Scientists from Imperial College London predict that over 50,000 people died in urban areas across 30 countries, including the UK, as a result of extreme heat....

This summer’s heat was the continent’s deadliest by far this century, according to new peer-reviewed estimates....

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for rain across most of central and eastern Scotland on Friday....

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems....

The Prince of Wales was marking his Earthshot Prize, to which all of Norton's guests were linked....

A daily update on the latest business and economic news....

What to know about the AI-detected security bug impacting wide swaths of the internet...

From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week....

A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth....

USA-BANKS-AI-AGENTS:US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say...

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up....

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. ...

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October...

Crews and control centre staff say the fires were relentless with many firefighters still off work injured....

The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force....

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recove...

Samsung has expanded its Certified Re-Newed programme to Amazon.com, offering 14 refurbished Galaxy S24 and S25 models starting at $489. The phones feature genuine Samsung parts, new batteries, 147 qu...

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and ...

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies....

Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered....

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven....

Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the m...

Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal,...

Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language....

A hybrid storm is moving along the US East Coast, bringing dangerous conditions to Americans hundreds of miles from its center....

Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night is one of the most iconic works of art ever produced - and now experts have discovered what the painting really shows....

A Met Office weather warning is in place from 18:00 BST on Saturday until 15:00 GMT on Sunday....

Videos from the Arizona capital show people sheltering inside a car as hail smashes the windscreen, while intense downpours covered neighbourhoods in ice....

A critical weakness has gone unnoticed in the very foundations of the internet for decades, but now AI has triggered a global cybersecurity alert by bringing it to light....

Hurricane trackers announced that Cyclone Josephine has formed off the US East Coast. Forecasts show nine states could see storm impacts for days....