Summary Scientists have built an artificial tongue that senses and identifies flavours entirely in liquid, using graphene oxide membranes — ultra-thin carbon sheets that act as molecular filters for ionic…
Startup Spotlight: Twine Security Tackles the Execution Gap Summary Twine Security, a 2024-founded seed-stage startup (\$17M raised, ~35 employees) and one of four finalists in Black Hat USA’s Startup Spotlight,…
Researcher Deploys Fuzzer to Test Autonomous Vehicle Safety Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, Zhisheng Hu, a product security engineer at Zoox, demonstrated using a fuzzing framework to probe teleoperation…
The Critical Flaw in CVE Scoring Summary Ofri Ouzan of JFrog Security argues that relying on raw CVE/CVSS scores without context misleads organisations and wastes scarce security resources. The article…
Payback: ‘ShinyHunters’ Clocks Google via Salesforce Summary The ShinyHunters-linked group tracked as UNC6040 used voice-phishing (vishing) and social engineering to gain access to Google’s Salesforce instance. Google had previously documented…
Citizen Lab Founder Flags Rise of US Authoritarianism Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, Ron Deibert, founder and director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, warned that digital human-rights…
Samourai Cryptomixer Founders Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Summary Two senior executives behind the Samourai Wallet cryptocurrency mixing service — CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill — have…
Author Correction: RNA codon expansion via programmable pseudouridine editing and decoding Summary This author correction clarifies display errors in the original Nature paper (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09165-x, published 25 June 2025). A…
Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again Summary Apple is reintroducing a Blood Oxygen measurement capability for some recent Apple Watch models in the US via a…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary Tencent told investors on its Q2 earnings call that it…
