In the biggest shakeup for timekeeping in over 50 years, a key vote has severed the connection between the Earth's rotation and modern clocks.

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

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.

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

Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban.

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.

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.