Terry Tao Is on the Front Lines of the Debate Over AI and the Future of Math
The Fields Medalist Terence Tao is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.
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Oct 17, 2026
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers' M365 environments. ConnectWise Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery service built for managed service providers (MSPs
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The Leap Second Has Been Canceled
Earth’s rotation subtly changes the length of the day. Now our clocks won’t change with it — at least not for a very long time.
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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes
“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”
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Presidential adviser says Ukraine is in talks to lift speed limit on military satellite network
Presidential adviser says Ukraine is in talks to lift speed limit on military satellite network
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Citizen Science Groups Grapple With the Rise of A.I. Slop
Facing a flood of A.I. slop, groups bent on democratizing science create new checks and balances.
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Toxic algorithms wouldn't let them go - now Australia wants an off switch
Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
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Alberta removes habitat protections for endangered greater sage grouse to support industrial development
Habitat protections for one of Canada's most imperiled animals have been quietly removed by the Alberta government. Through amendments to the Public Lands Act in July, the province eliminated protections for greater sage grouse in designated protection and recovery zones. That same month, helium extraction company Thor Resources had a site approved within the bird's habitat.
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Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped
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Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis
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Apple’s $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo preorder sells out in minutes, deliveries pushed to late January
Apple’s $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo sold out within minutes of preorders opening, with delivery estimates extending to late January, according to reports. The launch marks Apple’s entry into a foldable smartphone market dominated by established rivals.
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The healthiest meals in your supermarket's freezer aisle - from Sainsbury's to M&S, the short-cut dinners that are even better than the fresh version
Researchers have identified a simple way to save over £100 a month on your food bills. Don't buy fresh, buy frozen.
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UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The activity is being tracked by
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