A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck eastern Indonesia, claiming two lives and causing widespread panic and significant damage across the Flores region. Authorities lifted an initial tsunami warning after monitoring showed no significant threat to coastal communities.
A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck eastern Indonesia, claiming two lives and causing widespread panic and significant damage across the Flores region. Authorities lifted an initial tsunami warning after monitoring showed no significant threat to coastal communities.
Eight illustrations by French artist Henri Matisse, valued at approximately £148,000, have been recovered by Brazilian police following their theft from a São Paulo library last December. A 44-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the case.
France's Constitutional Council has blocked a government-backed law to ban social media for under-15s, citing infringements on freedom of expression. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to propose a new draft, aiming for reform by 2027.
At least eight people have died and thousands were left stranded at Tokyo's Narita Airport after "unprecedented" record rainfall hit eastern Japan, particularly the Chiba prefecture. The deluge triggered emergency warnings, widespread flooding, power outages, and transport disruption.
Vote counting in Zambia's presidential, parliamentary, and local elections has resumed after a nationwide halt was lifted. The Electoral Commission of Zambia had paused the process citing alleged attacks on polling staff and the theft of marked ballot papers, prompting concerns from opposition and calls for calm from the incumbent president.
Flock Safety's chief executive Garrett Langley has acknowledged the company should have acted sooner to prevent police misusing its licence plate readers and cameras, as it rolls out new data safeguards.
WhatsApp has started a limited beta rollout of "Scam Alert", a feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to warn users about potential scam messages, without sending message content off the device.
Security researchers have unveiled new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to compel the operating system into installing insecure or vulnerable vendor software, ultimately granting attackers SYSTEM privileges. These exploits, demonstrated at DEF CON 34, can occur with no user interaction, without a logged-in user, and even remotely without physical USB hardware.
