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Pegasus ZeroClick Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member’s iPhone

The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation.

“Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware,” the Citizen Lab said. “We found high-confidence indicators of infection from a period across December 2025 – January 2026; however, this does not preclude the possibility of additional infections.”

It’s assessed that the zero-click exploit used in the attack targeted Apple iMessage, and has been addressed by Apple with iOS 18.4.1, which was released in April 2025.

NUS Medicine, DayOne and Cortical Labs Unveil Biological Data Center Prototype in Singapore

From left to right: Professor Rickie Patani, Director of the Neurobiology Programme at the NUS Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and Chair of the Neuroscience Translational Research Programme (TRP); Jamie Khoo, CEO of DayOne; and Hon Weng Chong, Founder and CEO of Cortical Labs.

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) is partnering with DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global data centre developer and operator, and Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based biological computing startup, to establish a groundbreaking Biological Data Centre prototype at the NUS Life Sciences Institute.

On 6 August 2026, an exclusive showcase of the prototype brought together over 80 guests from the private sector and academia, as well as the technology and digital infrastructure sectors for a first look at this next frontier in computing. Attendees experienced a live demonstration of the CL1/Cortical Cloud computing units, microelectrode array integration, and real-time neural network activity, offering a powerful glimpse into how biology and technology can come together to transform the future of computing.

College of Letters & Science, University of WisconsinMadison

Researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research have discovered their first exoplanet, a 170-million-year-old planet more than 2.5 times larger than the Earth.

It’s nearly 170 million years old. It’s more than 2.5 times the size of Earth. And it’s the first exoplanet discovered and catalogued by researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (WiCOR).

Max Kroft, a graduate student in the lab of Assistant Professor of Astronomy Thomas Beatty, is the lead author on a paper that characterizes GJ 523b, a dense exoplanet that’s classified as a “Mega-Earth” due to its massive size. The paper is currently under review and will be available through the open-access archive arXiv.

Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn’s south pole

Recent observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet’s southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn’s famous hexagon at its northern pole, but is also distinctly different, suggesting scientists may be witnessing a new atmospheric phenomenon develop on the iconic gas giant.

Neural Implant in Korea Remotely Controlled from the United States, Bringing Brain Research into the IoT Era

A researcher in Chicago remotely controls a miniaturized brain implant in Daejeon, Korea — over the internet. Korean researchers have developed a wireless device that can deliver drugs and light to precisely modulate targeted neurons from anywhere in the world. The technology is expected to overcome the constraints of distance and location, supporting long-term studies of brain disorders and the future development of therapeutic devices.

KAIST (President Choongsik Bae) announced on August 27 that a research team led by Professor Jae-Woong Jeong from the School of Electrical Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Wha Young Kim’s team at Yonsei University College of Medicine, has developed an IoT-enabled wireless neural implant that integrates drug delivery, optical stimulation, wireless communication, and internet-based remote control into a single miniaturized device.

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.

Quantum Cyclic Cosmology with Sean Carroll

Could our universe be repeating—and could quantum mechanics solve one of cosmology’s strangest problems?
In this video I speak with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about his new paper, “Toward a Phenomenologically Acceptable Quantum Cyclic Universe.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30405
One of the deepest mysteries in cosmology is why the early universe began in such an extraordinarily low-entropy state. Attempts to explain this through random fluctuations can lead to the notorious Boltzmann-brain problem: if the universe persists for long enough, isolated observers produced by chance may vastly outnumber ordinary observers who evolved within galaxies.
Carroll and his collaborators investigate a radically different possibility. If the universe has a finite-dimensional quantum state space, its state could eventually return—not merely to something similar, but to exactly the same quantum state. The entire history of the universe could therefore repeat periodically without being dominated by Boltzmann-brains.
We discuss:
Why the Big Bang’s low entropy is so mysterious• Boltzmann’s proposed solution and the Boltzmann-brain problem• The difference between cyclic and genuinely periodic cosmologies• How spacetime might emerge from a more fundamental quantum description• Why the model assumes a finite-dimensional Hilbert space• How quantum recurrence could become exact repetition• Carroll’s “quantum Boltzmann entropy”• Whether the same people and events would recur eternally• What the proposal explains—and what remains unresolved• Whether it could ever make testable predictions.
timeline.
00:00 preview.
00:14 Introduction.
00:48 Big Bangs low entropy problem.
2;11 Boltzmann solution.
4:37 Boltzmann brains.
11:00 Boltzmann-brain in a single universe.
16: 20 Period vs cyclic universe.
21:22 Infinite dimensional loop hole.
24:14 Space From Hilbert Space.
32:15 Fundamental Time.
35:25 Finite Dimensional Loop Hole.
44:30 Many worlds and entropy.
48:57 How long is a cycle?
51:22 The Story of cycles.
57:07 The cosmological constant problem.
1:00:00 Carroll Chen model.
1:09:28 The future for the model.

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