NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released version 5.2.0 of its Security and Privacy Control catalogue to strengthen guidance…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The article discusses Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act, which will bar people under 16 from having accounts on…
Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks Breached via Salesloft Drift Summary A widespread supply-chain compromise of the Salesloft Drift marketing SaaS has resulted in downstream breaches affecting security vendors including Zscaler and…
Jaguar Land Rover Shuts Down in Scramble to Secure ‘Cyber Incident’ Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) shut down part of its IT systems after a reported “cyber incident” to contain…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary The proportion of awards given by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has almost halved in seven…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary A large meta-analysis of DNA methylation in human tissues has produced an open-access “epigenetic atlas” that…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow optical-fibre design — described in Nature Photonics — replaces a solid glass core with a system…
Unifying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time Summary Quantum mechanics is extraordinarily successful, but its standard formulation relies on a single, synchronized time that coordinates evolution in…
A mammoth toothache: bacterial community discovered in mouth of ancient mammal Summary Researchers analysed teeth, skulls and skin from 483 mammoth specimens — from around one million years ago up…
Is this the future of food? ‘Sexless’ seeds that could transform farming Summary A trial in eastern Australia will soon test a genetically modified sorghum that produces clonal, ‘sexless’ seeds…
