Eight Sleep’s new Pod 6 comes in smaller and solo sizes, starting at $1,999

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Eight Sleep said the new pod is 20% faster than the previous generation.

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Radio signals coming directly from an exoplanet, a planet outside the solar system, have been detected for the very first time.

Autumn is officially here…so why is it still so hot? Scientists blame the growing Super El Niño for the strangely warm weather - and say it could last for weeks

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Autumn is officially here…so why is it still so hot? Scientists blame the growing Super El Niño for the strangely warm weather - and say it could last for weeks

The growing Super El Niño is starting to shape global weather, having smashed temperature records months before its expected peak.

Trump offloads tens of millions in AI, tech shares, led by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta

Sep 23, 2026

Trump offloads tens of millions in AI, tech shares, led by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta

US President Donald Trump has sold shares worth tens of millions of US dollars in major tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms in July, a move that may reveal some of his views on the sector, especially as competition with China intensifies. Microsoft topped the list of sales transactions, with six trades totalling up to US$31 million, according to filings disclosed by the US Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday. The data detailed Trump’s trading activity in July,...

Super El Niño could cause 451,000 deaths, scientists predict - as they call for urgent action to save lives

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Super El Niño could cause 451,000 deaths, scientists predict - as they call for urgent action to save lives

Scientists from the University of Chicago used climate models to predict the impact the devastating climate event could have.

New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control

Sep 23, 2026

New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control

A flaw in cPanel's CalDAV and CardDAV service lets anyone with a cPanel hosting account run code as root and take "full control of the server," the company said on September 22. A second bug in the WP Toolkit plugin, used to install and manage WordPress sites, allows an account holder to change databases that belong to other accounts. cPanel has released fixed versions for both,

OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

Sep 23, 2026

OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine

Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Sep 23, 2026

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes back is a report the agent wrote about itself: confident prose, a list of findings, and no way to tell which of them happened. Someone with a security background then sits down and checks every claim against the target. Which findings are real,

Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests

Sep 23, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday announced new models, with both artificial intelligence (AI) companies noting that they are continuing to invest in improving alignment to combat risky behavior. Opus 5.5, per Anthropic, is a "major step up from Opus 5," and "achieves the best scores of any model to date on our automated behavioral audit, our alignment suite that tests Claude across thousands

China’s storage makers aim to climb value chain with advanced packaging bets

Sep 23, 2026

China’s storage makers aim to climb value chain with advanced packaging bets

Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage Technology will pour into the third phase of its advanced packaging and testing project in Dongguan, in southern China’s Guangdong province, will exceed the 3.09 billion yuan it put into the first two...

Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

Sep 23, 2026

Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the host, security firm DepthFirst said in research published September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-80521 (CVSS score: 7.8), was fixed upstream on August 6, but Ubuntu has not shipped the patch for its 26.04, 24.04, or 22.04 LTS releases. DepthFirst

First-ever radio signal from exoplanet reveals its magnetic field

Sep 23, 2026

First-ever radio signal from exoplanet reveals its magnetic field

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FBI hacked? ShinyHunters claims brazen theft of sensitive agent data — what the cybercriminal group wants

Sep 23, 2026

FBI hacked? ShinyHunters claims brazen theft of sensitive agent data — what the cybercriminal group wants

ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI and stole sensitive data belonging to agents and job applicants. The hacker group says it accessed terabytes of information through an Oracle PeopleSoft server and an Amazon-hosted government cloud.

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