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June 2026 CVE Landscape In June 2026, Insikt Group® identified 59 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, 30 of which had a Very Critical Recorded Future Risk Score. This represents a 47%…
April 2026 CVE Landscape In April 2026, Insikt Group® identified 37 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, 35 of which had a Very Critical Recorded Future Risk Score. This represents a 1…
May 2026 CVE Landscape In May 2026, Insikt Group® identified 41 high-impact vulnerabilities that should be prioritized for remediation, all of which had a Very Critical Recorded Future Risk Score. This represents a 11%…
6 GHz Wi-Fi Flaws Could Disrupt Critical Systems Automated Frequency Coordination systems by default trust client-side data, which could lead to location spoofing and other attacks that disrupt traffic.
The Purchase Scam Tactic Headed for the World Cup | Recorded Future A purchase scam tactic hijacks organic search through compromised sites, and it’s built to scale into 2026 FIFA World Cup fraud. How it works and how t…
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts With the new "Replace Audio" tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, and reach in…
Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts Microsoft has shared manual mitigations to help IT administrators fix Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers affected by a known issue that causes Win…
How to Disable Music Videos in Spotify A recent update made video playback the default for songs and podcasts with a visual component. If you just want to listen to music—and save your data and battery—follow these tips.
Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade For the first time in Cardano's history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.
Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We look at all of them, and argue that whi…
NIST Releases Technical Findings on What Caused the 2021 Partial Collapse of Champlain Towers South In an investigation that began just days after the tragedy, the team examined two dozen possible scenarios for where an…
Wear and Tear Changes Measurable PFAS Levels in Firefighter Hoods, Gloves and Wildland Gear In the fourth of an ongoing series of reports, NIST shows that wear and tear increased the levels of PFAS found in hoods and gl…
Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create ‘Any Wavelength’ Lasers in Tiny Circuits for Light NIST scientists and collaborators have pioneered a way to make integrated circuits for light by depositing complex patterns o…
NIST Releases New Forensic Genetic Reference Material to Help Crime Laboratories Analyze Challenging Cases The reference material is the first to include mixtures of high-quality and degraded DNA from different individu…
NIST’s ‘Living Reference Material’ Could Accelerate R&D of Lifesaving Biological Drugs The NIST reference material, called NISTCHO, will help the biopharmaceutical industry develop new drugs more quickly and ensure that…
NIST Expands AI Consortium’s Scope, Calls for New Members The consortium will focus on AI innovation and adoption, with six task groups concentrating on different aspects of AI measurement science and evaluation.
NIST Helps Fingerprint Examiners With New Data and Software Release The new tools are an annotated collection of 10,000 fingerprints and a software program that can sort fingerprints according to their quality.
NIST Launches Center to Drive the Manufacture of Quantum Technologies NIST has announced an agreement with SRI International to establish the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC).
NIST Engineers Design 5 New Ways to Connect Concrete Pieces for More Resilient Buildings One of the biggest challenges with precast concrete is connecting the concrete pieces at a job site.
NIST Physicists Bring Unruly Molecules to the Quantum Party Molecules can serve as versatile building blocks for quantum technologies, but they are much harder to control than atoms.
Space: The Final Frontier for Standards Seven NIST reference materials, including house dust and freeze-dried human liver tissue, have been flown to the International Space Station.
NIST Receives New Patent for Microbe-Killing Water Heater Warm water in household pipes can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
Arvind Raman Confirmed as the 18th NIST Director Raman comes to NIST from Purdue University, where he was the dean of engineering.
New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim's refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login…
What Time Is It on Mars? NIST Physicists Have the Answer.
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, or…
Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes,…
Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings The company didn't say how many are in each city and has taken a far more cautious approach to scaling the network than CEO Elon Musk had promised.
Twitch will let parents stop their teens going live Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parenta…
Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, attaching a pair o…
A new extortion cocktail: office printers, small ransoms, and BitLocker We cover two recent cases of BitLocker extortion using RDP, MSSQL, RMM tools, web shells, and printers. The story includes TTPs and recommendations.
How the 2026 World Cup affected Internet traffic We analyzed global HTTP traffic to explore how kickoff times, streaming habits, and hydration breaks reshaped online activity worldwide. From late-night traffic surges to…
Tether-backed Twenty One, Strike merger plan scrapped: Bloomberg Strike will remain a standalone company after the proposed three-way merger was scrapped, while Twenty One Capital and Elektron continue discussions, Bloo…
Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem fr…
SteelSeries Coupon Codes: 15% Off in July 2026 Find the best SteelSeries coupon codes, promo codes, and discount codes for May 2026. Get deals on headsets, keyboards, and mice, including first-order and student discount…
What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the…
Understanding Vault performance: Benchmarks from real-world workloads Discover how Vault Enterprise performs under real-world concurrency and payload sizes, with KV, SSH, and PKI benchmarks on HashiCorp Validated Design…
Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to ta…
Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually in…
As Global Conflicts Go Digital, Businesses Need Wartime Game Plans The fate of a Ukrainian tax software company shows how modern cyber warfare can claim casualties far beyond the battlefield, and how businesses across t…
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP…
Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releas…
Making AI search smarter Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting p…
Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level co…
Rethinking cloud operations with agentic observability Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic…
Powering the next wave of AI: Expanding capacity with our new datacenter in Pecos Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history. In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new datacent…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and mess…
SHub Reaper | macOS Stealer Spoofs Apple, Google, and Microsoft in a Single Attack Chain SHub Reaper bypasses Apple's Terminal mitigation, steals credentials and documents, and plants a persistent backdoor for continued…
Shooting for the Moon: Ultrastable Lasers in Dark Craters Could Enable Lunar Navigation, Precision Timekeeping, New Science Lunar craters in permanent shadow could be ideal locations for building the most stable optical…
Microsoft: it’s time to come clean about your ties to the Israeli military Through a new joint letter, we're calling on Microsoft to publish the findings of its review into the Israeli military’s use of the company serv…
Building with AI: Here's What No Briefing Will Tell You What building with AI for three months revealed about four leadership blind spots executives can't afford to ignore: the comprehension gap, eroding competitive moa…
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome…
Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they've built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contract…
Department of Commerce Announces Transition of Baldrige Performance Excellence Program Beginning with the 2026 award cycle, the Alliance for Performance Excellence and the Baldrige Foundation will take on most operation…
Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition f…
Try Deep Think in the Gemini app We're rolling out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, and we're giving select mathematicians access to the full version of the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model enter…
Meet YC's Newest Visiting Partners We're excited to announce that nine exceptional founders are joining us as Visiting Partners at YC: Matt Riley, Harshita Arora, Grey Baker, Christopher Golda, Raphael Schaad, Christina…
New Technique for Measuring DNA Damage Could Improve Cancer Therapy and Radiological Emergency Response The technology, which may someday be as portable as a smartphone, promises faster and more accurate measurements of…
Welcoming Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas as YC’s Newest General Partners Over the last few batches, visiting partners Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas have become two of the most trusted voices in the YC community. They were both fou…