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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Phishers are using a novel technique to trick iOS and Android users into installing malicious apps that bypass safety guardrails built by both Apple and Google to prevent unauthorized apps. Both mobile operating systems employ mechanisms…
The German navy going “full Empire” down the Thames. The FGS Braunschweig is a German naval corvette made for stealthy littoral (shoreline) operations, but the Braunschweig ditched the stealth completely while transiting up the Thames this week on a training…
Enlarge / President Joe Biden leaving the White House on August 16, 2024, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Anna Moneymaker ) A phone company agreed to pay a $1 million fine for transmitting spoofed robocalls in which a…
Enlarge / Would you like a streaming subscription with that? (credit: Getty) Look out, Peacock. There’s reportedly a new video streaming service that’s avian-themed. The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A plans to launch a video streaming service, Deadline reported today, citing anonymous…
Current guidelines limit treatment to infants. Giving antibiotics to at-risk kids under 5, too, has an indirect effect on infant survival, a new trial shows.
Enlarge / The Recall feature provides a timeline of screenshots and a searchable database of text, thoroughly tracking everything about a person’s PC usage. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft will begin sending a revised version of its controversial Recall feature to Windows…
Enlarge / The Wow! signal, represented as “6EQUJ5,” was discovered in 1977 by astronomer Jerry Ehman. (credit: Public domain) An unusually bright burst of radio waves—dubbed the Wow! signal—discovered in the 1970s has baffled astronomers ever since, given the tantalizing…
Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called “spaghettification.” New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel / Contributor | Photothek) Chrome users who declined to sync their Google accounts with their browsing data secured a big privacy win this week after previously losing a proposed class action claiming that Google secretly collected…
Enlarge / I asked Gemini to “reimagine” the background of this Pixel 9 group shot (originally on beige paper) as “science fiction moonscape,” and then used “Auto frame” to expand the initially tight shot. Maybe that explains why this moon…
