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"The wi-fi has been hacked at 19 UK railway stations to display a message about terror attacks.

Network Rail confirmed that the wi-fi systems at stations including London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, Birmingham New Street, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central were affected.

People reported logging on to the wi-fi at the stations on Wednesday and being met with a screen about terror attacks in Europe.

A Network Rail spokesperson confirmed the wi-fi was still down and said: "We are currently dealing with a cyber-security incident affecting the public wi-fi at Network Rail’s managed stations."

The affected stations include:

In London, London Cannon Street, London Bridge, Charing Cross, Clapham Junction, Euston, King’s Cross, Liverpool Street, Paddington, Victoria and Waterloo

In the South East, Reading and Guildford

In the North West, Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street

In the West Midlands, Birmingham New Street

In West Yorkshire, Leeds

In the West and South West, Bristol Temple Meads

In Scotland, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central

British Transport Police was investigating, Network Rail said.

The rail provider said it believed other organisations, not just railway stations, had also been affected..."

... Big Brother Watch slammed the new powers. Director Silkie Carlo said: "Starmer's benefits bank spying proposals sound alarmingly similar to the powers Labour fought just a few months ago in opposition. Everyone wants fraud to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to investigate the bank statements of suspects.

"But to force banks to constantly spy on benefits recipients without suspicion means that not only millions of disabled people, pensioners, and carers will be actively spied on but the whole population's bank accounts are likely to be monitored for no good reason."

Carlo said a "financial snoopers' charter" designed to automate suspicion of the UK's poorest people was intrusive, unjustified, and risks the kind of injustice seen during the Post Office Horizon scandal.

"This is yet another insult to pensioners, an attack on Britain's poorest people, and an assault on the presumption of innocence," she said.

... Big Brother Watch slammed the new powers. Director Silkie Carlo said: "Starmer's benefits bank spying proposals sound alarmingly similar to the powers Labour fought just a few months ago in opposition. Everyone wants fraud to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to investigate the bank statements of suspects.

"But to force banks to constantly spy on benefits recipients without suspicion means that not only millions of disabled people, pensioners, and carers will be actively spied on but the whole population's bank accounts are likely to be monitored for no good reason."

Carlo said a "financial snoopers' charter" designed to automate suspicion of the UK's poorest people was intrusive, unjustified, and risks the kind of injustice seen during the Post Office Horizon scandal.

"This is yet another insult to pensioners, an attack on Britain's poorest people, and an assault on the presumption of innocence," she said.

Pandemics – the global spread of infectious diseases – seem to be making a comeback. In the Middle Ages we had the Black Death (plague), and after the first world war we had the Spanish flu. Tens of millions of people died from these diseases.

Then science began to get the upper hand, with vaccination eradicating smallpox, and polio nearly so. Antibiotics became available to treat bacterial infections, and more recently antivirals as well.

But in recent years and decades pandemics seem to be returning. In the 1980s we had HIV/AIDS, then several flu pandemics, SARS, and now COVID (no, COVID isn’t over).

So why is this happening, and is there anything we can do to avert future pandemics?

Nearly 4.1 billion people, roughly half the planet’s population, experienced unusually hot temperatures between June and August, in what was Earth’s hottest season on record.

Climate change made these high temperatures three times more likely, according to the latest report by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit of scientists and science communicators that conducts research on climate change...

Returning to British suburbia from the Brazilian Amazon is always disconcerting, but it has been doubly weird in the past few days because the London commuter belt has been inundated with volumes of rain that normally belong in the tropics.

Mini-tornadoes, flash floods and the dumping of a month’s worth of rain in a single day have flooded transport hubs, high street pubs, and the shrubs of semidetached homes.

If that sounds unnatural, it is. This weather does not belong in the safe, predictable, home counties of England. At least, not in a normal state of affairs.

But ever-greater combustion of fossil fuels has turned the world’s climate on its head. In the past week, the northern latitudes are behaving like the equatorial margins...

Hurricane Helene is now forecast to reach catastrophic Category 4 strength by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center says, with storm surge potentially climbing to 20 feet along some parts of the coast.

Helene could be the strongest hurricane to hit the United States in over a year – and time is running out for those in its path to prepare.

“A catastrophic and deadly storm surge is likely along portions of the Florida Big Bend coast, where inundation could reach as high as 20 feet above ground level, along with destructive waves,” the center warned. “Preparations to protect life and property should be completed by early Thursday before tropical storm conditions arrive.”

Helene rapidly intensified into a hurricane Wednesday and will continue strengthening as it crosses over the record-warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. Rapidly intensifying storms like Helene are becoming more frequent in a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution...

A scene from the unique horror movie experience Abruptio features Nope's Jordan Peele in a new clip as fans get their first look at Peele's role in the chilling puppet-filled tale.

Screen Rant recently premiered a new scene from Abruptio, featuring Peele alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer's James Marsters, who leads the star-studded cast of the thrilling horror film. The movie is the first horror feature to tell its story using striking, realistic, life-sized puppets throughout the entirety of the film. Abruptio is written and directed by Evan Marlowe, produced by Kerry Marlowe, and by Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz via Anchor Bay Entertainment.

In the Abruptio clip, Peele's character, Danny, is seen playing a song on his guitar before offering relationship advice to Marsters' character, Les Hackel. Both characters are brought to life by life-sized handmade puppets that seem to speak, move and blink in a nearly life-like manner. Watch the clip...

Nothing goes harder than a good horror movie, but we want more than jump scares, SFX, and creepy music. The best horror has real meaning behind it. The latest body horror to drop in 2024 is “The Substance” and its trailer implies a narrative that hits extremely close to home for many of us. Taking society’s fears and making them even more gruesome is what takes body horror to the next level; because what’s scarier than reality?

As the conversation around UFOs/UAPs continues to heat up on Capitol Hill, documentarian James Fox has set his next feature on the subject.

Fox directs The Program, which is described as exploring “the unprecedented bipartisan Congressional effort to uncover what intelligence agencies really know about UFOs, now referred to as UAP.” In July 2023, three former Pentagon officials testified about their experience with or sightings of UFOs/ UAPs, and the U.S. Senate introduced the bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act. Earlier this month it was reported that the Senate Armed Services Committee is looking to hold a UFO hearing after the elections in November.

The doc, narrated by Peter Coyote, will include extensive interviews with insiders, experts, and politicians. Christopher Mellon, the former deputy asst. sec. of defense for intelligence, and Stanford University’s Dr. Gary Nolan, will be among those who appear in the doc. Also set are Jason Sands, a master sergeant in the United States Air Force, Craig Lindsay, formerly of Scotland’s Royal Air Force Office, and Nick Pope, formerly of the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense. Among others, Andre Carson, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Tim Burchett are interviewed, along with Kirk McConnell, who previously held a position in Senate Armed Services Committee...

A CONTROVERSIAL ACADEMIC PAPER recently shook up the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), previously known as UFOs, by looking beyond the most common explanations for flying saucers in the skies: aliens, robots, or drones. In their new work, three researchers from Harvard University and the University of Montana expand the possibilities of what UAPs could be—and whom or what they might contain.

Published in June 2024 in the journal Philosophy and Cosmology, the article generated plenty of attention with a title as lengthy as it was shocking: The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis: A Case for Scientific Openness to a Concealed Earthly Explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The theories within the document’s 42 pages reject common pop culture explanations for UAPs in favor of new ideas ranging from the existential to the spiritual.

In their work, the team ponders if the strange objects and craft spotted in our skies could contain a form of ancient, highly advanced human civilization, predating ours, that has stuck around to observe us. They wonder if we’re seeing vessels containing an intelligent species that evolved on Earth apart from humans—such as possible intelligent dinosaurs who hide away from direct contact. Such ancient or non-human Earthly beings could reside somewhere inside the Earth or under the oceans, they say...

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's secret vampire movie has finally got a title: Sinners. The name was announced just a few hours before Warner Bros. unveiled the fang-filled flick's first trailer, and it looks like a mix between Lovecraft Country and Midnight Mass.

Since Jordan was cast in January 2024, the supernatural horror has been shrouded in mystery. As details slowly began to emerge, like the fact that it'd be set in the '30s, was inspired by anime and that it has franchise potential, though, the aforementioned studio acquired the distribution rights and kicked off filming in April. Principal photography wrapped in July.

Set in the South during the Jim Crow era, it follows Jordan's character, a twin brother who return to his hometown in an attempt to leave his troubled life behind and start over. Unfortunately for him, though, there's a greater evil than they've ever known waiting to welcome them back. Watch the promo above.

"Of all the things I've seen, I ain't never seen no demons, no ghosts, no magic... 'til now," one of Jordan's characters whispers, as a montage runs through increasingly frightening images. "You keep dancing with the devil, one day it's gonna follow you home," says another ominously, as they gather to ward off the unseen beasts that seem to be waiting outside...