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The toxic fungus once thought to have caused a fatal lung infection to grave explorers could hold the key to powerful new cancer treatments, new research suggests.Within months of the discovery of King Tutan Kamun’s tomb in 1922, the Count, who funded the excavations and visited the “great” burial site, died, leading many to cursed the people who had entered the tomb. In the 1970s, 10 of the 12 archaeologists who excavated the 15th century basement of Poland’s Kashmir IV brought similar fates.Analysis of Kashmir tombs revealed the presence of a fungus called toxins, known to cause fatal pulmonary infections.…
June 25th, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Network Security Citrix has released a security update to address critical flaws affecting Netscaler ADCs that are said to have been exploited by Wild. The CVSS score for vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-6543 is 9.2 out of a maximum of 10.0. It is described as a case of memory overflow that can result in unintended flow of control and denial of service. However, for the exploit to be successful, the appliance must be configured as a gateway (VPN Virtual Server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) or AAA Virtual Server. The drawbacks affect the following versions – Netscaler ADC…
Last year, scientists detected a mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves that emerged from within our galaxy. Now, astronomers believe it was caused by a long-dead NASA satellite, but they don’t know how it happened.Relay 2 exploded in 1964, but in 1967 the communications satellite went offline after two onboard transponders failed. Almost 60 years later, in June 2024, the satellite produced an unexpected signal, researchers said in a new preprint study, posted on the server Arxiv on June 13th, which has not yet been peer-reviewed.”It was a very powerful radio pulse that was way more powerful than everything…
Swiss scientists have created new “living” materials, including blue-green algae, which they say can be used in buildings one day to combat climate change.Thanks to blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, the new material is photosynthesis. This means that carbon dioxide (CO2), sunlight and water can be chemically converted to oxygen and sugar, which promotes growth.In the presence of certain nutrients, the material can also convert CO2 into solid carbonate minerals such as limestone, researchers said in a new study published April 23 in the journal Nature Communications. Over time, these minerals build robust lattices inside the material, strengthening it, and store…
Dating app Bumble announced Wednesday that it will resolve 30% of its workforce and affect around 240 positions. In its securities application, the company said the cuts were part of a plan to reorganize “an operational structure to optimize execution with strategic priorities.” Bumble expects to save $40 million a year as a result of the workforce cuts, and plans to reinvest most of this money in products and technology development. The company said it would incur a non-repeated fee of approximately $13 million to $18 million, primarily related to employee retirements, benefits and related costs affected in the third…
Lithium-ion batteries have dropped 75% in costs over the past decade. This is a surprising research and development that is not the result of a singular breakthrough, but the result of countless incremental improvements. Few people know that it’s better than Chaitanya Sharma, the founder of Stealth’s Early Materials. Sharma worked for more than two years at Tesla’s Giga Factory in Nevada and two other major IM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York. Since leaving IM3NY in November 2023, he has been working on new ways to process cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries. This is one of the small improvements…
June 25th, 2025Ravi LakshmananData Privacy/Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two currently patched security flaws in the SAP graphical user interface (GUI) for Windows and Java. The vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-0055 and CVE-2025-0056 (CVSS score: 6.0) were patched by SAP as part of the January 2025 monthly update. “The study found that SAP GUI input history was unstable in both Java and Windows versions,” Pathlock researcher Jonathan Stross said in a report shared with Hacker News. SAP GUI user history allows users to access values previously entered in input fields with the aim of saving time and reducing errors. This historical…
Google is launching a new agent AI tool that brings Gemini AI models closer to where developers are already coding. On Wednesday, the company announced the launch of the Gemini CLI, an agent AI tool designed to run locally from the terminal. This new tool can connect Google’s Gemini AI model to a local codebase and allow developers to make natural language requests, such as asking the Gemini CLI to explain the confusion section of the code, create new features, debug code, and run commands. The Gemini CLI is part of Google’s efforts to help developers use AI models in…
The Amazon-owned ring announced Wednesday that it was introducing new AI-powered features in its doorbells and cameras. Now, when users receive real-time notifications about events on their properties, updates become more descriptive. For example, “a person is climbing the stairs with a black dog” or “two individuals are looking at a white car parked in a driveway.” This feature is intended to improve previously available ambiguous notifications. Users can know exactly what is going on and quickly decide whether or not they need attention. It should be noted that AI only describes the first few seconds of a motion-activated video…
The autonomous truck developed by Kodiak Robotics contains remote drive DNA courtesy of Vay, an unmanned car sharing startup from Bailin. The companies, who announced their partnership on Wednesday, have been working together since last year when Kodiak’s self-driving trucks began driverless delivery of Atlas Energy Solutions in the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and eastern New Mexico. The partnership will play a critical operational and safety role if Kodiak, which plans to be made public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, begins commercial unmanned delivery on Texas public highways in late 2026. Remote driving, also…