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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving to simplify its rules for reporting PFAS, with the goal of striking a balance between protecting public health and reducing the burden on businesses. The agency’s new proposal under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) aims to make reporting requirements more practical, eliminate duplicate submissions, and focus on collecting the most important data on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), commonly known as the “forever chemicals.” With this approach, EPA hopes to continue to track the environmental and health impacts of these persistent chemicals while facilitating compliance for manufacturers and importers. Understand PFAS…
World Labs, a startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, launches its first commercial world model product. Marble will be available in freemium and paid levels, allowing users to transform text prompts, photos, videos, 3D layouts, or panoramas into editable and downloadable 3D environments. The launch of Generative World Models, which was first released in limited beta preview two months ago, comes a little more than a year after World Labs emerged from stealth with $230 million in funding, putting the startup ahead of its competitors in building world models. A world model is an AI system that generates an…
New research from Roche shows that 31% of eligible millennials have postponed or missed their cervical cancer screening appointment, which is 27% higher than the average for all age groups. The findings are based on a survey of 5,518 Internet users aged 16 to 64, conducted by GWI in six European countries and commissioned by Roche. Although screening services are widely available for free or heavily subsidized in many countries, certain challenges make it difficult for the millennials surveyed to access regular cervical screening. In addition to well-documented fears about the pain, embarrassment, and stigma associated with testing, the study…
Australian Intelligence Secretary Mike Burgess has warned that Chinese-backed hackers are “probing” and in some cases gaining access to the country’s critical infrastructure. Mr Burgess, head of the country’s main intelligence agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Agency, said at least two Chinese government-backed hacker groups were preparing sabotage and espionage operations. The comments, made in a speech at a conference in Melbourne on Wednesday, echoed similar remarks from the US government, which warned that ongoing hacking operations could pose a risk of economic and social disruption. Burgess said a group of hackers known as Bolt Typhoon is trying to break…
Time crystals could help create quantum computing data storage that lasts minutes, new research shows. This significantly improves the millisecond duration of existing quantum data storage.In the new study, scientists conducted experiments on how time crystals interact with mechanical waves. Although time crystals are widely considered to be extremely fragile, researchers have shown that they can be coupled to mechanical surface waves without destroying the time crystal.”This is the most interesting part for me,” study co-author Jere Mäkinen, an Academy Research Fellow at Aalto University in Finland, told Live Science. “It means we can couple time crystals to other systems…
November 12, 2025hacker newsThreat detection/risk management Security teams face the same challenges every day: too many risks, too many alerts, and not enough time. Solving one problem creates three more. I feel like I’m always one step behind. But what if there was a smarter way to stay ahead without adding more work or stress? Join The Hacker News and Bitdefender for a free cybersecurity webinar to learn about a new approach called Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR). DASR is a technique that helps security teams close gaps before attackers discover them. Most tools today just tell you what’s wrong.…
Astronomers using the James Webb Telescope may have discovered some of the universe’s first stars, which may provide clues about how galaxies form. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and a phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein, scientists have discovered an early star known as a Population III star in a distant star cluster called LAP1-B, 13 billion light-years from Earth. They published their results Oct. 27 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.Population III stars, also known as dark stars, are theorized to be some of the first stars to form after the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago.…
Active Directory remains the authentication backbone for over 90% of Fortune 1000 companies. As enterprises adopt hybrid and cloud infrastructures, AD is growing in importance and complexity. All applications, users, and devices trace back to AD for authentication and authorization, making it their ultimate target. For attackers, this represents the holy grail. Compromising Active Directory gives you access to your entire network. Why attackers target Active Directory AD acts as the gatekeeper for everything within the enterprise. So when an attacker compromises AD, they gain privileged access that allows them to create accounts, change permissions, disable security controls, and move…
Patient: 64-year-old female living in CanadaSymptoms: Paramedics transported the patient to the emergency department after the patient suddenly developed weakness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and lower abdominal pain.What happened next: The woman told her doctor that her symptoms appeared minutes after drinking two glasses of homemade juice made from pureed bottle gourd (also known as bottle gourd). She said she had been making and drinking juice every day from store-bought gourds for years, according to the incident report. However, she noted that it tasted “unusually bitter” rather than the typical mild pumpkin flavor. you may like Tests revealed that the woman’s…
Trent University Durham GTA puts people at the center of Canada’s artificial intelligence future. One lesson, one collaboration, one breakthrough at a time. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be built on code, but it is driven by human decisions. Every dataset reflects the choices, biases, and intentions of the people behind the machines, and every application is a test of our ability to use technology to advance human development. Canada is now scoring its tests more carefully. In 2025, Ottawa created the nation’s first Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and launched a 30-day AI Strategic Taskforce to revamp the…