CVE-2026–3854 (CVSS 8.7) enabled GitHub RCE via git push, risking cross-tenant access to millions of repositories.
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Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data
Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company.
The video platform says that the threat actor accessed email addresses for some of its customers, but most of the exposed information included technical data, video titles, and metadata.
“We have identified that, as a result of the Anodot breach, an unauthorized actor accessed certain Vimeo user and customer data. Our initial findings suggest that the databases accessed primarily contain technical data, video titles and metadata, and, in some cases, customer email addresses,” Vimeo states.
Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks
Tracking dynamic moving objects in the external world is ethologically important for many organisms. Recent experiments have examined neural dynamics supporting such behaviors by employing visually-guided pursuit in freely moving rodents, yet computational principles underlying this cognitive process are not well understood. To address this, we developed a recurrent neural network model for examining the predictive behaviors and computations that emerge during pursuit. We demonstrate that the model generates internal predictions of the targets future locations, with anticipatory behaviors increasing with exposure to stereotyped trajectories of the target. These internal predictions can be used by the model to pursue a target in a complex environment, and the RNNs emergent strategy is aligned with behavior when tested in rodents. In investigating the computations that underlie the RNNs ability to perform predictive pursuit, we found units sensitive to the position of the target relative to the artificial agent, a representation analogous to egocentric target neurons observed in animals performing pursuit tasks. Ablating these units significantly reduced model performance, establishing a causal role of this functional response type in efficient pursuit. Given the complexity of the task and agent behavior, we hypothesized that RNN models may use high-dimensional neural codes to support predictive pursuit. To test this, we trained models of varying rank and found that anticipatory behavior emerged only when the rank was sufficiently high, despite strong pursuit performance in lower rank models. All RNNs encoded the egocentric location of the target, whereas allocentric self and target locations emerged only in high-dimensional networks. Overall, our results suggest that, unlike commonly studied vision, motor, or memory tasks, predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional networks with sufficient resources.
The authors have declared no competing interest.
IL-9 and Blimp-1 protect the transcriptional identity of group 2 innate lymphocytes in allergic asthma
Open Access.
Zheng, Y., Giri, S., Zhang, J. et al. Nat Immunol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-026-02509-3 Abstract Allergic asthma is driven by type 2 immune responses, including type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s). Although ILC2s are activated by the tissue alarmins interleukin (IL)-33 and IL-25, these signals do not intrinsically enforce type 2 identity and the mechanisms that maintain type 2 cytokine expression remain unclear. Here we show that allergen-induced IL-33 and IL-25 rapidly induce IL-9, which in turn upregulates the transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 in ILC2s. Blimp-1 sustains type 2 immunity by directly repressing type 1 inflammatory programs, including expression of interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor. Deletion of Blimp-1 in ILC2s increased type 1 cytokine production and reduced IL-5 and IL-13 expression, eosinophil recruitment and mucus production in the lung. In contrast, IL-9 expression was enhanced in the absence of Blimp-1, leading to increased mast cell recruitment. Together, these findings identify Blimp-1 as a key regulator of ILC2 transcriptional fidelity that stabilizes type 2 inflammation while constraining divergent inflammatory programs during allergic responses.
The Ear as a Therapeutic Gateway to the Vagus Nerve
B cell-intrinsic type I interferon signaling contributes to defective antibody responses to a model antigen during persistent LCMV infection.
During persistent LCMV infection, Laulhé et al. reveal that B cell-intrinsic type I interferon (IFN-I) signaling drives defective affinity maturation. Although IFN-I acts directly within B cells, its absence alone fails to restore normal humoral responses, indicating that additional extrinsic mechanisms cooperate to sustain dysfunction.
Why dolphins swim so fast: The secrets of hidden whirlpools
Dolphins are famous for their speed and agility in the water, but what exactly allows them to swim so effectively? Scientists have been asking this question for years, hoping to learn how to optimize propulsion in fluids from these elegant creatures.
When a dolphin swims, it flaps its tail up and down in a kicking motion. This motion pushes water backward, generating a turbulent flow filled with swirling currents of many different sizes. Until now, it has been difficult to determine how these complex motions conspire to propel the dolphin forward.
