Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates

In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress.

It might sound like the plot of a bonkers sci-fi film, but the world has now witnessed the very first human vs robot boxing match.

Despite being the generation that grew up with Tinder, Hinge and Bumble at their fingertips, a study has revealed Gen Z is in a sex recession.

The news comes as part of a "reset" announced by Xbox in July, with 3,600 planned job losses overall.

Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence. The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series processors, designed to be embedded into physical devices in industrial automation systems such as robotics and factory controllers, enabling computing and graphics processing to be handled locally. Built...

Called Beats 360, the £299.95 headphones are sold alongside a range of ear cups and headband cushions, which can be swapped in and out in seconds.

Scientists say the developing El Niño is now the strongest on record with weather impacts already being felt around the world.

Dependence on consulting firms is a growing trend among governments globally. Left unchecked, it can have a negative impact due to high costs or transparency issues. Such dependence came to the fore in France a few years ago, when the Macron government was criticised for its close ties with US consulting giant McKinsey. UNESCO's Inclusive Policy Lab, headed by Iulia Sevciuc, has established a new blueprint to tackle this problem. She spoke to us in Business.

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, Arista said on September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93952, may allow a remote attacker with no login access to privilege internal functions and affect the VCO host. Only orchestrators set up to authenticate their Edges with certificates are

The Met Office predicts that southern areas could reach 26°C today, while people in the north can expect balmy highs of 22°C.

New developer toolkit lets any travel brand stand up a live, bookable experiences storefront in days rather than quarters, permanently removing the engineering-roadmap blocker that has kept the £300bn experiences opportunity out of reach for much of the industry.