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Attacker Tried to Exploit Alpine Linux’s GitLab via CVSS 10.0 Flaw Its Ruby Left Open
Alpine Linux rebuilt its GitLab server after an RCE exploit attempt and found that upgrading GitLab alone had left the Ruby flaw unpatched.
Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs caught hijacking searches
A massive search-hijacking campaign involving 319 Chrome extensions with a combined 13.4 million reported installations redirected users’ searches through tracking servers to generate advertising revenue from Bing and Yahoo.
A new report by Socket’s John Tuckner expands on the researcher’s April 2025 discovery of 57 Chrome extensions with 6 million users, adding 264 newly identified add-ons with another 8.7 million users.
“These extensions were created by a handful of organized operators all working from the same idea: quietly take over the browser’s default search engine, route every query through a suspicious proxy server, and collect partner referral payments from Yahoo or Bing under a syndication partner ID,” explained Tuckner.
Protein fibers, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, spotted making genetic deliveries to sperm cells
Unexpectedly, a kind of protein that is usually linked with diseases in the brain may play a vital role in semen, helping shepherd genetic material into sperm cells, scientists at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute report in the journal Molecular Cell.
These findings raise the possibility that these proteins, known as amyloids, may one day help improve gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR.
“This is wild biology,” said senior author on the paper Anthony Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., a principal investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. “Amyloids are most often thought of as a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases in the brain, but they also have functional roles throughout the body and keep turning up in unexpected places.”
Tau Robotics: Humanoid Cleaning Service in San Francisco
You can now book humanoid cleaners on a recurring subscription, for up to 3 hours per cleaning at https://tau-robotics.com.
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Two humanoid robots clean your home for one, two, or three hours, supervised live by a human operator. Invite-only.
Scientists Made an 80-Year-Old’s Cells Look 19 Years Old. Could It Mean Aging Is Reversible?
By reprogramming red blood cell precursors into neural stem cells, researchers effectively reset the cell’s molecular clock.
New Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Sparked Immune Responses in 99% of Patients
Pancreatic cancer is incredibly difficult to shake.
Even after surgery or chemotherapy, the disease may never go away completely.
By some estimates, malignant tumors in the pancreas can recur in up to 80 percent of patients.
Everything is quantum, including you
We never see tables in two places at once or cats that are both dead and alive—yet this is exactly what quantum mechanics predicts. As a result, it has typically been assumed that quantum mechanics only applies to small scales. But according to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, this is a radical mistake. The universe is quantum at every scale, and we only get paradoxes of quantum mechanics when we insist on a classical world outside it. In this interview, IAI contributing editor Ozbir Kip challenges Vedral on whether reality is really quantum all the way up.
Kip: Your work is primarily in quantum information. Most of us are familiar with or have heard of quantum mechanics. Can you tell us a bit about what quantum information is as a field of study?
Vedral: Yes, this was a big revolution that started maybe in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It was a realization that how much information you can encode into a physical system and how quickly you can process this information are not abstract mathematical laws, but fundamentally depend on the laws of physics.
Did an Ancient Virus Help Shape the Human Brain?
Researchers used stem-cell-derived brain organoids and CRISPR gene editing to show that an ancient viral remnant suppresses LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells. The gene supports the activity of genes involved in human nerve-cell development.
Not All Alzheimer’s Follows the Same Route
A study found distinct inflammatory pathways linked to vascular damage and amyloid buildup in Alzheimer’s. Both were associated with abnormal tau, memory-region shrinkage, and poorer memory, suggesting multiple routes to disease.