Monthly Archives: April 2025

NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Guidelines

Targeted changes to content and structure respond to stakeholder needs and make the document easier to use.
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Reshaping quantum dots production through continuous flow and sustainable technologies

Researchers have developed a pioneering, sustainable method for producing cadmium-based quantum dots (QDs) in water using a biocompatible chalcogen source. This fully aqueous, continuous flow process avoids harmful organic solvents and offers enhanced safety, scalability, and environmental performance. A collaboration led to the creation of a water-soluble chalcogen transfer agent inspired by peptide chemistry. Real-time Raman spectroscopy enabled detailed analysis of reaction mechanisms. The new system improves productivity while reducing waste and energy use. Although cadmium QDs are efficient, their toxicity remains a concern, prompting the team to explore greener alternatives. This innovation marks a significant step toward responsible, large-scale nanomaterial production.
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A new era in materials science: antiferromagnetic quasicrystals unveiled

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is even possible in quasicrystals. In a new study, researchers have finally answered this question, providing the first definitive neutron diffraction evidence of antiferromagnetism in a real icosahedral quasicrystal. This discovery opens a new research area of quasiperiodic antiferromagnets, with potential applications in spintronics.
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Lawmakers call on National Archives to investigate use of Signal and Gmail by top government officials

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee say the reported use of Signal and Gmail by national security officials creates major cybersecurity risks. The post Lawmakers call on National Archives to investigate use of Signal and Gmail by top government officials first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Lawmakers call on National Archives to investigate use of Signal and Gmail by top government officials

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee say the reported use of Signal and Gmail by national security officials creates major cybersecurity risks. The post Lawmakers call on National Archives to investigate use of Signal and Gmail by top government officials first appeared on Federal News Network.
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NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster

Shadi Azoum, the NAVWAR’s program manager for the SBIR/STTR programs, said about 60% of their entire SBIR and STTR awards take advantage of Catapult. The post NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster first appeared on Federal News Network.
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NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster

Shadi Azoum, the NAVWAR’s program manager for the SBIR/STTR programs, said about 60% of their entire SBIR and STTR awards take advantage of Catapult. The post NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster first appeared on Federal News Network.
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NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster

Shadi Azoum, the NAVWAR’s program manager for the SBIR/STTR programs, said about 60% of their entire SBIR and STTR awards take advantage of Catapult. The post NAVWAR using Catapult to find SBIR technologies faster first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs

LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate” code packages that don’t exist could become the basis for a new type of supply chain attack dubbed “slopsquatting” (courtesy of Seth Larson, Security Developer-in-Residence at the Python Software Foundation). A known occurrence Many software developers nowadays use large language models (LLMs) to help with their programming. And, unfortunately, LLMs’ known tendency to spit out fabrications and confidently present them as facts when asked questions on various topics extends to coding. … More → The post Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs appeared first on Help Net Security.
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You may never have heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, but will you miss it when it’s gone?

“Occasionally you’ll see an organization … that goes totally off the rails and runs like a fiefdom that exists to benefit its own employees,” said Luke Rosiak The post You may never have heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, but will you miss it when it’s gone? first appeared on Federal News Network.
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