The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for rain across most of central and eastern Scotland on Friday.

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

The Prince of Wales was marking his Earthshot Prize, to which all of Norton's guests were linked.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth barred all Pentagon staff from using undisclosed information to place wagers on forthcoming U.S. military action using betting platforms and prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. “Make no mistake why this matters. Our enemies watch movements in these markets," Hegseth said in a memo, first obtained by CBS News. "When an American...

What to know about the AI-detected security bug impacting wide swaths of the internet

From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.

A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth.

USA-BANKS-AI-AGENTS:US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator, even with a read-only customer account, gain operator privileges, the top level of control over it. For

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico hit back at Elon Musk, accusing the technology mogul of trying to "buy his own personal" senator through massive campaign donations for Talarico's opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). "There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator,"...

Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured.

The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force.

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates. eMudhra said it will replace affected customers' certificates with free ones from partners, though its

Samsung has expanded its Certified Re-Newed programme to Amazon.com, offering 14 refurbished Galaxy S24 and S25 models starting at $489. The phones feature genuine Samsung parts, new batteries, 147 quality checks and a one-year limited manufacturer warranty.

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn't even over yet. But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies.

Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can be triggered before any network authentication. The other, ZDI-CAN-33549, requires the SMB Direct transport and an RDMA-capable network

One of the film’s stranger aspects is Holmes agreeing to film her and her family before she went to prison.

President Trump said Wednesday he asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to rename the Atlantic Ocean on the company’s Google Maps application — a request the tech executive denied. “We seriously looked at the Atlantic Ocean,” Trump said during a rally in Clemson, S.C. The president then praised Google Maps for changing the respective names of...

Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called

Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

A hybrid storm is moving along the US East Coast, bringing dangerous conditions to Americans hundreds of miles from its center.

Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night is one of the most iconic works of art ever produced - and now experts have discovered what the painting really shows.

A Met Office weather warning is in place from 18:00 BST on Saturday until 15:00 GMT on Sunday.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned Democrats over a possible congressional probe on Wednesday, writing, “live by the sword, die by the sword.” “Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets,” Musk wrote on the social platform...