New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026–20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices.
The CVE-2026–20245 vulnerability is a high-severity command injection flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage), Controller (vSmart), and Validator (vBond) that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file.
Cisco said the vulnerability stemmed from insufficient validation of user-supplied input and could be exploited by authenticated attackers with local access to affected devices.
A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed ‘Edgecution’ has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor.
Access to the local system is obtained by leveraging the Chrome Native Messaging protocol that allows browser extensions to interact with native desktop applications, such as a password manager communicating with the extension to fill in web forms.
This allows the browser to launch the native application as a separate process and communicates with it over standard input/output data streams.
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Michael Levin’s lab takes ordinary frog skin cells and lets them reassemble into beings that have never existed in the history of life — xenobots — and then a version with a core of neurons: neurobots. With no evolutionary history as a \.
Artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in recent years, from generating human-like text and images to solving complex scientific and engineering problems. Yet some challenges remain extraordinarily difficult even for the most advanced AI systems. This has fueled growing interest in quantum computing, a technology that processes information in fundamentally different ways from classical computers. Researchers are now exploring whether quantum algorithms can tackle certain optimization, simulation, and computational problems that push conventional AI systems to their limits. Recent experiments and research papers have generated excitement by demonstrating situations where quantum approaches may offer unique advantages, reigniting debate about how these two revolutionary technologies could work together in the future.
Rather than viewing quantum computing and AI as competitors, many experts believe they could become powerful partners. Quantum processors may eventually help accelerate specific machine learning tasks, improve complex simulations, and solve optimization problems that are critical to industries such as logistics, finance, materials science, and drug discovery. At the same time, scientists caution that practical large-scale quantum computing remains an active area of research, and many headline-grabbing claims require careful scrutiny and independent verification. Even so, the rapid progress in both fields suggests that the future of computing may be shaped not by AI alone, but by a combination of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies working together to tackle problems once thought impossible.
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A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients.
The artificial “leaf,” like its namesake in nature, is a chemistry marvel. It brings the scientific mimicry of photosynthesis — the process of converting sunlight and water into chemical energy — to a new level, converting sunlight to methanol 32 times more efficiently than the previous conversion record for artificial leaf technologies that generate alcohol products.
The first global safety regulations for fully autonomous vehicles were adopted at the U.N., setting uniform international requirements that could pave the way for larger-scale rollouts. The framework is expected to enter into force in January 2027.
The first global regulations for fully autonomous vehicles were adopted Wednesday, a U.N. agency said, establishing uniform international safety requirements that could pave the way for larger-scale rollouts of self-driving cars.
Safety concerns and the cost of developing next-level systems have long slowed progress on autonomous vehicles.
As self-driving cars have begun to hit the road in a growing number of cities, fragmented national approaches to regulation have spurred manufacturer fears that vehicles developed for one market could be blocked from others.
