Electric car drivers face paying 'tyre tax' as heavy batteries and engine power DOUBLE the risk of defects

Daily Mail - Sep 23, 2026

Electric cars are nearly twice as likely to suffer tyre defects compared to petrol vehicles, new research suggests.

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Sep 23, 2026

Super El Niño could cause 451,000 deaths, scientists predict - as they call for urgent action to save lives

Scientists from the University of Chicago used climate models to predict the impact the devastating climate event could have.

Sep 23, 2026

New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control

A flaw in cPanel's CalDAV and CardDAV service lets anyone with a cPanel hosting account run code as root and take "full control of the server," the company said on September 22. A second bug in the WP Toolkit plugin, used to install and manage WordPress sites, allows an account holder to change databases that belong to other accounts. cPanel has released fixed versions for both,

Sep 23, 2026

OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable

Sep 23, 2026

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes back is a report the agent wrote about itself: confident prose, a list of findings, and no way to tell which of them happened. Someone with a security background then sits down and checks every claim against the target. Which findings are real,

Sep 23, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday announced new models, with both artificial intelligence (AI) companies noting that they are continuing to invest in improving alignment to combat risky behavior. Opus 5.5, per Anthropic, is a "major step up from Opus 5," and "achieves the best scores of any model to date on our automated behavioral audit, our alignment suite that tests Claude across thousands

Sep 23, 2026

China’s storage makers aim to climb value chain with advanced packaging bets

Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage Technology will pour into the third phase of its advanced packaging and testing project in Dongguan, in southern China’s Guangdong province, will exceed the 3.09 billion yuan it put into the first two...

Sep 23, 2026

Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the host, security firm DepthFirst said in research published September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-80521 (CVSS score: 7.8), was fixed upstream on August 6, but Ubuntu has not shipped the patch for its 26.04, 24.04, or 22.04 LTS releases. DepthFirst

Sep 23, 2026

First-ever radio signal from exoplanet reveals its magnetic field

First-ever radio signal from exoplanet reveals its magnetic field Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have captured a strange radio signal coming from a distant planet outside the solar system for the first time. According to the researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for...

Sep 23, 2026

Voters are turning to AI on politics. Is it up to the task?

Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in how voters get information about politics and elections, raising fresh questions about how the technology could influence the way voters stay informed. From chatbots to standard internet searches, voters this election cycle are interacting with AI-generated content, even when they may not realize it. Recent research on...

Sep 23, 2026

Electric car drivers face paying 'tyre tax' as heavy batteries and engine power DOUBLE the risk of defects

Super El Niño could cause 451,000 deaths, scientists predict - as they call for urgent action to save lives

New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control

OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests

China’s storage makers aim to climb value chain with advanced packaging bets

Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

First-ever radio signal from exoplanet reveals its magnetic field

Voters are turning to AI on politics. Is it up to the task?

FBI hacked? ShinyHunters claims brazen theft of sensitive agent data — what the cybercriminal group wants

Farmers' fury as race for £233m funding compared to 'scramble for Oasis tickets'

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