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Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy — The first direct mass measurement from the early Universe weighs in on the debate over the origins of supermassive black holes

Using the unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic power of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped the motion and composition of gas orbiting a black hole in the centre of Abell2744-QSO1, a tiny galaxy more than 13 billion light-years away. The results suggest that the 50-million-solar-mass black hole predates its host galaxy, possibly forming within the first second of the Big Bang, and must have been immense from the start.

China’s Human Artificial Embryo Experiment Progressing Well in Space

China has begun the world’s first space experiment on human artificial embryos, with samples now aboard its space station and the study progressing smoothly, scientists announced Wednesday.

Delivered by the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft launched earlier this week, the human artificial embryo samples have been installed in the space station’s experimental module by the orbiting taikonauts, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is in charge of the experiment.

“The experiment is going very well,” said Yu Leqian, the project leader for the artificial embryo space science experiment. “A pre-set automated system changes the culture medium for the samples every day.” According to Yu, through this study, scientists aim to conduct preliminary research on issues related to long-term human habitation, survival and reproduction in space.

Grandoreiro Malware and BTMOB RAT Campaigns Target Windows and Android Users

Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively.

That’s according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as well as mobile users in Brazil.

The Grandoreiro campaign “uses the DLL Side-Loading technique abusing four different software, targeting banks in Portugal,” WatchGuard researcher Euler Neto said.

Glassworm botnet disrupted after resilient C2 infrastructure takedown

The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network.

In a coordinated operation conducted yesterday, CrowdStrike, Google, and The Shadowserver Foundation cut off the botnet operators’ access to four distinct command-and-control (C2) channels designed to resist conventional disruption efforts.

Glassworm campaigns have been ongoing since October 2025 and initially targeted developers with malicious OpenVSX and Microsoft VS Code extensions that stole cryptocurrency wallets and developer credentials.

GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots

Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot recommendations.

The compromise occurs through malicious download pages for utility software typically installed by owners of powerful systems, like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear.

Once a system is infected, the attacker gets persistent access on the machine by deploying the legitimate remote management ScreenConnect tool, which could later be used to install additional malware.

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Nvidia is canning the Control Panel, and I can’t be the only one who’s slightly sad to see it go

And two, the Nvidia App can be quite an online-focused affair in a way the old Control Panel was not. Besides the greyed-out checkbox in the Privacy settings labelled “required data” (something Nvidia explains is “Data that is necessary for Nvidia App to operate and cannot be switched off”), it can also lag quite badly on an unstable connection. In my personal experience, anyway.

Still, change comes for us all. I’ll miss the Control Panel’s classic rotating 3D image preview, the charmingly old-school HDCP menu that shows a rendering of an ancient Nvidia GPU plugged into what looks suspiciously like a plasma TV, and of course, the old Global Settings and Program Settings tabs with all of their many intricacies.

But is it progress? Perhaps. You can pry the Windows Control Panel from my cold, dead hands, though. That old clunker simply refuses to die, although I don’t think it’ll be that long before I write a similar obituary.

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