Sam Altman: We've reached the 'singularity' moment in artificial intelligence

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According to Sam Altman, humanity may have entered the early stages of the "singularity" - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses hum...

According to Sam Altman, humanity may have entered the early stages of the "singularity" - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Altman says humanity has crossed a critical turning point, an "event horizon" that marks the beginning of a new era of digital superintelligence. https://stacker.news/items/1009309

Google Chrome 0-Day CVE-2025-2783 Exploited by TaxOff to Deploy Trinper Backdoor

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Google Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2025-2783 Exploited by TaxOff to Deploy Trinper Backdoor

Chrome and Yandex zero-days exploited to deploy Trinper backdoor via phishing; Russian entities targeted.

A now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome was exploited as a zero-day by a threat actor known as TaxOff to deploy a backdoor codenamed Trinper. The attack, observed in mid-March 2025 by Positive Technologies, involved the use of a sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3). https://stacker.news/items/1009282

CISA Warns of Active Exploit Of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CISA warns CVE-2023-0386 is being actively exploited, impacting Linux systems via OverlayFS. Patching is urgent.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday placed a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-0386 (CVSS score: 7.8), is an improper ownership bug in the Linux kernel that could be exploited to escalate privileges on susceptible systems. It was patched in early 2023. https://stacker.news/items/1009191

How the US has shifted military jets and ships in the Middle East

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How the US has shifted military jets and ships in the Middle East

The U.S. is shifting military aircraft and warships into and around the Middle East to protect Israel from Iranian attacks.

The U.S. is shifting military aircraft and warships into and around the Middle East to protect Israel from Iranian attacks as President Donald Trump warns Tehran to step back from the conflict. Trump’s social media posts saying his patience with Iran was “wearing thin” have raised the possibility of deepening U.S. involvement, perhaps by using its bunker-busting bomb to strike a key Iranian nuclear site built deep underground in the mountains. https://stacker.news/items/1009183

US spies said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon — Trump dismisses

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US spies said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment

President Donald Trump has dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon before the latest conflict with...

Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year. The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels. But President Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. https://stacker.news/items/1009171

Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI

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Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI

CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant "will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today."

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that the company expects artificial intelligence "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time. "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people do other types of jobs," Jassy added in a memo to Amazon's workforce. https://stacker.news/items/1008886

Israel lifts air raid warning, including for nuclear town

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Israel lifts air raid warning, including for nuclear town

The Israeli military warned Tuesday of a fresh barrage of missiles from Iran, with air raid sirens activated in southern parts of the country inclu...

The Israeli military warned Tuesday of a fresh barrage of missiles from Iran, with air raid sirens activated in southern parts of the country including in a town home to a nuclear power plant. The early evening alert was dropped after 16 minutes including in the town of Dimona where residents were advised “that it is now permitted to leave protected spaces”, according to a military statement. https://stacker.news/items/1008842

TP-Link Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert

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TP-Link Router Flaw CVE-2023-33538 Under Active Exploit, CISA Issues Immediate Alert

TP-Link and Zyxel router flaws are under active attack, affecting global users and federal systems. Urgent updates needed.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw in TP-Link wireless routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-33538 (CVSS score: 8.8), a command injection bug that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands when processing the ssid1 parameter in a specially crafted HTTP GET request. https://stacker.news/items/1008433

James Webb telescope reveals a major error in our view of the universe

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The universe is full of surprises that change how we see everything we thought we knew. Recent discoveries by the James Webb telescope have shaken up our understanding and revealed that there might be an error in the way we’ve been viewing the vast cosmos. https://stacker.news/items/1008416

Light Squeezed Out of Darkness in Surprising Quantum Simulation

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Light Squeezed Out of Darkness in Surprising Quantum Simulation

A careful alignment of three powerful lasers could generate a mysterious fourth beam of light that is throttled out of the very darkness itself.

A careful alignment of three powerful lasers could generate a mysterious fourth beam of light that is throttled out of the very darkness itself. What sounds like occult forces at work has been confirmed by a simulation of the kinds of quantum effects we might expect to emerge from a vacuum when ultra-high electromagnetic fields meet. https://stacker.news/items/1008394

Google intentionally throttling YouTube videos slowing down ad blocker users

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Google is waging war on ad blockers — throttling YouTube to force users back in line

The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.

Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device. https://stacker.news/items/1008387

Astronomers discover the largest 'ultramassive' black hole ever seen

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Astronomers discover the largest 'ultramassive' black hole ever seen

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to gravitational lenses.

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the heaviest black hole ever directly measured. Located at the center of a galaxy nearly six billion light-years away, this ultramassive cosmic monster is estimated to weigh in at 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. This discovery was made in the foreground galaxy of a rare gravitational lensing system known as the Cosmic Horseshoe, which was first identified in 2007. https://stacker.news/items/1008090

A Fifth Force of Nature May Have Been Discovered Inside Atoms

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A Fifth Force of Nature May Have Been Discovered Inside Atoms

Every action in physics is governed by some kind of push or pull.

Every action in physics is governed by some kind of push or pull. As far as we know, these all fall into one of just four categories; electromagnetism, gravity, and two kinds of nuclear force. https://stacker.news/items/1008078

Highlights from Git 2.50

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Highlights from Git 2.50

The open source Git project just released Git 2.50. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since l...

The open source Git project just released Git 2.50 with features and bug fixes from 98 contributors, 35 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.49 was released. https://stacker.news/items/1008037

New Features on One UI 8 Watch Help Users Build Healthier Habits https://news.samsung.com/global/new-features-on-one-ui-8-watch-help-users-build-healthier-habits When it comes to health, small changes can make a big difference. Every incremental improvement to daily habits contribute to a healthier whole, and the upcoming One UI 8 Watch is designed to help build these habits more effectively through a suite of new features that support sleep, heart health, fitness and nutrition. https://stacker.news/items/1007957

Iran says parliament is preparing bill to leave nuclear non-proliferation treaty https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-foreign-ministry-says-parliament-is-preparing-bill-leave-npt-2025-06-16/ Iranian parliamentarians are preparing a bill that could push Tehran toward exiting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the foreign ministry said on Monday, while reiterating Tehran's official stance against developing nuclear weapons. "In light of recent developments, we will take an appropriate decision. Government has to enforce parliament bills but such a proposal is just being prepared and we will coordinate in the later stages with parliament," the ministry's spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, when asked at a press conference about Tehran potentially leaving the NPT. https://stacker.news/items/1007710

Scientists Detect Unusual Airborne Toxin in the United States for the First Time

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Scientists Detect Unusual Airborne Toxin in the United States for the First Time

University of Colorado Boulder researchers made the first-ever airborne detection of Medium Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (MCCPs) in the Western Hemi...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers made the first-ever airborne detection of Medium Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (MCCPs) in the Western Hemisphere. Sometimes, scientific research feels a lot like solving a mystery. Scientists head into the field with a clear goal and a solid hypothesis, but then the data reveals something surprising. That’s when the real detective work begins. https://stacker.news/items/1007563

FortiOS SSL-VPN Vulnerability Let Attackers Access full SSL-VPN settings

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FortiOS SSL-VPN Vulnerability Let Attackers Access full SSL-VPN settings

Fortinet has disclosed a new security vulnerability affecting its FortiOS SSL-VPN web-mode that allows authenticated users to gain unauthorized acc...

Fortinet has disclosed a new security vulnerability affecting its FortiOS SSL-VPN web-mode that allows authenticated users to gain unauthorized access to complete SSL-VPN configuration settings through specially crafted URLs. The vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-25250, was published today and affects multiple versions of the popular network security platform. https://stacker.news/items/1007554

Leonard Lauder, billionaire heir to cosmetics empire, dies at 92 | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/15/business/leonard-lauder-dies-estee-lauder Leonard Lauder, the eldest son of cosmetics pioneers Estée and Joseph H. Lauder and the former head of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder Companies, died on Saturday, according to an announcement by the company. He was 92. https://stacker.news/items/1007546

Biggest Bitcoin Bloodbath in History of Binance Just Happened

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Biggest Bitcoin Bloodbath in History of Binance Just Happened - U.Today

Bitcoin might have faced its biggest liquidation on Binance following surge of pressure on crypto market

Bitcoin might have faced its biggest liquidation on Binance following surge of pressure on crypto market https://stacker.news/items/1007533