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Crucial CVE flaw-tracking database narrowly avoids closure to DHS cuts
Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/crucial-cve-flaw-tracking-database-narrowly-avoids-closure-to-dhs-cuts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain?

In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106686?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

"If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants."
-- Small Gods
#TerryPratchett

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o