Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

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Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

Active Defender exploits hit CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498; June 3 fixes reduce SYSTEM and DoS risk.

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. https://stacker.news/items/1494421

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Scientists rethink DNA after discovering it can be built from scratch

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Scientists rethink DNA after discovering it can be built from scratch in a process they call 'doodling'

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for synthetic biology.

Scientists have found that DNA polymerases can write long, structured stretches of new genetic material without any template to copy. https://stacker.news/items/1468998

Powell, Bessent discussed Anthropic's Mythos AI cyber threat with major US banks

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Powell, Bessent discussed Anthropic's Mythos AI cyber threat with major U.S. banks

Anthropic rolled out the new Mythos AI model to a select group of companies over concerns that hackers could exploit its capabilities.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic's Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday. https://stacker.news/items/1468616

Experiment: New type of mesic nuclei that could reveal how matter acquires mass https://phys.org/news/2026-04-mesic-nuclei-reveal-mass.html Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter acquires its mass from interaction with a physical vacuum—it is not an empty space, but contains a complex structure. Investigating the system of a meson—a composite particle made of a quark, an elementary particle, and its anti-matter, anti-quark—bound to an atomic nucleus, a mesic nucleus, provides precious insight into the vacuum structure, or mass generation mechanism. Scientists are now one step closer to further understanding the origin of mass thanks to new experimental results on a completely new type of mesic nucleus. https://stacker.news/items/1467628

Exclusive: SpaceX lays out IPO details, targets early June roadshow https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/spacex-lays-out-ipo-details-targets-early-june-roadshow-sources-say-2026-04-07/ SpaceX outlined details of its highly anticipated IPO at a meeting with ‌its team of bankers Monday night, telling them it plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June following the IPO roadshow launch, according to two people familiar with the matter. https://stacker.news/items/1466731

New Password Stealer Bypasses 2FA—Chrome, Edge And Firefox Targeted

Forbes

New Password Stealer Bypasses 2FA—Chrome, Edge And Firefox Targeted

This new Storm attack platform can exfiltrate passwords and session data, enabling 2FA bypass. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox us...

A new security threat for users of the world’s most popular web browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox, has been confirmed by Varonis Threat Labs researchers. And this one’s a doozy: a password stealer, a session cookie compromiser to enable two-factor authentication bypass, and a payment card data grabber all rolled into one. Here’s what you need to know about Storm, the latest infostealer platform now available for cybercriminals to rent. https://stacker.news/items/1466149

Earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 1 person and sets off small tsunami

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Earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 1 person and sets off small tsunami

The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 22 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The magnitude -7.4 earthquake was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. https://stacker.news/items/1463743

Earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 1 person and sets off small tsunami

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Earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 1 person and sets off small tsunami

The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 22 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The magnitude -7.4 earthquake was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. https://stacker.news/items/1463741

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/ US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and says King would have taken ‘different stand’ from Starmer https://stacker.news/items/1463739

A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption

ScienceDaily

A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever befor...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever before. By harnessing a 19th-century optics phenomenon called the Talbot effect, researchers developed a system that sends information using multiple states of single photons instead of just two, dramatically boosting data capacity. Even more impressive, the setup works with standard components and requires only a single detector, reducing cost and complexity. https://stacker.news/items/1463564

Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies 'US won't help you anymore'

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Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies 'the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore'

Trump re-upped his disdain for European allies that have refused to take part in the U.S. and Israel's military operation against Iran.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned the U.K. and France that the U.S. "won't be there to help you anymore," as he vented his frustration over the close allies' refusal to join military action against Iran. Posting on Truth Social, Trump said, "the Country of France wouldn't let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory." https://stacker.news/items/1462975

BTC bulls scramble for post-quantum protection as Google drops bombshell paper

'Bitcoin cracked in 9 minutes': BTC bulls scramble for post-quantum protection as Google drops bombshell paper

Google's finding that breaking bitcoin's cryptography requires 20x fewer qubits than previously estimated has triggered the strongest industry resp...

Google's finding that breaking bitcoin's cryptography requires 20x fewer qubits than previously estimated has triggered the strongest industry response to quantum threats since the Willow chip in 2024. Here's how builders, investors, and researchers are reacting. https://stacker.news/items/1462964

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Scientists Are Trying to Train Lab-Grown Brains Which Started to Solve Problems.

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Scientists Are Trying to Train Lab-Grown Brains. The Brains Have Started to Solve Problems.

Scientists trained a brain organoid to solve a well-known engineering task, and its success demonstrates the increasing complexity of lab-grown bra...

While creating organs sounds like sci-fi fodder, scientists have actually experimented with the idea for more than a century. For example, in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson demonstrated the foundational principles of lab-grown organs, or “organoids,” by showing how disassociated cells from a sea sponge could self-organize and regenerate in vitro. For decades, this exploration continued on in various animals until eventually, in 2009, scientists created the first 3D organoid using the intestinal stem cells of a mouse. https://stacker.news/items/1454263

U.S. Air Force B-1 And B-52 Bombers Now Striking Iran From The UK

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U.S. Air Force B-1 And B-52 Bombers Now Striking Iran From The UK

The U.S. Air Force now operates three distinct bomber aircraft, all of which can trace their development back to the Cold War.

The United States is just one of three nations that still maintain a fleet of long-range strategic bombers, with Russia and China being the other two. The U.S. Air Force operates three distinct bomber aircraft, all of which can trace their development back to the Cold War. https://stacker.news/items/1453130

The 19th-century mathematical clue that led to quantum mechanics

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The 19th-century mathematical clue that led to quantum mechanics

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshad...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While studying the paths of light rays and moving objects, Hamilton noticed a striking mathematical similarity between them and used it to develop a powerful new framework for mechanics. At the time, it seemed like a clever analogy—but decades later, as scientists uncovered the strange wave-particle nature of light and matter, Hamilton’s insight took on new meaning. https://stacker.news/items/1453100

Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war. https://stacker.news/items/1452337

CIA backlash after hidden document hints at possible cancer cure http://archive.today/RggiO A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago. The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancerous tumors. https://stacker.news/items/1452118

Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and 6 days per run https://phys.org/news/2026-03-simulating-entire-cell-years-multiple.html By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes of life. The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. https://stacker.news/items/1451712