Booking.com Security Flaw Exposed After 10 Downing Street Listed as Rental
Consumer watchdogs revealed glaring security gaps on Booking.com after successfully listing 10 Downing Street as a holiday rental.
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NASA and ESA Astronauts Complete Rare All-Female ISS Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot concluded a rare all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday…
Google and Meta Offer Millions to Hollywood for AI Video Training Data
Google and Meta are offering Hollywood studios millions of dollars to secure licensing agreements that would allow the tech giants to train AI-generated video models on…
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Up to 45% Lower Costs for Agentic Work
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, delivering major gains in agentic coding and research benchmarks while cutting cache read costs by up to 45 percent to address…
LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment Detects Potential First Hint of Dark Matter Particle
Scientists from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment reported on September 1, 2026, that they have recorded a single particle interaction that may be the first hint of a dark matter…
Google Launches AI-Powered Image Tool Google Pics for Workspace
Google is launching Google Pics, a new AI-powered image creation and editing tool built on its Nano Banana model.
MeerKAT Detects Faint Hydrogen Signal From Distant Universe Without Optics
Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have directly detected faint neutral hydrogen gas across billions of light-years.
Abu Dhabi International Hunting Exhibition 2026 Opens at ADNEC
The 23rd edition of the Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition opened at ADNEC Abu Dhabi, running from August 28 to September 6, 2026.
Scientists Run Two Genetic Codes in One Cell
Researchers have successfully operated two distinct genetic codes inside a single translation system, marking a foundational step toward engineering living cells with proteins and…
Microsoft 365 and Outlook Outages Disrupt Businesses Worldwide
Thousands of business users faced widespread disruptions on Monday, August 31, 2026, as a major Microsoft 365 outage hit Exchange Online, Outlook, and auxiliary services.
UK Drought: Hosepipe Bans Affect 30 Million Across England and Wales
Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales are under drought conditions following provisional records for their driest July, prompting 11 water companies to enforce…
ESA Cluster Mission Ends as Final Two Satellites Reenter Earth’s Atmosphere
The European Space Agency concludes its pioneering Cluster mission as the Samba and Tango satellites burn up over the South Pacific Ocean on August 31 and September 1, 2026.