Orionid meteor shower to streak across night sky this week

BBC - Sep 30, 2026

The Orionid meteor shower peaks in October as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.

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Sep 30, 2026

Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 Exploit Details Show Pre-Auth Path to Shellcode Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a memory overflow bug in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol handling that's rooted in the NetScaler

Sep 30, 2026

OpenAI unveils AI assistant 'dots' while safety worries delay new model

Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.

Sep 30, 2026

Dead animals found in canal where children row

Residents in Brentford raise concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network.

Sep 30, 2026

Earthquake rocks Seattle as thousands report shaking in region feared to be overdue for major seismic event

An earthquake has rattled thousands in the Pacific Northwest, including in the major city of Seattle.

Sep 30, 2026

Chinese firms trail global peers on profits, but AI power boom offers bright spot: Natixis

China’s corporate sector remains considerably weaker than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the country is emerging as a key beneficiary of the global artificial intelligence boom thanks to its ample power capacity, according to a Natixis survey of thousands of firms and a separate research report. Profit margins at Chinese firms had stabilised at about 4.5 per cent for the first half of 2026, but remained well below the nearly 9 per cent recorded by their global peers, according to the...

Sep 30, 2026

Three takeaways from Trump's 'Super Intelligence' summit

The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.

Sep 30, 2026

Watch: Moment a government building collapses into a river in Nepal amid floods

The municipality building in Baglung was left teetering on an unstable ledge due to floods before it fell into a river.

Sep 30, 2026

'If we do this right, we can win safely': Tech Czars commit to safety standards for super-intelligence in meet with Trump

Trump and the AI czars signed a set of voluntary safety standards as calls continue to mount for firmer guardrails on the frontier technology.

Sep 30, 2026

Trump signs 'morally binding' agreement on Super Intelligence with tech czars

United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) signed what he described as a "morally binding" agreement with leading technology executives at the White House to guide the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, which he announced is officially renamed "Super Intelligence."

Sep 30, 2026

Trump-Tech czars sign 'morally binding' accord on super intelligence, tighter guardrails on cards

United States President Donald Trump and the chief executives of leading technology companies on Tuesday (local time) have signed a joint, "morally binding" accord committing to implement a comprehensive framework of "four layers of controls and audits" to govern the safety of frontier computing models, while keeping the door open to future legislative codification.

Sep 30, 2026

Chinas AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivals

AI-SAFETY-CHINA:China's AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivals

Sep 30, 2026

Gold beetles to Darwin's finds - the 70 million museum artefacts going online

More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum

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