Microsoft Store now offers Paint 11.2609.401.0 to fix CVE-2026–83844, an RCE flaw; Windows Update does not deliver the fix.
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OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Cyber AI finds 81 Firefox flaws, 948 Linux bugs
OpenAI has revealed GPT-6 Cyber, a new artificial intelligence model that has discovered 81 previously unknown high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities and developed working exploits for 948 distinct Linux kernel flaws.
The company announced the model on Thursday, saying it significantly improves on earlier AI models in finding software vulnerabilities, validating their impact, and helping developers create fixes.
During security testing, GPT-6 Cyber discovered 81 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities in Firefox and helped develop patches, many of which Mozilla has already released.
SonicWall warns of new SSL-VPN MFA bypass flaw exploited in attacks
SonicWall has released security updates to fix seven vulnerabilities in SonicOS firewalls, including an SSL-VPN authentication bypass flaw exploited in attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026–19868, allows attackers with valid credentials for an alternate authentication method to bypass SAML authentication controls, potentially including SAML-enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA).
The flaw has a CVSS severity score of 7.1 and only affects SonicOS SSL-VPN services configured to use SAML authentication.
Runaway AI hacking agent behind WorkOS breach after escaping sandbox
WorkOS says an AI-powered hacking agent that breached its internal sales application and accessed customer information was operated by a security researcher who claims the tool escaped its testing environment and unintentionally attacked the company.
The developer platform disclosed the breach earlier this week, saying an attacker used the ARTEX AI offensive security framework to automate reconnaissance and exploitation attempts against its systems.
However, in a new security update published Friday, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich revealed that the person responsible had come forward and claimed the incident was accidental.
New UC research identifies biological differences in pancreatic cancer
Nina Steele, PhD. Photo/University of Cincinnati.
Led by Nina Steele, PhD, assistant professor in UC’s College of Medicine, in collaboration with Howard Crawford, PhD, scientific director of the Henry Ford + Michigan State University Pancreatic Cancer Center, the research was recently published in the journal Cancer Research.
Incidence and survival rates of pancreatic cancer vary between different populations of Americans, but sufficient data did not previously exist to determine specific genomic differences between populations.
MIT Scientists Break a 20-Year Rule And Unlock Never-Before-Seen Crystal Structures
One of the key methods through which scientists develop and enhance new materials is by getting more control over their structure at the smallest scales, and microscopic nanoparticles can be incredibly useful for this kind of detail.
Now researchers led by a team from MIT have overturned the conventional thinking of the last couple of decades when it comes to how these nanoparticles are connected together.
Previously, the connectors – or ligands – between the nanoparticles have mostly been designed as rigid and fixed.
New Modeling Attempts to Reconcile Modified Gravity with the Bullet Cluster
Modified gravity theories have a long and somewhat controversial history in scientific literature. Typically, these theories are put forth in an attempt to explain the observations we ascribe to dark matter by slightly tweaking either general relativity or Newton’s laws. While some have been successful at matching our observations of particular systems, these theories are often criticized for failing to generate consistent predictions about systems at different scales. For example, in the traditional formulation of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), Newton’s second law is modified to boost the effect of gravitational forces once an object’s acceleration drops below a certain value. With the right choice of cutoff, MOND can reproduce galactic rotation curves fairly well — but this same cutoff, when applied to galaxy clusters or cosmology, leads to faulty predictions.
One system that has been framed as particularly tricky for MOND is the Bullet Cluster. This structure consists of two subclusters that once passed through each other at high speeds, leaving an extended blob of hot gas strewn across the space between the subclusters. While this central gas is estimated to contain the majority of the system’s baryonic mass (e.g., stars, gas, and dust), gravitational lensing signatures remain strongest around the subclusters and suggest the presence of extra non-baryonic mass. If this excessive lensing were the result of a modification to Newton’s laws, it should be seen everywhere throughout the structure, not just around the subclusters. While dark matter halos provide a natural explanation for the separation, traditional MOND struggles to account for these observations.
A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality
Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument.
Nicotinamide Riboside for Patients With Early-Stage Parkinson Disease: The NOPARK Randomized Clinical Trial
This randomized trial assesses the effect of oral nicotinamide riboside treatment for 52 weeks vs placebo on clinical outcomes among patients with early Parkinson disease.
Could a Clean Room Tour Spark Your Next Career Move?
2030, semiconductor facilities will create demand for 189,000 new full-time jobs. On our current trajectory, there will not be enough trained workers to fill them. Community colleges are stepping in to fill the gap.
The semiconductor worker shortfall is the kind of challenge that community colleges were built for, Taylor-Mendoza says. Community colleges have a long history of helping train people quickly and affordably for critical jobs such as nursing, court reporting, or making computer chips. Community colleges in regional semiconductor hubs are now offering apprenticeships, certificates, and other training to enable people to update their skills or pivot to new career paths in the industry. They funnel some graduates into engineering programs at nearby universities to get four-year degrees and recruit and train high school students.
In response to the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, companies have announced 140 new projects and investments of more than US $640 billion in the country, according to a September report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for instance, plans to invest $165 billion in the US. Its chip fabrication plant in Arizona began production in 2024, and the company plans to open 3 more fabs and two packaging facilities. The Arizona fab employs about 3,500 people, and when another two open, the company will need about 6,000 employees in the region, including thousands of technicians.
“‘Build it and they will come’ doesn’t work” with semiconductor fabs, says Palmer of Maricopa Community Colleges (MCC), which collaborates with TSMC, Intel, and other companies on its semiconductor curricula. MCC recruits high school students and performs marketing in the region, educating people about jobs in the semiconductor industry and the training they need to get a foot in the door. Then they provide that training, often at no cost to students.