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Holding your breath could REWIRE your brain: Scientists discover divers who plunge underwater without oxygen develop remarkable mental adaptation
Oct 6, 2026

Holding your breath could REWIRE your brain: Scientists discover divers who plunge underwater without oxygen develop remarkable mental adaptation

Scientists have discovered that freedivers who plunge deep underwater develop incredible mental adaptations that protect neural networks involved in attention, movement and memory....

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Melting Swiss Glaciers Release Archaeological Treasures
Oct 6, 2026

Melting Swiss Glaciers Release Archaeological Treasures

Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice....

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Mysterious 'phoenix planet' found around the remains of a dying star
Oct 6, 2026

Mysterious 'phoenix planet' found around the remains of a dying star

Mysterious ‘phoenix planet’ found around the remains of a dying starThe phoenix, which was considered a mythical bird with an eternal cycle of life and death, has now inspired the name for a world dub...

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UP govt aims to establish Lucknow among Indias leading AI innovation cities: Yogi Adityanath
Oct 6, 2026

UP govt aims to establish Lucknow among Indias leading AI innovation cities: Yogi Adityanath

UP govt aims to establish Lucknow among India's leading AI innovation cities: Yogi Adityanath...

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Tablet shipments decline 3.8 pc YoY, hit by memory price inflation: Report
Oct 6, 2026

Tablet shipments decline 3.8 pc YoY, hit by memory price inflation: Report

Tablet shipments decline 3.8 pc YoY, hit by memory price inflation: Report...

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Tech expert reveals the Amazon Prime Day discounts that aren't as good as they seem - and the 'best ever' deals he'd snap up right now
Oct 6, 2026

Tech expert reveals the Amazon Prime Day discounts that aren't as good as they seem - and the 'best ever' deals he'd snap up right now

We've scoured Amazon's historical prices to find you the deals that are really worth grabbing now, and the ones worth waiting until Black Friday for....

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Frances Mistral announces new AI model
Oct 6, 2026

Frances Mistral announces new AI model

AI-EUROPE-MISTRAL:France's Mistral announces new AI model...

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Poco X8 Power review: Great battery life and striking design, but does it justify  ₹35,999 price tag?
Oct 6, 2026

Poco X8 Power review: Great battery life and striking design, but does it justify ₹35,999 price tag?

Poco X8 Power stands out with a massive 10,000mAh battery, delivering up to two days of use on a single charge. The phone also offers a 1.5K 120Hz AMOLED display, IP69K protection, 100W charging and a...

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Would China agree to slow AI development? That’s the wrong question
Oct 6, 2026

Would China agree to slow AI development? That’s the wrong question

The latest US-China summit covered a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence (AI). However, the official readouts from both countries did not touch upon an issue that has generated heat...

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Gloucester Docks dredging project costing £4m begins
Oct 6, 2026

Gloucester Docks dredging project costing £4m begins

Silt levels in the docks have left boats stranded and led to the docks closing this summer....

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US payroll data shows young workers' jobs most affected by artificial intelligence
Oct 6, 2026

US payroll data shows young workers' jobs most affected by artificial intelligence

In August, US employment in roles most exposed to AI for people aged between 22 and 25 shrank by 4.4 percent year-on-year. This means there's been a contraction every single month since October 2023, ...

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As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge
Oct 6, 2026

As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge

On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of...

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LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings
Oct 6, 2026

LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings

A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either ...

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World's heaviest insect makes astonishing comeback after conservationists save giant bug from extinction
Oct 6, 2026

World's heaviest insect makes astonishing comeback after conservationists save giant bug from extinction

The world's heaviest insect has made an astonishing comeback after conservationists saved the giant bug from the brink of extinction....

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Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies
Oct 6, 2026

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public ...

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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel
Oct 6, 2026

'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space....

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Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats
Oct 6, 2026

Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats

Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes....

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The death of pale rosé? Gen Z would rather pay for a dark pink White Zinfandel than a Provence classic, study finds
Oct 6, 2026

The death of pale rosé? Gen Z would rather pay for a dark pink White Zinfandel than a Provence classic, study finds

Forget vineyards, vintages and fancy French labels - according to a new study, the quickest way to win over Gen Z wine drinkers is simply to make your rosé a darker shade of pink....

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Four aviation start-ups named finalists in World Aviation Festival competition
Oct 6, 2026

Four aviation start-ups named finalists in World Aviation Festival competition

Four start-ups addressing AI-driven flight shopping, AI search optimisation, airline ancillaries, and airport boarding processes have been selected to compete in the World Aviation Festival’s annual S...

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Travel Operators Can’t Just Watch as AI Reroutes the Customer Journey
Oct 6, 2026

Travel Operators Can’t Just Watch as AI Reroutes the Customer Journey

Operators of hotels, resorts, theme parks, and cruises succeed by making their customers feel welcome, looked-after, and alive. It’s therefore understandable that they are often cautious about adoptin...

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Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers
Oct 6, 2026

Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers

In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built s...

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World Bank says India should scale small AI applications instead of betting heavily on frontier models
Oct 6, 2026

World Bank says India should scale small AI applications instead of betting heavily on frontier models

India should focus on expanding the use of existing artificial intelligence applications across the economy and selectively invest in frontier AI capabilities instead of making broad investments in de...

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UK watchdog opens first Online Safety Act probe into Meta
Oct 6, 2026

UK watchdog opens first Online Safety Act probe into Meta

META-PLATFROMS-BRITAIN-INVESTIGATION:UK watchdog opens f...

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India among top 10 emerging markets in AI readiness; private AI investment triples: World Bank
Oct 6, 2026

India among top 10 emerging markets in AI readiness; private AI investment triples: World Bank

India among top 10 emerging markets in AI readiness; private AI investment triples: World Bank...

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ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
Oct 6, 2026

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app....

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Belgian physicist awarded Nobel Prize for pioneering work tracking neutrino particles at South Pole
Oct 6, 2026

Belgian physicist awarded Nobel Prize for pioneering work tracking neutrino particles at South Pole

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm....

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Nobel Prizes 2026: What to Know
Oct 6, 2026

Nobel Prizes 2026: What to Know

The recipients of the six awards in science, literature, economics and peace work are being announced this week....

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 goes to Francis Halzen: Who is he and what did he discover?
Oct 6, 2026

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 goes to Francis Halzen: Who is he and what did he discover?

Francis Halzen receives the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pivotal contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the identification of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, leveraging Sout...

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Carbon tracking tower put on Scotland's largest saltmarsh
Oct 6, 2026

Carbon tracking tower put on Scotland's largest saltmarsh

It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth....

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Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports
Oct 6, 2026

Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports

Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit s...

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