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Cloudflare hit by outage affecting global network services

Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering “internal server error” messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.

Cloudflare’s Global Network is a distributed infrastructure of servers and data centers located in over 330 cities across more than 120 countries, delivering content delivery, security, and performance optimization services.

It has 449 Tbps global network edge capacity and connects Cloudflare to over 13,000 networks, including every major ISP, cloud provider, and enterprise worldwide.

Thunderbird adds native support for Microsoft Exchange accounts

Thunderbird 145 has been released with full native support for Microsoft Exchange email via the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol.

This means that Thunderbird users in Microsoft Exchange environments (e.g., Microsoft 365, Office 365) no longer need third-party add-ons and benefit from seamless message synchronization and folder management locally and on the server.

Migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird is also easier, as Mozilla’s email client automatically detects the settings and uses Microsoft’s OAuth2 authorization protocol.

New ShadowRay attacks convert Ray clusters into crypto miners

A global campaign dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 hijacks exposed Ray Clusters by exploiting an old code execution flaw to turn them into a self-propagating cryptomining botnet.

Developed by Anyscale, the Ray open-source framework allows building and scaling AI and Python applications in a distributed computing ecosystem organized in clusters, or head nodes.

According to researchers at runtime security company Oligo, a threat actor they track as IronErn440 is using AI-generated payloads to compromise vulnerable Ray infrastructure that is reachable over the public internet.

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN with record trapping technique

Physicists from Swansea University have played the leading role in a scientific breakthrough at CERN, developing an innovative technique that increases the antihydrogen trapping rate by a factor of ten.

The advancement, achieved as part of the international Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) collaboration, has been published in Nature Communications and could help answer one of the biggest questions in physics: Why is there such a large imbalance between matter and antimatter? According to the Big Bang theory, equal amounts were created at the beginning of the universe, so why is the world around us made almost entirely of matter?

Antihydrogen is the “mirror version” of hydrogen, made from an antiproton and a positron. Trapping and studying it helps scientists explore how antimatter behaves, and whether it follows the same rules as matter.

Blocking one enzyme may break the link between alcohol and liver disease

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce addictive drinking. The enzyme responsible, KHK, appears to drive both alcohol cravings and liver injury. When this enzyme was blocked in mice, their drinking decreased and their livers showed far less damage.

Q‑CTRL integrates Fire Opal with RIKEN’s IBM Quantum System Two to unlock maximum performance for hybrid quantum-classical computing

Performance management software is now available through RIKEN’s HPC environment, accelerating quantum-HPC hybrid application research.

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