The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle program following an inflight anomaly involving its Super Heavy first-stage booster during Flight 12. In a statement released after the May 22, 2026 test from Boca Chica, Texas, the FAA classified the booster’s landing failure as a flight mishap,...
Atlanta — Federal forecasters predicted a quieter 2026 Atlantic hurricane season on Wednesday, estimating eight to fourteen named storms and attributing the reduced outlook to a high probability of El Niño developing this spring. Local meteorologists and NOAA officials emphasized the projection while noting that seasonal forecasts do not preclude...
United States-based security researchers reported that four popular Laravel-Lang Composer packages were surreptitiously poisoned with malware after attackers manipulated Git tags to redirect users to malicious code, according to a SecurityWeek article published Monday. The affected PHP localization libraries are laravel-lang/lang, laravel-lang/http-statuses, laravel-lang/attributes, and laravel-lang/actions, which are widely used by...
More than 700 websites running the Ghost content management system have been compromised through a recently disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2026-26980, according to research by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qianxin XLab reported Monday by SecurityWeek. The flaw affects Ghost versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0 and allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary database content. Using...
Kentucky, United States – The Republican congressional primary in Kentucky ended with the defeat of incumbent Representative Thomas Massie after a campaign that featured the prominent use of artificial intelligence-generated political advertising. A pro-Trump super PAC called “MAGA Kentucky” produced and circulated a deepfake-style video that used generative AI to...
On May 24, 2026, Microsoft-owned GitHub confirmed that an external threat group, identified as TeamPCP, compromised parts of its internal codebase through a software supply chain attack. According to GitHub and independent security researchers, the intrusion was traced to a malicious update of the widely used Visual Studio Code extension...
Las Vegas. The inaugural Enhanced Games opened this weekend with 42 athletes competing under organisers' medical supervision while using substances banned by Olympic authorities; organisers and CEO Max Martin predicted multiple world records on the eve of the event, following months of training in Abu Dhabi where some athletes reportedly...
United States-based AI company Anthropic has disclosed that its new cybersecurity initiative, Project Glasswing, used its specialized Claude Mythos model to conduct one of the largest automated security audits yet performed by a large language model. Launched last month with a cohort of 50 cybersecurity partners, the project used the...
United States – SpaceX has successfully completed Flight 12 of its Starship V3 megarocket, a test mission that the company describes as a critical milestone in the development of its heavy-lift launch capabilities. The vehicle, billed as the most powerful rocket ever constructed, lifted off following a brief delay on...
United States: Gasoline prices rose sharply this week as reports linked the increase to the Iran conflict and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, pushing the national average to about $4.55 per gallon on Wednesday, May 22, according to AAA figures cited by international and local outlets. Local averages vary,...
