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Something Mysterious Just Passed Between Earth and a Distant Star

A mysterious object dubbed Phoebe may be a primordial black hole from the early universe, detected only because it briefly magnified the light of a distant star.

On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly got brighter. Not dramatically nor explosively, just a smooth, symmetrical rise and fall in brightness lasting about an hour, as though something had passed in front of it and bent its light toward us. Then it returned to normal and was never seen to vary again.

That something has been named Phoebe. And working out what it actually is turns out to be one of the most intriguing puzzles in modern astronomy. The phenomenon at the heart of the story is called gravitational microlensing, and it’s one of the most elegant predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Scientists Reveal How ADHD Could Fuel Creative Thinking

ADHD-related attention patterns may become a source of creativity and focus when supported through structured creative expression.

How can ADHD create serious everyday challenges for millions of people while also appearing among highly successful creative figures such as Justin Timberlake and Simone Biles?

New research from Constructor University neuroscientist Dr. Radwa Khalil, published in iScience, examines the neuroscience behind that apparent contradiction by looking at how creativity and attention are connected in the brain.

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S.

These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976.

“These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive phishing campaigns, using sophisticated social engineering tactics to compromise personal accounts across multiple platforms,” Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) researchers Gabby Roncone and Wesley Shields said in a report published today.

Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware

Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers’ systems during compilation.

Within a 23-minute window, the attacker also poisoned two other crates, append-only-vec and internment, in the same supply-chain attack.

The arrayref crate is a popular Rust library with more than 53 million downloads over the past 90 days that is used by cryptography, graphics, and blockchain tools.

Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks

A critical vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin could allow attackers to upload executable files for remote code execution on the server.

Identified as CVE-2026–32475, the flaw affects Elementor Pro versions before 4.2.2 and stems from the File Upload module, which uses separate loops for file validation and processing that handle empty filename uploads differently.

“The problem is that these two loops disagree about what to do with an empty file entry (an upload part whose filename is blank, which PHP reports as UPLOAD_ERR_NO_FILE),” clarifies a report from Patchstack, a cybersecurity company focused on the WordPress ecosystem.

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