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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. Hosted by the galaxy GHZ2, this massive object is so far away that astronomers have observed it only 350 million years after the Big Bang.The team’s study, which was uploaded to the preprint server arXiv on November 4 but has not yet been peer-reviewed, used observations from JWST’s near-infrared spectrometer and mid-infrared instruments. These instruments cover a wide range of wavelengths and can detect ultraviolet and optical light originally emitted by distant galaxies and extended into the infrared by the expansion…
The Trump administration has disbanded the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the controversial federal cost-cutting team previously led by Elon Musk, even though the department still had months left in its term. Reuters first reported over the weekend that DOGE was disbanded, ending a months-long effort by Musk and his associates, many of whom were recruited from various private companies, to curtail allegations of fraud, waste and reduce workforces across the federal government. DOGE was created by an executive order signed by President Trump in January. The effort was expected to last nearly two years. As of early November, DOGE…
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harm in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether AI chatbots protect human well-being or simply maximize engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench aims to fill that gap by assessing whether chatbots prioritize users’ health and how easily those protections fail under pressure. “I think we’re seeing a cycle of addiction that we’ve seen so severely with social media and smartphones and screens that is being amplified,” Erica Anderson, founder of Building Humane Technology, which created the benchmark, told TechCrunch. “But as we move into the world…
A stunning new animation depicts a saber-toothed cat attacking a herd of woolly mammoths in frozen northern North America towards the end of the last ice age.The clip, which will air on Wednesday (Nov. 26) in an episode of Apple TV’s upcoming series “Prehistoric Planets: Ice Age,” explores how iconic Ice Age animals adapted to changing environments as the climate began to warm and the snow-covered world gradually disappeared. In this video, a herd of five scimitartooth cats (Homotherium serum), an extinct species of saber-toothed cat, ambushes a herd of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), including a small calf and a…
Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users watch billions of videos every day, and businesses are benefiting tremendously from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there’s pressure to create more content than ever in order to stay relevant and make a living from it, especially as AI-generated slop permeates these platforms. Jay Neo, short video creator and former content lead at MrBeast, believes AI can also help creators understand what works for them and generate new content ideas in that direction. That’s why they, along with former Palantir engineer…
November 24, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerabilities / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source lightweight telemetry agent. These can cascade to compromise and take over cloud infrastructure. Oligo Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News that the security flaw “allows an attacker to bypass authentication, perform path traversal, remotely execute code, cause a denial of service condition, and manipulate tags.” Successful exploitation of this flaw could allow attackers to disrupt cloud services, manipulate data, and penetrate deeper into cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. The list of identified vulnerabilities is as follows: CVE-2025-12972 – Path…
Archaeologists discovered a horrifying secret while analyzing hundreds of Neanderthal bone fragments unearthed from a Belgian cave. Six Neanderthals were cannibalized 45,000 years ago, and the cannibals chose to eat women and children first.Modern archaeologists first explored the Goyet cave system in the Walloon region of southern Belgium in the late 19th century. Excavators found 101 Neanderthal bone fragments, many with butchery marks similar to those found on animal bones, suggesting someone had killed and eaten the bones.In a new study published Nov. 19 in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers looked closely at the biological profile of the collection of…
Killing neighbors and seizing their land led to a baby boom in Uganda’s chimpanzee community. This may indicate why chimpanzees find it advantageous to start wars.Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have long been known for violent conflicts or “wars.” This was first recorded by British primate researcher Jane Goodall, who observed in 1974 that a chimpanzee population in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park split into two warring groups, leading to a four-year battle that killed all the males in one group. However, it was not clear why the animals continued to be violent for so long.To find out, the new study’s lead author,…
Several major U.S. banks and mortgage companies are reportedly rushing to investigate how much customer data was stolen in a cyberattack on a New York financial technology company earlier this month. SitusAMC, which provides technology to more than 1,000 commercial and real estate lenders, acknowledged in a statement over the weekend that it identified the data breach on November 12th. The company said that during the cyberattack, unspecified hackers stole corporate data related to SitusAMC’s relationships with bank customers, as well as “accounting records and legal contracts.” The statement added that the scope and nature of the cyberattack “remains under…
Although only one fusion device on the planet has been able to meet important scientific standards, Maritime Fusion CEO Justin Cohen is already preparing to put a fusion reactor on board a boat. Please listen. That’s not entirely outlandish. Thanks to advances in AI, computing, and superconducting magnets, fusion power generation is closer to commercialization than ever before. Convergence is increasingly looking like a matter of “when” rather than “if.” And once that happens, it promises to provide vast amounts of clean electricity from an abundant fuel source: water. It is not necessarily unreasonable to install nuclear reactors on ships.…