Melting Swiss Glaciers Release Archaeological Treasures

New York Times - Oct 6, 2026

Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.

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Did you know Charlie Chaplin overlapped with 50 Cent? Interactive tool reveals the surprising famous figures who were alive at the same time
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Did you know Charlie Chaplin overlapped with 50 Cent? Interactive tool reveals the surprising famous figures who were alive at the same time

A new interactive tool has revealed the surprising famous figures who were alive at the same time.

Is era of affordable smartphones ending? HMD India CEO warns prices may stay high till 2027
Oct 6, 2026
Is era of affordable smartphones ending? HMD India CEO warns prices may stay high till 2027

HMD India CEO Ravi Kunwar said rising memory and component costs, partly driven by AI demand, could keep smartphone prices elevated through the end of 2027. The company expects price pressure to be particularly significant in India's sub- ₹20,000 segment.

Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers
Oct 6, 2026
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The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models
Oct 6, 2026
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models

An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests could be one of the most token-efficient open models in its class. Reflection AI on Monday debuted Beam, its first open-weight model built for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks. The US firm said Beam was “competitive” with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai – also known as Zhipu AI – and was “approaching” Alibaba...

Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products
Oct 6, 2026
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A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5, rated it 9.3 out of 10, and

FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach
Oct 6, 2026
FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure ​

UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents reveal
Oct 6, 2026
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Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account
Oct 6, 2026
Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account

Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told people never to

Hong Kong’s Hermitage Capital stays devoted to top-tier tech stocks amid jitters
Oct 6, 2026
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Even as geopolitical frictions and market swings unsettle venture investors, Hong Kong-founded Hermitage Capital is sticking to a global strategy of backing frontier technology companies wherever they emerge. With a US$1.5 billion war chest that is 80 per cent in US dollars, with the remainder in renminbi, the private equity firm is ramping up investments across artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics, mainly in the US and China, capitalising on a market turnaround triggered by the...

ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits
Oct 6, 2026
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A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the browser cache disguised as a PNG file," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X.

FBI warns of new scam using real agents' names and spoofed government phone numbers
Oct 6, 2026
FBI warns of new scam using real agents' names and spoofed government phone numbers

The FBI has issued an urgent warning to Americans with a phone about scams that have tricked victims into handing over more than $1.6 billion.

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