What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Brilliant Venus and a Harvest Moon Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot, spot brilliant Venus, welcome the equinox, and see the Harvest Moon near Saturn and Neptune….
Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September
“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster Kahle,…
Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-0768) in Langflow, an open-source framework for building AI applications, to steal credentials, tokens, and keys. […]
Historic Engines Take Their Place on Artemis III
On Aug. 24, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began installing the four RS‑25 engines in the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that…
Back to School — Without Food
New SNAP cuts come during a period of upheaval for federal safety net programs, growing hunger across the country and rising grocery prices.
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Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says
Meteorologists say mean average temperature of 16.5C was made 130 times more likely by climate crisisThis year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data, and the…
‘PlastiVan’ 101: When Plastic Companies Write the Lesson Plans
The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable and a source of good jobs.
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Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack
Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update infrastructure and redirecting update requests to malicious servers. […]
Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients
Healthtech company Novocure says the data of an undisclosed number of employees and more than 1,400 U.S. cancer patients has been exposed in a mid-August cyberattack. […]