Chinese state hackers targeting Microsoft customers

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Chinese state-sponsored hackers are actively exploiting critical security vulnerabilities in users of Microsoft’s popular SharePoint servers to steal sensitive data and deploy malicious code, the US…

Why the Psychopathic Brain Struggles With Emotion and Control

Summary: New research reveals how structural brain connectivity shapes psychopathic traits and externalizing behaviors. Using advanced connectome modeling, scientists identified two key networks: one tied to impaired emotional processing, the…

Tokenizers and decoders enable editing and inpainting without generators

A system capable of generating images normally requires a tokenizer, which compresses and encodes visual data, along with a generator that can combine and arrange these compact representations in order…

Most Mental Illnesses Arise Without Family History

Summary: A massive Danish study shows that most mental illnesses—like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression—occur in people with no close family history of the condition. Analyzing data from over 3…

Bifacial thin-film solar cells harness sunlight from both sides for higher output

Co-intercalation process enables fast-charging sodium batteries

The image illustrates a layered structure composed of transition metals (blue) and sulfur (yellow). The space between the layers can be occupied by sodium ions (purple) and organic solvent molecules…

FoMO and Dark Personalities Drive Online Political Engagement

Summary: A large cross-national study examined how psychopathy, narcissism, fear of missing out (FoMO), and cognitive ability influence online political participation. Across eight countries, people high in psychopathy and FoMO…

US tariffs, laws push Jeep owner Stellantis into 2.3-bn-euro first-half net loss

Jeep owner Stellantis said it felt the first effects of US tariffs in the first half of 2025. Jeep owner Stellantis said on Monday it suffered a massive loss in…

Singapore military helps battle cyberattack: minister

Singapore’s Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing says select military units are helping combat a cyberattack on the country’s critical infrastructure. Units in Singapore’s military have been called in to help…

Jensen Huang, AI visionary in a leather jacket

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, recently convinced Donald Trump to lift restrictions on certain GPU exports to China. Unknown to the general public just three years ago, Jensen…