Elevation-of-Privilege Vulns Dominate Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 111 unique CVEs — notably 44 (about 39%) elevation-of-privilege (EoP) flaws that can let attackers escalate from…
China Questions Security of AI Chips From NVIDIA, AMD Summary China has publicly demanded that NVIDIA prove its AI processors — especially the H2O line — contain no backdoors or…
What the LockBit 4.0 Leak Reveals About RaaS Groups Content Summary The LockBit 4.0 affiliate panel leak (May 7) exposed thousands of chats, ransomware builds, user tags and cryptowallet data,…
Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence Summary Laboratory experiments reported by Park et al. (discussed by Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda) show that the merging of large magnetic…
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection Summary This paper reports laboratory experiments in the Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus (VEST) showing that kinetic-scale turbulence — driven by high-velocity…
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals Summary This study develops a scalable, multistep pipeline to infer parental origin (PofO) of alleles at biobank scale and uses…
One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks Summary This Nature paper reports a statistical study of primordial stellar obliquities for single, Sun-like pre-main-sequence stars by comparing stellar…
EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells Summary This Nature paper reports that Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection drives a specific B cell programme that promotes central…
A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows Summary The conventional aridity or humidity index compares precipitation (P) with potential evapotranspiration (PET) as P/PET. Miguez-Macho and Fan add lateral hydrologic…
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease Summary This Nature paper reports that reduced endogenous lithium (Li) in the ageing brain is associated with the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s…
