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Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories.
“Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC,” StepSecurity said. “Eight hours later, the account of Henry Wu (henrywoo), the original author of Uber’s athenadriver, was used to push the same workflow to 318 repositories in a 16-minute window, 21:10–21:26 UTC.”
As of October 9, 2026, Socket said it has identified more than 500 GitHub accounts that committed the malicious workflow to tens of thousands of repositories since October 7, 2026.
Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access
The exploit, called AnyPwn, targets a heap buffer overflow in AnyDesk’s session protocol, a remote desktop tool. The code was released on GitHub on October 8.
Administrators should update AnyDesk Linux to at least version 8.0.3. The latest release is 8.1.0.
The published exploit works only over direct TCP connections on port 7070.
Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible
“Intelligence is the ability to dream in a very focused way.”
Joscha Bach told me that in June 2022. ChatGPT was still five months away.
Rewatching our conversation now, what strikes me isn’t his prediction. It’s the questions he was already asking. What is a model, really? Do we live in a learnable universe, or did we just get lucky? And if you could ask one question of God, or an Artificial Superintelligence, what would it be?
We also take on the critics of #AI, from Gary Marcus to Marvin Minsky to Noam Chomsky, and then the conversation goes somewhere most tech interviews never dare: evolution, the hive mind, cosmology, the Bible, and the strange line between existence and non-existence.
Joscha is one of the rare minds who can move from #CognitiveScience to theology without changing gears. Two hours, and I’d gladly have taken two more.
Since then, large language models have gone from curiosity to infrastructure. So here’s what I keep wondering: was Joscha describing the machines we were about to build, or the minds we already have?
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
NASA’s solicitation can be found here. Industry responses are due back to NASA on December 8. NASA said it plans to select “two or more” contractors in this phase of the competition, and intends to make a final decision in April.
In LEO to stay
“We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement that accompanied the release of the new documents. “We will continue to need a place to conduct research, develop technologies, train crews, and prepare for missions to the Moon and Mars. Commercial space stations may provide that capability while creating new opportunities for American industry and allowing NASA to concentrate more of our resources on the near-impossible missions ahead.”
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
Researchers from the University Hospital of Bonn and the University of Bonn have succeeded in dramatically rejuvenating human cells in a test tube. To do so, they directly reprogrammed red blood cell precursors into stem cells from which neurons can be derived. During this process, the molecular clocks that indicate a cell’s age were reset. For example, blood cells from an 80-year-old were transformed into stem cells with a molecular age of less than 20 years.
Since this rejuvenation process occurred very slowly, it is well-suited for a more detailed investigation of the underlying mechanisms. The results have been published in the journal Aging Cell.
The human body contains hundreds of different cell types. They all originate from the fertilized egg and therefore share the same genetic makeup. However, in the course of their development, they became committed to a specific fate: a skin cell cannot naturally become a liver cell, nor can a blood cell become a nerve cell.
World-first memory-enhanced quantum link hits 1,000 entanglements
IonQ has demonstrated a quantum link that connects two different types of qubits at more than 1,000 entanglement events per second. The achievement could help engineers build larger quantum computers by allowing separate systems to exchange quantum information more efficiently.
The demonstration links a trapped-ion qubit with a silicon-vacancy (SiV) qubit inside a solid-state memory. A photonic interconnect carries the quantum connection between them using light. IonQ says the result exceeds the previous record for trapped-ion systems by more than four times.