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The world’s first tritium fuel cycle virtual control room has been installed at UKAEA’s Culham campus to train technicians in the handling and management of tritium. This cements the UK Atomic Energy Agency’s reputation as a world leader in the use of digital platforms for training, research and development, which extends to tritium fuel cycle technology, which is critical to delivering sustainable fusion energy in the future. UKAEA’s new unique virtual simulator, developed in conjunction with Bilfinger UK, allows operators of the UKAEA-Eni H3AT tritium loop facility to conduct simulated training in a safe and controlled environment. Stephen Wheeler, UKAEA…
The new reality for lean security teams If you’re the first security or IT person at a fast-growing startup, you’ve probably inherited a simple yet highly complex mission: to secure your business without slowing it down. Most organizations using Google Workspace start by building an environment for collaboration, not resilience. Shared drives, permissive settings, and continuous integration not only make life easier for employees, but they make life easier for attackers as well. Fortunately, Google Workspace provides a great security foundation. The challenge lies in configuring it properly, maintaining visibility, and filling the blind spots left by Google’s native controls.…
The future of EU agriculture is under new scrutiny as the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) publishes Scenario 2040, a forward-looking analysis that explores how different policy choices could reshape Europe’s agricultural sector. This study provides a data-driven investigation into how alternatives under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could impact productivity, trade, employment and the environment, based on the EU Agriculture Outlook and national CAP strategic plans. Scenario 2040 is designed to stimulate debate rather than set policy prescriptions, providing quantitative evidence to guide the debate on how to balance economic, social and environmental priorities in EU agriculture by…
A “cocktail” approach to Earth observation has the potential to integrate diverse data from multiple providers to quickly and affordably provide actionable intelligence for effective decision-making across a variety of sectors. The Earth Observation (EO) sector’s basic model of selling high-cost, single-source imagery is no longer sustainable. The traditional EO market, built on the premise of selling raw pixels as a commodity, may be disappearing. We are now in a golden age of satellite data, with more satellite constellations than ever before, both public and commercial. However, the data market is still stuck in the analogue era, where the sale…
A zero-day exploit of a patched security flaw in Google Chrome led to the distribution of spying tools from Italian information technology and services provider Memento Labs, according to new findings from Kaspersky Lab. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3), which the company disclosed in March 2025 as being actively exploited as part of a campaign called Operation ForumTroll targeting Russian organizations. This cluster is also tracked as TaxOff/Team 46 by Positive Technologies and Prosperous Werewolf by BI.ZONE. It is known to have been active since at least February 2024. The infection wave involved sending phishing emails…
simple factsWhere is it? Trou aux Natrons, Tibesti Massif, Chad [20.96825691, 16.571382232]What is in the photo? Skull-like structure inside volcanic caldera appears to stare into spaceWho took the photo? An unknown astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS)When was it taken? February 12, 2023This eerie astronaut photo shows a ghostly structure with a skull-like appearance shining into space from the bottom of a giant volcanic hole in the Sahara desert.An analogue of the skull lies on the floor of Trou aux Natron, also known as Doun Oray, a 1,000 meter (3,300 ft) wide volcanic caldera, or crater, in northern Chad.…
The Shift2DC project, led by INESC-ID, is working to overhaul the power system with direct current solutions. Although direct current (DC) powers many modern technologies essential to today’s world, such as solar cells, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), and computers, the electrical grid itself is primarily powered by alternating current (AC). Aiming to transform the way DC solutions are used in power systems, the Shift to Direct Current (Shift2DC) project works to build smarter, more efficient and greener energy infrastructure through DC solutions. Shift2DC has received over €11 million in funding from Horizon Europe and is coordinated by the Portuguese Institute…
October 28, 2025Ravi LakshmananCyber espionage/malware The European embassy in India’s capital, New Delhi, and multiple organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh emerged as targets of a new campaign organized by the threat actor known as SideWinder in September 2025. Trellix researchers Ernesto Fernández Provecho and Pham Duy Phuc said in a report published last week that the activity “reveals significant evolution in SideWinder’s TTPs, particularly the adoption of new PDF and ClickOnce-based infection chains in addition to the previously documented Microsoft Word exploit vector.” The attack consisted of four separate spear phishing emails sent between March and September 2025…
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha argued that the venture industry is not an asset class and that pouring more money into Silicon Valley won’t create better companies. “Investing in ventures is a risk with no return,” Botha said in an interview on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Monday. “If you’ve ever studied capital asset pricing models, you know the joke. The reason I came up with this is because if you look at the history of venture capital, venture capital is an asset that is uncorrelated with other asset classes.” “So the thinking of…
Astro Teller, CEO of X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” where the company develops nearly impossible things, shared what makes a moonshot and detailed the company’s “fail fast” mantra at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday. Notable companies that started as moonshots from X’s Moonshot factory include Waymo and Wing. Teller pointed out that Company X has a “2% hit rate,” which means most of what the company tries won’t work, but that’s OK. He said X defines a moonshot as having three specific components. The first is that we need to try to solve the world’s big problems. Second, you…