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Brain ‘Zaps’ From Contact Lenses May Help Ease Depression, Mouse Study Shows

Scientists in South Korea have developed experimental contact lenses designed to send electrical signals through the retina and into brain regions linked to mood. In mice, the technology appeared to improve depression-like behaviour.

The idea sounds futuristic: a contact lens that could one day help treat depression by stimulating the brain through the eye. The work is still at a very early stage, with findings so far limited to a single mouse study.

The eye is already one of the body’s most useful access points for medical technology.

NSA Releases Hundreds of Pages of Formerly Top Secret UMBRA UAP Records After Disclosure Foundation FOIA Appeal

The National Security Agency has produced hundreds of pages of historical UAP-related records following a Freedom of Information Act appeal by the Disclosure Foundation. Many of the records were previously classified “TOP SECRET UMBRA,” one of the most sensitive classification markings associated with signals intelligence.

Isomorphic Labs announces Series B investment round

Isomorphic Labs announces it has raised $2.1 Billion in Series B funding. The financing round is led by Thrive Capital, and includes participation from existing backers Alphabet and GV alongside new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, significantly expanding Isomorphic Labs’ global capital base.

Isomorphic Labs was founded with the ambition to leverage the power of AI to reimagine and accelerate drug discovery to bring much-needed treatments to millions of patients globally. The company aims to apply its pioneering AI drug design engine (IsoDDE) to deliver biomedical breakthroughs and is advancing drug design programs across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities.

Read more in the news release below.

Hello Universe: NASA’s Next-Gen Space Processor Undergoes Testing

NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project aims to dramatically improve the computing power of spacecraft. Missions need processors that can withstand the harsh space environment, so they use chips developed years ago that are hardy and reliable. But upgraded chips are needed to enable the development of autonomous spacecraft, accelerate the rate of scientific discovery through faster data analysis, and support astronauts on missions to the Moon and Mars.

“Building on the legacy of previous space processors, this new multicore system is fault-tolerant, flexible, and extremely high-performing,” said Eugene Schwanbeck, program element manager in NASA’s Game Changing Development program at the agency’s Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia. “NASA’s commitment to advancing spaceflight computing is a triumph of technical achievement and collaboration.”

The centerpiece of the High Performance Spaceflight Computing project is a new radiation-hardened, high-performance processor, designed to provide up to 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers while enduring a barrage of challenges in space. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has been conducting various tests that replicate those challenges.

GitHub Investigating TeamPCP Claimed Breach of ~4,000 Internal Repositories

GitHub on Tuesday said it’s investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP listed the platform’s source code and internal organizations for sale on a cybercrime forum.

“While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity,” the Microsoft-owned subsidiary said.

The company also noted that it will notify customers via established incident response and notification channels if any impact is discovered.

DirtyDecrypt PoC Released for Linux Kernel CVE-2026–31635 LPE Vulnerability

Dubbed DirtyDecrypt (aka DirtyCBC), the vulnerability was discovered and reported by the Zellic and V12 security team on May 9, 2026, only to be informed by the maintainers that it was a duplicate of a vulnerability that had already been patched in the mainline.

“It’s a rxgk pagecache write due to missing COW [copy-on-write] guard in rxgk_decrypt_skb,” Zellic co-founder Luna Tong (aka cts and gf_256) said in a description shared on GitHub.

Although the CVE identifier was not disclosed, the vulnerability in question is CVE-2026–31635 (CVSS score: 7.5) based on the fact that the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) includes a link to the DirtyDecrypt PoC in its CVE record.

Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops: pollinator decline puts our health at risk

Discord announced that all voice and video calls through the communication platform are now protected by default with end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

The implementation was completed in March. Extensive at-scale testing has given Discord the confidence to formally announce the E2EE deployment now, and to start removing client code that supports unencrypted fallback.

Discord is a popular online platform that offers text chat, voice calls, video calls, livestreaming, and community servers for gaming, creators, businesses, and interest-based groups.

Microsoft Self-Service Password Reset abused in Azure data theft attacks

A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features.

Microsoft tracks the actor as Storm-2949 and says that the purpose of the attacks is “to exfiltrate as much sensitive data from a target organization’s high-value assets as possible.”

Storm-2949 used social engineering to target users with privileged roles, such as IT personnel or members of senior leadership, and obtain their Microsoft Entra ID credentials to gain access to data in Microsoft 365 applications.

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