Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise Summary NASA’s ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory faces a growing risk of uncontrolled reentry in 2026. To…
Researchers claim ‘largest leak ever’ after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw Summary Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered an enumeration flaw in WhatsApp that allowed them to confirm 3.5 billion…
Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market Summary Analysts at Counterpoint Research warn that commodity memory prices could roughly double by mid-2026 as chipmakers reallocate…
Critical Railway Braking Systems Open to Tampering Summary Researchers demonstrated that legacy train protection systems can be spoofed or tampered with using very simple, low-cost hardware and publicly available information.…
Cloudflare Blames Outage on Internal Configuration Error Summary Cloudflare experienced a major outage beginning 11:20 UTC that left sites such as X, Uber, Canva and ChatGPT returning internal server errors…
South Africa is right to put debt, climate and inequality at the heart of G20 Summary Johannesburg is hosting the first-ever G20 leaders’ meeting in Africa — a landmark moment…
Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts Summary Cuts to US federal science funding — notably at agencies such as the NIH, NOAA and…
China-aligned threat actor is conducting widespread cyberespionage campaigns Summary Researchers at ESET have uncovered a long-running cyberespionage campaign by a China-aligned group tracked as PlushDaemon. The group implants routers and…
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry? Summary Nancy Smith, paralysed after a 2008 car crash, used an implanted brain–computer interface (BCI) to play tunes…
Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation Summary SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team reports that around 50,000 ASUS WRT routers — mainly end-of-life models — have been…
