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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.…
Egyptian archaeologists discovered 225 shabtis (figurines intended to serve as servants of the deceased in the afterlife) that belonged to the pharaoh Shoshenq III in another pharaoh’s tomb.These figurines were found in the northern Egyptian ruins of Tanis, in the northern chamber of the tomb of Osorkon II, near an unmarked sarcophagus. The shabti hieroglyphs allowed the team to identify to whom they belonged.Although the tomb and sarcophagus were discovered in 1939, Shabti was recently discovered by an Egyptian and French team carrying out conservation work, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a translated statement. The research team…
November 24, 2025Ravi LakshmananCloud security/vulnerabilities Multiple security vendors are warning of a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. Aikido, HelixGuard, Koi Security, Socket, and Wiz report that this new supply chain campaign, called Sha1-Hulud, compromised hundreds of npm packages. The trojanized npm package was uploaded to npm between November 21 and 23, 2025. Wiz researchers Hila Ramati, Merav Bar, Gal Benmocha, and Gili Tikochinski said, “This campaign introduces a new variant that executes malicious code during the preinstallation stage, significantly increasing the potential for compromise in build and runtime environments.”…
Just over 40% of Americans are obese based on BMI, and that number has been increasing since the mid-1970s. However, some new statistics suggest that obesity rates are now plateauing or declining.Does this mean America has reached its heaviest weight? Experts aren’t so sure.The apparent plateau is short-lived, data are incomplete, and the proportion of people with severe obesity is still increasing. Childhood obesity rates also continue to rise. Furthermore, nutritional data suggests that Americans are still eating large amounts of ultra-processed foods that can promote obesity. you may like For researchers, none of this news signals a change in…
refresh 2025-11-24T18:34:42.495Z How Antarctica’s melting creates a carbon sink View of the Admiralty Mountains near Cape Roger, East Antarctica (Image credit: Andrew Peacock, Getty Images) East Antarctica’s ice sheet, once thought by scientists to be stable despite human-induced climate change, is melting during warm Southern Hemisphere summers.But here’s the good news. When ice sheets melt and mountain peaks are exposed, iron-rich minerals will be carried into the surrounding ocean, a study published today in the journal Nature Communications found.”Our findings show that exposed Antarctic rock can act like a steel mill,” study lead author Kate Winter, professor of geography at…
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser alerts, and software updates. Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast — stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing live flaws. Reports also showed how fast fake news, AI risks, and attacks on developers are growing. Here’s what mattered most in security this week. ⚡ Threat of the Week Fortinet Warns of Another Silently Patched…
Scientists have developed the foundational architecture for the next generation of optical computing, which uses light rather than electricity to power chips. This has the potential to revolutionize the way artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained and run.At the heart of large-scale language models (LLMs) and deep learning-based models are weighted organizational structures called tensors, which act like a filing cabinet with sticky notes indicating which drawers are most used.When an AI model is trained to perform a task or function, such as recognizing images or predicting text strings, it sorts data into these tensors. In modern AI systems, the…
Julian Hetherington, Transformation Director at the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC), considers the UK government’s new funding initiatives, and their potential to accelerate research and support industry innovation. The Department for Business and Trade recently announced new funding initiatives, Driving Research and Investment in Vehicle Electrification (DRIVE35) and the Connected Automated Mobility (CAM) Pathfinder programme. Both are part of the government’s Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan and the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, to ensure innovation in the sector not only continues but accelerates. Simpler and easier to access DRIVE35 completely reinvents the existing funding ecosystem. The funding journey has never been…