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The wild, gripping story of the Nord Stream pipeline bombing

A technicolour account of the sabotage suggests how fast the world has changed.


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Lynnewood Hall is an amazing old Neoclassical Revival Mansion with about 110 rooms located in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park.

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2022 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

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2022 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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Cartwheel Galaxy in the mid-infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team.

WASP-39 spectrum, showing the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI) Science: The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team.

Galaxy cluster MACS0647. Within the image there are three views (orange smudges) of the same distant galaxy, which have been magnified, distorted, and repeated due to the gravitational lensing effect of the galaxy cluster. Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Tiger Hsiao (Johns Hopkins University) Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Wolf-Rayet 140. The bright dot is actually two stars meeting, their orbits bringing them together every eight years. The stellar pair are surrounded by 17 rings of gas and dust that appear orangish pink, like the rings of a tree trunk. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech.

Jupiter, striated with swirling horizontal stripes of neon turquoise, periwinkle, light pink, and cream. The stripes interact and mix at their edges like cream in coffee. Along both of the poles, the planet glows in turquoise. Bright orange auroras glow just above the planet’s surface at both poles. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...

First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

2025 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

2025 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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The Red Spider planetary nebula, the remnants of a Sun-like star that shed its layers leaving behind a white dwarf star. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Abell S1063, Webb’s deepest look back on a single target to date as of 2025. This field of galaxies is dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Short, curved, glowing red lines are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: R. Endsley.

Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, an active star-forming region in our galaxy, seen in the mid-infrared, showing glowing cosmic dust heated by young stars. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Barred spiral Galaxy NGC 2283, seen close up and almost face on, filled with puffy, patchy clouds of hot gas and dust. Star clusters hide in the gas along the arms. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy.

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e spectrum. This system has many rocky planets, including some in its habitable zone. This data indicates the absence of a thick hydrogen-rich atmosphere for planet “e.”. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Uranus and moons, including a new one discovered by Webb.

Uranus and its rings, and beyond are 14 moons appearing as points of light. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. El Moutamid (SwRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho)

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2025:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772032...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

2024 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

2024 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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Spiderweb protocluster, a galaxy cluster in formation 10 billion light years away. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer.

Epsilon Indi Ab. A direct image of the coldest, most Jupiter-like exoplanet to be imaged so far. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Elisabeth Matthews (MPIA).

Westerlund 1, one of the closest super star clusters, with 50,000 to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, contained in a region less than six light years across. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team.

The Crab Nebula shown in a Webb and Chandra X-ray Observatory composite of these remnants of a supernova explosion, first documented in the year 1054. The central super-dense neutron star causes energetic winds to collide with the gas surrounding it, resulting in X-ray emission. Credit: X-ray, Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared, Webb: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major.

Spiral galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 in the mid-infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot observed by Webb’s Integral Field Unit on the NIRSpec. The IFU is able to match spectroscopy data with spatial data to help paint a picture of the motion of gas, in this case hydrogen molecules in Jupiter’s ionosphere. The redder colors are higher altitudes and the blue from lower, including the cloud-tops in the atmosphere. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Jupiter ERS Team, J. Schmidt, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb).

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2024: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772031...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

2023 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

2023 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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Uranus, surrounded by rings. Several bright blue point are the planet’s moons. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Star cluster IC 348, containing three free-floating brown dwarfs that are less than eight times the mass of Jupiter. The wispy curtains filling the image are interstellar material reflecting the light from the cluster’s stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA).

Sagittarius C (Sgr C). A 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense center, with an estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Samuel Crowe (UVA).

Galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152 in the constellation Coma Berenices has such immense mass that it distorts and magnifies the light from more distant galaxies behind it — giving these galaxies their stretched out shape. The effect is known as gravitational lensing, and it allows astronomers to study some of the most distant galaxies in the universe. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby and the JWST TEMPLATES team.

LHS 475b spectrum, the first use of Webb to confirm an exoplanet. The graphic shows the transmission spectrum of the rocky exoplanet, showing a lack of a detectable quantity of any element or molecule, potentially indicating no atmosphere. Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI); Science: Kevin Stevenson (APL), Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (APL), Erin May (APL), Guangwei Fu (JHU), Sarah Moran (University of Arizona).

Supernova remnant Cass A in the near infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue), T. Temim (Princeton), I. De Looze (Ghent University), with image processing by J. DePasquale (STScI)

See our gallery of Webb's images and data from 2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...


First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

July 12 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

July 12 - Webb's 4th Science Anniversary!

On July 12, 2026, we celebrated four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves.

Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results in the form of a little retrospective in six parts, by year, which we will link in all the captions below. Each collage highlights science from the main science themes: Early Universe, Other Worlds, Galaxies, and Star Lifecycles.

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The “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region.

The Southern Ring Nebula in mid-infrared, now known to have two stars at its center, a dying star and a partner, both shaping the nebula’s intricate rings.

WASP 96-b spectrum, showing this planet to be large and hot with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star.

Stefan’s Quintet of galaxies in the near-infrared. Four of these five galaxies are colliding, stretching and pulling on each other: two in the middle, one toward the top, and one toward the bottom. The one to the upper left is actually much closer to us.

Galaxy Cluster SMACS 0723, the first image released by Webb, and the deepest and sharpest image of the early universe ever taken as of its release. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view with varying colors and shapes. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center; these are distant galaxies being warped by the extreme gravity of the galaxy cluster in front of it.

The Southern Ring Nebula but in the near-infrared.

Credits for all images: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

See all of Webb's first images in this gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/7217772030...

First Images: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393938950/

2022: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393675403/

2023: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393726239/

2024:h www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541751/

2025: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55392607987/

2026...so far! www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55393541756/

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Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.

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OnePlus Is Reportedly Shutting Down In the US, Europe

OnePlus will reportedly announce this week that it is shutting down its brand in the U.S. and Europe, following months of signs that parent company Oppo was winding down the brand's global presence. India and China are reportedly unaffected, but it's unclear whether Oppo will replace the brand directly in those markets. The move also raises questions about future support for existing OnePlus users. 9to5Google reports: WinFuture reports that OnePlus is gearing up for an official withdrawal from the U.S. and European markets, with the announcement due in the "coming days" this week. Closed-door press conferences have apparently happened, with no details shared on the exact reason OnePlus as a brand is shutting down in these markets. India and China are, as far as this report claims, not affected. The report, citing "well-informed sources," notes that this OnePlus announcement will come amid "fundamental changes" to Oppo's strategy, but the big point here is the global death of OnePlus.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

IBM Stock Collapses After a Grave Warning About AI

IBM shares plunged after the company warned that Q2 revenue and earnings would miss expectations, blaming customers' sudden shift in spending toward AI hardware instead of software services. However, CEO Arvind Krishna did not place all the blame on IBM's customers. The CEO also said it "faltered" by failing to "anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization."

"These conditions require our teams to execute perfectly, and this quarter we faltered. We did not adapt and move quickly enough, and numerous large deals failed to close on the timelines we expected, driving the majority of our shortfall." Fast Company reports: In the preliminary report, IBM said that for its second quarter of fiscal 2026, it expects revenue of $17.2 billion, which is up 1%. It also said it expects a Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS) of $2.93, up 5%. However, as noted by CNBC, these preliminary results are below what analysts were expecting, which was $17.86 billion in revenue, and an EPS of $3.01, according to FactSet data.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

Remember last month when we were awed by Microsoft’s record-setting Patch Tuesday that addressed 206 CVEs? That was a quaint era compared to this month: Redmond just rolled out patches for 622 CVEs specific to its products, slightly more than tripling last month’s all-time high. Redmond’s Patch Tuesday release is once again one for the record books, with everything under the sun getting some security fixes – including 428 non-Microsoft Chromium CVEs affecting Edge that aren’t included in that 622 count. Fifty-eight of those are critical, two are under active exploit, and one has already been publicly disclosed, meaning it could join those other two in short order. There is a lot to dig through, and we can hardly cover the whole gamut given the size of this release. As we noted last month, there was concern in the infosec community that AI-enabled bug hunting might mean massive patch volumes are the new normal. Microsoft didn’t disclose how much AI may have contributed to the massive patch list this month, but given the volume it’s safe to say human contributors probably had some assistance. Microsoft’s massive month To start, let’s cover the pair of actively exploited issues that Microsoft patched. The first, CVE-2026-56155, is an Active Directory Federation Services elevation of privilege vulnerability. Attackers who exploit the issue, which Microsoft only described as being due to “insufficient granularity of access control on ADFS,” could gain administrator privileges. They do need to have access already and be local, however, which is why this is only rated with a CVSS score of 7.8. The second actively exploited vulnerability, CVE-2026-56164, is another privilege elevation issue, this time in Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint is apparently missing authentication for a critical function, which could let an unauthorized attacker on a network elevate their SharePoint permissions. As with the other issue under exploit, this one is somewhat limited, earning it a CVSS of just 5.3. With both under active exploitation, that score doesn’t matter as much as eliminating the vulnerability through good patch management, however. As for the publicly reported but not-yet-exploited issue, CVE-2026-50661, that involves BitLocker being able to have its security measures physically bypassed by anyone with local access to a BitLocker-secured machine. Now let’s round up a few of those 58 critical issues. Everyone’s favorite untrustworthy AI is packing a CVSS 9.6 remote code execution vulnerability. CVE-2026-48561 finds Copilot improperly neutralizing its input, allowing an unauthorized attacker to execute code with nothing but low-privileged Hyper-V guest access. Exploiting the vulnerability can be done without user awareness by, for example, hosting a malicious website that prompts the many embedded Copilot features of Windows machines to process a prompt upon landing on the page. Microsoft Exchange is suffering from a CVSS 9.6 spoofing vuln due to failure to neutralize input, leading to cross-site scripting being possible from within a maliciously crafted email. CVE-2026-55008 allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network by sending said malicious email to a target, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution. Finally, we’re not picking out one vulnerability for your third notice in this massive list, but are highlighting a full 16 remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and its associated applications. They’re caused by a variety of issues in the Office suite, like heap-based buffer overflow and use after free vulns, and all are scored around a CVSS 7.8. Needless to say, we recommend following Microsoft’s advice and getting all those hundreds of security patches installed ASAP. Adobe throws mud at critical issues in multiple products Microsoft tends to command the headlines on Patch Tuesday (it’s hard not to when you address more than 600 CVEs in a single day), but Adobe released a bunch of patches across its ecosystem too, 64 unique CVEs across seven bulletins for Commerce, Experience Manager, Creative Cloud Desktop, Illustrator, Content Credentials SDK, ColdFusion, and Animate. Every one of the bulletins included at least a couple of critical CVEs. The highest-severity issue among Adobe’s many Patch Tuesday entries comes in the form of a CVSS 9.9 path traversal vulnerability in ColdFusion that can allow arbitrary code execution. CVE-2026-48318 does not yet appear in online CVE directories, but even with limited information, we’d say a 9.9-level issue is one you want to address with a quickness. The second-worst issue that Adobe addressed today is in its Commerce suite. CVE-2026-48356 is a CVSS 9.6 privilege escalation vulnerability that an attacker can trigger thanks to Commerce failing to restrict the upload of dangerous file types. Adobe Experience Manager also includes a pair of CVSS 9.6 issues (CVE-2026-48259 and CVE-2026-48359). Both allow arbitrary code execution: one because of a server-side request forgery vulnerability, and the other because of improper restriction of XML external entity references. Other notable Patch Tuesday releases Broadcom addressed seven CVEs in its Avi Load Balancer today, which it rates from 7.1 to 9.8 on the CVSS scale. The vulnerabilities include authentication bypass, RCE, privilege escalation, and directory traversal. SAP published 16 security updates and one GitHub advisory today; nine of those updates have a CVSS score of 8.1 or higher. CVE-2026-44747 (CVSS 9.9) is a memory corruption issue in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP that could allow an authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to system data; CVE-2026-27690, CVSS 9.1, would let an unauthenticated attacker smuggle an HTTP request through SAP Approuter leading to system unavailability; and CVE-2026-44761, CVSS 9.1, involves the retention of a sample OAuth2 client in SAP Commerce Cloud that isn’t documented and, if known, could let an attacker break in. Let’s hope August is a bit quieter, though, given the fact the past two months have set consecutive records for the number of vulnerabilities Microsoft patched; we have our doubts. Godspeed, sysadmins and security teams. ®

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In Frame with Flickr: The In-Between

In a world that never stops moving, street photography can remind us to to look closer at the moments in between the rush. Waiting rooms, bus stops, doorways, pauses, any moment when street photographers focus on those moments when time seems to stop. This edition of In Frame with Flickr, our street photography series, is dedicated to those quiet transitional moments. Join us for some candid contemplation.

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Untitled by Alek S.

outside

outside by Michael Teuber

on reading

on reading by Alexandre Dulaunoy

Pure happiness

Pure Happiness by Dimitar L. Panayotov

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Untitled by Alex DMT

Ladies

Ladies by schoene.pixel

Sidebench-ers

Sidebench-ers by Thomas Cizauskas

sunk

sunk by Michael Teuber

Island of calm

Island of calm byPer Gosche

Enjoying The View

Enjoying the view by Robert Clinton

Mo Peace

Mo peace by Ian Sane

Sun Bath

Sun bath by Shawn Harquail

Wave rider

Wave Rider by Chris

If you enjoyed the break in the middle of your day to slow things down a bit, find some more inspiring street and documentary photography in last month’s Explore Takeover. See you next time!