UN biodiversity conference begins formal sessions in Armenia
Oct 20, 2026
Shop owners in France are counting the cost of the weekend's riots as the government works on new measures to help them recover from widespread looting. Also in this edition: Germany welcomes new investments from Nvidia into its tech scene, and energy prices continue to climb after new Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia.
The first named storm of the season - Austen - will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to parts of the UK on Friday.
Move over ayahuasca - there's a new mind-altering plant attracting attention from the US pharmaceutical giants.
The Terracotta Army is one of the most stunning testaments to the power of the ancient Chinese emperors. Now, scientists have revealed clues about who made this gargantuan funeral monument.
A mysterious object on a remote Pacific island is not Amelia Earhart's long lost plane, a US expedition has confirmed.
More than half of hotels, 53%, now use artificial intelligence to help set room prices, but just 10% would trust it enough to make most pricing decisions on its own, according to new research from revenue management system company RoomPriceGenie. The findings come from RoomPriceGenie’s 2026 State of Revenue Management Report, based on a survey of 450 senior revenue decision-makers across the UK, US, Canada, Mexico, DACH, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. The research points to a revenue management industry that is growing more sophisticated, with clear opportunities for improvement around trust, time and expertise.
Some users of the British neobank reported being unable to make some payments or access funds in its app on Tuesday.
China consistently opposes overstretching the concept of national security and politicizing science, technology, economic and trade issues, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday.
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They were live on GitHub for up to 94 minutes, from 12:47 to 14:21 UTC,
Large enterprises may face growing constraints on innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) investments as vendor-driven software upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average of 28 per cent of their software budgets, according to a report by Origina published in collaboration with Thinkers50.
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple wearable will open pre-orders on November 1, 2026, with six colour options planned for the launch edition. The device uses optical sensors to track cerebral blood flow and generates an Entropy score to indicate physiological strain.
Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to place a specially-crafted DLL in a directory the application searches, resulting in execution of malicious code with the same privileges as the
APPLE-BRITAIN-REGULATION:Britain seeks to break Apple's grip on contactless payments
