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Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars
Oct 20, 2026

Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.


UK asks Apple to widen access to its payment tech
Oct 20, 2026

UK asks Apple to widen access to its payment tech

Proposed changes could lead to new digital wallets and keys as well as ticketing apps, the regulator says.


Moment giant fin whale's huge mouth engulfs thousands of gallons of water
Oct 20, 2026

Moment giant fin whale's huge mouth engulfs thousands of gallons of water

Videographer Rhys Morgan captured footage of the worlds second largest whale lunge feeding on his drone.


WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators
Oct 20, 2026

WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators

WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy policy for Europe tells users they can complain to one. The text sat in the pages' code, never shown on screen, until it was removed by October 18. Whether the


What Security Teams Can Do To Tame Wild Code
Oct 20, 2026

What Security Teams Can Do To Tame Wild Code

A sales manager builds an AI-assisted workflow to route leads. It connects to customer records, summarizes inbound requests, and posts updates to a shared channel. The workflow saves time, reduces manual work, and soon becomes part of the team’s daily routine. Across the same organization, employees are building useful apps, agents, and automations faster than existing processes can support them


Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns
Oct 20, 2026

Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns

Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go's certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate certificate authority keys. Programs built on the new release will refuse connections to sites and services whose certificates were issued under those keys. The Go team says the keys belong to one certificate authority it has not


SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches Bandwagon-5 mission with 32 payloads
Oct 20, 2026

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches Bandwagon-5 mission with 32 payloads

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches Bandwagon-5 mission with 32 payloadsSpaceX has successfully launched a Bandwagon-5 mission through Falcon 9 rocket carrying 32 payload into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Packed with 32 diverse payloads ranging from CubeSats to re-entry...


Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader
Oct 20, 2026

Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader

The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker Swallowtail, involved the use of a backdoor called HOOKEDGE and a previously


ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident
Oct 20, 2026

ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident

ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that led to unauthorized access to application identities associated with Cloud Backup. The company said it has completed the following actions since it began


Britain seeks to break Apples grip on contactless payments
Oct 20, 2026

Britain seeks to break Apples grip on contactless payments

APPLE-BRITAIN-REGULATION:Britain seeks to break Apple's grip on contactless payments


French retailers begin filing insurance claims after weekend of looting
Oct 20, 2026

French retailers begin filing insurance claims after weekend of looting

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.


Storm Austen to bring severe gales to UK as weather warning issued
Oct 20, 2026

Storm Austen to bring severe gales to UK as weather warning issued

The first named storm of the season - Austen - will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to parts of the UK on Friday.


The next ayahuasca? US drug companies are vying to get their hands on a mind-altering root bark used in Gabonese ritual traditions
Oct 20, 2026

The next ayahuasca? US drug companies are vying to get their hands on a mind-altering root bark used in Gabonese ritual traditions

Move over ayahuasca - there's a new mind-altering plant attracting attention from the US pharmaceutical giants.


Who really made China's Terracotta Army? Fingerprints reveal new clues on the builders of the life-size terracotta figures
Oct 20, 2026

Who really made China's Terracotta Army? Fingerprints reveal new clues on the builders of the life-size terracotta figures

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.


Hopes of finding Amelia Earhart's lost plane are dashed: US expedition travels 830 miles to remote Pacific island - only to discover the 'Taraia Object' is NOT her Lockheed Electra
Oct 20, 2026

Hopes of finding Amelia Earhart's lost plane are dashed: US expedition travels 830 miles to remote Pacific island - only to discover the 'Taraia Object' is NOT her Lockheed Electra

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 use AI to price rooms, but only 1 in 10 would rely on it for most decisions
Oct 20, 2026

More than half of hotels use AI to price rooms, but only 1 in 10 would rely on it for most decisions

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.


China slams US ban on DeepSeek AI tools
Oct 20, 2026

China slams US ban on DeepSeek AI tools

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.


Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
Oct 20, 2026

Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware

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,


Enterprise software costs threaten AI investment, innovation as firms spend 28% of budgets on unwanted changes: Report
Oct 20, 2026

Enterprise software costs threaten AI investment, innovation as firms spend 28% of budgets on unwanted changes: Report

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 pre-orders open November 1: How to order, expected price, colours and features
Oct 20, 2026

Deepinder Goyal’s Temple wearable pre-orders open November 1: How to order, expected price, colours and features

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.


ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan
Oct 20, 2026

ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan

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


Orionid meteor shower to peak in UK skies this week
Oct 20, 2026

Orionid meteor shower to peak in UK skies this week

Clear skies permitting, skygazers could be able to spot as many as 10-20 meteors per hour as the shower peaks this week.


GetYourGuide and Singapore Tourism Board Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Oct 20, 2026

GetYourGuide and Singapore Tourism Board Sign Memorandum of Understanding

GetYourGuide, the global marketplace for travel experiences, and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the development, distribution and promotion of Singapore’s diverse tourism tours and experiences to travellers around the world.


Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event on October 28: Touchscreen MacBook Pro, M6 Macs, iPad mini
Oct 20, 2026

Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event on October 28: Touchscreen MacBook Pro, M6 Macs, iPad mini

Apple has announced a product launch event in Los Angeles, teasing new devices under the tagline ‘Pro and tell’. The company is expected to unveil a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro, an M6-powered iMac and the iPad mini 8 with an OLED display.


Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge
Oct 20, 2026

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "in frequent communications via WhatsApp


The British island where red squirrels are thriving
Oct 20, 2026

The British island where red squirrels are thriving

Conservationists say that, with red squirrels dwindling in the UK, Jersey is an "important refuge".


Northern Ireland needs 'courage and leadership' to tackle climate change
Oct 20, 2026

Northern Ireland needs 'courage and leadership' to tackle climate change

The new chair of the Climate Change Committee is spending two days in Northern Ireland on a fact-finding mission.


Giant Pacific 'wave' heads for US coast as scientists warn of 'quintuple whammy' flooding threat
Oct 20, 2026

Giant Pacific 'wave' heads for US coast as scientists warn of 'quintuple whammy' flooding threat

Thousands may be forced to evacuate as a string of events are about to collide to cause massive waves and sea level rise along the West Coast.


MORNING BID EUROPE-Korean canary in the AI coalmine
Oct 20, 2026

MORNING BID EUROPE-Korean canary in the AI coalmine

GLOBAL-MARKETS/VIEW-EUROPE:MORNING BID EUROPE-Korean canary in the AI coalmine


Starwatch: Orionid meteor shower to peak on night skies
Oct 20, 2026

Starwatch: Orionid meteor shower to peak on night skies

The annual Orionid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of October 21 to 22, offering stargazers a chance to witness one of the major meteor showers of the year. Around 20 meteors can be seen per hour under ideal viewing conditions.


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