The young women guiding tourists through India's night sky

BBC - Sep 26, 2026

Astronomy tourism is giving young women in Hanle income, confidence and a new role in their community.

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TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million to Settle Social Media Addiction Claims

The settlement, which also includes changes to the platform’s features, is the latest in a string of agreements by companies to address child addiction.

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Sep 26, 2026

Scientists may have found a way to grow food on Mars

Scientists may have found a way to grow food on MarsA recent study investigates how beneficial fungi can transform lunar and Martian regolith into a suitable medium for space agriculture.Lunar and Martian regolith lack critical nutrients essential for plant growth, specifically macronutrients such...

Sep 26, 2026

Why Earth's 24-hour day isn't quite as fixed as you think

Why Earth’s 24-hour day isn’t quite as fixed as you thinkScientists have recorded minuscule, millisecond-scale variations in the length of Earth’s days over decades, indicating Earth’s days are no longer the same in length driven by shift in rotation speed. Reasons abound....

Sep 26, 2026

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability was first exploited as a zero-day

Sep 26, 2026

Hundreds of wildflowers to be planted at meadow

Friends of the Lake District wants to reintroduce species lost to some farming practices.

Sep 26, 2026

Butterfly populations 'could crash' due to weather

More than 77,000 butterflies were recorded in Devon while 47,000 were spotted in Cornwall this July.

Sep 26, 2026

China and the US agree to set up a new AI safety channel, and to keep talking on trade, military

Sep 26, 2026

Realme Harry Potter edition sold out soon after launch: Check the smartphone’s features, price and more

The Realme 16 Pro 5G Harry Potter Edition was released in India on 21 September. It includes Hogwarts-themed designs and collectables.

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Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility

The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an evaluation of OpenAI agents, has spurred organizations to

Sep 26, 2026

Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take control of a site. The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, carries a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.0. It only affects versions

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SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows - CVE-2026-65660 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint

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