NASA's next Mars mission targets Phobos and Deimos, not Red Planet

The News International - Oct 16, 2026

NASA’s next Mars mission targets Phobos and Deimos, not Red Planet This is no secret that most of NASA’s missions revolve around finding Mars’ ancient secrets. But this time something different is going to happen. This time, NASA is backing a mission named JAXA’s...

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PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessions

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A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a

Teslas new Roadster turns in air with SpaceX thrusters, wont land until 2028

Oct 16, 2026

Teslas new Roadster turns in air with SpaceX thrusters, wont land until 2028

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Hong Kong vies for role in robotics boom with launch of embodied AI hub

Oct 16, 2026

Hong Kong vies for role in robotics boom with launch of embodied AI hub

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened the city’s first experimental hub for embodied artificial intelligence on Thursday with the participation of seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including industry leaders Unitree Robotics and Galbot, as the city looks to carve out a role in the global robotics boom. Located at the HKPC Building in Kowloon Tong, the Embodied AI International Applications Hub, housed under the HKPC’s industrial AI and robotics centre, features simulated...

BSNL launches ₹202 prepaid plan with 5GB data and 32-day validity: Check benefits

Oct 16, 2026

BSNL launches ₹202 prepaid plan with 5GB data and 32-day validity: Check benefits

BSNL has introduced a ₹202 prepaid plan with 32-day validity, 5GB high-speed data, 300 minutes of voice calls and 100 SMS. Compare its benefits with the ₹247 recharge, which offers unlimited calling, 50GB of data and 30-day validity, to see which plan suits your needs.

Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster, an EV Sports Car at Least $200,000

Oct 16, 2026

Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster, an EV Sports Car at Least $200,000

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AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba’s Amap: researchers

Oct 16, 2026

AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba’s Amap: researchers

A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party researchers. It is one of the first reported “rogue” AI events involving Chinese companies, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the US, including from OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems. Agents running...

Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says

Oct 15, 2026

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Living with a stink? Technology might help

Oct 15, 2026

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Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.

Living with a stink? Technology might help

Oct 15, 2026

Living with a stink? Technology might help

Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.

Hong Kong investors most eager in Asia to beat markets – but temper return hopes: report

Oct 15, 2026

Hong Kong investors most eager in Asia to beat markets – but temper return hopes: report

Hong Kong investors are Asia’s most ambitious stock pickers, but they have much more subdued return expectations than regional peers swept up in enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, according to a survey by a global asset management firm. Some 95 per cent of Hong Kong respondents said they wanted to outperform the market, the highest proportion in Asia, where the average stood at 85 per cent, according to a survey conducted in August by Natixis Investment Managers. Hong Kong investors...

EU member states set for budget clash

Oct 15, 2026

EU member states set for budget clash

European lawmakers have kicked off what's likely to be a long and fierce negotiation over the bloc's seven-year budget. Member states are divided on spending priorities, and pending elections in countries including France and Italy are adding pressure to the talks in Brussels. Also in the show: AI stocks lose a trillion dollars in this week's tech stock sell-off, and Ledger's CTO Charles Guillemet explains why AI is changing the security landscape.

Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

Oct 15, 2026

Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared

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