Author: Vidya Saras

How can you use science to build a better gingerbread house?That was something Miranda Schwacke spent a lot of time thinking about. The MIT graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) is part of Kitchen Matters, a group of grad students who use food and kitchen tools to explain scientific concepts through short videos and outreach events. Past topics included why chocolate “seizes,” or becomes difficult to work with when melting (spoiler: water gets in), and how to make isomalt, the sugar glass that stunt performers jump through in action movies.Two years ago, when the group was making a…

“Starting around 2025-10-23 23:34 UTC, Huntress observed threat actors targeting WSUS instances publicly exposed on their default ports (8530/TCP and 8531/TCP),” the company wrote in a blog post Friday. “Attackers leveraged exposed WSUS endpoints to send specially crafted requests (multiple POST calls to WSUS web services) that triggered a deserialization RCE against the update service.” The exploit activity resulted in the WSUS worker process spawning command prompt and PowerShell instances. A base64-encoded payload was downloaded and executed in PowerShell with the goal of discovering servers on the network and gathering user information which was then sent back to a remote…

Mira Sorvino contains multitudes: She’s a Harvard grad, an Oscar winner, a U.N. ambassador, a onetime muse of the late Giorgio Armani and a protective mom of four. (She and her husband of 21 years, Christopher Backus, are parents to Mattea, 20, Johnny, 19, Holden, 16, and Lucia, 13.) We’re only half-kidding when we ask: Has her hair color put her on top? Known for iconically blond roles in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Norma Jean & Marilyn and Mighty Aphrodite, she is actually a natural brunette. “As a child, I was super-serious: I was the dark-haired intellectual girl,…

Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is set to discuss with his cabinet on Saturday the possibility of publicizing each of their Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs), Malacañang said on Friday. Presidential Communications Undersecretary Claire A. Castro confirmed this amid the recent voluntary disclosures of SALNs by various lawmakers, including Risa Hontiveros, Robin Padilla, Tito Sotto of the Senate, and Kiko Barzaga of the lower house. When she was asked if the President would do the same, “Tignan po natin kung ano po ang nararapat [Let’s see what’s is appropriate],” Ms. Castro said in response during the…

Dogecoin sits on a knife-edge defined by a tight 4h range and a larger weekly triangle—two structures that now bracket the next volatility expansion. Two Dogecoin Price Levels Are Crucial Now (4H Chart) On the intraday chart shared by Daan Crypto Trades (@DaanCrypto), DOGE trades near $0.19585 with a clearly marked “level to break” at $0.21817 and a “level to hold” at $0.17789. Price is orbiting the range’s mid-zone after a post-flush rebound, while the higher low carved last Friday remains the pivotal defense that keeps the structure constructive. Dogecoin price analysis, 4-hour chart | Source: X @DaanCrypto As Daan…

A “Satoshi-era” Bitcoin wallet with $442 million worth of BTC has become the latest sleeping Bitcoin giant to wake, shifting some of its funds for the first time in 14 years.The unknown owner of the wallet made most of its stash mining 4,000 Bitcoin (BTC) between April and June 2009, only a few months after the first blockchain network went live, Whale Alert said in an X post on Thursday. Data from the onchain analytics platform Nansen shows the whale sent 150 Bitcoin, worth over $16 million, in a single transaction on Thursday. On-chain data from the Bitcoin blockchain explorer and analytics…

The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the organisation as well as within our community. The Hard Fork is a delicate topic and the way we see it, no decision is the right one. As this is not a decision that can be made by the foundation or any other single entity, we again turn towards the community to assess its wishes in order to provide the most appropriate protocol change. The specification proposed for the hard fork that is being implemented in the Geth client is…

Confused between MEXC Vs. Bitget? If so, you’ve landed on the right page. MEXC and Bitget are top trading platforms in the crypto space. Both exchanges support spot trading, futures trading, and P2P trading. They also demonstrate similar standards in security features, customer support, mobile app performance, and overall trading experience. In this article, we’ll evaluate the key differences between MEXC and Bitget based on various parameters, including products and fees. We’ll also analyze their safety measures, referral programs, customer services, and user feedback.MEXC vs Bitget: OverviewParticularsMEXCBitgetLaunch year20182018HeadquartersSeychellesSeychellesRegistered users40+ million120+ millionGeographic coverage170+ countries150+ countriesNative tokenMXBGBListed digital assets4,000+600+Trading pairs2,668+ spot pairs and…

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Mu is not the only comedian who has tried to imitate the style of AI-generated videos, but he really nails all of the elements: The clumsy bodily movements, the spaced-out facial expressions, and the unpredictable plot development. Many viewers, me included, were shocked at how accurately he captured the essence of AI slop videos.Mu tells me that the half-dozen AI imitation videos he has filmed represent only a small part of his acting career. He has wanted to be an actor since college and spent the summer after his freshman year at Hengdian World Studios—the world’s largest film studio—looking for…