Storm clouds threaten a promised AI revolution in weather prediction

“People just moan about the weather forecast and how bad it is…” Erik AJV/Alamy “It’s an absolutely unbelievable scientific achievement,” says Andrew Charlton-Perez, talking to me by video from his office at the University of Reading, UK. His colleague, Simon Driscoll at the University of Cambridge, nods enthusiastically. “There are so many different applications and…

Read More

Oceans cannot become ‘wild west’, warns UN chief

Esme Stallard Climate and science correspondent Reporting fromUN Oceans Conference, Nice, France Getty Images Unregulated mining in the deep sea should not be allowed to go ahead, the head of the United Nations has warned. “The deep sea cannot become the Wild West,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said at the opening of the UN…

Read More

Qualys TRU Discovers Two Local Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump: CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598

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….

Read More