XPENG’s IRON Humanoid Robot Rolls Off Production Line in Historic First

Guangzhou, China, on September 8th, XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot walked off the production line under its own power. No remote operator guided those first steps. No pre-programmed sequence kicked in. The machine simply stood, balanced, and moved—autonomously—from manufacturing to motion. XPENG says this marks the world’s first high-level, general-purpose humanoid robot built on a production … Read more

SIR Survivors Detained as Suspected Bangladeshis Raise Questions About India’s Voter List Exercise

The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal was designed to purge ineligible voters following allegations of Bangladeshi infiltration. But cases are now emerging of people whose names survived the exercise and even voted, yet were later detained as suspected foreigners and allegedly pushed across the border. Abdul Jabbar’s Detention The case of … Read more

Man-eater tigress kills 18-year-old girl in Amravati village, sparks village protests

A man-eater tigress that has been roaming the Morshi-Chandur Bazar belt in Amravati district for ten days claimed its second human life on Sunday, triggering protests and a tense standoff between villagers and forest officials. Residents vandalized a forest department vehicle and refused to allow authorities to shift the girl’s body. Fatal Attack in Sonori … Read more

MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation: MikroTrick Attack Chain

RouterOS devices are being actively taken over through a chain of vulnerabilities that grants attackers full administrative control without requiring any credentials. The CERT Polska team, which discovered and coordinated disclosure of the flaws, is urging administrators to update immediately. The MikroTrick Attack Chain The attack chain combines two vulnerabilities in RouterOS and has been … Read more

Three Sacks Recovered From Bhavanipuzha River Containing Dismembered Bodies of Woman and Child

Three sacks recovered from the Bhavanipuzha river at Cheerakadavu in Puthur, Attappady, contained the dismembered remains of a woman believed to be around 30 years old and a girl aged approximately five, police said. The discovery was made on Sunday afternoon after the river’s strong current receded. Residents tending cattle near the riverbank spotted the … Read more

IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Fully Open-Source AI Models From 0.9B to 375B

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), a frontier research lab launched by MBZUAI in May 2025, released something wider: the K2 Horizon release includes six model sizes ranging from 375B-A23B down to 0.9B parameters. Unlike typical releases, IFM shipped the pre-training corpus, intermediate checkpoints, training code, configs and fine-grained logs alongside the models. IFM calls … Read more

MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation, Patch Immediately

The CERT Polska team has confirmed active exploitation of a vulnerability chain affecting MikroTik RouterOS devices. The attack chain, dubbed MikroTrick, combines two flaws and grants full administrative control over devices with SSH exposed to the internet. Patches are available in versions 7.25beta3, 7.24.2, 7.23.4, and 6.49.21. MikroTik released those updates following a coordinated disclosure … Read more

PIL Challenges HPV Vaccination Programme Over Informed Consent Violations

The Universal Health Organisation (UHO) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Supreme Court of India, seeking judicial intervention to ensure the country’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Programme complies with constitutional guarantees of informed consent, bodily autonomy, transparency, and accountability. Filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by UHO Chairperson Dr. Amitav Banerjee … Read more

Landslide Partially Blocks Teesta River in Sikkim, Officials Report No Immediate Flood Threat

A landslide above the Chyakoong River in Sikkim‘s Mangan district has partially blocked both that waterway and the Teesta River, though officials say there is no immediate flood threat to downstream communities. Water accumulated overnight in the affected stretch near Naga Forest, opposite Theng Tunnel. The debris has temporarily obstructed flow in both rivers, authorities … Read more