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Powered geothermal startup Fervo Energy has raised $462 million to complete its first large-scale power plant and begin development of several others as it races to feed power into the power-hungry grid. Sarah Jewett, Fervo’s senior vice president of strategy, told TechCrunch that the new funding will help the company continue work on its 500-megawatt Cape Station power plant in Utah while beginning development on several other plants. The new round was led by B Capital with participation from AllianceBernstein, Atacama Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, CalSTRS, Capricorn Investment Group, Carbon Equity, Centaurus Capital, Climate First, Congruent Ventures, CPP Investments, Devon…
December 10, 2025hacker newsCloud security/threat detection Cloud security is changing. Attackers can no longer just break down doors. They are finding unlocked windows in your configuration, identity, and code. Standard security tools often miss these threats because they appear to be normal activity. To stop them, we need to see exactly how these attacks occur in the real world. Next week, Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex Cloud team will host a technical deep dive explaining three recent studies and exactly how to defend against them. Secure your spot for a live session ➜ What our experts cover This is not a…
December 10, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerabilities/Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw affecting the WinRAR file archiver and compression utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6218 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a path traversal bug that allows code execution. However, a successful exploit would require the potential target to visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. “A path traversal vulnerability exists in RARLAB WinRAR that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current user,” CISA said in…
In late November, Russia’s restless volcano could erupt, sending a cloud of ash 10 kilometers into the sky and pushing the mountain closer to its original height.Vezimianny Volcano is a dramatic cone-shaped stratovolcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east. It self-destructed in 1956, but a 2020 study found that it had largely returned to normal, and that an eruption like the one that produced the plume on November 26 was the cause. According to the study, the mountain should reach its pre-collapse height between 2030 and 2035.Seventy years ago, Bejimianni towered at least 10,213 feet (3,113 meters) above…
Two millennia ago, the Roman Empire reached the limits of its power in Britain. The island marked the northernmost border of the Roman Empire and the point at which the ancient superpower’s expansion came to a halt.The Romans launched several invasions and kept 10% of the entire army in the province but failed to conquer the whole island. Instead, a militarized frontier divided the island in two — marked by the 73-mile-long (118 kilometers) Hadrian’s Wall, which was the border for nearly 300 years.One key source of information we’ve gleaned about this borderland is a historic fort called Vindolanda, which…
Patient: Michigan manSymptoms: About five weeks after a man underwent a left kidney transplant at an Ohio hospital, he began experiencing tremors, leg weakness, urinary incontinence, and even confusion.What happened next: About a week after these initial symptoms appeared, the man was admitted to the hospital with additional health problems, including a fever and difficulty swallowing. He also developed hydrophobia, an irrational fear of water. After being admitted to the hospital, he required respiratory support with a ventilator. you may like Diagnosis: The man’s doctors suspected that his signs and symptoms were indicative of rabies infection and consulted the Ohio…
Major advances in the fight against persistent water pollution are underway in Illinois. There, national laboratories and local engineering firms are collaborating to develop next-generation water treatment systems that remove harmful PFAS chemicals. The partnership combines the research power of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the manufacturing and engineering expertise of Lisle-based Proficio Consultants to form a team focused on developing systems that work seamlessly with electron beam accelerator technology. Tackling PFAS with cutting-edge science PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are widely used in everything from firefighting foam to household products. Due to its molecular structure, it is highly…
Qures Group CEO Richard Stead talks about the century-long history of hypothiocyanite and lactoperoxidase systems and their modern-day potential in the fight against AMR. In late 2012, I began an intentional effort to understand how nature protects the most vulnerable entry point of the body. I was looking for a natural antibacterial molecule that I didn’t even know the name of that could prevent pathogens from entering through the eyes and mouth. Although these places are moist, nutrient-rich, and constantly exposed to the environment, infectious diseases there are surprisingly rare. Something must be working there with a capacity comparable to…
Slovakia has taken a major step towards Europe’s quantum future with the launch of the first quantum communications network. This is a national system aimed at strengthening cybersecurity and integrating the country into broader European quantum efforts. The implementation, led by ID Quantique (IDQ), a subsidiary of IonQ, in partnership with the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IPSAS), marks a historic moment for Slovakia’s digital infrastructure. A strategic leap towards Europe’s quantum vision The new Slovak Quantum Communications Infrastructure (skQCI) is designed to connect directly to Europe’s wider EuroQCI programme, the EU’s initiative to build a…
Microsoft ended 2025 by releasing patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform. This includes one vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. Of the 56 deficiencies, 3 were rated critical and 53 were rated critical. Two other flaws are listed as publicly known at the time of release. These include 29 privilege escalation, 18 remote code execution, 4 information disclosure, 3 denial of service, and 2 spoofing vulnerabilities. According to data compiled by Fortra, Microsoft addressed a total of 1,275 CVEs in 2025. Tenable’s Sanam Narang said 2025 is also the second year in…