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Men and Women Reflect on Their Mistakes Differently, Study Finds

Female brains process past mistakes differently, shaped by a specific RNA. This could explain sex-based differences in depression risk and decision-making. A type of RNA that has historically received little attention has now been found to play a key role in building resilience to depression—but

“How Can We Make Sense of This?” — Strange “Infinity” Galaxy Stuns Scientists

Astronomers may have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of forming inside a uniquely shaped galaxy. Astronomers working with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare and unusual galaxy they’ve dubbed the “Infinity” galaxy. This intriguing object appears

Rare Footage Shows a Fault Line Tearing Open. It’s a Game-Changer for Earthquake Science

A historic Myanmar earthquake was caught on CCTV, revealing the fault moving 2.5 meters in just 1.3 seconds.

The rare footage confirmed a pulse-like rupture and a curved slip path, offering groundbreaking clues for earthquake science.

Powerful Earthquake Shakes Central Myanmar.

Microsoft warns of high-severity flaw in hybrid Exchange deployments

Microsoft has warned customers to mitigate a high-severity vulnerability in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges in Exchange Online cloud environments undetected.

Exchange hybrid configurations connect on-premises Exchange servers to Exchange Online (part of Microsoft 365), allowing for seamless integration of email and calendar features between on-premises and cloud mailboxes, including shared calendars, global address lists, and mail flow.

However, in hybrid Exchange deployments, on-prem Exchange Server and Exchange Online also share the same service principal, which is a shared identity used for authentication between the two environments.

WinRAR zero-day exploited to plant malware on archive extraction

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025–8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware.

The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was fixed in WinRAR 7.13, which allows specially crafted archives to extract files into a file path selected by the attacker.

“When extracting a file, previous versions of WinRAR, Windows versions of RAR, UnRAR, portable UnRAR source code and UnRAR.dll can be tricked into using a path, defined in a specially crafted archive, instead of user specified path,” reads the WinRAR 7.13 changelog.

OpenAI to fix GPT-5 issues, double rate limits for paid users after outrage

OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, overpromised on GPT-5, and real-life results are underwhelming, but it looks like a new update is rolling out that might address some of the concerns.

GPT-5 is a state-of-the-art model. In our tests, BleepingComputer found that GPT-5 does really well in coding. It was significantly faster than the other OpenAI models, including o3.

However, GPT-5 struggles to be ‘creative’ in writing, and it also often fails to switch to its new reasoning capabilities when users expect.

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