World's largest penguin colony hit by 'alarming' decline in numbers

BBC - Oct 7, 2026

Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.

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Oct 7, 2026

Unpatched Critical LMCache Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code Remotely

A critical vulnerability in LMCache, open-source software that speeds up large language model (LLM) servers such as vLLM, lets an attacker run code on the cache server without logging in, and no fixed version is available. The flaw is in LMCache's multiprocess mode, where the cache runs as a standalone server that LLM workers reach over the ZeroMQ messaging library. A single network

Oct 7, 2026

PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated campaign, dubbed Canto Incognito, has been found to install cryptocurrency miners, including

Oct 7, 2026

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai

The Nobel Committee recognized Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for solving a century-old mystery about molecules with mirror images. Their work is crucial for pharmaceuticals and carries clues to the origins of life.

Oct 7, 2026

Russia Says It Found No ‘Emergency’ in Plague Lab

New information around the death of a lab worker, including a statement that she had been vaccinated against the plague, came as U.S. officials demanded more data.

Oct 7, 2026

AI safety group outlines demands for legislation, warns lawmakers

Guardrails Action, a nonprofit pushing for safeguards on artificial intelligence, led a coalition of nearly 40 organizations to outline a series of key principles for AI legislation, warning that it will oppose anything less. In a Wednesday letter to lawmakers, the coalition argued legislation must feature enforceable and transparent government oversight that is not designed...

Oct 7, 2026

OpenAI releases new batch of math breakthroughs

OpenAI released a new batch of mathematics breakthroughs on Tuesday following calls from AI researchers and developers to slow the growth of the technology. The company released 377 results that cover physics, mathematical and other scientific problems solved by an OpenAI internal frontier model not yet available to the public. “Towards acceleration of scientific discovery...

Oct 7, 2026

Apple to hold event on October 13? New Smart Home Hub, HomePod Mini and Apple TV expected

Apple is expected to announce another batch of products in the final week of October, shortly after a reported smart home product launch around October 13.

Oct 7, 2026

NASA Curiosity captures strange 'wind-carved' Mars landscape in dawn image

NASA Curiosity captures strange ‘wind-carved’ Mars landscape in dawn image NASA's Curiosity rover captured a stunning image of dawn on Mars, illustrating sunlight hitting distant jagged crags with an orange sky and blue sunrise.Curiosity landed in Gale Crater in 2012 and has been...

Oct 7, 2026

Three years after October 7 attacks, Israel's economy shows its strength

After shrinking briefly in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks, Israel's GDP is predicted to grow by 4 percent this year. The country's tech sector – specifically its defence startups – has played a big part in this performance but challenges, notably demographic ones, are on the horizon. Meanwhile, the destruction caused by Israel's war in Gaza has reduced GDP per capita in the Palestinian enclave by 83 percent and reconstruction plans there have yet to begin.

Oct 7, 2026

Yorkshire Water admits sewage scheme falls short

The firm says the scheme to reduce storm overflow discharges has not performed as expected.

Oct 7, 2026

The Sixth Voice of the CISO Data Shows Cyber Risk Has Moved Inside the Workflow

The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a straight line of escalation: more attacks, more data loss, more pressure, and more urgency. That

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