A new fMRI study reveals that babies as young as 12 months can encode memories, contradicting theories that memory formation is impossible in infancy. Instead, the inability to recall early life may stem from retrieval failures rather than memory loss. Challenging Assumptions About Infant Memory
Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday.
Physicists in Germany have led experiments that show the inertia of electrons can form ‘tornadoes’ inside a quantum semimetal.
It’s almost impossible for electrons to sit still, and their motions can take on some bizarre forms. Case in point: an analysis of electron behavior in a quantum material called tantalum arsenide reveals vortices.
But the story gets weirder. These electrons aren’t spiraling in a physical place – they’re doing so in a quantum blur of possibility called momentum space. Rather than drawing a map of particles potential locations, or position space, momentum space describes their motion through their energy and direction.
The ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope has already wowed us with some fantastic images. After launching in July 2023, the telescope delivered some stunning first images of the Perseus Cluster, the Horsehead Nebula, and other astronomical objects.
Now, the telescope has released its first images of its three Deep Fields.
Euclid features a powerful 600 MB camera that can take detailed images of objects like the Horsehead Nebula. However, its main job is to probe the history of the expansion of the Universe.
Active exploitation of Cisco CVE-2024–20439 & 20440 in Smart Licensing forces urgent patching of vulnerable versions.
YouTube game cheat videos deliver Arcane stealer malware; attack chain extracts sensitive data via batch files and PowerShell.
Veeam and IBM patch critical vulnerabilities—Veeam’s CVE-2025–23120 (CVSS 9.9) and IBM’s AIX flaws—preventing potential remote exploits
Veeam has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025–23120 in its Backup & Replication software that impacts domain-joined installations.
The flaw was disclosed yesterday and affects Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.3.0.310 and all earlier version 12 builds. The company fixed it in version 12.3.1 (build 12.3.1.1139), which was released yesterday.
According to a technical writeup by watchTowr Labs, who discovered the bug, CVE-2025–23120 is a deserialization vulnerability in the Veeam. Backup. EsxManager.xmlFrameworkDs and Veeam.Backup.Core. BackupSummary. NET classes.
Two malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions were found deploying in-development ransomware, exposing critical gaps in Microsoft’s review process.
The extensions, named “ahban.shiba” and “ahban.cychelloworld,” were downloaded seven and eight times, respectively, before they were eventually removed from the store.
It is notable that the extensions were uploaded onto the VSCode Marketplace on October 27, 2024 (ahban.cychelloworld) and February 17, 2025 (ahban.shiba), bypassing safety review processes and remaining on Microsoft’s store for an extensive period of time.
The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK’s NCSC.
Wow, a government project that could be on time for once … cos it’s gonna be wayyyy more than a decade.
