Police members stand as vehicles leave the Omani embassy, where the second round of US-Iran talks is taking place, in Rome, Italy, April 19, 2025. VINCENZO LIVIERI / REUTERS The United States and Iran on Saturday, April 19, concluded a second round of high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, with Iranian media saying the discussions … Read more
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for life. Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a … Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising to run deeper deficits to cut income taxes and grow spending on infrastructure to reduce the country’s dependence on the US. Carney’s plan would push the federal government’s shortfall to C$62.3 billion (US$45 billion) this financial year and add C$129.2 billion (US$93.3 billion) in net new spending over … Read more
Apr 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below – According to supply chain security firm Socket, the packages are designed to mimic node-telegram-bot-api, … Read more
A vulnerability previously thought to be a low-priority was cast into the spotlight thanks to a newly revealed exploit in the wild.Administrators were advised to test and install Microsoft’s March security fixes to prevent exploitation of the flaw.Researchers with security vendor CheckPoint report finding active exploits in the wild targeting the Microsoft flaw designated as … Read more