In Japan, robots don’t come to work for you. It fulfills what no one wants
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, and Japan is being driven more by necessity than anything else. As workforces shrink and pressure to maintain productivity increases, companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered robots throughout factories, warehouses, and critical infrastructure. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced in March 2026 […]
Antarctica hides vast deposits of gold, silver, copper and iron. As the ice melts, countries may compete to harvest it.
Climate warming could expose Antarctica to ice-free land the size of Pennsylvania by 2300, potentially dramatically changing the geopolitics of Antarctica and its geography. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first to incorporate glacier isostatic adjustment (how land beneath heavy ice sheets rises after ice retreats) into predictions of the emergence of […]
Shroud of Turin, believed to be Jesus’ burial cloth, contaminated with carrot and red coral DNA
The Shroud of Turin, which some claim is Jesus’ burial shroud, contains the DNA of multiple people, along with a vast number of other species, including carrots, melons, and red coral. Some DNA traces suggest an Indian influence, which could mean the cloth originated there, researchers claim in a new study. However, species traditionally associated […]
What happened to Minoan civilization?
From approximately 2000 to 1500 BC, the Minoan civilization flourished on Crete and nearby islands, building palaces decorated with frescoes, engaging in athletic activities such as bull-jumping, and creating a script that even experts could not decipher. One of the most important cities they built was Knossos on the north coast of Crete, which included […]
36 malicious npm packages exploit Redis, PostgreSQL to deploy Persistent Implant
Ravi LakshmananApril 5, 2026Malware / DevSecOps Cybersecurity researchers discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but with different payloads to facilitate exploitation of Redis and PostgreSQL, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop persistent implants. “Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository, or homepage, […]
Fortinet patch actively exploits CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS
Ravi LakshmananApril 5, 2026Vulnerabilities/API Security Fortinet has released an out-of-band patch for a critical security flaw affecting FortiClient EMS and announced that the flaw is being exploited in the wild. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1) and is described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. “Improper Access Control […]
Peter Thiel makes a big bet on solar-powered cow collars
Founders Fund has made a name for itself by backing what Peter Thiel calls “zero-to-one” companies: businesses that don’t just improve on existing ideas, but create something entirely new. Its portfolio includes Facebook, SpaceX, and Palantir. Its latest bet is a New Zealand startup equipping cows with solar-powered smart collars. Holter, which closed a $220 […]
Embattled startup Delve ‘parts ways’ with Y Combinator
The controversy surrounding Delve appears to have damaged the compliance startup’s relationship with accelerator Y Combinator. Delve is not listed in YC’s portfolio company directory, and the Delve page appears to have been removed from the YC website. Furthermore, the startup’s COO Selin Kocalar posted on X that “YC and Delve have parted ways.” “I […]
Fossil ruins in China reveal complex community of creatures that lived before the Cambrian explosion, including ‘dune’-like sandworms
A newly discovered fossil trove in southwestern China is changing the timeline of how complex animals evolved. Animal diversity and complexity are thought to have increased rapidly during an evolutionary explosion known as the Cambrian Explosion about 539 million years ago. But new fossil sites suggest that some of that complexity was already present at […]
Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will have to pay extra to use OpenClaw
The price for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools will soon be higher. According to a customer email shared with Hacker News, Anthropic said that starting at noon Pacific time today, April 4, subscribers “will no longer be able to use Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses, […]