Researchers keep breaking the memory shuffle that stops exploits
ASLR hides code at random memory addresses so exploits miss. Researchers found it anyway by timing the CPU from JavaScript and by probing Chrome's memory.
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Fox News parts with Maria Bartiromo and gives no reason
Fox News Media dropped Maria Bartiromo on 2026-09-03 and gave no reason. Trump called her "a true warrior", and a Smartmatic lawsuit still names her.
NHS England ranks 999 calls, and category 2 is the crowded one
England's ambulance services sort 999 calls into categories. Category 1 is the most urgent, and category 2 covers strokes and heart attacks.
Concorde carried its last passengers in 2003. Nothing replaced it
Concorde's last passenger flight landed at Heathrow on October 24, 2003. Costs, noise and a fatal crash ended it, and no supersonic airliner has flown since.
US Senate races barely mention Social Security's 2032 deadline
The US Social Security trust fund runs dry in 2032, and benefits drop 22% unless Congress acts. Few Senate candidates are discussing it.
Much ocean plastic sinks or washes ashore within a month
Most sea plastic sinks or beaches within a month. What escapes drifts in a gyre, or breaks into fragments small enough to reach a fish.
The US doesn't use the two-quarter rule to call a recession
A private committee at the NBER makes the call, weighing jobs, income and output. The UK's ONS calls the shorthand a technical recession.
The ship of Theseus: the puzzle philosophers never settled
Replace every plank of a ship and is it the same ship? Philosophers have argued since Plutarch, and the same question now gets asked about people.
The Atlantic has had no hurricanes so far in 2026
A strong El Niño has kept the Atlantic free of hurricanes deep into its peak season, while the eastern Pacific runs unusually hot.
Researchers say QWERTY came from telegraphy, not jams
The usual story says QWERTY stopped typebars jamming. A 2011 Kyoto University paper traces the layout to the needs of telegraph operators.
The Princess of Wales completes the Three Peaks, a royal first
Catherine, Princess of Wales, is the first royal to finish the UK's Three Peaks Challenge. She raised money for the Royal Marsden, which treated her.
Your taste in music may owe something to Pavlov's dogs
Ivan Pavlov's drooling dogs showed that one event can come to signal another. The same learning shapes human fears, likes and loyalties.
Great Britain and Ireland win Walker Cup in record comeback
Great Britain and Ireland lost the Sunday foursomes 4-0 at Lahinch, then beat the USA 13½-12½ to win their first Walker Cup since 2015.
UK has 47 working F-35B jets, and the next order is stalled
DE&S accepted the UK's 48th and last first-batch F-35B in March, but the next order waits on a delayed Defence Investment Plan.
The first US commercial deep-sea mining permit is under review
NOAA is weighing a bid from The Metals Company USA to mine seabed nodules beyond US waters. No company has ever held such a US recovery permit.
UK hiring confidence is at its lowest outside the pandemic
A CIPD survey of more than 2,000 employers finds one in six expect AI to shrink their workforce next year, against 6% who expect it to grow.
Rochdale's mill workers wrote the rulebook co-ops copied
The Rochdale Pioneers were not the first co-op, but their 1844 rules on dividends, votes and cash-only trade became the model co-operatives copied worldwide.
The geometry lecture that waited 61 years for Einstein
Bernhard Riemann's 1854 lecture on curved space sat mostly ignored for decades before Albert Einstein built general relativity on its ideas in 1915.
Switzerland's fourth language split into five mountain dialects
Switzerland has four national languages. In Graubünden's isolated valleys, Romansh split into five dialects, and it has since lost half its speakers.
Kristen Bell hosts the Actor Awards for a third time
Bell renamed nominees in her opening monologue. Ten days earlier, the Sonic the Hedgehog makers named her the voice of Amy Rose.
Kimi Antonelli wins the Italian Grand Prix from 19th
The Mercedes driver took an engine penalty, then won at Monza. Two days earlier he told the Guardian that F1 can be very brutal.
Australia's Stolen Generations survivors still wait on redress
Nearly 30 years after the Bringing Them Home inquiry, the Healing Foundation says Stolen Generations survivors still lack records, care and redress.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day carries Marvel's hopes for a rebound
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has opened to split reviews, and Sony is banking on it to reverse three underwhelming Marvel films.
Iceland's Althing is called the oldest parliament. It has a gap.
Iceland dates its Althing to 930 and calls it the oldest parliament, though the assembly stopped sitting for about 45 years.