to the former Ubisoft executive, the company decided to hand over Assassin’s Creed leadership to someone else as part of its new organisational structure.
Continue ReadingThe North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs, indicating that the hacking group is actively refining its toolset. That’s according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said recent campaigns undertaken by the hacking group have seen the […]
Continue ReadingDr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images OpenAI halted artificial intelligence-generated videos of Martin Luther King Jr. after users utilized its short-form video tool Sora to create “disrespectful depictions” of the civil […]
Continue ReadingMark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta on Friday announced new safety features that will allow parents to see and manage how their teenagers are interacting with artificial intelligence […]
Continue ReadingVivo has revealed the release schedule for Android 16-based OriginOS 6 in India. The Chinese tech firm will begin rolling out the update in early November, and the Vivo X200 series handsets will be among the first phones to receive it. The Vivo X Fold 5 will also be updated in November, along with the […]
Continue ReadingOct 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / VPN Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a recently patched critical security flaw in WatchGuard Fireware that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9242 (CVSS score: 9.3), is described as an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Fireware OS 11.10.2 up to and including 11.12.4_Update1, […]
Continue ReadingBorderlands 4 stays true to the series’ identity, while expanding its looter shooter design across all aspects. The game ditches its linear roots for an open world, and that choice often stretches Borderlands 4 thin. But the open world also allows the series’ trademark chaos to find a natural habitat.
Continue ReadingAn automatic teller machine at the Zions Bank headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 10, 2023. Kim Raff | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Calling the […]
Continue ReadingHuawei Nova 14 Vitality Edition has been launched in China in three colourways. It houses a 5,500mAh battery and supports 66W fast charging. The phone features a dual rear camera unit, headlined by a 50-megapixel primary sensor. It offers IP65 dust and water resistance and boasts a 6.7-inch OLED display
Continue ReadingRed Magic 11 Pro and Red Magic 11 Pro+ were launched in China on Friday by the Chinese tech firm. The Red Magic 11 Pro+ is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, coupled with up to 24GB of RAM and up to 1TB of internal storage. The handsets pack an 8,000mAh battery […]
Continue ReadingNintendo is likely to comfortably surpass analysts’ estimates for sales of 17.6 million devices in the fiscal year ending March, let alone its own much lower public forecast, the people said, asking not to be named discussing private plans. Nintendo can be expected to sell roughly 20 million units of the Switch 2 this fiscal […]
Continue ReadingOct 17, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Identity Security The danger isn’t that AI agents have bad days — it’s that they never do. They execute faithfully, even when what they’re executing is a mistake. A single misstep in logic or access can turn flawless automation into a flawless catastrophe. This isn’t some dystopian fantasy—it’s […]
Continue ReadingThe iQOO 15, launching in China on October 20 and in India in November, has appeared on Thailand’s NBTC database with model number i2501, confirming 5G connectivity and Chinese manufacturing. Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Q3 gaming chip, it will feature a 6.85-inch 2K 144Hz LTPO “Everest” display, an 8K VC […]
Continue ReadingXiaomi Group President Lu Weibing reportedly confirmed that future Xiaomi smartphones will continue to feature the Dynamic Back Display. This feature, which was introduced in the Xiaomi 17 Pro series, shows real-time notifications and reminders. Xiaomi is also said to be ramping up its R&D investment for the feature.
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