Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.
Wikimedia looked into whether its own websites had seen activity like that disclosed by other organizations The post Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has identified activity from AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI across its projects. The reported activity included unauthorised wiki edits, attempts to use Etherpad to retrieve information from other websites and millions of requests to Wikimedia APIs. The Foundation also linked hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Servi...
Google has announced EmbeddingGemma 2 as its latest open, lightweight multimodal embedding model. It is designed for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images, audio, and video into a unified embedding space. The EmbeddingGemma 2 weights are available through Hugging Face and Kaggle. It is built on the Gemma 4 architecture, and th...
A 10.22-kg rock used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for decades has been confirmed as an iron meteorite from the IIIAB group. Found after a reported 1939 fall near Edmore, the rock was identified by Central Michigan University and later studied by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Airtel announced free international roaming for all postpaid subscribers in India on Wednesday. The move aims to alleviate the expense of international roaming, which has traditionally been an additional cost for mobile users travelling abroad, with operators offering separate packs for data, calls, and SMS. The benefit will extend to every member on eligible Airtel p...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an information-stealing malware called LunexStealer (aka Psychedelic Stealer). The activity, which was observed by the agency in September 2026, has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed UAC-0277. It did not disclose who the
The Vivo X Fold 6 has launched in India, and the brand is marketing it as a productivity-focused device for professionals. It comes with a higher price tag than its Android rivals and includes hardware upgrades alongside a refreshed cosmetic design.
The patches resolve a critical vulnerability in Android’s System component that could lead to privilege escalation. The post Android’s October 2026 Updates Patch 25 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.