Suspected China- and India-aligned actors targeted Pakistani police systems with PlugX, ShadowPad, Remcos, and Cobalt Strike from 2024 to 2026.
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New CrashStealer malware poses as Apple crash reporting tool
A new macOS information-stealing malware called CrashStealer pretends to be Apple’s crash-reporting tool to steal credentials, keychain data, and crypto wallets.
Malware researchers started tracking the malware in May, when it appeared to still be in development, but observed it being used in attacks in early July.
CrashStealer has a typical infostealer capability set that seems to focus on password managers and more than 80 crypto wallet extensions.
CISA warns of actively exploited RCE flaws in Joomla extensions
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in the iCagenda and Balbooa Forms extensions for Joomla to achieve remote code execution through arbitrary file uploads.
The agency has categorized the flaws as a maximum priority, ordering federal agencies to apply available security updates and/or mitigations within three days, with the deadline set for today.
The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2026–48939, is an arbitrary file upload flaw impacting the iCagenda extension used for registering and scheduling events and creating calendars.
RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access
A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to gain shell-level privileges without requiring a computer connection.
Researchers at cybersecurity company Group-IB analyzed the new release of the mobile malware and say that it significantly expands its capabilities compared to the previous variant documented in 2025.
At the same time, the malware retains its remote access trojan (RAT) features, allowing it to stream the screen, intercept keystrokes, automate UI interactions, and steal credentials.
Physics doesn’t explain the universe. Computation does | Stephen Wolfram: Full Interview
Darwin spent his life trying to find the law that governs evolution. He knew it existed — he just never found it. Stephen Wolfram thinks he has. And it explains a lot more than evolution.
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Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician, complexity theorist, and the mind behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica — someone who has spent his career finding the hidden rules underneath reality itself.
The same principle that explains why evolution never gets stuck, why you have free will despite living in a deterministic universe, and why the laws of physics are the way they are turns out to say something profound about what it means to be alive.
0:00 Intro.
1:08 Chapter 1: The limits of theoretical physics.
5:50 Chapter 2: A computational understanding of the world.
12:03 Rule 30: a simple program that outputs pure randomness.
15:48 Evolution and machine learning are the same trick.
18:19 What computational irreducibility means for science.
25:00 Chapter 3: A new kind of theory of everything.
31:36 The ruliad: every possible computation, in one object.
35:03 The second law, explained by the limits of our minds.
38:38 Why the universe exists isn’t the real question — why we do is.
42:53 Chapter 4: If the universe is a program, what is the meaning of life?
44:59 Free will as a side effect of computational irreducibility.
48:06 AI as a civilization we’re learning to coexist with.
Frontiers: The relentless advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors such as healthcare
The automotive industry, and social media necessitates the development of more efficient hardware solutions that can implement diverse learning algorithms. This lead article explores the evolution of AI learning algorithms and their computational demands, using autonomous drone navigation as a case study to highlight the limitations of traditional hardware. Traditional hardware, based on the von Neumann architecture, suffers from limited computational efficiency due to the separation of compute units and memory, also known as the “memory wall” problem. To overcome this barrier, this article discusses novel approaches to AI hardware design, focusing on compute-in-memory (CIM) techniques and stochastic hardware.
Entanglement Goes Steady
Two independent groups have demonstrated ways to entangle quantum bits without the need for precisely timed control pulses.
Quantum entanglement describes a link, or correlation, between the states of two or more quantum particles. For example, given a pair of entangled qubits—particles that can be in either a ground state or an excited state—measuring the state of one qubit can inform us about the state of the other. Entanglement is puzzling because it has no analogue in the classical world, where our physical intuition can be relied upon. In particular, entanglement appears to violate the principle of locality: The qubits’ states remain correlated even if we move them far apart before measuring them. But entanglement is more than a curiosity: It is also critical to quantum computing, where it serves as a resource for performing quantum algorithms and remote operations between distant qubits.
Can We Re-grow You?
For all of medical history, we’ve tried to persuade sick cells to behave better. What if instead we just swapped them out? Can we insert new brain cells grown from your own skin cells? And what does any of this have to do with sending one’s own cells into space, or rescuing animals on the very brink of extinction? Today Eagleman talks with stem cell biologist Jeanne Loring about the exciting next horizons.
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A helpful review on immunological responses to adenoviral vectors, a widely used delivery system for gene therapies, anti-tumor therapies, and vaccines.
Adenovirus (AdV) is one of the most widely used vectors for gene therapy and vaccine studies due to its excellent transduction efficiency, capacity for large transgenes, and high levels of gene expression. When administered intravascularly, the fate of AdV vectors is heavily influenced by interactions with host plasma proteins. Some plasma proteins can neutralize AdV, but AdV can also specifically bind plasma proteins that protect against neutralization and preserve activity. This review summarizes the plasma proteins that interact with AdV, including antibodies, complement, and vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors. We will also review the complex interactions of these plasma proteins with each other and with cellular proteins, as well as strategies for developing better AdV vectors that evade or manipulate plasma proteins.
