New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds

A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but ...

Xiaomi's HarnessX rewrites its own AI scaffolding mid-task — and smaller models gain the most

Xiaomi's HarnessX autonomously rewrites AI agent harnesses mid-execution, delivering +14.5% avg performance gains — and +44% ...

Strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Japan, no tsunami threat

The quake — off the eastern coast of the Iwate prefecture — had a magnitude of 7.2, upgraded from an initial reading of 6.9, ...

What are supermassive black holes? Everything you need to know – and what astronomers are still learning – about these mysterious objects

Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that some of these supermassive black holes may even be too big for ...