Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational, first-of-its-kind research expedition (Expedition 501) has recovered freshwater from beneath the Atlantic seabed…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a large district cooling network that uses Seine river water, via heat exchangers and pipework, to cool around…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to put at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle a…
Secretive MaaS Group ‘TAG-150’ Develops Novel ‘CastleRAT’ Summary Researchers have mapped an emerging malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation labelled TAG-150 that builds on a widely distributed loader (CastleLoader) and a MaaS platform…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, used an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and open-source patches to generate vulnerable test…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons Summary The US Federal Communications Commission, led by Chair Brendan Carr, has moved to roll back two Biden-era…
Critical SAP S/4HANA Vulnerability Under Attack, Patch Now Summary A critical code-injection flaw (CVE-2025-42957) in SAP S/4HANA — scored 9.9 CVSS — is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability…
Summary Amazon’s Project Kuiper has secured its first airline agreement with JetBlue to provide satellite-based in‑flight Wi‑Fi. Amazon demonstrated an “enterprise‑grade” terminal reaching just over 1 Gbps in a speed…
Air Pollution Can Drive Devastating Forms of Dementia, Research Suggests Summary New research, reported via Slashdot from The Guardian and published in Science, shows fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) can…
First Brain-Wide Map of Decision-Making Charted In Mice Summary A large, multi-lab collaboration has produced the first brain-wide map of decision-making activity in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly…
