CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to disguise attacks against critical infrastructure. The advisory urges users to disable outdated SNMP versions, use strong passwords, update firmware, and turn off unnecessary router Read more…
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) have created what they describe as the world’s most detailed 3D cellular atlas of the human brainstem, linking whole-brain MRI views to individual neurons across more than 500 tissue sections. The free online atlas, called Anchor, could help researchers better understand Read more…
Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries and self-tanners, in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way. While not essential for life itself, the molecule can convert into a form thought to be important for life’s origins, adding evidence that key prebiotic ingredients may be Read more…
An intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI was just part of a larger movement. “The Bay Area’s AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind Read more…
Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy. “The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%” — mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates: In Read more…
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? “Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees,” goes one common answer. “But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers,” customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, “who fly under the radar but collectively account Read more…
America is facing what’s projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history. Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech. It “could hobble the American economy for years to come,” predicts the Read more…