Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Phishers are using a novel technique to trick iOS and Android…
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German warship floats down Thames while playing Darth Vader’s theme
The German navy going “full Empire” down the Thames. The FGS Braunschweig is a German…
Telco fined $1M for transmitting Biden deepfake without verifying Caller ID
Enlarge / President Joe Biden leaving the White House on August 16, 2024, in Washington,…
Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
Enlarge / Would you like a streaming subscription with that? (credit: Getty) Look out, Peacock.…
Expanding antibiotic treatment in sub-Saharan Africa could save kids’ lives
Current guidelines limit treatment to infants. Giving antibiotics to at-risk kids under 5, too, has…
Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October
Enlarge / The Recall feature provides a timeline of screenshots and a searchable database of…
Was the Wow! signal actually a space maser?
Enlarge / The Wow! signal, represented as “6EQUJ5,” was discovered in 1977 by astronomer Jerry…
Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the 1st simulation of its kind
Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a…
Google can’t defend shady Chrome data hoarding as “browser agnostic,” court says
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel / Contributor | Photothek) Chrome users who declined to sync their…
Pixel 9 phones: The Gemini AI stuff, reviewed
Enlarge / I asked Gemini to “reimagine” the background of this Pixel 9 group shot…
Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Ars Technica parent company…
The world’s fastest microscope makes its debut
Using a laser and an electron beam, the microscope can snap images of moving electrons…
World’s fastest microscope can see electrons moving
Scientists have created the world’s fastest microscope, which they hope will answer fundamental questions about…
Pixel 9 family: The “just hardware” review (no AI)
Enlarge / For this “neutral,” hardware-focused review of the Pixel 9 phones, I asked the…
Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe’s origins
The newly found antiparticle, called antihyperhydrogen-4, could have a potential imbalance with its matter counterpart…
Federal judge in Texas strikes down FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements
Enlarge / Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan arrives to testify before the House Appropriations…
“Disappointing”: Sonos CEO says old, user-preferred app can’t be re-released
Enlarge / Sonos’ updated app was reportedly rushed out before the release of Sonos’ Ace…
New study links women’s tanning habits to romantic self-perception and rivalry with other women
A new study published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences sheds light on the reasons why some…
Ford rethinks EV strategy again—ditching 3-row SUVs, adding vans
Enlarge / Ford hoped to build 600,000 EVs a year by now, a mix of…
‘Turning to Stone’ paints rocks as storytellers and mentors
Part memoir, part geology explainer, Marcia Bjornerud’s latest book explores the hidden wisdom of Earth’s…
CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage
Enlarge / Shares in SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have risen since July’s IT outage,…
Trump’s Facebook posts tended to elicit positive emotions, even when they were antagonistic, study finds
An analysis of a vast number of Facebook posts from the United States, the United…
The historic ‘Wow!’ signal may finally have a source. Sorry, it’s not aliens
One of the best possible signs of extraterrestrial communication may have an astrophysical explanation —…
VW has finally announced ID. Buzz pricing—it’s better than we expected
Enlarge / Eight years after the concept first wowed crowds, the Volkswagen ID. Buzz is…
