Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence.

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A honey bee colony does not follow a calendar. Should its model?

Guest blog post by Dominik Lammers Models help us ask a deceptively simple question: if the world works in a particular way, what should we expect to happen? For honey bee colonies, answering that question is difficult. A colony’s development depends on food, weather, disease, the surrounding landscape, and the behaviour of thousands of individual

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New “devil flower” species discovered in Thai national park

Researchers have described a new species of leafless flowering plant found on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand, and its otherworldly appearance has earned it a fittingly dramatic name: Thismia daemona, the “devil flower”. The species belongs to Thismia, a genus of small plants sometimes called “fairy lanterns”. Unlike most plants,

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Human-Driven Fires Have Shaped The Amazonian Forest For Over 10,000 Years

New research is dismantling the long-standing myth of the “pristine” Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian pyrogeography, based on 1,361 radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates across 303 sites – including soil charcoal and burned archaeological material – shows that fire in the rainforest is almost exclusively a human-driven phenomenon, not a natural one. Over the

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Improving email security outcomes with real-world Microsoft Defender insights

Every benchmark tells a story. The most valuable ones tell us where to improve next. For five consecutive quarters Microsoft has published email security benchmarking reports to provide greater transparency into real-world protection outcomes. The results have shown strong Microsoft Defender performance across pre-delivery and post-delivery scenarios, while revealing where threats and defenses continue to

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