SonicWall has warned that attackers are chaining two newly discovered vulnerabilities in its SMA1000 secure remote access appliances to execute code remotely. One flaw is a maximum-severity command injection issue in the WorkPlace interface caused by an SSRF weakness, while the second lets an authenticated admin run arbitrary OS commands via the Management Console. The bugs affect the SMA1000 6210, 7210, and 8200v models, with over 400 exposed devices currently visible online.
Hackers used a known, unpatched vulnerability in ownCloud software to gain initial access into systems belonging to the Philippines' nuclear regulatory agency. The breach reportedly resulted in the theft of reactor databases, personnel records, and stored credentials.
The authors have retracted their paper on warming and global drought severity after discovering multiple errors, including failure to use area-weighted grid cells, inadvertent use of an outdated dataset (GLEAM v3 instead of GLEAM4), and a timestepping bug that misclassified data periods. They also acknowledged unclear explanations of how an arid-region mask was applied across different figures. Rather than issue a correction, the authors chose to retract the paper entirely and plan to resubmit a fully revised version for new peer review.
The authors of a study on B-cell selection thresholds in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia issued a correction after discovering an image duplication between Fig. 4d of this paper and Fig. 3l of another publication from the same research group. A separate duplication was also found within Extended Data Fig. 6e. Both figures have now been replaced with the correct original bioluminescence data and source files, including time stamps.
A new United Nations Environment Programme report finds that current global emissions trends put the planet on track for roughly 1.8°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this century, effectively ending hopes of holding warming to the 1.5°C target set under the Paris Agreement. UNEP's executive director Inger Andersen acknowledged that countries have delayed climate action, failing to cut emissions at the pace scientists said was necessary.
Palo Alto Networks reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $3.41 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.02 per share, both above analyst expectations, with revenue up 34% year-over-year. The company posted a net loss of $282 million due to one-time charges, a reversal from the prior year's profit, even as CEO Nikesh Arora pointed to rising AI-related cyberattacks as a long-term growth driver. Despite the earnings beat, shares fell roughly 2% in after-hours trading following a 5% drop during the regular session.
Google unveiled five new Android updates in a Tuesday blog post, including 'Motion Assist,' which displays a moving screen bubble to ease motion sickness in vehicles, and 'Guided Vision,' which uses the camera and Gemini AI to help blind and low-vision users read labels, menus, or identify objects. Additional updates let Gemini help users track misplaced items and add new personalization options to Google Messages.
X users have reported receiving unsolicited password reset emails following the rollout of the platform's new X Money payment service. X engineer Mridul Singhai confirmed the company is investigating the surge of reset requests, stating no evidence of actual account breaches has been found so far.
A new study from Google Research and Technion shows that when models like GPT-5 and Gemini-3 hallucinate, the underlying fact is usually already stored in their parameters rather than missing entirely. The researchers found these models encode 95-98% of tested facts, but often fail to surface them during generation due to retrieval, not storage, limits. They propose 'fact-level profiling' to separate whether a fact is encoded versus reliably retrievable across different phrasings.
Sonos let journalists test its new Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones in several setups, including standalone, paired with wireless Play speakers as surrounds, and streaming soundbar audio directly to the headphones. During a movie clip demo, the Beam Ultra delivered clear, well-balanced sound with surprising bass despite no subwoofer, while adding the Play speakers as rear surrounds noticeably improved immersion through Sonos's new Fabric technology, which lets devices sense their placement and surroundings.
An independent reviewer examined the track record of AI critic Ed Zitron's forecasts about the technology's trajectory, comparing them against how events actually unfolded. The author, who describes having no strong pro- or anti-AI stance and no financial stake in AI firms beyond standard index funds, set out to evaluate the accuracy of Zitron's widely circulated skeptical claims.
Responding to a June class-action lawsuit in California, Sony argued that consumers cannot reasonably believe that buying a game digitally grants ownership, since the same digital copy can be sold to countless buyers simultaneously, unlike a physical disc. The lawsuit alleges Sony's use of words like 'buy' and 'purchase' at checkout misleads consumers, while burying the true licensing terms in separate agreements they never have to actively acknowledge.
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