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10-year Treasury yields hit 24-year high

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond hit a 24-year high during Thursday trading, forecasting higher borrowing costs for Americans.  The 10-year bond yield topped 5.34 percent early Thursday morning, the note’s highest mark since April 2002. That month, the yield reached a closing peak of 5.48 percent. The note has since decreased to...

Going up! Dubai skyscraper will feature a 2,000ft continuous elevator journey - with double-decker cars to transport more people

If you think the lift to the top of The Shard is a long ride, spare a thought for future visitors to Dubai's Burj Azizi.

WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a "self-healing mesh" that's

Terrifying scientific study warns once-in-250-year 'Blackout Arc' event could now plunge 5 million Americans into total darkness: See map of states at risk

A new study has revealed how millions of Americans could be impacted by an historic event.

'Noah's Ark's final resting place' confirmed to be a 'man-made object' in groundbreaking announcement

A research project has made a groundbreaking announcement that the site believed to be the exact location of Noah's Ark may actually contain a wooden ship.

NASA expands Moon base research with three new investigations

NASA expands Moon base research with three new investigationsNASA has reportedly selected three new science missions and instrument suites to help pave the way for building humanity’s first lunar base. Primarily, the suite of science instruments and technologies was selected through...

Canadian Joshua Kutryk and Crew-13 astronauts launch, heading to International Space Station

A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China’s Approach to A.I.

The winner of a cybersecurity contest prevailed by relying on an ‘open weight’ Chinese model — another sign that available A.I. systems could already be too powerful to easily regulate.

Bluetongue restriction zone to be expanded across all of Scotland

The Scottish government said the decision will simplify trading for farmers, hauliers, and auction markets.

Are Europe's data centres hiding their water use?

Are Europe's data centers hiding their water use?Of the 186 large data centres operating in the Netherlands by late 2025, just 44 had published their electricity use. Only 47 shared water figures. And that's the good news: the Netherlands is among Europe's more transparent countries.The figures...

SpaceX set to send Google AI chips into space for data centers

SpaceX set to send Google AI chips into space for data centersAlphabet is set to launch its homegrown AI chips into orbit today-a significant step toward making orbital computing in space a reality board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.According to reports, the launch is scheduled for 11:15 am PT from...

China leads drone patent volume but US matches quality as start-ups drive innovation: study

Chinese and US firms are “neck-and-neck” in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume, a study published on Thursday shows. Chinese companies accounted for 44 per cent of the world’s drone patent filings in 2024, against 17 per cent for American firms, according to a report published by LexisNexis. Measured by value, however, US drone patents were on a par with China’s, leaving the two countries roughly even in total global patent asset...