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Firefighters conducting safety training at one of The Boring Company’s construction sites in Las Vegas suffered burns from chemicals used in the tunneling process, according to a new report in Fortune magazine. Clark County firefighters were not advised of the potential danger beforehand and suffered permanent scarring, the report said. Employees working in The Boring Company’s tunnels suffered similar chemical burns. The Boring Company has been digging tunnels in Las Vegas for several years in an attempt to connect the entire city with an underground network that uses Teslas to move people. This is the first effort to create a…
Millions of mysterious black stripes littering the surface of Mars have puzzled scientists for decades, but now researchers may finally have a good explanation. The new theory also explains why it took so long to solve this particular problem.Mars’ “slope stripes” are dark albedo features that cover the slopes of Martian terrain. They were discovered in the 1970s, and scientists initially thought they were evidence of landslides caused by melting ice. But while scientists still think the stripes are the result of landslides, a study published in May revealed that these landslides are actually caused by a “dry process” that…
We’ve all experienced the intense struggle to pay attention after a good night’s sleep. And new research shows what happens in the brain when such emotions arise.When you stay up all night focused, your brain flushes out cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is part of the brain’s waste disposal system that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. When this CSF leaves the brain, it flows back into the brain, according to a study published Oct. 29 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.This fatigue-induced decrease in alertness is also accompanied by significant changes in blood flow and pupil size, the study found. Until…
When Hannan Happi started thinking about how to solve the AI power crisis, he had one number in mind: 1 cent per kilowatt-hour. “We looked at all kinds of configurations and designs,” Exowatt co-founder and CEO Happi told TechCrunch. “They all look different from each other. We tried to learn from all of them. How can we reduce construction costs? How can we reduce maintenance costs? How can we optimize this?” After years of brainstorming and building, Exowatt took its first step toward that goal with a simple box the size of a shipping container topped with a transparent awning.…
EU-funded research is helping to transform used clothing into high-quality new products, with the aim of reducing textile waste and making recycled textiles the norm. At the factory in Waregem, in northwestern Belgium, unique machines, accessible only to trusted staff via fingerprint recognition, process old clothing and textiles with utmost precision in secret. Stretching over 170 meters, this machine carefully unwinds woven and knitted fibers and prepares them for reuse. These fibers are at the heart of a four-year EU-funded research initiative called tExtended to transform the future of textile recycling. The motive is clear. According to the European Environment…
November 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananBrowser security/threat intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Chrome extension that has the ability to steal users’ seed phrases while masquerading as a legitimate Ethereum wallet. The extension is named “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” and the attackers describe it as “a secure wallet for managing your Ethereum cryptocurrency with flexible settings.” It was uploaded to the Chrome Web Store on September 29, 2025 and updated on November 12, 2025. It is still available for download as of this writing. “Although marketed as a simple and secure Ethereum (ETH) wallet, it contains a backdoor that steals the seed…
More than 10 years of measurements from three Earth-orbiting observatories show that weak areas of Earth’s protective magnetic field are expanding, exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to more solar radiation.Observations by the European Space Agency’s Swarm 3 satellite show that Earth’s already weak magnetic field over the South Atlantic Ocean, a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has worsened, expanding since 2014 to an area half the size of continental Europe. At the same time, measurements showed that an area over Canada with an especially strong magnetic field is shrinking, while another area of strong magnetic fields in…
Researchers have designed a new type of large-scale language model (LLM) that they propose can bridge the gap between artificial intelligence (AI) and more human-like cognition.Researchers at AI startup Pathway, which developed the model, say the model, called “Dragon Hatching,” is designed to more accurately simulate how neurons in the brain connect and strengthen through learning experiences. They described this as the first model that can “generalize over time,” meaning it can automatically adjust its neural wiring in response to new information.In the study, uploaded to the preprint database arXiv on September 30, the team assembled this model as a…
According to national surveillance data published by the UK Health and Safety Agency (UKHSA), the total number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 will be an average of nearly 400 new reported cases per week. Alarmingly, the estimated number of deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections also increased from 2,041 in 2023 to 2,379 in 2024, an increase of 338 people in one year. These deaths, caused by bacteraemia, a type of life-threatening infection in which bacteria circulate in the blood, caused by antibiotic resistance, have increased by 9.3% since 2023, rising from 18,740 in 2023 to 20,484 in 2024. According to a…
Competition per new CVE Based on multiple industry reports in 2025, approximately 50 to 61 percent of newly disclosed vulnerabilities had exploit code weaponized within 48 hours. Using CISA’s Known and Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a reference, we have seen hundreds of software flaws being actively targeted within days of publication. Every new announcement sparks a global competition between attackers and defenders. Both sides monitor the same feed, but one operates at machine speed and the other at human speed. Major threat actors have fully industrialized their responses. As soon as a new vulnerability appears in a public database, automated…