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Sunshine and Saharan Dust Make Miami’s World Cup Quarter-Final a Dangerous Game for England Norway
For Norway’ national men’ occer team, Saturday’ World Cup quarter-final again t England will be a fir t in more way than one. A the Scandinavian ide prepare for the bigge t match of it hi tory, it will al o face condition almo t unimaginable back home: the puni hing combination of South Florida heat, humidity, and blazing un hine that cienti t warn can pu h the human body to it limit…
Lire l’article completSperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group
Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed…
Lire l’article completAnthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at…
Lire l’article completThe Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and…
Lire l’article completSchneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to overwrite critical files, forge or inject malicious log data, gain unauthorized account access, trigger denial‑of‑service conditions, truncate or alter logging information, reset user credentials, or expose sensitive information. The following versions of Schneider…
Lire l’article completOpenPLC v3
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to write arbitrary files to the filesystem and escalate this into arbitrary native code execution through the normal OpenPLC program compilation process, potentially resulting in code execution as the OpenPLC runtime user.…
Lire l’article completSchneider Electric Easergy MiCOM Px40 Series
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its Easergy MiCOM Px40 Series products. The [Easergy MiCOM Px40](https://www.se.com/ww/en/product-subcategory/4725-easergy-micom-px40-series/?filter=business-6-medium-voltage-distribution-and-grid-automation) is a protection relay series for Medium Voltage, High Voltage and Extra High Voltage protection. Failure to apply the mitigations provided below may risk…
Lire l’article completThe Rebirth of High Frequency
An examination of how satellite vulnerabilities, modern wideband waveforms, and automatic link establishment are driving renewed military and government investment in HF communications.What Attendees will LearnWhy HF (High Frequency) declined — and what has changed — How satellites overtook HF for global communications from the…
Lire l’article completWhy Do Some Soccer Players Cut the Heels Off Their Cleats?
During thi year’ World Cup, one very peculiar image caught the attention of fan and commentator : Portugue e forward Pedro Neto played a match with the back of hi cleat cut off, right above the heel. It wa n’t an accident. The modification wa intended to relieve pre ure on a particularly en itive area of hi foot. Although the image went viral, it’ not new. For year , ome profe ional occer…
Lire l’article completFour nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors achieve criticality, a technical milestone establishing that a reactor can sustain a chain reaction, by the nation’s 250th birthday. And just in time, four reactors did so. It was…
Lire l’article completSTEM Needs Leaders From Every Generation at the Table
Working in isolation, especially for leaders, is rapidly becoming an outmoded idea. The modern era is defined by rapid technological advancements and increasingly complex, collaborative global challenges. In this environment, leadership can no longer be approached as an individual pursuit.Instead, leadership must be a collaborative…
Lire l’article completInside the Race to Electrify Semitrailers for Long-Haul Freight
A semitrailer that helps propel itself entered commercial road testing in late May, when a power-train kit developed by Nivalis Energy Europe, headquartered in Luxembourg with engineering operations in Germany, was fitted to a trailer supplied by the Amsterdam-based TIP Group. The self-powered trailer was handed over to the German transport operator Sommer for use in its working fleet. The Nivalis Powered Trailer Kit centers on an electric axle codeveloped with the running-gear specialist…
Lire l’article completEvolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench
Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Back in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful AI options for your everyday workflow. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the…
Lire l’article completFelons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed…
Lire l’article completThe Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips to reveal a half-dozen squirming red earthworms. There are likely hundreds of thousands more wriggling just under the surface. The…
Lire l’article completIEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics, writing more than 2,000 research papers and authoring several books on the field. He’s an influential figure thanks to his pioneering work developing biomedical robotic systems, industrial robots, micro-nano robotics, mechatronics, and AI-driven automation. Fukuda launched one of the first robotics conferences, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and…
Lire l’article completHitachi Energy e-mesh EMS
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects e-mesh EMS product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a buffer overflow condition, potentially resulting in application outages (denial of service) and possible arbitrary code execution. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi Energy e-mesh EMS are affected: Hitachi Energy e-mesh EMS 4.1.6,…
Lire l’article completLabcenter Proteus 9
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could disclose information and allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. The following versions of Labcenter Proteus 9 are affected: Proteus 9.1_SP4_Build_42914 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.8 Labcenter Electronics Labcenter Proteus 9 Out-of-bounds Write, Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Use After Free Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Defense Industrial Base, Energy, Healthcare and Public Health, Transportation Systems, Water and Wastewater Countries/Areas…
Lire l’article completDigi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IA
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to restricted resources, obtain credentials, and inject malicious scripts. The following versions of Digi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IA are affected: PortServer TS Digi One SP Digi One SP IA Digi One IA CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 5.9 Digi International Digi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IA Incorrect Authorization, Improper Neutralization of…
Lire l’article completThe latest in our company transformation
Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why” behind our decisions. Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of…
Lire l’article completGoogle Play launches the first Indie Games Fund in Africa
Posted by Steph Pio, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google Play EMEA Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most creative storytelling. To help bring those stories to a global audience, today, we’re proud to announce the debut of Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Africa. The region’s unique creativity has fueled a vibrant game development scene, helping drive what is quickly becoming one of the most exciting, resilient, and fast-growing gaming markets. It’s…
Lire l’article completIEEE’s Global Museum Brings Engineering History to You
Many IEEE members who collect historical engineering artifacts often offer them to the IEEE History and Heritage group, which includes the IEEE History Center, to display. To bring these artifacts to the public, the group created the IEEE Global Museum, which curates traveling exhibits for display at conferences and in libraries, universities, and other venues. The program educates people about how technological progress has unfolded over generations, and how engineers and researchers build on…
Lire l’article completFBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published…
Lire l’article completMicrosoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence
The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers have moved well beyond experimentation and understand the importance of adopting AI to transform their business. They are now concentrating on delivering measurable business outcomes and demonstrating a return on their AI investments, while ensuring…
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