Close relative of Triassic alligator from New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch finally identified after nearly 80 years in museum basement
A newly identified relative of modern crocodiles chased prey during the Triassic period, about 205 million years ago, but did not move underwater, a new study has found. Like other members of the ancient crocodile family, this newly identified species had not yet entered the water. Instead, they hunted on land, much like modern foxes […]
Someone has put a backdoor into dozens of WordPress plugins used by thousands of websites.
Dozens of plugins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are currently taken offline due to the discovery of a backdoor that could be used to push malicious code to websites that rely on the plugins. The backdoor was discovered after a new company owner purchased these plugins. Austin Ginder, founder of […]
Anthropic co-founder confirms company briefed Trump administration on Mythos
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders and director of public interest at Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company briefed the Trump administration on its new Mythos model. The model, announced last week, is so dangerous that it has not been released to the public, mainly because of its suspected strong cybersecurity features. In an […]
‘I heard cries of joy’: Why Artemis II’s sighting of a meteor flash on the moon excited scientists
On April 6, while flying just a few thousand miles above the moon, the Artemis II astronauts reported seeing several bright, ephemeral flashes of light on the moon’s surface, sending mission scientists on Earth buzzing with excitement. This excitement is reason enough for scientists to plan future lunar exploration missions. These short flashes caused by […]
YouTube livestreams now suppress ads during peak engagement times to protect atmosphere
YouTube announced this week that it will suppress ads during live streams when chat engagement peaks and users show support with Super Chats, Super Stickers, gift purchases, and more. Previously, the only way to avoid seeing ads was to pay for a YouTube Premium subscription. The Google-owned platform said in a blog post that it […]
Max Hodak’s Science Corporation is preparing to place its first sensor in the human brain
Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has hired a leading neurobiologist to lead the first human clinical trial in the United States for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr. Murat Günel, chair of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine, was signed on as a scientific advisor after two years […]
How rewards app FreeCash rose to the top of the app store
The data collection app, called Freecash, quickly rose to the top charts on the App Store and Google Play, where it remained for several months until it was recently banned, apparently deceiving users. If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve probably come across an ad for FreeCash. The app, touted as a way to […]
New flaw in PHP Composer allows arbitrary command execution – patch released
Ravi LakshmananApril 14, 2026Vulnerabilities / DevSecOps Two high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Composer, a PHP package manager, that could allow arbitrary command execution if successfully exploited. The vulnerability is described as a command injection flaw affecting the Perforce VCS (version control software) driver. Details of the two defects are below. CVE-2026-40176 (CVSS Score: […]
StrictlyVC San Francisco is less than a month away
The first StrictlyVC of the year is coming to San Francisco in a flash. There are still a few tickets left to join us and our stacked speaker lineup on April 30th at the Centro Philippine Cultural Center. In addition to interacting with the community that StrictlyVC is known for, this event in the heart […]
Adobe fixes zero-day PDF security bug that hackers have been exploiting for months
Adobe has fixed vulnerabilities in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024. These vulnerabilities have been actively exploited by hackers for at least four months. The vulnerability, officially tracked as CVE-2026-34621, allows hackers to remotely plant malware on a user’s device by tricking the user into opening a maliciously crafted PDF […]