Author: Carter

**Critical Vulnerabilities Found in FatFs Storage Library** A recent security review by runZero has uncovered seven serious vulnerabilities in FatFs, a widely used file system library for reading and writing FAT and exFAT storage media. Because FatFs is embedded in countless devices—from security cameras and drones to industrial controllers and crypto wallets—these flaws pose a significant risk to a broad range of connected equipment. What makes these vulnerabilities especially dangerous is how easily they can be exploited. According to the report, any physical access to a vulnerable device—such as a public kiosk, ATM, camera with an SD card slot, or…

**The Brain’s Hidden Clockwork: How Intrinsic Timescales Shape Neural Computation** The human brain performs an astonishing range of functions—from moment-to-moment sensory processing to long-term memory—using networks of neurons that operate on vastly different timescales. A new research review synthesizes decades of evidence showing that neural circuits are not limited to a single “clock speed.” Instead, they contain a rich hierarchy of intrinsic timescales that underlie everything from rapid sensory reactions to slow, persistent thought. **A Spectrum of Timescales in Neural Circuits** Neurons and synapses do not all respond and adapt at the same rate. Studies using electrical recordings, imaging, and…

**Is Antivirus Software Enough to Protect You in Today’s Digital World?** In the early days of the internet, cybersecurity was relatively simple. There was a time when installing antivirus software was considered enough to keep your computer safe. As long as your antivirus program was updated regularly, you could browse the web with confidence. Today’s online threats are very different. Cybercriminals no longer rely solely on traditional computer viruses. Modern attacks often involve ransomware, spyware, phishing emails, fake websites and malicious downloads, while some target people rather than software by tricking users into revealing passwords or personal information. That raises…

The Office of Management and Budget is expecting to receive thousands of comments about its proposed rewrite of federal grants management. Since OMB issued the update to 2CFR Part 200 on June 1, it has received 3,648 comments and there still are 11 days left to submit feedback. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, said she fears OMB already is implementing the rewrite despite OMB still accepting comments. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) speaks at a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) “We’ve already seen OMB implementing political review of grants. It’s led to massive…

From Oslo Central Station to bus stops across Scandinavia, ZetaDisplay is proving that digital signage is only as good as the connection behind it, and that connection is Com4.If you’ve waited for a bus, boarded the Oslo Airport Express Train, or checked departures on Europe’s largest digital information board at Oslo Central Station, chances are you’ve interacted with a ZetaDisplay screen without realizing it. These digital signage solutions have become so seamlessly woven into daily urban life that most passengers never think about what keeps them running. Behind every screen is Com4’s IoT connectivity, a Nordic-born network built for exactly…

Qatar is a country of ambitious goals and impressive achievements, where there is no upper limit for excellence now. The statement is relevant across all industries, while some of them set much higher standards compared with the rest of the world. Construction projects are challenging per se, yet given the ambitious goals of Qatar companies, managing construction projects is complicated and needs precision in every detail. In this context, cutting-edge software technologies matter a lot, allowing for a sufficient degree of predictability and precision in all construction projects. Even though developers sometimes set the goals that much exceed the current…

Andrew: Well, Megan, we’ve had a philosophy for a long time in Woodside from an innovation perspective, where we really want to think big, we want to prototype small, and we want to scale fast. We want to find big opportunities that we can go after, but we want to ensure that we look at how we deploy those on a small scale first, and then provide the right learning and insight that then can scale it everywhere. Something like maintenance intelligence is a good example of that, or our Startup Advisor, where we know that we’ve got multiple plants…

A formal complaint has asked Parliament’s standards watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader Nigel Farage breached lobbying rules. This comes after Farage received donations from billionaire Christopher Harborne, who reportedly holds a 12% stake in Tether’s USDT stablecoin. Labour MP Phil Brickell filed the complaint on July 2. He asked Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg to review Farage’s private meeting with Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in September 2025. Nigel Farage is already under investigation over an undeclared £5 million “gift” from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.Now he’s been reported to the Standards Commissioner over claims he…

SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news weekly roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: Anonymous-linked hacker Aubrey Cottle jailed over Texas GOP cyberattack Aubrey Cottle, a Canadian hacker associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in a cyberattack on the…

Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is described as the first multilingual audio diffusion ASR model. One adapter handles six languages. The research team trained only about 42M parameters on top of a frozen 26B backbone. That is roughly 0.16% of the model’s weights. Here two terms matter up front. Autoregressive models generate text one token at a time. Diffusion models refine all tokens in parallel. This model uses the diffusion approach for speech-to-text. TL;DR Claimed by…