Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings
The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain’s prize-winning popular science book about neurology ⌘ Read more
Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan
In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to her protagonists as they spend time in a virtual utopia which is becoming increasingly tempting in a dying world ⌘ Read more
If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?
Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical implications of the choices her characters make ⌘ Read more
Idor — TryHackMe writeup ⌘ Read more
Web Cache Deception Attack – A Hidden Threat in Today’s Web Applications ⌘ Read more
SQL Injection Leads to dump the Student PII ⌘ Read more
HTB Academy: Windows Fundamentals ⌘ Read more
011e021d6fa524b55bfc5ba67522daeb | MD5 Breakdown? ⌘ Read more
#4 RFI: From an External URL Into your Application
Understanding RFI isn’t just about finding a bug; it’s about recognizing a critical design flaw that, if exploited, hands an attacker the…
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**How I Made ChatGPT My Personal Hacking Assistant (And Broke Their “AI-Powered” Security) **
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Hack the Box: Nibbles Walkthrough ⌘ Read more
**How I Hacked JWT Tokens and Became Everyone on the Internet (Temporarily) **
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Exposed API Keys and Secrets with AI
Quick Disclosure of API Key and Secret to guess parameter value
Boy’s body was mummified and turned green by a copper coffin
The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the preservative properties of copper ⌘ Read more
Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is a comet, not aliens
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – sometimes a comet is just comet, says Robin George Andrews ⌘ Read more
Magnetic gel could remove kidney stones more effectively
Standard techniques for removing kidney stones often require repeated surgery, but a magnetic gel seems to make the process more efficient ⌘ Read more
The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says
President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties banning the practice – but will it actually happen? ⌘ Read more
Dinosaur skeleton settles long debate over ‘tiny T. rex’ fossils
Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely – now they have strong evidence that the diminutive Nanotyrannus really existed ⌘ Read more
Germanium superconductor could help build reliable quantum computers
A new type of germanium superconductor could allow classical and quantum chips to be built into one device, creating better and more reliable quantum computers. ⌘ Read more
$1000 Bounty: GitLab Security Flaw Exposed
How a $1000 Bounty Hunt Revealed a GraphQL Type Check Nightmare Allowing Maintainers to Nuke Repositories
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**How I Became the Unofficial Company Archivist (And Saw Things I Can’t Unsee) **
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Planning — HackTheBox Walkthrough ⌘ Read more
Relevant — TryHackMe Room Walkthrough ⌘ Read more
The $2,000 Bug That Changed My Life: How a Tiny URL Parameter Broke Web-Store Pricing !! ⌘ Read more
Reverse Polish Pwn Writeup | FortID CTF 2025 ⌘ Read more
“The $10,000 Handlebars Hack: How Email Templates Led to Server Takeover”
While studying advanced template injection techniques, I came across one of the most fascinating bug bounty stories I’ve ever encountere … ⌘ Read more
**The Day I Became Everyone: How User Swapping Turned Me into a Digital Shapeshifter **
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“The $12,500 DNS Trick That Hacked Snapchat’s Cloud Servers”
While studying advanced SSRF techniques, I came across a fascinating case where researchers @nahamsec, @daeken, and @ziot combined DNS…
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How I Reported a Pre-Account Hijack Affecting Any Gmail User (Even Google Employees)- My Bug… ⌘ Read more
Stem cell therapy lowers risk of heart failure after a heart attack
People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per cent lower risk of developing heart failure years later ⌘ Read more
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole
One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending assumptions that it was dominated by dark matter ⌘ Read more
Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art
Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used pigments in symbolic ways ⌘ Read more
‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation ⌘ Read more
Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use
Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary computers, but normally at the cost of accuracy. Now, an analogue computer designed to carry out calculations that are key to AI training could fix that ⌘ Read more
Can’t focus after a bad’s night sleep? Your dirty brain is to blame
During sleep, your brain cleans itself by flushing through cerebrospinal fluid to prevent damage to brain cells. If you’re lacking in sleep, this happens when you are awake - and seems to cause momentary lapses in attention ⌘ Read more
Quantum-inspired algorithm could help reveal hidden cosmic objects
Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure masses of cosmic objects that bend light almost imperceptibly ⌘ Read more
US public health system is flying blind after major cuts
The Trump administration has laid off government workers integral to major public health surveys, meaning the country will lack crucial information on births, deaths and illnesses nationwide ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: 🚀 ejabberd 25.10
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If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no mandatory changes in SQL schemas, configuration, API commands or hooks.
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Hurricane Melissa is being fuelled by exceptional ocean heat
The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming ⌘ Read more
Men may have to exercise more than women to get same heart benefits
Among over-50s, women seem to require less exercise than men to get the same reduction in heart disease risk, suggesting health guidelines need to be updated ⌘ Read more
No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality
If we admit that quantum numbers are the true essence of reality – not particles, space or time – then a surprising and beautiful new vision of reality opens up to us ⌘ Read more
Why zero is the most important number in all of mathematics
It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s clear that every number is made up of zeroes, says Jacob Aron ⌘ Read more
Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes
Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain all over the body, is poorly understood, but two studies – made up of millions of participants – are helping us get to the roots of the condition ⌘ Read more
Teenager builds advanced robot hand entirely from Lego pieces
A four-fingered robotic hand built from Lego Mindstorms pieces can push, pull and grip with almost as much force as a leading 3D-printed hand ⌘ Read more
We may finally know why birds sing at dawn
Birds all over the world break into a dawn chorus every morning – now experiments in zebra finches suggest both a mechanistic and a functional explanation for this phenomenon ⌘ Read more
Testosterone helps libido in menopause – can it treat other symptoms?
A growing body of research suggests testosterone replacement therapy can alleviate menopausal symptoms such as a decrease in libido, mood swings and brain fog. But some in the field are sceptical ⌘ Read more
Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink
Scientists are finding out how coffee beans are transformed when they pass through the guts of Asian palm civets in the hope of replicating the process without using animals ⌘ Read more
The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water
Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms ⌘ Read more
Cloud microbes’ colours could help us detect life on other planets
Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be biosignatures of life elsewhere in the galaxy ⌘ Read more