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At least 20 people have been killed after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Colombia and other Latin American countries on Monday, causing damage and injuries and building evacuations in the capital Bogota. In the town of Pereira, 18 people were killed and others trapped in buildings that had collapsed, Mayor Mauricio Salazar told Caracol Radio. “The situation is critical,” Salazar told Caracol Radio after the quake centred in neighbouring Choco province. The Colombian geological service put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6 while its American counterpart USGS put it at 7.4, with an epicenter 100km (62 miles) underground in…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Retail sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Shein’s advisers are pitching the company to potential investors at a valuation below $30bn, a roughly 70 per cent drop from its peak, as the fast-fashion retailer battles to win investor interest in its long-awaited initial public offering.Chinese regulators last month approved the clothing giant’s application to list in Hong Kong, greenlighting an IPO that has been more than four years in the making.Shein’s previous attempts to list in New York and London were derailed by opposition from politicians and scrutiny of…

Boeing is selling three of its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) subsidiaries to Archer Aviation, in addition to taking an undisclosed stake in the San Jose-based company.The subsidiares to be acquired by Archer include Wisk Aero, which has been developing an autonomous electric aircraft; SkyGrid, which is building air traffic management systems to be used by urban air taxis; and Insitu, which makes high-altitude drones used by the US Navy. As part of the deal, Boeing and Archer will share technology and Boeing will retain access to Wisk’s autonomous flight systems for its current and next-gen commercial and defense…

Swati KhandelwalAug 10, 2026Cyber Espionage / Artificial Intelligence North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software parts needed to build AI into its malware. South Korean security firm Genians says it uncovered the setup after months of tracking and log analysis on infrastructure tied to Kimsuky, a hacking unit under North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau. Genians found no evidence that the group had trained…

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 push failed to gain meaningful mining support over the weekend, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain that produced only two blocks before stalling at height 961,633.The soft fork was designed to temporarily restrict several forms of arbitrary data on Bitcoin and required 55% miner signaling during its deployment window.Instead, signaling peaked at only a few percentage points before mandatory signaling began at block 961,632, where BIP-110 nodes rejected blocks they considered invalid and split from the dominant chain. Roughnecks mined the minority branch’s first two blocks, but no third block followed. Related ReadingBitcoin split into two…

Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light and revealing features such as the “mane” of hazy, comet-shaped objects. Now Webb has captured a clearer, more detailed view of the Lion Nebula due to its high-resolution imaging. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the…

As global warming continued to reshape Earth’s climate, the planet’s oceans reached record high temperatures for the third year in a row in 2025. Some northern forests and tundra released more carbon dioxide than they absorbed. And the Greenland Ice Sheet lost about 129 gigatons of ice, enough to form a cube of ice about three miles wide on each side. Those were among the findings in the 2025 State of the Climate report, released Monday by the American Meteorological Society and led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report identified continued burning of fossil fuels…

Two ocean-going tugs from the fleet operated by Boskalis, a Dutch offshore services provider, have undertaken a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) tow mission across the Atlantic. BOKA Alpine and BOKA Glacier tugs towed the FPSO Cidade de Niterói (MV18) from Brazil to Denmark; Source: Boskalis Boskalis has shed light on the role its ocean-going tugs BOKA Alpine and BOKA Glacier recently played in completing a major FPSO towage operation. Each with a bollard pull of 205 metric tons, these sister vessels towed MODEC’s FPSO Cidade de Niterói (MV18) from the Campos Basin offshore Brazil to Frederikshavn in Denmark.…

Recently I found myself thinking about slug-like aliens that crawl through people’s ears and into their brains, with the ultimate purpose of global domination. It would explain a lot about what has gone so wrong with the world, wouldn’t it? And it was why I immediately flashed back to the children’s fantasy series Animorphs when Donald Trump’s health secretary and conspiracy theorist, Robert F Kennedy Jr, admitted to having had a worm in his brain.While visiting my parents in Cleveland, Ohio recently, I realised that a few books from the children’s fantasy series were still sitting on the shelves in…

Claim: A secret NASA document named “Project Anchor” leaked in November 2024, revealing the agency believed the Earth would “lose gravity” for seven seconds on Aug. 12, 2026. Rating: Throughout the first eight months of 2026, people shared a rumor alleging Earth would “lose gravity” for seven seconds on Aug. 12, leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people. Users purported a secret NASA document named “Project Anchor” leaked in November 2024, revealing the agency had known of and organized special preparations for the cosmic event. For example, in March 2026, an Instagram user posted (archived) a meme…