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Sky watchers across western North America will have a chance to witness a total lunar eclipse, often referred to as a “blood moon,” in the early morning hours of March 3.A total lunar eclipse occurs when a full moon (in this case March’s full “worm moon”) passes through Earth’s shadow in space. At that time, it appears red because it is illuminated only by sunlight that has passed through the Earth’s atmosphere.This “blood moon” moment, called totality, lasts 58 minutes, but the entire event is much longer. Time and Date magazine estimates that the more subtle penumbral phase (when the…

NACHIP launches a cascading funding call to enable small and medium-sized businesses to test, validate and deploy hydrogen solutions in real-world pilot environments. The Northern Adriatic Clean Hydrogen Investment Platform (NACHIP) launches a public call to provide targeted financial support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) developing advanced hydrogen technologies. The call, implemented under the Interregional Innovation Investment (I3) scheme and co-financed by the European Union, aims to strengthen Europe’s hydrogen innovation ecosystem by enabling SMEs to validate, demonstrate and deploy their solutions in real pilot environments across multiple regions. The public offering is part of NACHIP’s Cascade Financing (Financial…

PFOA contamination has become one of the world’s most pressing and intractable water safety challenges, with the toxic “forever chemical” now being detected in drinking water supplies, groundwater, and ecosystems far from its source. Now, researchers at Shenyang Agricultural University have unveiled a promising new weapon in the fight against PFOA pollution, harnessing an unexpected ally from the ocean: marine algae. A newly developed material made from algae-derived biochar and enhanced with nanotechnology has demonstrated superior ability to capture and degrade one of the most stubborn toxic chemicals present in water worldwide. Persistent pollutants spread around the world Perfluorooctanoic acid,…

We advance artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the energy sector through our test and laboratory facilities across Europe. As the energy landscape has changed significantly in recent years, the evolving energy sector is increasingly seeking AI solutions. Rapid advances in digitalization and AI are accelerating this change, requiring stakeholders to strengthen their capabilities and embed AI into their operations and services. As organizations undertake this digital transformation, the demand for trusted AI expertise continues to grow. EnerTEF responds by developing a data space-compliant, centralized access marketplace that integrates multiple thematic nodes across Europe, enabling the co-creation of reliable and validated…

BIOSAFIRE uses lignin and tannins to improve fire resistance, following a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach. BIOSAFIRE takes inspiration from nature and fortifies natural flame-retardant compounds, lignin and tannin, making it suitable for industrial applications. The project will build on the existing pilot plant and expand production to a broader range of bio-based feedstocks, delivering flame retardants for five specific use cases across four sectors: naval, railway, consumer electronics and wood coatings. BIOSAFIRE represents a major collaborative effort to transform natural additives into innovative, high-performance materials, with 22 partners working across Europe. The project combines high performance and…

Rabi LakshmananFebruary 5, 2026Workflow automation/vulnerabilities A critical new security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that could be successfully exploited to execute arbitrary system commands. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is due to improper sanitization that bypasses safety measures put in place to address CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), another critical flaw patched by n8n in December 2025. “Additional exploits in expression evaluation in n8n have been identified and patched in accordance with CVE-2025-68613,” n8n maintainers said in an advisory released Wednesday. “An authenticated user with privileges to create or modify workflows could exploit…

Rabi LakshmananFebruary 5, 2026Web security/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an active web traffic hijacking campaign that targets NGINX installations and administrative panels such as Baota (BT) in an attempt to route them through attackers’ infrastructure. Datadog Security Labs said it has observed threat actors associated with recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) exploits using malicious NGINX configurations to conduct attacks. “The malicious configuration intercepts legitimate web traffic between users and websites and routes it through backend servers controlled by the attacker,” security researcher Ryan Simon said. “This campaign targets Asian TLDs (.in, .id, .pe, .bd, .th), Chinese hosting infrastructure (Baota…

Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial, one of four ads dropped by AI Labs on Wednesday, begins with the word “BETRAYAL” boldly splashed across the screen. The camera shifts to a man eagerly seeking advice from a chatbot (obviously meant to portray ChatGPT) on how to talk to his mother. This bot, played by a blonde woman, offers some classic advice. Let’s start by listening. Let’s try a nature walk! It then turns into an ad for a fictional (I hope!) cougar dating site called Golden Encounters. Anthropic concluded the spot by saying that AI will get ads, but its own chatbot,…

Snap is on a mission to diversify its revenue streams, moving from a business model that primarily follows advertising revenue to one that also makes money through subscriptions and eventually hardware. The company’s latest quarterly earnings report shows that the company has had some success with its strategy so far. Snap’s revenue for the fourth quarter was $1.7 billion, up 10% from the same period last year. Average revenue per user also increased slightly (from $3.44 to $3.62). The company’s net income was $45 million, up from $9 million a year earlier, according to its financial report. The company also…

Alphabet declined to answer a question about Google and Apple’s AI deals to one investor during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Instead of answering an analyst’s question about how the tech giant was thinking about AI partnerships, such as its partnership with Apple to power Siri’s AI, the question was completely ignored. But this decision tells us something. Alphabet is not ready to talk about how the partnership will impact its core business, which is increasingly focused on AI. For many years, the relationship between Google and Apple has been mutually beneficial. The search partnership between the two companies…