AECOM appointed to study Bakerloo Line depot and sidings needs for 1972 train replacement

Transport for London taps AECOM with Arcadis support to assess infrastructure requirements for upgrading the Bakerloo Line's half-century-old rolling stock.

The Quiet Collapse Of The Debt-Collection Economy: How Fintech Bad Debt Moves Through The Secondary Market (And Why It Matters For Borrowers)

Debt collection agencies have lost billions because they cannot easily buy or sell debt. The recent sale of Fintech loans has exposed how this market works, where 60% of a $14,000 medical loan sells for less than $4,000 when it reaches the secondary market. That steep discount is what gives lenders an incentive to write off bad debt quickly.

Astronomers Resolve 44 Nysa as a Three-Lobed Asteroid with a Small Moon

Astronomers have resolved 44 Nysa as a rare three-lobed asteroid accompanied by a small moon.

Astronomers detect a wandering supermassive black hole after a star's destruction

A dormant supermassive black hole, found far from its galaxy's center, was revealed when it shredded a passing star.

Sunlight Replaces Lasers for Generating Quantum Entanglement

Researchers prove ordinary sunlight can generate quantum-entangled photon pairs using a cone-shaped solar concentrator, challenging the long-held assumption that artificial laser light is required.

MIT Researchers Develop Air-Stable Ultrathin Superconductors Using Graphene Encapsulation

A technique to grow niobium diselenide under graphene produces wafer-scale superconducting films that remain stable in air, overcoming a key barrier to scalable quantum devices.

A Use-After-Free Hid in the Linux Kernel's SCTP Code for 18 Years

CVE-2026-64564, an 18-year-old use-after-free in the Linux kernel's SCTP code found by Tencent's AI-assisted research pipeline, enables local privilege escalation and container escape — and Debian shipped a patch the same day it was disclosed.

CISA Flags JetBrains TeamCity RCE Flaw CVE-2026-63077 Under Active Exploitation

CISA has added a critical JetBrains TeamCity remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-63077 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with active exploitation confirmed and a tight federal patch deadline.

Army Corps takes next step toward long-term solution for Juneau glacial flooding

The Army Corps will post a privately-bid request for proposals after this year's flood to permanently drain Suicide Basin.

Colombia’s new president breaks with Bogotá tradition as he pivots to hard-line security policy

Abelardo de la Espriella’s inauguration in Cali marks a decisive security-first pivot in Colombia, pitting hard-line eradication tactics and diplomatic realignments against analyst warnings about rebel reintegration and long-term stability.

Trenitalia France orders 19 Hitachi high-speed trains for a 2029 Channel Tunnel launch

Trenitalia France has ordered 19 Hitachi ETR 1000 Frecciarossa trains for a 2029 Paris–London Channel Tunnel launch, with a new depot at Maisons-Alfort Pompadour.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps aside as four senior researchers leave to found Discovery Loop

Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chief scientist at Alphabet, while Jeff Dean and three other senior researchers leave to found Discovery Loop, an AI startup focused on automating scientific discovery.

Menai Suspension Bridge to Close Tomorrow for 200th Anniversary

The Grade I-listed Thomas Telford structure, one of the world's first major suspension bridges, will close from 6am to 2pm on Saturday for the 'Bont Borth 200' festival.

The 1.44MB Game Development Contest Is Forcing Creators Back To Floppy Disk Constraints

A new Korean competition requires developers to build a complete game that fits on a 1.44MB floppy disk, reviving classic code golf constraints with a modern prize pool and a hard October 2026 deadline.

A codebook-based FMV decoder brings Command & Conquer cutscenes to the Atari ST

Jonas Eschenburg engineers a codebook-based FMV codec enabling the vintage Atari ST to decompress and play Command & Conquer cutscenes in real-time by splitting frames into addressable blocks, leveraging an 8MHz Motorola 68000 without exceeding 16-colour planar graphics limits.

Zapscape: A Critical KVM Guest-to-Host Escape in the Linux Kernel Shadow MMU

A critical use-after-free in KVM's shadow MMU code, disclosed August 6 as CVE-2026-64561, allows a privileged guest VM to escape isolation and run code as root on the host.

Deliberately Damaged Bronze Age Hoard Found in Czech Wetland Points to Ancient Ritual Offering

Archaeologists working along a Czech rail corridor have uncovered a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age hoard of deliberately damaged tools and ornaments, likely a ritual wetland offering by the Urnfield culture.

Neanderthal growth hormone variant increases muscle mass in modern human carriers

A study finds that ancient DNA variants in the growth hormone receptor gene make carriers taller and more muscular, with the Neanderthal-derived version most common in South and East Asian populations.

The forensic electronics work required to keep 1980s computers operational

Preserving 1980s-era hardware demands component-level restorations where custom silicon deficits and degraded components force builders to bypass failed pathways entirely through modern FPGA emulation and forensic electronics analysis.

Annual Chicago Ducky Derby raises record $700,000 for Special Olympics Illinois

More than 90,000 rubber ducks were dropped into the Chicago River for this year's Chicago Ducky Derby, which set a new fundraising record for the event.

IXPE Measures Vacuum Birefringence Around a Magnetar for the First Time

NASA's IXPE telescope captures over 140 hours of magnetar observations revealing how ultra-strong magnetic fields polarize the quantum vacuum itself, confirming a ninety-year-old quantum electrodynamics prediction.

A snakebite antivenom made from snake blood, about 10x more potent than the sheep-derived standard

A University of Maryland team led by Sean B. Carroll reports that a cocktail of proteins drawn from snake blood itself was about 10 times more potent than the current sheep-derived antivenom in lab tests, and neutralized venoms from multiple viper species at once.