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The FDA has approved Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, marking a significant moment in the technology's evolution beyond COVID. The same platform that moved with remarkable speed during the pandemic is now being applied to seasonal influenza, raising questions about how broadly this approach could reshape vaccine development in the years ahead.
Shifting to a quieter but serious threat, security researchers have revealed that thousands of enterprise servers remain vulnerable to remote backdoor attacks through buggy baseboard management controllers — those tiny embedded computers sitting deep inside server motherboards. Some of these flaws are more than a decade old, which raises uncomfortable questions about how long known vulnerabilities can quietly persist in critical infrastructure.
And on Capitol Hill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act remains in limbo as the Senate heads toward its summer recess. Crypto advocates had hoped this legislation would finally bring regulatory certainty to digital asset markets, but with no clear signal from Senate leadership, the window may be closing until fall at the earliest, leaving the industry in familiar uncertainty.
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