Fireflies glow to attract mates. As new research shows, however, a certain species of spider has learned to take advantage of this luminous natural phenomenon. In a Journal of Animal Ecology paper published August 27, ecologists report that the sheetweb spider (Psechrus clavis) appears to exploit firefly luminescence to attract more prey. Observational analysis and lab experiments revealed that, by …
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A critical vulnerability in Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS allows compromising the host by running a malicious container, even if the Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) protection is active. The security issue is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) now identified as CVE-2025-9074, and it received a critical severity rating of 9.3. “A malicious container running on Docker Desktop could access the Docker Engine …
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Before I get to the meat of this, let me just make an appeal to everyone: try and see this less as something that makes you mad and instead as something that does NOT make you mad, no, in fact this is actually funny to you. Trust me it helps. According to David Ornstein, Arsenal have decided to try and …
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Google fixed a bug that allowed maliciously crafted Google Calendar invites to remotely take over Gemini agents running on the target’s device and leak sensitive user data. The attack unfolded without requiring any user involvement beyond typical interactions with the assistant, which occur daily for users of Gemini. Gemini is Google’s large language model (LLM) assistant integrated into Android, Google …
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Sports Illustrated rounds up the latest transfer rumors and gossip from around the world. Antony is expected to leave Man Utd. / IMAGO/Sportimage Manchester United have enquired about the prospect of signing Alexander Isak, Florian Plettenberg claims. The Newcastle United striker is thought to remain adamant on joining Liverpool but the Reds are reportedly not planning to submit a second bid after …
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Over 1,000 CrushFTP instances currently exposed online are vulnerable to hijack attacks that exploit a critical security bug, providing admin access to the web interface. The security vulnerability (CVE-2025-54309) is due to mishandled AS2 validation and impacts all CrushFTP versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.4_23. The vendor tagged the flaw as actively exploited in the wild on July 19th, noting that attacks may have begun earlier, …
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