North Korea says it tested new torpedo system with AI capabilities
Oct 16, 2026
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
The Fields Medalist Terence Tao is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.
Earth’s rotation subtly changes the length of the day. Now our clocks won’t change with it — at least not for a very long time.
“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”
Presidential adviser says Ukraine is in talks to lift speed limit on military satellite network
Facing a flood of A.I. slop, groups bent on democratizing science create new checks and balances.
Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
The search for Jesus Christ's real tomb has led archaeologists to an extraordinary discovery at his burial site.
Habitat protections for one of Canada's most imperiled animals have been quietly removed by the Alberta government. Through amendments to the Public Lands Act in July, the province eliminated protections for greater sage grouse in designated protection and recovery zones. That same month, helium extraction company Thor Resources had a site approved within the bird's habitat.
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis
Apple’s $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo sold out within minutes of preorders opening, with delivery estimates extending to late January, according to reports. The launch marks Apple’s entry into a foldable smartphone market dominated by established rivals.
The health secretary is quietly taking steps that public health experts fear will reduce immunization rates further.
