A mysterious object was spotted over a busy California highway, sparking fresh debate over the existence of UFOs.

After spending more than 300,000 years hidden in the ground beneath Morocco, an ancient ancestor has been brought back to life thanks to a stunning digital reconstruction.

Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerability confined to a capability that is enabled for less than 1% of the customer base," the company

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent," OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two key American AI tech leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang and Su were among three new members appointed to the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss wealth and assets manager...

China’s bold Mars plan: Map entire Red Planet by 2028China plans to complete the world's first AI-driven geological map covering the entire surface of Mars by the end of 2028, aiming for it to become the global standard for Martian geological ages.The project will also produce a detailed...

Swiss drought reveals Roman secrets that could redraw ancient mapsSwiss archaeologists are getting new insights into the Roman history of Switzerland after drought conditions revealed previously hidden sites as the country endured the hottest summer on record.Drought can unearth hidden...

Australian researchers say they've built the world's first public tool for calculating how fossil fuel developments will affect the climate, and they're using the Bay du Nord offshore oil project as a test subject.

China’s generative artificial intelligence user base surpassed 700 million at the end of June, accounting for more than half of the population as wide AI adoption pushes the technology’s penetration rate to a record high in the country. The user base data, released Tuesday by the China Internet Network Information Centre, represents an increase of 16 per cent from the end of 2025, when China had 602 million generative AI users with a penetration rate of 42.8 per cent. Question-and-answer...

HMD Vibe2 Pro 5G has launched in India, starting at ₹14,999. It features a 6.78-inch 120Hz FHD+ display, Dimensity 6300 chipset, 6,000mAh battery with 33W charging, Sony camera sensor, Android 16 and up to 8GB RAM. The phone goes on sale on October 8 via Flipkart.

Veterans under 30 will have to sign forms before being given antidepressants. Medical groups fear the moves may stigmatize mental health treatment.

Shocking images have revealed that the Matterhorn is snow-free amid Europe's sweltering early autumn heat.

SpaceX’s Starship engine failure raises questions over NASA’s moon mission The Starship engine failure that nearly derailed the orbital debut of SpaceX's next-generation spacecraft may obscure NASA’s ability to meet its timeframe for astronaut missions to the moon. Starship...

Hong Kong businesses are lagging behind their mainland Chinese peers in adopting artificial intelligence, as entrenched legacy systems and a risk-averse corporate mindset slow the city’s digital transition, according to a senior executive at consultancy Accenture. Only 10 per cent of Hong Kong firms surveyed by Accenture had integrated generative AI across multiple business functions, compared with about 21 per cent of mainland enterprises, said Robert Hah, Hong Kong office lead at Accenture...

Pebble has launched the Qore Ultra wellness band in India, with AI-powered health insights, Readiness Score and Body Age tracking. The wearable offers 24x7 health monitoring, 100+ sports modes and up to 15 days of battery life without a subscription fee.

Nothing has launched the Headphone (1) Pro at $399, featuring a triple-driver setup with an xMEMS tweeter and Hi-Res Audio support. The headphones offer up to 46dB adaptive ANC, Dynamic Spatial Audio with head tracking, Bluetooth 6.1 and LDAC.

The storm moved ashore on the Baja California peninsula, which is a popular tourist destination.

It's been less than a month since Apple launched the new iPhone 18 Pro, but customers are already claiming that their new phones are changing colour.

Photos from Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, and Singapore show crowds of people jostling to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhones.

Baroness Brown says there must be better training and planning, after a record year for wildfires in England and Wales.

Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to invest 34.9 billion yuan (US$5.2 billion) in expansion, with a large portion of the capital going to domestic suppliers of chipmaking equipment, according to a source. The firm, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market, would spend 24.1 billion yuan on a new technology research and development project and another 10.8 billion yuan on the second phase of a wafer testing base, according to a Monday stock filing. The...

The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has decided to cancel the release of its latest agentic model Astra 6.1 because it did not meet safety standards. Rival AI firm Anthropic, meanwhile, is dedicating a large majority of its IPO prospectus to laying out the risk factors associated with AI, according to Reuters. Also in this edition: Russia adds another layer of secrecy to its energy sector and NASA reboots Boeing's struggling Starliner rocket programme.

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.

Shares of Akeso surged after British drug maker AstraZeneca moved to advance the Chinese biotech firm’s flagship cancer drug, while a new deal from US giant Merck further underscored the sector’s global momentum amid easing fears of US curbs. AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced a US$2 billion equity investment in Florida-headquartered Summit Therapeutics, which holds the exclusive rights to develop and commercialise Akeso’s immunotherapy drug ivonescimab outside China. Summit and AstraZeneca would...

Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual is expected to appear before the

Armageddon is what will happen when billionaires, or even trillionaires, are given free rein. Could this be the final outcome of late-stage American capitalism and democracy? Imagine a human-extinction event: a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, a new world war or runaway climate change. You likely already have a fair idea of where the safest places on earth and beyond are, if you have been following the ultra-wealthy individuals from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. They are building...

Canada helped land a global agreement to protect nature in 2022. A new assessment shows how successful it's been.

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori