Researchers at Japan's MANA found that atomic-scale surface steps guide superconducting vortices, letting them move over a thousand times more easily in one direction — a result with implications for low-power superconducting devices.
Swiss prosecutors charge journalist Lukas Haessig with violating banking secrecy over his 2016 articles exposing the Pierin Vincenz Raiffeisen Bank scandal.
CISA has mandated rapid patching for Ivanti Connect Secure appliances after threat actors exploited an authentication bypass zero-day to gain root access and steal credentials.
CISA added flaws in Palo Alto PAN-OS, Cisco Secure Email Gateway, and Ahsay backup software to its KEV catalog on October 14, giving federal agencies until October 17 to patch.
Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, published an open letter calling for an international body with authority over containment standards and security incident reporting for frontier AI models.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have filed separate lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT is unsafe for children and that OpenAI misled parents about its safeguards.
A catastrophic funding shortfall threatens to cut off food aid to over a million people in South Sudan by October, as a surge in displacement from Sudan overwhelms the country's fragile aid systems.
Cornell researchers found BC200, a human gene with an essential role in neurons that still carries its ancient ability to move through DNA, embedded inside a poxvirus that infected human skin.
An Austin estate sale shopper found six live World War II-era grenades in a purchased box; the bomb squad safely removed them with no charges filed.
The 2026 Global Hunger Index reports a reversal in nearly two decades of progress, with hunger worsening in 32 countries and 645 million people going hungry as conflict, climate shocks, and funding cuts converge.
Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma following successful surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital to remove the lower lobe of his right lung.
Researchers at Caltech and Yale have developed a first-principles quantum chemistry approach to calculate the Kondo effect in real metals with unprecedented accuracy.
Three former OpenAI employees say they were terminated for prioritizing safety over corporate interests, while the company maintains they were fired for mishandling sensitive information.
James Webb Space Telescope observations provide the first direct evidence that water clouds outside our solar system change thickness as a brown dwarf rotates.
Playdate certificate
Research by physicist Kostya Trachenko indicates that fundamental physical constants must fall within a narrow band for liquids to flow with viscosities suitable for cellular biology.
Construction has begun on North Macedonia's Kičevo–Bukojčani motorway section, an 11.5 km STRABAG-led Corridor VIII project backed by EBRD and EU funding.
Scotland's state-run rail operator recorded 48.4 million passenger journeys between April and September 2026, a 55% increase since public ownership began in 2022 and the highest growth rate among large train operators in Great Britain.
Tencent Zhuque Lab's Corvus AI system found a memory corruption bug in Linux's vhost subsystem that spans nearly a decade of kernels and breaks both the user/root and guest/host boundaries.
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator will convene over 1,000 scientists, diplomats, policymakers and business leaders to discuss emerging technologies including AI, neurotechnologies and quantum biology.
AI data center startups raised $33.5 billion by October 2026—nearly double the 2025 total—as investors target integrated power and computing solutions to bypass grid bottlenecks.