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Did Physics Just Lose a Brilliant Idea?

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One of the most popular ideas in physics right now is something named “ER = EPR.” This theory has it that entangled particles are actually linked by tiny, tiny wormholes. Recently, a group of physicists tested the idea – let’s take a look at their findings.

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12 Critical Technologies Reshaping the Industrial Era: A Resource/Framework for Understanding Convergence, Risk, and Resilience

Exploring 12 critical technologies reshaping the industrial era: a resource for understanding convergence, risk, and resilience.

This framework outlines 12 critical technologies, their applications, and their impact across 13 essential infrastructure sectors, along with data-driven imperatives for action. It is designed to be a living resource, regularly updated, and is primarily based on my published writings in various outlets, including Forbes, Skytop Media Group, GovCon Wire, Homeland Security Today Magazine, Security Information Watch, and my book “Inside Cyber.”

The findings are that these emerging technologies that will shape our future do not operate in isolation. Convergence acts as the catalyst.

Lockheed Martin unveils hypersonic glide body built for rapid mass production

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a next-generation hypersonic glide body designed to provide a more affordable and rapidly producible long-range strike capability.

The new system, called NXGB, is intended to combine advanced speed, survivability, and scalability to meet evolving national security requirements while supporting faster production and deployment.

According to the company, the hypersonic glide body is aimed at expanding strike options for defense forces by delivering high-performance capabilities in a cost-effective and adaptable platform.

It only takes one fake web page to fool AI shopping bots, study finds

AI shopping assistants are popping up all over the internet, changing how we browse, compare and discover products. However, these helpful tools appear to have a serious security flaw. According to a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, a single manipulated web page can trick an AI assistant into promoting a fake product to unsuspecting customers.

Considering that fake goods and fake reviews are everywhere online, researchers Minghao Luo and Liang Chen decided to test how easily search-augmented AI systems can be tricked into promoting bogus brands.

Sugar-coated nanoparticles show promise for treating most aggressive form of brain cancer

Researchers at Oregon State University have potentially found a new way to treat the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, whose two-year survival rate is less than 30%.

The study, led by Oleh Taratula, Olena Taratula and Yoon Tae Goo of the OSU College of Pharmacy, addresses what they describe as the two most persistent obstacles to effective glioblastoma treatment: delivering therapeutic agents through the blood-brain barrier, the cell network that acts as a security checkpoint between the bloodstream and the central nervous system, and then getting those agents to preferentially target tumors.

In research published in the Journal of Controlled Release, the scientists demonstrate the novel treatment technique in a mouse model. They loaded lipid nanoparticles with genetic material that promotes tumor suppression, then coated the nanoparticles with a type of sugar. The result was a 50% median increase in glioblastoma survival time.

China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017

China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics.

LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world’s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides raw speed, the system stood out because it uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units, which most high-end supercomputers rely on for heavy number crunching.

That underlying design could point to a better way to blend artificial intelligence with traditional scientific tasks, said Jack Dongarra, an organizer of the so-called Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root

Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME).

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026–20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks through an affected device.

“An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device,” Cisco said in an advisory released earlier this month. “A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write files to the underlying operating system that could be used later to elevate to root.”

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