GLOBAL-COMPANIES/CYBERATTACK (GRAPHIC, PIX):AI sharpens cat-and-mouse hacking battle as companies strengthen defences

GIGABYTE has launched its 40th anniversary ENTER INFINITY India campaign, offering gamers and PC builders Amazon gift vouchers worth up to ₹15,500, AORUS merchandise and GIGABYTE monitors.

A strange object has been spotted in a NASA video, leading to claims that astronauts on the International Space Station were nearly involved in a fatal collision.

Some of England's best-loved historic landmarks, including the former home of William Shakespeare's daughter and Charles Dickens' secluded writing retreat, are at risk of being lost forever.

For years, historians have presumed that Verica was a man. However, a new analysis shows that Verica was in fact a woman - a discovery that rewrites the history of early Roman Britain.

Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.

Dr. Whipple studied the female erogenous zone and, with collaborators, wrote a best seller about women’s sexuality. She was 85.

Musk spent nearly $500m in the 2026 US midterm elections, an individual election spending record.

One of NASA's premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of gamma ray bursts and exploding stars.

A few broken lines of ancient writing, created around 1,600 years ago, may preserve a lost account of Christianity's most extraordinary claim.

Shares of Tesla and SpaceX dropped after the Democratic party swept to power in America's midterm elections. Their founder, tech titan Elon Musk, poured over $440 million into Republican candidates and causes, the single biggest campaign donor in the election cycle. But his investment fell flat, as his preferred candidates lost races in Texas, where he has put down roots.

NASA's doomed space telescope is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry back to Earth in the next few hours.

The space agency estimated that there was a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology.

If you've ever been convinced your cat secretly hates you, scientists have some reassuring news - it may just be shy.

It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science - if there are aliens out there, where are they hiding? Now, scientists think the answer could be on Mars.

Fairshake, the major industry super PAC, spent $46 million on ads against the Democrat, Sherrod Brown, who won.

Polar vertex: How does it impact UK weather?The polar vortex is essentially a fast-moving wind high in the atmosphere that holds very cold air above the North Pole. However, the polar vortex is a very common feature of winters in the northern hemisphere, alteration in its behavior can affect our...

South Korea has launched Hangang, a $276 million national supercomputer equipped with 8,496 Nvidia GPUs and 614.7 petaflops of computing power. Designed to accelerate AI and scientific research, the system is expected to rank among the world's top 10 supercomputers.

A series of storms has added to reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, but the long-term water outlook remains bleak.

The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said cold rooms storing blood were impacted by hackers.

A rare Air Force spy jet was tracked leaving the US and crossing the Atlantic for an undisclosed mission. The flight comes amid tensions between the US and the Middle East.

Sony is offering US gamers up to $400 in cash for trading in their old PlayStation 5 consoles through a partnership with refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market, according to TweakTown. The offer could help players upgrade to the $899.99 PS5 Pro ahead of the much-anticipated GTA 6 launch.

SpaceX teams up with Qualcomm to expand the Starlink 5G networkQualcomm has secured an extended contract with SpaceX to supply radio equipment, baseband units and software for Starlink Mobile’s planned countrywide ground-based 5G infrastructure as the Elon Musk-led space company aims to...

Central cyber security agency warns banks, fintech firms of frauds through AI agents

The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both the global AI trade and the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing, analysts said. The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter...

Food nutritionist Aaliyah Nelson has revealed the 'hidden sugars' that crop up in the foods you'd least expect.

NASA is monitoring the uncontrolled re-entry of a space telescope that will crash back to Earth sometime on Wednesday.

Nearly 5 decades after its launch, NASA's Voyager 1 is approaching a historic one-light-day milestone, putting it more than 16 billion miles from Earth. As the spacecraft moves deeper into space, engineers are battling declining power, ageing equipment and unexpected communication disruptions.

DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical...