Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star.
Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team detected the glowing hydrogen gas streaming onto the infant world, essentially catching it mid-birth.
First detection of a growing exoplanet.
Plant scientists discovered hidden stem cell regulators tied to growth and crop size. Their breakthrough could transform how we grow food, fuel, and resilient harvests.
Plant stem cells play a vital role in producing the world’s food, livestock feed, and renewable fuels. They are the foundation of plant growth, yet many aspects of how they work remain a mystery. Past studies have struggled to identify several of the key genes that govern stem cell activity.
Mapping the genetic regulators of growth.
Two Supermicro BMC flaws (CVE-2025–7937, 6198) bypass signature checks, risking persistent server compromise
The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it took down a network of electronic devices located across the New York tri-state area that were used to threaten U.S. government officials and posed an imminent threat to national security.
“This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites,” the Secret Service said.
The devices were concentrated within a 35-mile (56 km) radius of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An investigation into the incident has been launched by the Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest.
The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers to deploy a Go-based malware that turns infected systems into attack nodes and co-opt them into a larger DDoS botnet. The cybersecurity company said it detected the malware targeting its honeypots on June 24, 2025.
“At the center of this campaign is a Python-based command-and-control (C2) framework hosted on GitHub Codespaces,” security researcher Nathaniel Bill said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps).
DDoS attacks typically exhaust either system or network resources, aiming to make services slow or unavailable to legitimate users.
Record-breaking DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent, as just three weeks ago, Cloudflare disclosed that it mitigated a massive 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 Bpps attack, the largest publicly announced at the time.