Bonus: A unicorn goes downhill AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning You have landed upon a bonus post! In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support…
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered two local information-disclosure vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump. Both issues are race-condition vulnerabilities. The first (CVE-2025-5054) affects Ubuntu’s core-dump handler, Apport, and the second (CVE-2025-4598) targets systemd-coredump, which is the default core-dump handler on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and the recently released 10, as well as on Fedora….
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all…
The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history. Also called the Great Dying, it is thought to have nearly wiped out all life on Earth 252 million years ago. Yet, earlier this year, we learned of an ancient ecosystem at South Taodonggou, a geological site in what is now China, where plants…
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed in Wyoming are the oldest bat fossils ever found — and they reveal a new species. Tim Rietbergen, an evolutionary biologist at…
David Zaslav attends the world premiere of “The Flash”, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake Mike Blake | Reuters Earlier this year, Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav ended his company’s long relationship with the National Basketball Association. Now, he may be setting the stage to end his…
Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Johner Images/Getty Images More than three-quarters of pensioners will receive the winter fuel payment this year after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed a major policy U-turn. Nine million pensioners in England and Wales with an annual income of £35,000 or less will now be eligible. The payment, worth up to…
Living with sensitive skin means adjusting your skincare routine to incorporate only the products that won’t agitate your skin. It’s not that easy to figure out when it comes to redness outbreaks or situations when you need to wear sunscreen (one of the top skin irritants). This guide provides the skincare routine examples you could…
Compliance isn’t optional. But it’s never been more complex. The rise of containers has revolutionized modern infrastructure—enabling faster innovation and greater scalability. But with this transformation comes a new wave of compliance challenges. PCI DSS 4.0 introduces stricter requirements for both vulnerability management and file integrity monitoring (FIM) in dynamic environments like Kubernetes and containerized…
Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications. A team of researchers from Harvard University and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now demonstrated an approach to stabilize these fleeting states and probe their quantum…
