A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps.

The W3 Total Cache plugin uses multiple caching techniques to optimize a website’s speed, reduce load times, and generally improve its SEO ranking.

The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024–12365 despite the developer releasing a fix in the latest version of the product, hundreds of thousands of websites have still to install the patched variant.

Speech Recognition With LLMs Adapted to Disordered Speech Using Reinforcement Learning w/ Dr. Subhashini Venugopalan of University of Texas.

Speakers: Cecile Tamura, Subhashini Venugopalan

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the superheavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the superheavy rutherfordium-252 nucleus, which is now the shortest-lived known superheavy nucleus.

Their results are published in Physical Review Letters.

W/ Dr. Milan Janosov. How networks from social media to HR and urban planning invisibly influences our everyday decisions and experiences.

That’s not just cool. It’s ultracool.

A new method for imaging tattoos reveals intricate designs on Chancay mummies from Peru.

Let’s see what they’ve got.

In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of ’supergiant’ isopods

Among them was a species unknown to science at the time. National University of Singapore carcinologist Peter Ng and colleagues have now formally described the novel sea bug in a new paper.

As the head of the animal’s carapace resembles the iconic scifi helmet adorned by Star Wars’ infamous Darth Vader, Ng and team named the giant woodlice relative Bathynomus vaderi.