AI Agents Could Become the Test Cities of the Future

Researchers are exploring how large language model agents could live inside simulated city environments, helping planners test transportation changes, policy ideas, business locations, emergency responses, and social dynamics before those decisions affect real people.

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Futuristic city simulation showing holographic AI agents across a skyline while a person views urban planning scenarios on a tablet.

Most cities are too complex to understand from a spreadsheet. Traffic, housing, jobs, weather, public transit, business activity, emergency response, and human behavior all interact at once. Change one part of the system and the effects can ripple through everything else. That is why researchers are now looking at a...

What Cancer Networks Reveal About the Hidden Logic of Cell Identity

A new PLOS Complex Systems study uses monotone Boolean models to ask a deep question: which cell states are most naturally supported by a gene regulatory network? The answer may help explain why cancer-linked networks often settle into stable identities, including epithelial and mesenchymal states tied to metastasis.

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Scientific thumbnail showing a gene regulatory network and two cancer-related cell states, epithelial and mesenchymal, connected by a bistability loop to illustrate the hidden logic of cell identity.

Cells are often described as biological machines, but that image is too rigid. A better metaphor may be a decision system. Every cell is constantly receiving signals, weighing internal conditions, and settling into patterns of behavior that determine what it becomes. A new study in PLOS Complex Systems asks a...

Palo Alto Firewall Zero-Day Shows Why Edge Devices Are Prime Targets

A critical Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, was exploited for nearly a month before patches were ready. The flaw affects the User-ID Authentication Portal and highlights why internet-facing firewalls, VPNs, routers, and other edge devices remain high-value targets for advanced attackers.

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Palo Alto firewall appliance shown with a red zero-day warning, hacker silhouette, and the text “Palo Alto Firewall Zero-Day” and “CVE-2026-0300.”

A critical zero-day in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS is the latest reminder that internet-facing edge devices have become one of the most valuable targets in cybersecurity. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, affects the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal, also known as the Captive Portal. The flaw is a buffer...

What Tom Parker Could Bring to CISA

Tom Parker, a longtime cybersecurity executive and IBM security leader, has reportedly emerged as a possible contender to lead CISA. His background points to a more operational approach for the agency, with emphasis on industry coordination, infrastructure defense, vulnerability response, and practical cyber risk management.

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Cybersecurity operations room with a CISA backdrop and a professional portrait-style figure, featuring the headline “CISA Leadership Shift” and “Tom Parker.”

Tom Parker has reportedly emerged as a possible contender to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, better known as CISA. If that happens, the important story is not only the leadership change. It is what kind of cybersecurity strategy his background suggests. CISA sits in one of the hardest...

Anthropic’s SpaceX Compute Deal Shows the Real Bottleneck in AI

Anthropic has partnered with SpaceX to expand Claude’s compute capacity, doubling Claude Code’s five-hour limits and raising API limits for Opus models. The deal shows that the AI race is no longer just about better models. It is about who can secure enough power, chips, and data center capacity to serve users at scale.

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Claude AI interface running in a data center, symbolizing Anthropic’s SpaceX compute deal and expanded Claude Code usage limits.

Anthropic has signed a compute partnership with SpaceX, giving the company enough additional capacity to raise usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. The most immediate change is simple for users: Claude Code gets more breathing room. Anthropic says it is doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for...