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November 5, 2025Ravi LakshmananArtificial intelligence/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new vulnerability affecting OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from a user’s memory or chat history without the user’s knowledge. According to Tenable, seven vulnerabilities and attack techniques were discovered in OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5 models. OpenAI has since addressed some of them. These issues expose AI systems to indirect prompt injection attacks, allowing attackers to manipulate the expected behavior of large language models (LLMs) and cause them to perform unintended or malicious behavior, security researchers Moshe Bernstein…
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has published a report called ‘Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency’, warning the government that Britain’s failure to maintain and expand its science and technology enterprises has now reached a crisis point and is causing the UK economy to bleed. The committee warns that without urgent and fundamental reforms, the government risks acting too late to address the UK’s long-standing failure to scale up and preserve the economic benefits of scientific and technological research and development. Lord Mair, chairman of the House of Lords science and technology committee, said:…
As part of strengthening the United States’ global leadership in cutting-edge technology, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $625 million investment to update five national quantum information science (QIS) research centers. These facilities were originally launched under the National Quantum Initiative Act and signed into law in 2018, and will continue to pioneer the next generation of quantum computing, networking, and sensing technologies. The new funding will be distributed over five years, starting with $125 million in fiscal year 2025, with future support dependent on Congressional appropriations. DOE’s latest efforts represent an important continuation of the national effort…
refresh good morning. Welcome to the Live Science News Blog. At Live Science, we’re a passionate group of people who love reading about the latest research and how new discoveries are changing the world around us. We are also lucky enough to write about it and report on it every day.But we are just a small group of humans, and to paraphrase the late, great Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, science is great. It’s really big. You won’t believe how huge it is.We cover the most important or interesting topics of the day, but we can’t…
Refresh 2025-11-06T17:56:10.537Z Over and out We’re off. Well, Ben, me and the other U.K. team members are off, so we’re bringing today’s blog coverage to a close. Keep an eye on the Live Science homepage for more science news, and we’ll see you tomorrow.Science joke of the day:What did the asteroid say when the reporter asked him a question?“No comet.”Source: Reader’s Digest Patrick PesterTrending News Writer 2025-11-06T17:53:22.482Z In case you missed them Here are a couple more stories we’ve published on Live Science today. 2025-11-06T17:03:39.658Z A quantum leap for superconductivity? The Helios quantum computer. (Image credit: Quantinuum) What do you…
Thank your black hole lucky stars. Mysterious, frightening, and endlessly fascinating, these extreme objects are the gravitational anchors of all large galaxies, including our own, and help control star formation throughout the universe. They are the darkest objects in the universe, yet curious Earthlings are drawn to them like moths to a 100,000 solar mass flame.In his new book, Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth (The Experiment, 2025), science writer and physicist Jonas Enander takes us on a journey through time and space to uncover the history, science, and enduring mysteries of black holes. From an observatory…
November 5, 2025hacker newsMobile Security/Enterprise IT Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth that “Android is not secure”. Android smartphones like Samsung Galaxy enable new ways of working. However, IT administrators may be concerned about security. After all, work data is important. However, outdated concerns can prevent your business from reaching its full potential. The truth is, with work happening everywhere, every device connected to your network is a potential point of compromise. As threats evolve, the tools to defend against them must also evolve. Introducing Samsung Knox. It is a built-in security platform that combines hardware and software…
November 5, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybersecurity/cyber espionage A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent is believed to be behind a series of cyberattacks targeting academics and foreign policy professionals from June to August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. “UNK_SmudgedSerpent took advantage of domestic political temptations, including investigations into social change in Iran and the militarization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),” Proofpoint security researcher Sahel Nauman said in a new report shared with Hacker News. The enterprise security firm said the campaign is tactically similar to previous attacks launched by Iranian cyber espionage groups such as…
Experts say that despite advances in the UK’s domestic recycling infrastructure, limited processing capacity and rising processing and energy costs mean that it is often cheaper for councils and private companies to export recyclable waste than to process it domestically. Although this would reduce costs, it would mean the UK’s existing recycling plants would close, leading to job losses. With fewer recycling facilities in operation, councils have little choice but to ship recyclable waste overseas, pushing the UK further away from its circular economy goals. Furthermore, this is having a knock-on effect on the EU’s plastics recycling industry, which experts…
A number of voice-based hardware devices are emerging for companionship, productivity, or personal growth purposes. These include Plaud and Pocket card-like devices. Friend, Limitless, Taya pendant. And Bee wristbands, which are now part of Amazon. Now, two former Meta employees who worked in interface design have launched Sandbar, a startup that created a ring called Stream for a similar purpose. The company calls this ring a “voice mouse.” Because this ring can take notes, help you interact with an AI assistant, and even control your music. Sandbar’s CEO, Mina Fahmi, has extensive experience designing human-computer interfaces. He worked at Bryan…