Active exploitation targets 7-Zip CVE-2025–11001; patch 25.00 fixes symbolic link RCE flaws.

Global Operation WrtHug exploits multiple ASUS WRT flaws to hijack tens of thousands of EoL routers.

Google’s Gemini 3 is finally here, and we’re impressed with the results, but it still does not adhere to my requests as well as Claude Code.

A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025–9501, affects all versions of the W3TC plugin prior to 2.8.13 and is described as an unauthenticated command injection.

W3TC is installed on more than one million websites to increase performance and reduce load times.

Scientists have discovered a 900 metre wide impact crater in southern China, the largest modern meteorite scar on Earth. The Jinlin crater triples the size of the previous record holder and suggests that recent extraterrestrial impacts have been far more dramatic than anyone realised.

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Regenerative responses in salivary gland organoids after irradiation are mediated by IFN-I signaling.

The Water Authority has started channeling desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, marking the first ever attempt anywhere in the world to top up a freshwater lake with processed seawater.

The groundbreaking project, years in the making and a sign of both Israel’s success in converting previously unusable water into a vital resource and the rapidly dropping water levels in the country’s largest freshwater reservoir, was quietly inaugurated on October 23…

… Firas Talhami, who is in charge of the rehabilitation of water sources in northern Israel for the Water Authority, told The Times of Israel that he expected the project to raise the lake’s level by around 0.5 centimeters (0.2 inches) per month.

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

Now, a study published in Nature Geoscience by Rutgers geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki in combination with collaborators offers a striking new explanation for these anomalies and their role in shaping Earth’s ability to support life.

Researchers reveal a failed 2025 attack using Tuoni C2, steganographic payloads, and Teams impersonation.