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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a family of malware that wrangles infected Internet of Things devices into large networks for use in attacks that take…
Enlarge / Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21, 2015, in San Francisco. (credit: Getty Images | tSteve Jennings) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was indicted in France today and ordered to…
Researchers have identified two distinct mechanisms of drug resistance in C. difficile, but its ability to withstand antibiotics comes with downsides for the bacteria.
Imagen 3’s vision of a basketball-playing president is a bit akin to the Fresh Prince’s Uncle Phil. [credit: Google / Ars Technica ] Google’s Gemini AI model is once again able to generate images of humans after that function was…
Enlarge / Listeria monocytogenes. (credit: Getty | BSIP) Five more people have died in a nationwide outbreak of Listeria infections linked to contaminated Boar’s Head brand meats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. To date, 57 people…
Scientists are trying to decipher what drove the recent dramatic cooling of the tropical Atlantic, but so far few clues have emerged. “We are still scratching our heads as to what’s actually happening,” the researchers said.
The ESPN app on an iPhone 11 Pro. (credit: ESPN) Too often, new tech product or service launches seem like solutions in search of a problem, but not this one: ESPN is launching software that lets you figure out just…
Enlarge (credit: Catherine McQueen | Moment) An appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok reversing a lower court’s ruling that Section 230 immunity shielded the short video app from liability after a child died taking part in a dangerous…
Responding to this meme image of a wizard with an orb from the I.C.E. book Middle-earth: Valar and Maiar, Midjourney’s founder joked that the new hardware form factor might be an orb. (credit: I.C.E.) Midjourney, a company best known for…
Scientists might be on track to revealing new facets of physics.
Pretty much every day for the last couple of weeks, workers wielding welding guns and torches have climbed onto SpaceX’s Starship launch pad in South Texas to make last-minute upgrades ahead of the next test flight of the world’s largest…
Enlarge / Ukrainian FPV drone hunting Russian army assets along a road. Imagine receiving a traffic ticket in the mail because you were speeding down a Russian road in Kursk with a Ukrainian attack drone on your tail. That’s the…
A new reactor creates ammonia from polluted wastewater using electricity, and it’s way more efficient than existing methods.
Enlarge / Human driver will continue to be a job at the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop for the foreseeable future. (credit: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Image) Autonomous driving capabilities are a central component of Tesla’s stratospheric share price,…
Enlarge / The Apple Books icon on a Mac. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple will cut 100 jobs, all in its digital services teams. Laid off employees will have 60 days to find another job in the company before it cuts…
Enlarge (credit: Artur Debat | Moment) An Australian man who pretended to be a famous teenage YouTuber has been sentenced to 17 years for orchestrating what police are calling “one of the worst sextortion cases in history.” Twenty-nine-year-old Muhammad Zain…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person shooter game Doom in real time using AI image generation…
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework that brought its .NET platform to non-Windows…
Enlarge / There’s a reason the Ariel Nomad works so well in open-world games like Forza Horizon. Now Ariel has developed an electric version. (credit: Ariel) The low-volume British carmaker Ariel got its start with a reimagining of the iconic…
Enlarge / Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is heading to court for a possible indictment after being released from police…
Artists often captivate us with their ability to translate the world around them into stunningly realistic drawings. But what cognitive processes enable such skill? A recent study sheds light on this question, revealing that art students possess a unique flexibility…
Enlarge / A view of the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. New research shows a large chunk of global methane emissions are from rotting vegetation in tropical wetlands. (credit: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images) A 2021 pledge by more than…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language…
Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats fluoresce under UV light, a new study reports. The function of the toe glow is unknown.
Enlarge / A screen capture of landing video of a Falcon 9 rocket just before it tips over on Wednesday morning. (credit: SpaceX) Early on Wednesday morning, at 3:48 am ET local time, a Falcon 9 rocket booster making its…
Enlarge / Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, with some of its propellants visible, before shipment from the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh to the launch site in Florida. (credit: Astrobotic) Seven months after its first lunar lander fell short of reaching the Moon,…
We often think of attraction as something that draws us to another individual, but what if that pull not just toward an individual but toward the energy that flows between people in a relationship? Recent research published in the Archives…
A recent expedition to the intersection of two undersea mountain chains has revealed a new seamount and a rich world of deep-sea biodiversity.
Wasted radio signals can be converted into electricity using a new kind of antenna rooted in how electrons behave at a quantum level.
A massive longitudinal study conducted in Norway and England has found that mothers who adhere to a healthy dietary pattern during pregnancy have 22% lower odds of having children diagnosed with autism compared to mothers with less healthy diets. The…
You’re lying in bed at night, looking at the ceiling. Out of the corner of your eye, you catch sight of something — a shadow, or a dim light. When you shift your gaze to investigate, it’s gone. Maybe nothing,…
Stress has a profound impact on our lives, contributing to a staggering $300 billion in healthcare costs and missed workdays in the United States alone each year. The way we handle stress, known as resilience, can make a significant difference…
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Indian IT firm Infosys has been accused of being “exploitative” after allegedly sending job offers to thousands of engineering graduates but still not onboarding any of them after as long as two years. The recent graduates have…
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Among AMD’s explanations for the somewhat underwhelming Ryzen 9000 performance reports from reviewers earlier this month: that the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update would bring some improvements to the CPU scheduler…
Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.
Enlarge / Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program and primary contractor Bechtel National, Inc. continue construction on the base of the platform for the new mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (credit:…
Enlarge / Martin Shkreli—he’s back, and he’s still got copies of that Wu-Tang Clan album. (credit: Getty | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez ) The members of PleasrDAO are, well, pretty displeased with Martin Shkreli. The “digital autonomous organization” spent $4.75 million…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Elon Musk’s X platform made a change to its AI assistant, Grok, that may prevent it from giving users false information on election ballot deadlines and other election-related matters. From now on, X…
Enlarge / BARCELONA, SPAIN – 2021/10/02: Spanish tattoo artist Oscar Garcia works on a man, during the Expo. Fira de Barcelona hosts the XXIV edition of the Barcelona Tattoo Expo where tattoo artists from Spain and other countries exhibit tattoos…
Enlarge / A man peers over a glass partition, seeking transparency. (credit: Image Source via Getty Images) The Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently unveiled its latest draft definition for “open source AI,” aiming to clarify the ambiguous use of the…
Tetris Forever includes several versions of the game that had been released over the years. [credit: Nintendo ] A combination documentary and classic game compilation called Tetris Forever is headed to PC, Nintendo Switch, and other platforms later this year,…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The federal government awarded another $521 million in EV charger funding today. It’s the latest tranche of money to be awarded from a $7.5 billion program authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to…
Enlarge / It’s hard work, survival crafting, but there are moments for song, dance, and tankards. (credit: North Beach Games) The dwarves of J.R.R. Tolkien’s writing are, according to the author himself, “a tough, thrawn race for the most part,…
The North Star’s surface is surprisingly spotty, new high-definition observations of Polaris reveal.
Enlarge / A building at Apple Park, the company’s Cupertino, California, HQ. (credit: Apple) Apple has announced a major change on its leadership team: Longtime Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will step down from his role on January 1, 2025.…
Enlarge / A young Maurice Sendak’s illustration of two possible outcomes of atomic power for the 1947 pop-sci book Atomics for the Millions. (credit: McGraw Hill/Public domain) Beloved American children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak probably needs no introduction. His…
Every so often, astronomers detect a supernova explosion that’s 100 times brighter than it should be. A new paper may reveal the strange source of these “superluminous” supernovas.
Have you ever wondered if your stress affects your dog? A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests that it might. The study found that the scent of human stress can influence dogs’ behavior, potentially making them more cautious and…
Enlarge / AT&T’s stand at Mobile World Congress on February 27, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. (credit: Getty Images | Joan Cros Garcia-Corbis) AT&T agreed to pay a $950,000 fine for an August 2023 outage in four states in which the…
A researcher describes the technology behind a device that translates thoughts into words for people who cannot otherwise speak.
