'Millions' of exploitation attempts as 'critical' flaw hits websites
There have been "millions" of exploitation attempts since a "critical" security flaw affecting websites around the world emerged, according to a major tech company.
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PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language…
The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day
From AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry about this week.
Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy
The fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner, larger than an $18bn deal with California.
Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion over Facebook data scandal
The judge's ruling follows a jury verdict that found the company deceived users over the misuse of personal data, years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Un hacker a folosit o armată de agenți AI pentru a sparge peste 100 de site-uri
Un hacker a spart site-urile a peste 100 de companii, printre care John Deere – cel mai mare producător de utilaje agricole din lume, producătorul de motoare Cummins și compania de electrocasnice SharkNinja, fără să facă nimic, scrie Reuters. În…
Drone Strike Kills More Than 150 in Abyei in Sudan’s Civil War
Struggling against each other on the battlefield, the sides in Sudan’s civil war are relying on drones to strike across vast distances, inflicting huge tolls on civilians in the process.
A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today
Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could wreak havoc on the internet if left unchecked. In an…
Weidel pledges Germany Schengen exit if EU can’t protect borders
AfD would call time on Schengen – if the party ever achieves power
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
PHP developers have accused software supply chain security shop Chainguard of effectively revealing critical bugs in the open-source scripting language ahead of a planned official disclosure. On Wednesday, just hours after releasing emergency…
How Arab parties could hold critical balance of power in Israeli election
Disaffection has often driven down turnout among Arab Israelis, but there is a strong push to get rid of the right-wing governing coalition.
India news: CJP leaders Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka released from Tihar Jail
The two Cockroach Janta Party leaders were released after pledging not to call for protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar amid demonstrations demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation. DW has more.
EN DIRECT - Violences urbaines : Emmanuel Macron convoque les renseignements à l’Élysée, accusés d’avoir mal anticipé la mobilisation du 17 octobre
À deux jours d’une nouvelle mobilisation, l’exécutif tente toujours de faire retomber la pression et les critiques après les scènes de chaos du 17 octobre, avec plusieurs nouvelles réunions au programme jeudi, et toujours la «fermeté» comme mot…
Scandal pe autostrăzile din SAFE: contracte de 9 miliarde de lei cu probleme. Instanța cere reevaluarea unor oferte
Au fost acuzate presiuni venite de la Palatul Victoria pentru respingerea contestațiilor
Gazdele Airbnb nu le mai pot cere oaspeților să strângă lenjeria de pat și să spele vasele. Cele șapte "reguli ale casei"
Airbnb și-a modificat regulile pentru a limita ce le pot cere gazdele oaspeților, inclusiv în privința curățeniei. Potrivit ghidurilor actualizate, gazdele pot stabili acum șapte reguli standard ale casei, la...
Serious risks at EU borders, fundamental rights agency warns
The Ceuta migration crisis put human rights at the bloc’s external borders to the test, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights warned in a report Thursday. The Vienna-based agency warned that there are serious risks to fundamental rights at the…
Keep Europe Moving: The Independent Aftermarket Meets in Brussels
Every journey depends on more than the vehicle itself. Behind Europe’s mobility is a vast and dynamic automotive aftermarket, working every day to ensure that motorists have access to the parts, services and expertise they need. This is the world…
ECR eyes top job in 2029
Also, in Thursday’s edition: Ireland defends work on EU-wide taxes
Who speaks for Europe in the Ukraine peace talks?
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music As the U.S. pushes to revive peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a question is causing tensions in Brussels: Who actually speaks for the EU? Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton examine the growing…
Merz‘ Montenegro-Mission
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Neun Länder drängen in die Europäische Union, doch die Tür ist seit über einem Jahrzehnt verschlossen. Während Friedrich Merz in Montenegro die Beitrittschancen der Länder des Westbalkans auslotet, wäre…
Cum a afectat atacul cibernetic de la Cadastru vânzările One United Properties. Ce arată datele pe primele nouă luni din 2026
One United Properties (BVB:ONE) a vândut în primele nouă luni din acest an 339 de apartamente față de 467 în aceeași perioadă a anului trecut. Vânzările, pre-vânzările și rezervările din acest an au fost de 145,5 milioane de euro. Pentru aceeași…
FOTO Nou lanț de restaurante în România. Burrito Madre deschide prima unitate în Mega Mall și anunță alte 20 de locații în următorii cinci ani
Lanțul de restaurante Burrito Madre, unul de tip fast-casual, specializat în preparate de inspirație mexicană (burritos, tacos, quesadillas), confirmă că intră pe piața din România, operațiune anunțată în vară de Profit.ro ca fiind pregătită.
Woman 'scared to turn heating on' due to oil cost
Roslynn Garner-Gatley starts using a hot water bottle, bed socks and earlier bedtimes to stay warm.
'I can't afford to heat my home on my pension'
Teresa Goubert says heating is "very expensive" and she was struggling on her pension.
Cum recunoști magazinele false și fraudele care apar în perioada Black Friday
O reclamă poate copia numele și fotografiile unui magazin cunoscut fără să aibă vreo legătură cu acesta.
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has told investors that open weight models now make brilliant sense for on-prem enterprise use. Speaking on the company’s Q3 earnings call, Krishna said that in 2024 closed frontier models were plainly superior to open…
Donnerstag: Datenschutzfragen bei AfD-Leak, Gewinnexplosion bei Meta Platforms
DSGVO-Pflicht von Parteien + Meta-Wachstum dank Werbung + Milliardenstrafe wegen Meta-Lügen + Aus für BioWare + Arktis-Alternative für Datenkabel + #heiseshow
#heiseshow: Starlink-Drosselung, Luftbilder in Google Maps, Tesla Roadster
In der #heiseshow: Starlink-Drosselung als Warnschuss für Europa, ein Gerichtsurteil gegen Luftbilder bei Google Maps und der abgehobene neue Tesla Roadster.
Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct
The Philippines government’s Ombudsman has suspended a senior Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) official over allegations he assigned government contracts to a company he founded and continued to hold a stake in. The…
A Small Model Asks Better: Fine-Tuning Query Clarification for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2610.28686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query clarification is essential for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that face ambiguous user queries. We consider multi-turn grounded conversational scenarios where a user query is…
Scaling in Games: Continued Pre-Training For Embodied Agents In Diverse Virtual Worlds
arXiv:2610.28698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling data, diversity and model capacity has improved embodied learning in physical environments, where diverse experiences remain grounded in shared physical laws. Whether these gains extend to…
SpecEvo: Speculative Evolution with Large Language Models for Cost-Efficient Scientific Discovery
arXiv:2610.28706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-driven evolutionary search is a promising paradigm for scientific discovery, but existing methods remain costly and slow, often applying expensive reasoning uniformly while underusing evidence…
Automating ML for Science: Can Frontier Agents Climb Scientific Hills in the Wild?
arXiv:2610.28763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents are increasingly framed as end-to-end automated researchers, and ML for science offers a demanding test of that promise: improving a scientific model often requires domain…
Forging More Tasks into Better Harnesses: Agentic Harness Evolution via Successive Scale Racing
arXiv:2610.28815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic harness evolution optimizes an agent's instructions, tools, and control flow by using its task execution experiences as evolving evidence. While more evolution tasks should intuitively improve…
NI risks missing 2030 energy goals, says Stormont committee
A committee hears that Northern Ireland could lose out on economic opportunities if action is not accelerated.
APOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating…
Fires Char New Guinea
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Char New Guinea Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology…
Baby manta rays hunker down close to coasts before facing the open ocean's dangers
Giant manta rays can grow up to nine meters (30 feet) long with a disk size of seven meters (23 feet) across and weigh up to 2,000 kg (4,400 pounds). This size leaves them with very few natural enemies once they reach adulthood at around eight to…
When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive
Reclaiming the label "witch" has become an act of feminist solidarity. But are we recovering the women themselves, or a posthumous identity built from accusation rather than fact?
Protein-Shakes & Co für Teenager: sinnvoll oder gefährlich?
Proteinprodukte verheißen Muskelaufbau und Gewichtsabnahme - und sind sehr beliebt bei Jugendlichen. Für Kinder versprechen Eiweißpulver ein gesundes Wachstum. Stimmt das? Und wie viel Protein ist noch gesund?
Daughter of woman killed by partner 'refuses to be another victim'
Keeley McKee's mother Leanne was killed by her partner in 2003, weeks before the couple were due to marry.
STAT+: CMS extends fraud crackdown to New York’s adult day care program
Just one week after being granted the authority to kick providers off of federal health care programs, U.S. health officials are using it on adult day care centers in New York City they say are committing fraud. Officials with the Centers for…
STAT+: Another diabetes association leader is out while review continues
Just over six weeks after the American Diabetes Association said its review of an incident at its New Orleans meeting in June would need more time, one of its top leaders is out. Rita Kalyani, chief scientific and medical officer, “is no longer in…
Why is a peat fire so bad? BBC is in Indonesia to find out
The BBC's Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, to explain what peat is and why Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade.
Meet the people moving north to escape increasingly hot summers
As climate change fuels hotter summers, some Britons are moving north in search of cooler weather. Could a similar shift be on the horizon in the United States? (Image credit: Dan Kitwood)
Fenomenul El Niño ar putea atinge o intensitate fără precedent. Avertismentul meteorologilor
Fenomenul meteorologic El Nino ar putea atinge o intensitate fără precedent, cu temperaturi ale apei din zona tropicală a Oceanului Pacific care riscă să crească până la niveluri record, a anunţat Organizaţia Meteorologică Mondială.
Andy Burnham says decision on Jackdaw is something the Tories 'messed up' - video
The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, thanked the prime minister for backing Jackdaw after the Tories approved it in 2022. But Burnham said he made a decision on something the Tories messed up, and the government had made a bridge to the future…
UN agencies appeal for help to protect weakest from unprecedented El Niño
Two UN agencies issued a powerful appeal on Wednesday for immediate assistance to help communities already being impacted by the strongest El Niño weather pattern on record.
Hundreds of websites taken offline as concern grows over two PHP vulnerabilities
The maintainers of the globally used PHP scripting language released patches for two vulnerabilities after alerting users that the bugs were severe.
Guvernul anunță măsuri împotriva violenței în școli. Premierul: „Toleranță zero față de armele albe”
La preluarea mandatului de către noua conducere a Ministerului Educației, premierul Luca Niculescu a indicat siguranța din școli drept una dintre urgențele care necesită măsuri concrete.
Luca Niculescu anunţă „un plan concret de acțiune” pentru siguranţa elevilor şi profesorilor. „E linia roşie de la care nu ne abatem”
Premierul Luca Niculescu a vorbit despre urgenţele în domeniul educaţiei și a spus că siguranţa elevilor şi a profesorilor este linia roşie de la care guvernul nu se abate. El anunţă că are în vedere un plan concret de acţiune realizat împreună cu…
Un bărbat de 51 de ani a fost prins în flagrant vânzând droguri, în Dâmbovița. Cum acționa pentru a se feri de Poliție
Un bărbat de 51 de ani care deţinea şi vindea droguri în Târgovişte şi localităţi din Dâmboviţa a fost arestat preventiv, după ce a fost prins în flagrant delict, informează, miercuri, IPJ Dâmboviţa.
Amendă de peste 1.200 de lei pentru un șofer cu 7 pasageri în mașină și cauciucuri uzate care a depășit pe linie continuă, pe DN1, în Bihor
Un șofer cu 7 persoane în mașină a fost filmat din dronă când depășea pe linie continuă, pe DN1, în Bihor, în timpul unei razii de amploare a poliției. Echipamentele de ultimă generație ale agenților rutieri au permis identificarea rapidă a mai…
Reese keeps Dream rolling in Game 3 to take series lead in WNBA Finals
Angel Reese kept the Dream rolling in Game 3 with a 97-71 win as Atlanta took a 2-1 lead over the Valkyries in the WNBA Finals.
Giannis says new-look Heat 'got to trust each other more' after blowout loss
Following an opening night blowout loss to the Timberwolves, Giannis Antetokounmpo preached trust as the primary area that needs improvement for the new-look Heat.
Ohtani won't require surgery; Dodgers 'fully expect him to pitch next year'
Shohei Ohtani will not require surgery to treat any ailment he dealt with this past season, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said Wednesday. And: "I fully expect him to pitch next year," Friedman added.
Hall of Fame hoops coach Huggins has progressive cognitive condition
Hall of Fame college basketball coach Bob Huggins has a progressive cognitive condition that is affecting his memory and aspects of his daily life, his family said.
Panthers' Tkachuk embraces boos, scores in acrimonious return to Ottawa
Brady Tkachuk embraced the overwhelming antagonism he faced in his first game back in Ottawa as fans welcomed back the former captain with constant boos.