The New York Times

World Worm Charming Championships: Noisy, frenetic and eccentric but there’s ‘magic about it’

A competitor in the UK's annual World Worm Charming Championships Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images The cacophony was loud enough to deter any living creature: an almost state-altering din of weird and ...
Bleeping Computer

The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub

The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. Miasma appears to be an evolution ...
JD Supra

When the worm targets the assistant: Miasma turns AI coding agents into the trigger

GitHub disabled 73 repositories across four Microsoft organizations on June 5 after the self-replicating supply-chain campaign known as Miasma re-compromised Azure’s durabletask project, according to ...
KMBC Kansas City

Massive invasive worm spotted in St. Louis; Officials say do not touch, provide detailed instructions on euthanasia

Parks and recreation officials say an invasive species of worm has been spotted in a park in St. Louis. If spotted, you're supposed to kill it, but there's a specific way you have to do it. Officials ...
KSDK

Here's how to kill the invasive, regenerating worm spotted in St. Louis County

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A long worm slithering through St. Louis County's soil poses dangers to both the region's ecosystem and to you, if you attempt to kill it improperly. Officials with the ...
The Next Web

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack

The Miasma worm hit 73 Microsoft GitHub repos across Azure and Microsoft orgs. It plants payloads that trigger in AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The self-replicating Miasma worm has ...
Biloxi Sun Herald

Invasive worm with ‘cobra-like’ head seen in MS, experts say. Here’s why it’s dangerous

Hammerhead worms have long, flat, slimy bodies and cobra-like heads, experts said. Screengrab from Warren County Extension Office on Facebook An invasive species of land flatworm, with cobra-shaped ...
Scientific American

Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads

A new study shows that computer malware powered by easily accessible artificial intelligence models is here—the research is a “wake-up call” to take cybersecurity risks from AI more seriously, one ...
Daily Record

These are the Morris County primary election results for June 2

It's primary day in New Jersey! While eyes are on the Senate and the House of Representatives races, there were county and local primaries on Tuesday, June 2, as well. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Here is a ...
WAPT

Invasive worm captured in Warren County

LOSING SOMEONE SO YOUNG, SO VIBRANT, AND SO FULL OF PROMISE." DON'T TOUCH IT WITHOUT GLOVES. THAT'S THE WARNING THE MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION OFFICE IN WARREN COUNTY IS GIVING ABOUT AN ...
Entertainment Weekly

Morris Day responds to 'rumor' he's performing at Freedom 250 event: 'It's a no for me'

Morris Day said he wouldn't be performing at next month's Freedom 250 event the "Great American State Fair." The organization had announced that Day and his band, the Time, would be headlining. Fans ...