In a recent expedition, researchers drilled more than 1,600 feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and discovered a subglacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, per Earth.com.

The river, about as tall as a 30-story building and as wide as a city block, is a blend of freshwater and seawater, slowly making its way toward the ocean.

“We struck water at the end of the borehole and with the help of our camera, we even discovered a school of lobster-like creatures — 400 kilometers from the open ocean,” expedition leader Huw Horgan said.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans.

Funnull facilitated virtual currency investment scams (also known as romance baiting and pig butchering) by buying IP addresses in bulk from various cloud service providers. The company sold these IP addresses and hosting services to cybercriminals, enabling them to host malicious websites.

Criminals behind pig butchering scams contact victims through dating sites, social media, and messaging apps, building trust and luring victims into fake investment schemes. However, instead of investing, the fraudsters divert it to accounts they control, stealing their money.

Alicella gigantea, a rarely sighted giant crustacean that inhabits the depths of the ocean and can reach up to 34 cm in length, is not rare after all. This species, though elusive, is one of the most widely distributed species of its kind, inhabiting and thriving in more than half of the world’s oceans across the globe, as per a recent Royal Society Open Science paper by researchers from the University of Western Australia.

Amphipods like A. gigantea are shrimp-like crustaceans known for their narrow frames and a signature hump-backed curl in their posture. Found in nearly every aquatic habitat on Earth, amphipods are one of the most diverse crustacean orders, with over 10,000 known species. They roam the deep sea, from the abyssal depths (3,000–6,000 m) to beyond hadal zones (6,000 m), but their number significantly decreases as we dive deeper towards the ocean bed.

The first sighting of a 28 cm-long A. gigantea was captured on camera at a depth of 5,304 meters in the abyssal North Pacific, though its identity remained unknown at the time. Subsequent captures eventually confirmed the species as A. gigantea.

ViciousTrap exploited CVE-2023–20118 to hijack 5,300 routers, building a honeypot-style spy network.

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).

At more than 100 times the global electricity power output, this huge power lasts only for the brief duration of its laser pulse—just 25 quintillionths of a second long.

“This milestone marks the beginning of experiments that move into unexplored territory for American high field science,” said Karl Krushelnick, director of the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, which houses ZEUS.