Dog that hunts invasive 'sea vomit' honoured as animal of the year

BBC - Oct 14, 2026

A working is named animal of the year for hunting out an invasive marine creature, the carpet sea squirt.

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Image of mournful elephant mom wins 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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Italian photographer Federico Veronesi's "heartbreakingly poignant" photo of a mother elephant carrying her dead calf has won this year's top Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. See a selection of the other winning photos here.

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NASA has released a new image of a mysterious structure hidden in a remote desert, showing what looks like legs sprouting from its center.

Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App
Oct 14, 2026
Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App

Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with the rights of the web server account. The flaw

Netflix, Facing Slowing Growth, Cuts 6% of Its Work Force
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Microsoft Disrupts 3 Phishing Kits Linked to Over 1 Billion Scam Messages
Oct 14, 2026
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Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man System. "Since January 2026, the threat actors behind these kits have been responsible for

A New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope Leo
Oct 14, 2026
A New World of Lung Cancer Therapy Awaits Pope Leo

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How Top Trump Officials Stoked Fears of a Nuke That Could Fry the Power Grid
Oct 14, 2026
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Industrial fire linked to fish and eels' deaths
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Chemicals from firewater runoff entered a brook and spread downstream where dead fish and eels were later found, the Environment Agency has confirmed.

U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud
Oct 14, 2026
U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies, charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, money

NASA to brief public on Artemis III mission progress
Oct 14, 2026
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Bible proven to be 'true' as ancient discoveries shed new light on Jesus' life
Oct 14, 2026
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Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
Oct 14, 2026
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