Day: July 20, 2025

Better Airplane Navigation Using Quantum Sensing of a map of the Earth’s Crust

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Airbus’s Silicon Valley-based innovation center, Acubed, and artificial intelligence and quantum-focused Google spinout SandboxAQ are on a mission to demonstrate an alternate way. It involves a small, toaster-size box, lasers, a single GPU chip and a deep knowledge of the Earth’s magnetic field. The technology, known as quantum sensing, has been in development for decades Read more about Better Airplane Navigation Using Quantum Sensing of a map of the Earth’s Crust[…]

Cloudflare: Config change borked net access for all

Posted on by Robin Edgar

There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet. In a blog post, the content delivery network services biz detailed the unfortunate series of events that led to Monday’s disruption. On the day itself, “Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 Resolver Read more about Cloudflare: Config change borked net access for all[…]

UK F-35 fleet poorly supported, can’t use vital weapons, shows NAO

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft’s effectiveness. The various problems are highlighted in a reality check from the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) that offers a contrast to the Read more about UK F-35 fleet poorly supported, can’t use vital weapons, shows NAO[…]

This ‘Molecular Shield’ Might Stop Pollen Before It Wrecks Your Nose

Posted on by Robin Edgar

what if, by spraying something akin to a nasal spray, you could thwart the onslaught of those pesky allergens before they latch onto your sensitive nasal passages? This was the “simple but powerful idea” that inspired Kaissar Tabynov, who led the efforts to create a “molecular shield” that intercepts allergens the moment they approach our Read more about This ‘Molecular Shield’ Might Stop Pollen Before It Wrecks Your Nose[…]

Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’

Posted on by Robin Edgar

A recruitment platform used by McDonald’s is alleged to have had such poor cybersecurity that researchers were able to log into it using a non-password and thus gain access to information on tens of millions of job applicants, including contact details and chat logs between the user and the restaurant’s AI bot. The platform in Read more about Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’[…]

Watch out, another max-severity Cisco bug on the loose

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the operating system with root-level privileges. ISE is a network access control and security policy management platform, Read more about Watch out, another max-severity Cisco bug on the loose[…]