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High school football player practices with venomous snake hiding inside helmet before coach’s discovery
A high school American football player in Arkansas had an alarming surprise during a pre-season practice session when a venomous snake was discovered hiding inside his helmet. The incident occurred at Maumelle High School as the team ran drills split into position groups, and it was only spotted after a teammate noticed movement inside the…
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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
Security researchers have disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom’s screen-sharing feature that could have let an attacker silently take control of another participant’s device during a call, without any warning or interaction required from the victim. The flaws, found by the firm A Security, are particularly striking because they were uncovered using publicly available AI models in…
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Indonesia and India are jointly planning a hydrocarbon-powered future
Hydrocarbons are still the future of energy.
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How to see the Sun’s corona during the eclipse
BBC News has published a video explainer on how viewers can spot the Sun’s corona during a solar eclipse, aimed at those in the US and Canada watching the event. The corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere, becomes visible to the naked eye only during totality, when the Moon fully blocks the Sun’s bright disc, offering…
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Eclipse chasers scramble for glasses as stocks run low
Shoppers across the UK are struggling to find safety-approved eclipse glasses ahead of Wednesday’s solar eclipse, the country’s most significant since 1999, as retailers report stock selling out amid a surge in demand. Health officials have warned that people must not look directly at the sun without proper protection, as even brief exposure can cause…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden “thinking” process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning from US…
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Reader Q&A: ask our reporters anything about fossil fuel profits and the climate crisis
The Guardian is hosting a live reader Q&A with energy correspondent Jillian Ambrose and environment editor Damian Carrington, who will answer questions from 2pm BST about their recent investigation into fossil fuel profits during the climate crisis. The session follows their front-page report revealing that eight of the world’s biggest oil companies made a combined…
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Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware have shown that a malicious SIM card can hijack a phone or connected device by exploiting standardised “proactive SIM” features, potentially executing code, stealing files, forcing a shutdown, or downgrading a connection to 2G. Because the attack abuses functionality explicitly defined in cellular technical specifications rather than…
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AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’
A new study is the first to quantify AI’s climate impact across the entire power sector, finding that productivity gains AI delivers to fossil fuel extraction outweigh the emissions savings it enables in renewables. Researchers modelled 64 scenarios and concluded that net carbon pollution would rise, undercutting claims that AI is primarily a boon for…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Star Fabien Frankel Joins Short Film ‘Love Unlimited’ (EXCLUSIVE)
“House of the Dragon” actor Fabien Frankel will star in and co-produce “Love Unlimited,” a short drama marking the directorial debut of fellow actor Olivier Huband. The project sees Frankel, best known for playing Ser Criston Cole, move into producing for the first time via MarcelMonique Pictures, the banner he runs with his brother Max…