Paula Badosa had to bid farewell to Wimbledon after putting up a promising fight against Katie Boulter in the first round. However, she later revealed that her form was worsened by a psoas tear that she didn’t completely recover from before competing in the Championships.
“I’ve been going through some tough times lately. Unfortunately, I’ve had a psoas tear since before Wimbledon , and that will keep me out of competition for a few weeks,” she posted on her Instagram stories on July 14.
Badosa, though, added that she is trying to get back on track as soon as possible and is staying positive and hopeful amid difficult times.
The Spaniard struggled with a string of injuries since she rose to prominence in 2023. This was followed by her being sidelined from the sport for about eight months, due to chronic back injury. However, she worked her way up into the top 10 this year with some remarkable tennis.
The 27-year-old took to her Instagram and shared images of her in treatment as well as glimpses of some of her downtime. Along with the post, she sent out an inspiring message on the lines of life and love.
“At the end of life, when everything material and superficial fades away, only the essential remains: the love we gave, the love we received, and the mark we left on the hearts of others. Successes are forgotten, money is no longer taken, and the ego dissolves… but love transcends. The way we made others feel, the authentic moments, the laughter shared, the comfort provided, the sincere hugs…that is what truly remains,” Paula Badosa wrote. (Trans. from Spanish)
Paula Badosa is scheduled to play US Open Mixed Doubles with boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa – Image Source: Getty
Paula Badosa will be playing the US Open Mixed Doubles event of 2025 with her boyfriend, Stefanos Tsitsipas. Allegedly, the couple is going through a rough patch in their relationship currently, but haven’t publicly addressed the matter or spoken about any changes in their doubles pairing yet.
The two connected during the 2023 Italian Open and, a few months later, made their relationship official through their joint Instagram account ‘Tsitsidosa’. They overcame many hurdles in their personal lives throughout the course of their relationship, but have recently removed all images with each other and unfollowed each other on their social media.
The mixed doubles event will be held during the US Open fan week from August 19.
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Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) a month ago, during which it previewed the latest operating system upgrades across all of its devices, including iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, TVOS, WatchOS, and more. These updates give Apple users, regardless of whether they have the latest hardware, the opportunity to have a device refresh — and this year, perhaps more than ever.
Also: Your iPhone is getting a major upgrade – 10 best features I can’t wait to try in iOS 26
During the event, Apple launched Liquid Glass, a new look for all of its devices that embodies a glass-inspired aesthetic and is the biggest redesign in 13 years. It also introduced a handful of exciting features, from the viral AutoMix feature for Apple Music to the Apple Shortcuts AI makeover.
Even though the official launch of Apple’s latest operating systems won’t happen until the fall with the introduction of the latest iPhone lineup, here’s what you need to know about the public betas, which will be released soon and give you a preview of all of the latest features.
When will iOS 26 public beta be released?
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Apple has yet to confirm or publicly announce an official public beta release date. The official page says “coming soon.” But following prior year patterns and reports, it looks like it will happen sometime in mid-July, so any day now. The final, most stable version will be released in the fall with the launch of its latest devices.
How do I participate in the Apple Beta Software Program?
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To enroll, all you have to do is visit the Apple Beta Software Program site and click the blue sign-up button. The Apple Beta Software Program is free and open to anyone with an Apple Account who accepts the Apple Beta Software Program Agreement when signing on.
Once you enroll and the public beta is available, you’ll go to Settings>General>Software Update>Beta Updates and click on iOS 26 Public Beta. It is worth highlighting that the betas are called betas for a reason — they are not the final product and can come with bugs that can hurt your device’s performance by slowing it down and draining battery. Apple recommends downloading the beta on a device that is not your primary device and backing up all your information before you install it.
What devices are getting a new beta for their operating system?
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Betas will be available across the entire Apple ecosystem of devices, including iOS 26, iPadOS 26, MacOS Tahoe 26, TVOS 26, HomePod software 26, WatchOS 26, HomePod Software 26, and AirPods Firmware. The date of release has yet to be announced, but it will presumably be super soon.
The devices eligible for the beta include:
iOS 26: iPhone 16e, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation and later)
iPadOS 26: iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation and later), iPad Air (M3), iPad Air (M2), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), iPad (A16), iPad (8th generation and later), iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad mini (5th generation and later)
macOS Tahoe 26: MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later), MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later), MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports), iMac (2020 and later), Mac mini (2020 and later), Mac Studio (2022 and later), Mac Pro (2019 and later)
watchOS 26: Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch Series 7, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Ultra 2
AirPods Firmware: AirPods Pro 2, AirPods 4 (with and without ANC)
What new features should we expect?
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Apple announced a slew of new features across every single device in its ecosystem, and you can read more about all of the announcements in ZDNET’s event roundup. However, to simplify the search, I have included an overview of the biggest announcements below.
iOS 26
The new Liquid Glass design is one of the biggest upgrades coming to all devices with the iOS 26 refresh. It is a really exciting upgrade to be on the lookout for because it will make your phone feel and look brand new. It is a whole new aesthetic, making everything from your home screen to apps to settings look different. It also mimics real-life physics, reacting to how you tap, swipe, and even hold your phone.
Also: How to clear your iPhone cache (and why it greatly improves the performance)
As mentioned in the intro, the new AutoMix feature is also available. This is an on-command, AI-powered DJ that transitions songs almost as well as a professional, matching the key and tempo of the music. A less fun, but extremely necessary upgrade is a cleaner camera app redesign, which removes the clutter and confusion of the current one with the addition of Library and Collections tabs.
Phone calls and text messaging are also getting upgrades, including a new screen-calling feature, which can detect spam for you; Hold Assist, which can let you know when you are off hold and an agent is actually ready to help you; and FaceTime and text-message AI-powered live translation, to name a few.
iPad OS 26
iPadOS will also have the aforementioned Liquid Glass, Live translations in Messages, FaceTime, and Calls, AutoMix, and Call Screening. The biggest win for iPad users is the new windowing system, which lets users resize web pages and apps similar to how you would on a laptop. This is huge for power users as you can now work with multiple windows and tabs at once, making it much easier to multitask.
MacOS Tahoe 26
In addition to the features above that are coming to both iOS 26 and iPad OS 26, MacOS is also getting Live Activities from iPhone on Mac. This will allow users to sync activities directly with their iPhones, providing access to recent calls and contacts, making the handoff between devices more seamless.
WatchOS 26
The new Workout Buddy feature was one of the standouts of WatchOS. It is an AI-powered feature that uses your actual fitness data history, which it has collected over time, to provide real-time insights while you work out. For example, as you are running, it can give you words of encouragement or insights on how you are performing compared to previous times.
AirPods firmware
iOS 26 brings two features to AirPods with Apple’s advanced H2 audio chip. With the update, your AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 can control your device’s camera shutter via the Camera app for a compatible third-party camera app. Additionally, iOS 26 will improve the audio quality of the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, introducing studio-quality audio for voice recordings.
Also: I’ve used my AirPods Pro 2 since they first launched. Here’s my buying advice for 2025
AirPods updates are folded into iOS updates on your iPhone. Once you update your phone, any new AirPods features within it should become available, provided your iPhone is compatible with the latest iOS version and your AirPods are compatible with those features.
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If you happened to be on during the evening yesterday, then you may have caught wind of another Nicki Minaj tirade. But if you didn’t, here’s a rundown. So, the Trinidadian icon has been using a lot of her energy on music labels as of late.
Her laser has been pointed at JAY-Z and Desiree Perez of Roc Nation. But she took a break from her issues with the head honchos over there and instead aired out her grievances with TDE. In particular, with its CEO, Terrence “Punch” Henderson. She went absolutely off on him, alleging that he’s bullied, harassed, and lied to her over various instances.
She didn’t provide a timeline, but Nicki did claim to have “receipts” of TDE Punch’s actions/wrongdoings. Overall, this explosion was kind of surprising, but this behavior has been normal as of late for the Queen of the Barbz.
Her rant began with this tweet that reads, “Lol. Yall remember that man from tde who kept bullying me on Twitter for no reason? We have the receipts. Lol. I never even responded to him. What was his name again, yall? Im going to give him a nickname. Ima call him ‘Minus 30 million’ from now on. #JusticeForDemoree.”
Nicki Minaj & SZA
Next came a picture of Punch alongside another set of accusations. “Me after I suck some good zik. Guarantee you wouldn’t fight a man. We have every tweet of your incessant bullying, lying, & more. Your name was added to that sh*t list sh*tty drawers. Same thing that make you laugh make you…sh*t.”
She continued in another beefy paragraph, “So glad I have proof of being bullied by AND being lied on by a man PUBLICLY, on a platform I use for my JOB; after I rejected his business proposition on more than one occasion. He failed to disclose to the public that I had rejected his business propositions— and thereby acted in what appears to be retaliation purposefully used to cause financial damages & to engage in a smear campaign against the brand.”
Throughout the night, Punch either didn’t pay Nicki’s slew of tweets any mind or he just wasn’t active on the platform. However, it may be the former as the boss of the West Coast imprint reacted pretty nonchalantly with a simple response just a few hours after Minaj’s rant began. “So what did I miss?” he said.
Her twitter fingers may be active again, especially if she falls for this rage bait attempt. So, stay tapped in.
But someone who did give the “Starships” rapper and singer the time of day was SZA. She clapped back quite quickly in defense of manager and boss. “Mercury retrograde.. don’t take the bait lol silly goose,” she wrote. That led to a back-and-forth in which Minaj said she sounded like a “fkng dead dog” and “like she got stung by a f*cking bee.”
Google is giving Indian college students a year’s free access to its AI Pro plan, which normally costs Rs 19,500. The company made the announcement during its annual I/O event, pitching this as a way to help students handle studies, research and creative work without paying extra.
The plan brings in Gemini 2.5 Pro, Veo 3 Fast, Deep Research, upgraded NotebookLM and a good 2TB of storage.
What AI tools is Google offering
Students will get Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s latest and strongest AI model. It can break down complicated topics, give step-by-step help with homework and even prepare notes and practice tests. Upload an image or file and get help solving problems. They will also get Deep Research for pulling detailed information and NotebookLM with five times higher limits for notebooks and sources. Veo 3 Fast can turn text and images into videos. There is Flow and Whisk too, Google’s AI video tools.
Google says the plan ties into everyday apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Chrome. It means AI help slips into normal tasks like emails, spreadsheets and writing drafts.
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Why Google is doing this
A joint study by Google and Kantar found that “95 percent of Indian students using Gemini feel more confident in their daily lives.” The research also noted that “75 percent of Indians are seeking AI collaboration tools for personal growth and excellence.”Google wants more students to get used to its tools early on.
Who can apply and how
Students must be at least 18, living in India, with a valid college email ID. A personal Google Account and Google Payments account are also needed. Anyone with an active Google One plan cannot use this offer.
All students have until 15 September 2025 to sign up.
To claim the plan, students should visit Google One or go to gemini.google/students/?gl=IN and click ‘Get offer’. Then click ‘Verify eligibility’.
Students must verify their status through SheerID by uploading proof like a college ID, class timetable or fee receipt. Google says this check “takes around half an hour”.
It is important to note, “Students must use their personal Gmail accounts rather than university-issued Google Workspace accounts for registration.” A payment method must be added but no money will be charged during the free year.
Google will email reminders before the year ends so students can decide if they want to continue paying or cancel.
What’s the last date to apply?
Students interested should sort their documents soon and register before the 15 September 2025 cut-off. Those who miss the date will not get the free upgrade.
It’s a rare chance to get Google’s top AI tools without paying a rupee.
This spectacular image of Pluto, taken on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate depiction of Pluto’s color. | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker
It has been a decade since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto, delivering humanity’s first close-up look at the solar system’s distant dwarf planet.
Launched on January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket, New Horizons spent nine and a half years traversing nearly 9 billion miles through the solar system before reaching Pluto. The spacecraft made history on July 14, 2015, capturing high-resolution images and data that transformed scientific understanding of the icy world.
NASA has re-published the photo exactly 10 years later to celebrate the mission, which revealed a complex landscape, including Pluto’s now-iconic heart-shaped plain, Sputnik Planitia, rich in nitrogen and methane ice. This feature, along with evidence of cryovolcanoes and a possible subsurface ocean, indicates that Pluto is a geologically active body, contrary to previous beliefs.
The image was captured on New Horizons’ Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). Refined calibration efforts have allowed scientists to produce a color rendering that closely resembles what the human eye would perceive. It took over 15 months to downlink the mission’s full dataset of 6.25 gigabytes due to the spacecraft’s distance — about 4.5 light-hours from Earth — and a transmission rate of just 1–2 kilobits per second.
New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. | NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
“Such a lengthy period was necessary because the spacecraft was roughly 4.5 light-hours from Earth and it could only transmit 1–2 kilobits per second,” NASA explains.
The mission’s success was hard-won. According to The Planetary Society, efforts to launch a spacecraft to Pluto faced nearly two decades of resistance due to cost concerns. In 2002, the White House attempted to cancel New Horizons during early development, but congressional intervention, spurred by public and scientific outcry, secured the mission’s funding.
In 2019, New Horizons snapped a picture of Arrkoth, the first clear photo of an object at the edge of the solar system.
Following its Pluto flyby, New Horizons continued into the Kuiper Belt. In January 2019, it flew past Arrokoth, the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft. This contact provided insight into the early solar system and helped secure a mission extension through at least 2029, when the spacecraft is expected to exit the Kuiper Belt.
Threat to New Horizons
But as NASA commemorates this milestone, the mission’s future hangs in the balance due to proposed budget cuts that could prematurely end its extended operations.
The White House’s proposed 2026 budget includes a $6 billion cut to NASA’s overall funding, slashing the agency’s planetary science budget from $2.7 billion to $1.9 billion. If enacted, the cuts could terminate dozens of missions, including New Horizons.
“The New Horizons mission has a unique position in our solar system to answer important questions about our heliosphere and provide extraordinary opportunities for multidisciplinary science for NASA and the scientific community,” Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in 2023 per Gizmodo.
These complex, looping tracks pressed into ancient seafloor mud look much more like doodles made by a child with a stick than fossils of animal movement.
However, new measurements have shown those squiggles were, in fact, purposeful movements along paths made by primitive animals navigating their world almost 550 million years ago, well before textbooks say complex life “took off” during the Cambrian Explosion.
Analysis of 170 trace fossils, which are the preserved marks of animal movement rather than the animals actual bodies, tell a much different story.
They suggest that streamlined, sensor‑rich creatures were gliding across the seabed roughly 10 million years before the start of the Cambrian Explosion, a 20‑million‑year interval beginning near 538.8 million years ago when most major animal groups appear in rocks.
Paleontologist Dr. Zekun Wang of the Natural History Museum, London, led the work with colleagues in Canada and China.
When animals started moving
The Cambrian Explosion has often been framed as a sudden evolutionary big bang that conjured eyes, limbs, and hard shells out of nowhere.
Yet the new study argues that many key traits, including directed movement and elongated bodies, emerged quietly during the preceding Ediacaran Period, which stretched from 635 million to 539 million years ago.
Wang’s team grouped the oldest tracks into three phases that mirror escalating anatomical sophistication. Early trails twist abruptly, matching stubby builders with limited perception.
Mid‑stage paths smooth out, implying better coordination. Latest tracks resemble modern worm burrows, pointing to long, hydrodynamic bodies.
“Life in the Ediacaran was no longer microscopic, but typically, it wasn’t able to move along the seafloor,” said Wang. His catalog shows that by about 545 million years ago, motion had transformed from stumble to cruise.
That timeline overlaps a sedimentary upheaval known as the Cambrian Substrate Revolution, when burrowers began churning seafloor mud and opening new ecological real estate. The traces imply the engineers of that revolution were already in rehearsal.
How ancient animals moved
Most Ediacaran body fossils are little more than quilted impressions, making it tricky to match shape to behavior. Ichnology, the study of trace fossils, fills the gap by reading sediment as a behavioral diary.
Classic ichnology relies on eyeballing trail patterns, but Wang’s group added mathematics. They calculated curvature along each path, converting wavy lines into numbers that capture turning radius and smoothness.
Paths that rarely bend sharply signal creatures with elongated, flexible trunks; jerky turns point to compact forms that pivot on the spot.
By analyzing trace fossils of ancient animal movement, like Psammichnites, researchers have been able to determine how animals lived and moved more than half a billion years ago. Click image to enlarge. Credit: Ziwei Zhao and Dr Xiaoya Ma
Those metrics can also hint at senses. An animal plotting a straight, efficient route was likely following chemical or tactile gradients toward food, whereas a meandering track betrays a blind wanderer bumping into meals by chance.
By comparing fossil tracks to modern analogs, horseshoe crabs, snails, and worms, the researchers estimated how animals moved and found body length‑to‑width ratios climbing from roughly 1:1 to as high as 12:1 during the final Ediacaran chapter.
Movement style and animal shapes
In a second paper, the team applied power‑spectral analysis, a signal‑processing tool more common in engineering than paleontology.
The technique isolates periodicities in trajectory curvature, teasing out repeated movement motifs such as rhythmic undulation or peristalsis.
Results hint that early trace makers moved by extending blobs of tissue, akin to giant amoebae. Later forms show signatures of muscular waves consistent with bilateral nerve‑muscle systems, the hallmark of bilaterian animals that dominate today’s fauna.
“By studying their mathematical properties instead, we can infer what the animals that made the traces might have been like,” added Wang. The numbers back a gradual rise in body coordination rather than an overnight makeover.
Because trace density also spikes near the Ediacaran‑Cambrian boundary, some researchers speculate that mobile bilaterians outcompeted stationary soft‑bodied cousins, contributing to an extinction that wiped out many iconic quilt‑patterned taxa.
Body changes over time
Curvature metrics separated paths into “unsmooth,” “regional‑smooth,” and “smooth” categories. Unsmooth tracks, older than 550 million years, loop and kink like cracked phone cords.
Regional‑smooth trails appear a few million years later, tracking short animals that likely glided with cilia or stubby legs.
Smooth trails dominate at 545 million years, matching long, tapered worms using muscular ripples to push through sediment.
Importantly, the switch did not require shells or skeletons. Streamlining alone would have lowered drag and extended sensory coverage, advantages in search of patchy microbial mats that coated the sea floor.
As body plans slimmed, animals began to burrow vertically, ventilating deeper layers and altering chemical gradients.
That engineering likely changed oxygen levels and nutrient cycling, paving the way for the bustling Cambrian seascapes familiar from Burgess Shale snapshots.
The data reinforce a view that evolution’s tempo can accelerate smoothly rather than spiking. What looks like an explosion in body fossils may instead record the moment when durable hard parts first preserved an already diverse cast of animals and their moves.
Why early animal movement matters
Mobility reshapes ecosystems by mixing sediments, redistributing microbes, and linking food webs. The Ediacaran traces show these processes igniting earlier than once thought, giving Earth an extra 10 million years of ecological tinkering before skeletons burst onto the scene.
Understanding that prelude helps resolve puzzles such as why some soft‑bodied lineages vanished while others thrived.
Animals able to seek favorable niches or escape stress would outlast immobile epifauna during environmental swings of the late Precambrian.
The work also highlights how quantitative tools borrowed from physics and computer science can wring fresh insight from humble scrapes in stone.
What once looked like random squiggles now provide centimeter‑scale snapshots of nervous systems coming online.
Next steps include three‑dimensional imaging of burrow architecture and geochemical probes that trace oxygen footprints around the tunnels, offering further clues to how early animals moved, breathed, and fed.
Looking beyond the fossil bones
The updated timeline invites revisions to evolutionary trees calibrated on the Cambrian Explosion, because behavioral innovations precede skeletal ones.
It may also adjust models of Earth’s biogeochemistry, as active burrowing accelerates the burial of carbon and sulfur.
Paleobiologists are already scanning older rock layers for similar curved tracks, hoping to push complex mobility even deeper into geological time.
Each new find tightens the connection between behavior, environment, and evolutionary opportunity.
By quantifying wiggles in mud, Wang and colleagues show that the story of animals and their moves is written not only in bones but in the graceful arcs of forgotten journeys. The quiet crawl before the boom matters as much as the boom itself.
The study is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Razer is launching a new $350 external graphics enclosure that can boost the visual performance of gaming laptops or handhelds, provided you make a few other investments. The Razer Core X V2 is the first of Razer’s Core X eGPU chassis lineup to support the faster Thunderbolt 5 connectivity standard, providing a single cable that provides up to 140W of power to connected host devices.
Some generational upgrades provided by the Core X V2 include support for larger four-slot AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and backwards compatibility with Thunderbolt 4. Laptops equipped with Thunderbolt 5 are still pretty rare, but the Core X V2 should theoretically support bandwidth speeds of up to 80 Gbps for devices that can make use of it.
Aside from a 120mm cooling fan, that single Thunderbolt 5 cable is the only other accessory, however. That means customers will not only need to purchase a compatible desktop graphics card (which can get pricey for the more powerful models), but also a standard ATX power supply that meets their GPU requirements in addition to the 230W for the Core X V2 itself.
Previous Razer Core enclosure models, like the $399 Core X Chroma, came with a pre-installed power supply. The change perhaps offers more flexibility for GPUs with lofty power requirements, but for everyone else, it’s just an additional expense.
The Razer Core X V2 also loses the integrated USB and Ethernet ports provided by its predecessors. Users who need more connectivity for peripherals will therefore also need to buy a compatible Thunderbolt 5 dock — just like the $390 one that Razer conveniently announced alongside the Core X V2.
The Thunderbolt 5 Dock is currently available to buy on Razer’s website. The Core X V2 is also listed, but isn’t on sale yet. We have asked Razer to share when the eGPU will be available to purchase.
For the fifth time this year, Google has patched a Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6558) exploited by attackers in the wild.
About CVE-2025-6558
CVE-2025-6558 is a high-severity vulnerability that stems from incorrect validation of untrusted input in ANGLE – the Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine used by the browser – and GPU, Chrome’s Graphics Processing Unit that accelerates rendering tasks.
Reported on June 23 by Google Threat Analysis Group researchers Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov, CVE-2025-6558 is apparently being actively exploited by attackers to escape Chrome’s sandbox — the security feature that isolates each browser tab and plugin in a separate process, restricts what malicious websites can do, and limits the potential impact of other security vulnerabilities.
According to NIST’s CVE entry, to trigger the flaw, targeted users would have to be tricked into visiting a specially crafted HTML page.
Google hasn’t said what the attackers’ ultimate goal is, but given that Google TAG reported the flaw, it’s likely that the vulnerability is being leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors or a mercenary spyware vendors.
Get the update
CVE-2025-6558 and two other flaws – CVE-2025-7656, an integer overflow bug in the V8 engine, and CVE-2025-7657, a user-after-free flaw in the WebRTC feature – affect:
Google Chrome for Windows and macOS prior to v138.0.7204.157/.158
Google Chrome for Linux prior to v138.0.7204.157
Those newest version will be rolled out in the coming days and weeks, and users would do well to upgrade as soon as possible. (If you have the auto-updating feature enabled, you just need to restart the browser once the update is available.)
“Microsoft is aware of the recent exploits existing in the wild. We are actively working on releasing a security fix [for the Chromium-based Edge browser],” the Redmond-based company stated on Tuesday.
Other Chromium-based browsers – Brave, Opera, Vivaldi – are likely to get fixes for this zero-day soon.
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BTS leader delivers shocking news about one band member
BTS leader RM has made a shocking confession about one bandmate, claiming that he has changed a lot.
On Tuesday, July 15, V from the septet treated BTS ARMY with a live stream. Further delighting the fans, V, born as Kim Tae-hyung, invited RM, whose real name is Kim Nam-joon, and Jungkook to the video session.
The trio called themselves the “workout crew,” and revealed who is the strongest among the three.
“Shocking news! Kim Taehyung is stronger than me,” RM, 30, claimed during the livestream, with Jungkook, 27, adding, “He’s stronger than me too.”
They both admitted they can’t keep up with the Love Me Again hitmaker anymore.
“He’s is bigger than us,” RM continued to rave over V, who was once known as the most sensitive among all the seven. “We can’t even finish the sets he does now.”
Taehyung, 29, humbly laughed off praise for his physique, attributing it to discipline and routine. “I forced myself into the habit,” he explained.
The second-oldest member of BTS served in South Korea’s military under the elite Special Duty Team (SDT), known for its intense counter-terrorism training.
While Taehyung leaned into full weight training during his service, RM and Jungkook primarily followed bodyweight training routines.
Additionally, fans can look forward to the most anticipated BTS reunion as all members are now officially discharged from their respective military duties.
For now, the group is taking a well-deserved break to enjoy personal time and recharge before returning to the spotlight.
