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An astrophotographer has captured a stunning shot of a falling skydiver matching perfectly with the sun’s fiery surface. A flying adventurer appears to be rolling through the vacuum of space in front of our home planet.Andrew McCarthy, an Arizona-based astrophotographer who specializes in photographing the sun, snapped the unlikely photo around 9 a.m. MST (11 a.m. ET) on Saturday (November 8). The photo, dubbed “The Fall of Icarus,” required an “absolutely ridiculous” level of planning and “may be the first of its kind in existence,” McCarthy wrote in a post on social platform X.The skydiver in the image is YouTuber…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that five North Koreans have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting fraud from U.S. companies by posing as remote IT employees. The five are suspected of working as “middlemen” who helped North Koreans find jobs by providing their real identities or the false and stolen identities of more than a dozen Americans. The intermediaries also placed company-issued laptops in homes across the United States to make it appear that the North Korean workers lived locally, according to a Justice Department press release. These measures affected 136 U.S. companies and generated $2.2 million…

Scientists have successfully sequenced the RNA of a woolly mammoth for the first time, dispelling the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule cannot survive from time immemorial.RNA, or ribonucleic acid, acts as a messenger that carries instructions between DNA and an organism’s protein-building machinery, converting genetic information into proteins. RNA can reveal which genes are active in a cell at a given moment and how patterns of gene activity within a cell change over time. Therefore, ancient RNA can tell scientists about the state of cells in extinct species.Although the technology behind ancient DNA research has advanced rapidly over the…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all trace back to the same root cause: the overlooked and dangerous use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,” Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky said in a report published Thursday. The core of this problem stems from a pattern called ShadowMQ. This pattern propagates unsafe deserialization logic across multiple projects as a result of code reuse. The root cause is a vulnerability in Meta’s Llama Large…

Pine Labs, the payments technology company backed by PayPal and Mastercard, won support from retail investors on Friday, ending its first day of trading 14% higher despite lowering the valuation of its $440 million IPO. This makes it India’s second-largest fintech listed company this year, after online brokerage Groww’s debut earlier this week with about $750 million. The stock price started at Rs 242, rose to Rs 284 and settled at Rs 252 from the issue price of Rs 221. As a result, the Gurugram-based company has a market capitalization of 289 billion rupees (about $3.3 billion). While this is…

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold doesn’t look much different when placed side-by-side with last year’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Other than Google’s AI chops, there aren’t any major overhauls at first glance. However, this is the first foldable product to receive an IP68 rating, which is significant. Ever since companies started releasing foldable products, durability has been a top concern for users. When buying a foldable phone, the longevity of the hinge, the protection of the inner screen, and the resistance of the device to liquids and sand are always major considerations compared to slab phones. Google’s Pixel 10 Pro…

North America’s giant “hell pigs” may have been munching on bones some 30 million years ago, while smaller pigs were tearing through softer substances like meat, a new study has found.The “hell pigs,” scientifically known as archaeotherium (Greek for “ancient beast”), were a group of pig-like creatures that could be as tall as a human when standing on four legs and weigh more than 2,000 pounds (1,000 kilograms).Researchers have known about Archaeotherium since 1850. But now, new tooth analysis reveals that these beasts’ feeding strategies were more diverse than previously thought. By examining tooth wear, the researchers found that larger…

An Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. This activity was detected in early September 2025, is assessed to be ongoing, and has been codenamed “SpearSpecter” by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA). “This campaign systematically targets high-value defense and government officials using personalized social engineering tactics,” said INDA researchers Simi Cohen, Adi Pick, Idan Beityousev, Hilla David, and Yaniv Goldman. “This includes inviting the target to prestigious meetings or arranging important meetings.” What is notable about…

Malaria is devastating to pregnant women and their babies across Africa. A pioneering EU-funded project is currently working to develop a new malaria vaccine to improve protection. Malaria remains a deadly threat to pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa, often causing miscarriages, stillbirths, low birth weight babies and severe illness. A current EU-funded joint research project aims to protect women before they become pregnant. This is an approach that has the potential to transform maternal and newborn health in areas where malaria is endemic. Dr. Flavia D’Alessio heads vaccine research at the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI) in Heidelberg, Germany, and is…

Eruptions of some mid-ocean volcanoes may be echoes of the breakup of supercontinents that lasted tens of millions of years after the Earth’s surface was rearranged, a new study suggests.A new study suggests that long after the continents broke apart, mantle instability caused by the breakup continues to erode the bases of the continents, stripping away their crust and supplying oceanic volcanoes with abnormal magma.This phenomenon could explain why these volcanoes exist and form oceanic outposts like the Christmas Island Seamount, a mountain range in the Indian Ocean. One of them, Christmas Island, juts out into the sea. This is…