A vulnerability in a widely used logging library has become a full-blown security meltdown, affecting digital systems across the internet. Hackers are already attempting to exploit it, but even as fixes emerge, researchers warn that the flaw could have serious repercussions worldwide.

In a recent report conducted by a federal watchdog agency it was revealed that the USAF spent $549m on aircraft for the Afghan Air Force only to scrap most of them for around $40k. The transfer of funds involved direction from officials at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable to free it.

In September of 2011, a user named selco joined the forums at SurvivalistBoards.com and posted " my shtf expirience-wartime," a thread that would since become legendary in survivalist communities and beyond - in fact, you frequently see people reference it to this day in communities like 4chan and reddit.

Russia's state weather agency said on Monday that a cloud of radioactive gases that swept across a Russian town earlier this month was produced by fast-decaying radioactive isotopes released by an explosion at the Nyonoksa testing range. Though Russia's explanations for what occurred have varied, the blast has been tied to a failed missile test.

Sixty medics at Arkhangelsk hospital, Russia, flown to Moscow for urgent tests Village of Nyonoksa was the nearest site to 'radiation explosion' which killed five Medic was 'not informed about the amount or concentration of isotope found' Three victims arrived naked in bags on August 8 but medics not told full extent As many as 60 medics at a hospital treating injured workers from the recent Russian 'radiation explosion' have been flown to Moscow for urgent medical tests, it is reported.

Hillary Clinton's uranium sales to Russia take on a new creepiness.

When we hear the words "Fukushima disaster," most of us think of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant wracked by three core meltdowns and three reactor building explosions following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Without electricity to run the plant's cooling systems, managers and workers couldn't avert catastrophe: People around the world [...]