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February 2026 CVE Landscape: 13 Critical Vulnerabilities Mark 43% Drop from January February 2026 saw a 43% decrease in high-impact vulnerabilities, with Recorded Future's Insikt Group® identifying 13 vulnerabilities re…
NIST Shares Preliminary Findings From Hurricane Maria Investigation As NIST’s National Construction Safety Team nears the end of its investigation, it has released a video update that highlights significant milestones a…
Critical MCP Integration Flaw Puts NGINX at Risk Attackers can abuse the near-maximum severity flaw in nginx-ui to restart, create, modify, and delete NGINX configuration files.
'Harmless' Global Adware Transforms Into an AV Killer A benign looking update Dragon Boss pushed out in March 2025 established persistence via scheduled tasks and arranged for future payloads to be excluded from Windows…
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.
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 to Provide Updates on Construction Safety Team Investigations in September Advisory Committee Meeting The public meetings will include updates on NIST’s investigations into the impacts of Hurricane Maria and the pa…
NIST’s Alex Maranghides Receives Service to America Medal The award recognizes Maranghides for 25 years of work investigating devastating wildfires in the United States and creating actionable guidelines on how to save…
New NIST Reference Material to Strengthen Quality Control for Biological Drugs Impurities in these drugs can cause undesirable immune responses in patients and can significantly drive up costs for drug manufacturers.
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 Makes First Detection of Cannabis in Breath From Edibles Currently there are no reliable roadside tests to determine when a person consumed cannabis or how intoxicated they are as a result.
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.
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What Time Is It on Mars? NIST Physicists Have the Answer.
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since December When the price increases for PlayStation 5 consoles went into effect on April 2nd, we weren’t sure when the next time a good discount would happen. Sure…
I bought Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor and I can’t believe how good it is I've recommended several OLED gaming monitors to readers over the years, and I've finally taken my own advice to buy one. Alienware's new 27-inch…
Binance.US cuts spot trading fees to near zero in push to undercut rivals The exchange set maker fees at 0% and taker fees at 0.02% across all pairs, extending near-zero pricing to all users with no volume tiers or subs…
Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass Yesterday Microsoft announced some surprising news: at a time when everything in gaming is getting more expensive, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate was actually getting a pri…
BMW’s flagship 7 Series gets its ‘Neue Klasse’ upgrade Ever since BMW first announced its "Neue Klasse" next-generation electric vehicle architecture and design language way back in 2021, the question on many fans' mind…
The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down The first rule of Titanium Court is that you can't explain Titanium Court. Not because we're living under the omerta of an 8-bit Fight Club, but be…
Duolingo is now giving free users access to advanced learning content Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved t…
The Best Apps to Help You Cancel Subscriptions (2026): Trim, Bobby, TrackMySubs, Hiatus You may have several recurring subscriptions you've forgotten about. These apps help you keep track of them—and cancel the ones you…
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit…
AI drives surge in ‘bug bounty’ reports, but ‘slop’ is rising too HackerOne, one of the largest bug bounty platforms in the world, reported there were 85,000 valid bounty submissions in 2025, up 7% from the previous yea…
Starz Promo Codes & Deals: Get a Discount This April 2026 Ready to stream award-winning series, hit movies, and exclusive originals? Our comprehensive guide helps you find every active Starz coupon, free trial, and disc…
US law firm apologizes after AI hallucinations made it to legal filing Sullivan & Cromwell’s Andrew Dietderich said the company has AI policies to prevent incorrect citations and other errors, but procedures weren’t fol…
Inside the MAS Sandbox: How Ripple is testing RLUSD for real trade settlements How Ripple is testing RLUSD in Singapore’s MAS sandbox to enable conditional trade settlements, and why this does not amount to full regulat…
Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been…
Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple: Here’s a look at his 15-year legacy, from new products and services to China expansion Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transf…
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not…
The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’ Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration sc…
Personalized CRISPR therapies could soon reach thousands — here’s how Nature, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01243-y A fresh approach to trialling treatments for rare genetic diseases could make…
Forty years after Chornobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them Nature, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01255-8 Civil nuclear technology comes with unlikely but dangerous risks…
Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising Nature, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01253-w The tools exist to end this killer disease. It is the money and the will that are lacki…
How big is Big G ? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength Nature, Published online: 21 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01284-3 Physicists have spent the past decade trying to pin down the…
A Hot-Air Balloon Landed in a California Backyard. The Owner Says It's a 'Very Rare' Event The CEO of Magical Adventures Balloon Rides tells WIRED how the pilot made a safe landing after they got stranded over a neighbo…
A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package Nature, Published online: 20 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00990-2 It’s an important milestone in many academic careers, yet the tenure process is surpr…
Thrilling, frivolous, a waste: not everyone’s happy about the Artemis II Moon mission Nature, Published online: 20 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01262-9 Thrilling, frivolous, a waste: not everyone’s happy about the…
Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3-million Breakthrough prizes Nature, Published online: 18 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01014-9 This year’s winners include hundreds of physicists across…
Redirects for AI Training enforces canonical content Soft directives don’t stop crawlers from ingesting deprecated content. Redirects for AI Training allows anybody on Cloudflare to redirect verified crawlers to canonic…
Introducing Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI We are launching Flagship, a native feature flag service built on Cloudflare’s global network to eliminate the latency of third-party providers. By using KV an…
Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust Nature, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01212-5 Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particl…
Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll Nature, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01210-7 Most of the individuals in a seventeenth-century-Switzerland burial site had performed strenuous manual lab…
Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2-million contest Nature, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01236-x Quantum machines are making inroads into biology but h…
Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity Nature, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01227-y Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks diffe…
Daily briefing: AI systems can ‘teach’ biases to other models Nature, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01265-6 Data generated by AI ‘teachers’ can subliminally pass on particular traits to ‘studen…
Defense in Depth, Medieval Style This article on the walls of Constantinople is fascinating. The system comprised four defensive lines arranged in formidable layers: The brick-lined ditch, divided by bulkheads and often…
Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10513-8 Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocyt…
Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship song Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10483-x Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship so…
Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10381-2 Shelves rather than shorelines may be better topographic indicators of oceans on Eart…
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10358-1 Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instan…
Tumour promotion through the lens of evolution Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10386-x This Review revisits tumour initiation and promotion in light of clonal diversity and the presence o…
Prospective evaluation of genomics-guided off-label treatment Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10405-x Evaluation by the Drug Rediscovery Protocol of off-label use of 37 approved cancer dr…
Cell-type-targeted mitochondrial transplantation rescues cell degeneration Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10391-0 MitoCatch is a cell-type-specific mitochondrion-targeting system that li…
A spatial atlas of the healthy human liver from live donors Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10377-y A human spatial atlas of gene expression in liver based on live donors shows marked por…