October 22, 2026

What does cholesterol have to do with DCTN1?

Is the increased activity observed after altering DCTN1 related to difficulty transporting cholesterol within the cell? The data described in the news report do not yet establish that chain of cause and effect. They show a change in gene activity and a possible explanation that deserves to be tested.

October 22, 2026

The patch already exists: how many systems are still exposed?

My take is that the most useful figure for following this story will not be the percentage of sites using PHP, but how many systems actually affected remain unpatched. The discovery and the release of the patch have already happened. Between the two ends of the story—the early attacks observed by Cloudflare and

October 21, 2026

SpaceX uses rocket technology to manufacture turbines

SpaceX wants to speed up the construction of an artificial intelligence data center and has encountered a very specific wait: turbine manufacturers take between twelve and eighteen months to obtain the metals they need for some of their parts. Elon Musk says the company is using capabilities

October 20, 2026

Who can stop the release of a dangerous AI?

A model is about to be released to the public. An external monitor detects a serious danger. For the United States federal government to intervene, under the proposal Anthropic has discussed with lawmakers, simply considering the model dangerous would not be enough. The threat would have to be imminent, reach a threshold

October 20, 2026

Has Git stopped working? 25 million checkouts a day

Anthropic reports that it performs around twenty-five million code checkouts a day for CI, before counting development environments, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. Twenty-five million occasions when a process may end up preparing files from the monorepo. But some of those processes

October 20, 2026

The age filter you can bypass with one click #Shorts

How hard is it to bypass an age filter? In a test using an Apple account registered to a 13-year-old, researchers tried to download an adults-only app. A restricted-content warning appeared. But simply confirming that the person was at least 17 was enough

October 20, 2026

The app disappeared from the store but kept working

But the researchers confirmed that they could keep using copies they had already installed. During their investigation, Apple removed 25 flagged apps and Google removed six. Removal from the store did not disable those copies. That ties in with what happened to Dorfman on her phone. Exactly. She says Movely had disappeared