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- + Jeff Bezos finally got rid of Bob Smith at Blue Origin—Enlarge / Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith (black hat) walks with Jeff Bezos ...
- + Inside the race to stop a deadly viral outbreak in India—Enlarge / Road blockade due to Nipah affected areas at Chathamangalam ...
- + The history of syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton—Enlarge In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic s...
- + RSV vaccine during pregnancy gets seasonal sign-off from CDC—Enlarge / An intensive care nurse cares for a patient suffering from r...
- + Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US—Adult female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis recovered from rat lu...
- + Rocket Report: Two small launchers fail in flight; Soyuz crew flies to ISS—Enlarge / NASA Astronaut Loral O'Hara, Russian commander Oleg Kononenk...
- + US to again offer free COVID tests ahead of respiratory virus season—Enlarge (credit: Getty | picture alliance) Americans will aga...
- + Independent reviewers find NASA Mars Sample Return plans are seriously flawed—Enlarge / The fate of a mission to return samples from Mars hangs in t...
- + Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead—Enlarge / A pendant, espresso cups, and flower planters 3D-printed fro...
- + New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction—Enlarge / This beer isn't helping. (credit: Grady Reese) For ...
- + What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?—Enlarge (credit: Cathy Scola via Getty Images) From breakfast...
- + Permission denied for reentry of Varda’s orbiting experiment capsule—Enlarge / Varda's reentry capsule measures nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in ...
- + Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams—Enlarge / An ant infected by the lancet liver fluke climbs up and clam...
- + French drillers may have stumbled upon a mammoth hydrogen deposit—Enlarge / The equipment needed for drilling a borehole of this type. (...
- + Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in?—Enlarge / An on-stage demo of the surgical robot. That could be you. (...
- + Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?—Enlarge (credit: wera Rodsawang) A decade ago, our present re...
- + Fish’s big mistake preserved an unusual fossil for us—Enlarge / The fish in question, with the ammonite located just below i...
- + Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved in ruins of Polish castle—Enlarge / Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an early 16th-century...
- + Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed—Enlarge (credit: LAGUNA DESIGN) For most proteins, structure ...
- + Failure strikes Rocket Lab after launch from New Zealand—Enlarge / Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle lifts off Tuesday from ...
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- + ChatGPT update enables its AI to “see, hear, and speak,“ according to OpenAI—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced a ...
- + Getty Images subscribers to get access to AI image generator—Enlarge (credit: Arun Nevader) Getty Images will give hundred...
- + 3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple has patched a potent cha...
- + Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Incomplete information include...
- + AI-generated books force Amazon to cap e-book publications to 3 per day—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Amazon introduced a...
- + AI-generated books force Amazon to cap ebook publications to 3 per day—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Amazon introduced a...
- + OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity—Enlarge On Wednesday, OpenAI announced DALL-E 3, the latest ...
- + The Signal Protocol used by 1+ billion people is getting a post-quantum makeover—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The Signal Fou...
- + Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google DeepMind researchers re...
- + Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Google announced u...
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- + Security Think Tank: Three ways to identify the best encryption use cases
- + Apple fixes three vulnerabilities found by spyware researchers
- + Annual Security Serious Awards nominations announced
- + UK-US data bridge to open to traffic on 12 October
- + Cyber experts set out plan to secure crucial 2024 US election
- + Fear is the mind-killer: Governance key to safety in the cyber dunes
- + ‘Top’ ransomware gangs favour smaller businesses
- + Poor digital experience a blocker for cyber resilience
- + governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
- + Parliament passes sweeping Online Safety Bill but tech companies still concerned over encryption
- + Organisations failing to proactively address insider cyber risk
- + Multi-agency pilot aims to help innovators navigate regulatory landscape
- + Braverman puts pressure on Meta to pause end-to-end encryption plans
- + New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
- + Okta confirms link to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos
- + 38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
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- + When It Comes to Email Security, The Cloud You Pick Matters—While cloud-based email offers more security than on-premises, insuran...
- + Xenomorph Android Malware Targets Customers of 30 US Banks—The Trojan had mainly been infecting banks in Europe since it first su...
- + MOVEit Flaw Leads to 900 University Data Breaches—National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit serving thousands of unive...
- + UAE-Linked 'Stealth Falcon' APT Mimics Microsoft in Homoglyph Attack—The cyberattackers are using the "Deadglyph" custom spyware, whose ful...
- + The Hot Seat: CISO Accountability in a New Era of SEC Regulation—Updated cybersecurity regulations herald a new era of transparency and...
- + Cyber Hygiene: A First Line of Defense Against Evolving Cyberattacks—Back to basics is a good start, but too often security teams don't han...
- + Don't Get Burned by CAPTCHAs: A Recipe for Accurate Bot Protection—Traditional CAPTCHAs, such as reCAPTCHA, no longer protect online busi...
- + ASPM Is Good, but It's Not a Cure-All for App Security—What application security posture management does, it does well. But y...
- + Recast Software Acquires Liquit, Consolidating the Endpoint and Application Management Markets
- + ClassLink Provides Cybersecurity Training Course to Help Schools Protect Public Directory Data
- + Wing Security Launches Compliance-Grade SaaS Security Solution for Just $1.5K
- + Latest Acquisition Powers AI-based Network Detection and Response and Open XDR Capabilities for WatchGuard
- + TikTok API Rules Stymie User Data Analysis—Terms of service for API access give TikTok publication review over fi...
- + Hackers Let Loose on Voting Gear Ahead of US Election Season—Ethical hackers were given voluntary access to digital scanners, ballo...
- + Akira Ransomware Mutates to Target Linux Systems—The newly emerged ransomware actively targets both Windows and Linux s...
- + NFL, CISA Look to Intercept Cyber Threats to Super Bowl LVIII—The league is working with more than 100 partners to workshop response...
- + Apple Fixes 3 More Zero-Day Vulnerabilities—All of the security bugs are under active attacks, but the extent of t...
- + MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices—Tens of millions in losses later, the MGM and Caesars systems are back...
- + Bot Swarm: Attacks From Middle East & Africa Are Notably Up—Most automated attacks from the regions were against e-commerce and te...
- + Do CISOs Have to Report Security Flaws to the SEC?—The new SEC rules make it seem that there is no need to report the pre...
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- + Hackaday Prize 2023: A Software-Defined Radio With Real Knobs and Switches—When cheap digital TV dongles enabled radio enthusiasts to set up soft...
- + Carbon Fiber with 3D Printing—[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and wa...
- + The Reverse Oscilloscope—Usually, an oscilloscope lets you visualize what a signal looks like. ...
- + Dark Trace CRTs, Almost The E-Ink Of Their Time—When youve been a fact-sponge for electronics trivia for over four dec...
- + Keebin’ with Kristina Hack Chat—Join us on Wednesday, September 27 at noon Pacific for the Keebin with...
- + NASA’s Parker Probe Gets Front Row Seat to CME—A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million...
- + Inverse Vaccines Could Help Treat Autoimmune Conditions—Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system starts attacking the ...
- + Bill, Steve, and Gary… Computer Pioneers—If you ask your neighbor who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is, theyd probab...
- + Hackaday Prize 2023: Abuse a Reference Chip For a Cheap Instrument—A Rogowski coil is a device for measuring AC current that differs from...
- + Saving a Scope from the Dumpster—If you read Hackaday, you probably get the title of [SunEstras] post: ...
- + Celebrating the 6502 With Song—In a wonderful ode to tech nostalgia, The Taylor and Amy Show, compris...
- + Hackaday Links: September 24, 2023—Modern video games are almost always written on the backs of a game en...
- + Getting Geared Up For Home Powder Coating—[Blondihacks] wanted to do powder coating for a model train without a ...
- + Humans and Balloon Hands Help Bots Make Breakfast—Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but who wants to ...
- + Hackaday Prize 2023: Computer Vision Guides This Farm Mower—Its a problem common to small-scale mixed agriculture worldwide, that ...
- + Powder Your Prints For Baby-Smoothness—Layer lines are a dead giveaway to non-normies that a thing was 3D pri...
- + Hackaday Prize 2023: Stretch Your Day With This 29-Hour Clock—Modern life can be stressful. Many of us struggle to balance work, fam...
- + Input Device Gets New Input Device—One of the nicest things about a trackpoint is that you dont have to t...
- + Hackaday Prize 2023: A 3D Printed Vertical Wind Turbine—We feature a lot of off-grid power projects here at Hackaday, whether ...
- + Electrostatic Generator Project Starts With Molten Sulfur—Although the basic concept of electrostatic attraction has been known ...
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- + NASA to Assist Colorado Company Special Aerospace Services to Develop Astronaut Maneuvering Unit—Nearly 40 years after NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless made the first e...
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- + Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?—Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of conscio...
- + Bizarre Quantum Theory Explains Why Your Coffee Takes So Long to Drip through a Narrow Filter—Physicist John Cardy and his colleague just won the 2024 Breakthrough ...
- + If You're Pregnant, These Vaccines Could Save Your and Your Baby's Life—The RSV vaccine is the latest in a series of immunizations that could ...
- + OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth—OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return fro...
- + These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Require a Brain—Human scientists—used to the benefits of a centralized, complex ...
- + The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is—The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it&r...
- + Jupiter's Moon Europa May Hide Tantalizing Carbon in Mysterious Ocean—Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa may hold carbon in the ocean lu...
- + This Efficiency-Obsessed Psychologist (and Mother of 11) Revolutionized Kitchen Design—Lillian Gilbreth pioneered time and motion efficiency in workplaces an...
- + Period Food Cravings Are Real. A New Brain Finding Could Explain Why They Happen—A new study suggests that changes in the brain's sensitivity to insuli...
- + NASA's Gorgeous New Moon Image Paints Shackleton Crater in Light and Shadow—A new NASA instrument allows researchers to view the bright and perman...
- + A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Show U.S. Isn't Ready for Climate Change—The U.S. has already seen a record number of disasters costing at leas...
- + Hotter Days Are Increasing Car Crashes and Fatalities—Hot cars are a health hazard for everyone on the road—and climat...
- + Suppressing an Onrush of Toxic Thoughts Might Improve Your Mental Health—Counter to the conventional wisdom, suppression of distressing thought...
- + Earliest Evidence of Wooden Construction Uncovered—Researchers say the discovery of the earliest known wooden constructio...
- + A Newly Discovered Brain Signal Marks Recovery from Depression—Implanted electrodes pick up a pattern of brain waves that can signal ...
- + Behind the Scenes of Scientific American's Redesign—Today we introduce to the world Scientific American’s redesign, ...
- + Pink Diamonds Erupted to Earth's Surface after Early Supercontinent's Breakup—Western Australia’s Argyle Mine is famous for its rare pink diam...
- + How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates—Weird math can explain why Warren Buffett had the advantage in a dice ...
- + Massive Sun Outburst Smacks NASA Spacecraft—If it had hit Earth, this coronal mass ejection could have caused cont...
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- + Cisco significantly bolsters security portfolio with $28B Splunk buy—Looking to significantly reinforce its security software portfolio, Ci...
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- + Co-Sponsor Of Unconstitutional AADC Law Completely Misrepresents Court’s Ruling, Showing His Lack Of Attention To Detail—Last week, we wrote about a federal district judge in California, Beth...
- + After Passing Online Safety Bill, UK Government Gets Back To Harassing Meta About Its End-To-End Encryption—Last week, it appeared ever so briefly, the UK government might be fin...
- + With Basically Zero Press Coverage At All, California Assembly Passes Its Own Version Of FOSTA—It is quite incredible to me how, over the last five years or so, the ...
- + Federal Judge Says Fuck The 1st Amendment While Upholding Public University’s Drag Show Ban—Most laws and policies banning drag shows are experiencing swift judic...
- + Daily Deal: The Big Data And Analytics Master Toolkit—Most modern companies put a lot of stock into data when making crucial...
- + Can Google Be Held Liable For Man Who Died Following Google Maps Over A Collapsed Bridge?—There’s a pretty well known scene from The Office, when Michael Scott ...
- + Activists Say California Is Backtracking On Plan For Statewide Affordable Broadband—While the California legislature often screws up tech policy, theyve g...
- + Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt—Weve got one commenter taking both top spots on the insightful side th...
- + This Week In Techdirt History: September 17th – 23rd—Five Years Ago This week in 2018, Ajit Pai was whining about Californi...
- + EU Piracy Rates Tick Back Up In Study That Shows Income Inequality And Less Legal Options To Blame—If you only listened to executives from the content industries, you mi...
- + 10th Circuit Reminds Cop That A Driver Doing Nothing Suspicious Is Not Reasonable Suspicion To Extend A Stop—Law enforcement officers rarely care about enforcing traffic laws. Mov...
- + The Enshittification Of Streaming Continues As Amazon Starts Charging Prime Video Customers Even More Money To Avoid Ads—Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the stre...
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- + Pat Gelsinger and the Future of the PC—I believe we are in the end days of the traditional PC and that it is ...
- + A Practical Guide for Businesses Considering Generative AI—The initial investment might seem daunting for businesses considering ...
- + SatCo Makes First 5G Call via Satellite Using Everyday Smartphone—The first of its kind 5G call was made from Maui, Hawaii, to a Vodafon...
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- + British police investigate rape, sexual assault allegations against Russell Brand—Police in London announced Monday that they are investigating comedian...
- + Hearing set on possible attorney conflicts of interest in Mar-a-Lago documents case—Judge Aileen Cannon ordered new hearings Monday to look into possible ...
- + Moody's warns government shutdown would 'negatively' affect U.S. credit—Moody's Investors Service warned Monday that a government shutdown tri...
- + Gunman in El Paso Walmart shooting agrees to pay $5 million in restitution—The man convicted in a mass shooting that killed 23 people and injured...
- + Art Institutes career colleges abruptly close, leaving some students 'dumbfounded'—The Art Institutes, a nationwide chain of eight privately-held, post-s...
- + At Pacific Island Summit, White House recognizes sovereignty of Niue, Cook Islands—During the second annual Pacific Island Summit at the White House on M...
- + Despite U.K.'s Rishi Sunak decision, Nissan says it will go all-electric in Europe by 2030—Nissan said Monday that it was staying the course to sell only electri...
- + Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't resign after federal indictment—New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded for the public to wait for more i...
- + Powerball jackpot rises to $785M for Monday night; fourth largest in history—The national lottery Powerball is following up its $ 1.08 billion jack...
- + At least 8 candidates qualify for next Republican presidential primary debate; Donald Trump to skip again—At least eight candidates have qualified to take the stage at the seco...
- + U.N. report accuses Russia of 'widespread and systematic' torture in Ukraine—A United Nations commission accused the Russian forces on Monday of "w...
- + Biden administration announces $1.4B for railway safety improvements—The Biden administration announced Monday $1.4 billion for a range of ...
- + Amazon announces $4B investment in AI company Anthropic—Amazon said on Monday it will pay up to $4 billion for a minority stak...
- + Biden hosts second Pacific island summit amid growing tensions in Far East—President Joe Biden will host the second annual summit of Pacific isla...
- + 2 killed, serious infrastructure damaged as Russian missile, drone strikes target Odessa—Russia unleashed a major missile and drone assault against Odessa in s...
- + Former Italian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies in hospital—Former Mafia kingpin Matteo Messina Denaro, who was on the run for thr...
- + British troops offer to assist police after officers turn in weapons in protest—British troops are on standby to assist London's Metropolitan Police a...
- + Philippines says it will remove barrier installed by China in disputed South China Sea—The Philippines said Monday it would take "all appropriate actions" to...
- + U.S., South Korea conduct joint naval exercise amid mounting North Korean threats—The United States and South Korea kicked off a joint naval exercise on...
- + Nearly 3,000 people flee Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia—Armenia said nearly 3,000 ethnic Armenians have crossed into the count...
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- + Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool—Stock-photo giant Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to build an i...
- + FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training—The FBI makes heavy use of face recognition services like that of cont...
- + How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person—The first human to receive a genetically engineered pig heart survived...
- + Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War—As civil conflict continues in and above the streets of Khartoum, sate...
- + Booking.com Shows the True Scope of the EU’s Big Tech Crackdown—European competition authorities have blocked an acquisition by Dutch ...
- + The Booking.com Decision Shows the True Scope of the EU’s Big Tech Crackdown—European competition authorities have blocked an acquisition by Dutch ...
- + 6 Best Electric Scooters (2023): Affordable, Lightweight, Long-Range, Fast—These WIRED-tested two-wheelers will help you scoot scoot scoot around...
- + How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11—One “simple trick” and your next Windows install will be blissfully fr...
- + Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect—There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It’s bat...
- + Loftie Smart Alarm Clock Review (2023): A Clock with AI-Generated Bedtime Stories—This smart alarm clock has a huge library of soundscapes, but the AI-p...
- + 13 Best Fitness Trackers (2023): Watches, Bands, and Rings—Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backya...
- + The ChatGPT App Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life—ChatGPT inches closer to feature parity with the seductive AI assistan...
- + A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship—With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm ...
- + Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You—Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale....
- + The Hypocrisy of Judging Those Who Become More Beautiful—Normally, correcting disadvantages beyond our control is seen as lauda...
- + 20 Best MagSafe Accessories for Your iPhone (2023): Webcam Mount, Car Docks, Wireless Chargers—Load up your magnetic iPhone with a wallet, power bank, or even a webc...
- + Superkop Espresso Maker Review: Great Espresso Without the Electricity—This ingenious machine is easy to use and makes some of the best espre...
- + The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light—In some subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making ...
- + How ChatGPT Can Help You Do More With PDFs—The AI chatbot can search, summarize, and create PDF documents with a ...
- + How to Get Your 4 Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests (2023)—The US is offering four more at-home tests to every household. Here's ...
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- + How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person—The first human to receive a genetically engineered pig heart survived...
- + The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light—In some subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making ...
- + The World’s Largest—and Stinkiest—Flower Is in Danger of Extinction—The 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, known as the co...
- + Behold the Latest Treasures Unearthed at Mexico City's Templo Mayor—A stone chest with 15 anthropomorphic sculptures and numerous beads, s...
- + Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India—Quick thinking and medical sleuthing allowed Kerala to contain a poten...
- + NASA's OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth—The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu,...
- + A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis—Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New D...
- + The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn—A week ago, two bodies believed to be a muddle of human and animal bon...
- + The US Is Mobilizing an Army to Fight the Climate Crisis—The American Climate Corps will employ tens of thousands to prepare th...
- + Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Genome Sequenced—DNA sequencing can assess your risk of developing certain diseases. It...
- + The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died—Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A...
- + The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War—Faced with an election he is likely to lose, Prime Minister Rishi Suna...
- + A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma—The solar corona is hotter than expected, and scientists are using Eur...
- + The Mysterious 'Warming Hole' in the Middle of the US—The world is rapidly heating. So why has the central US been weirdly c...
- + Everything We Know About Neuralink's Brain Implant Trial—Elon Musk’s neurotech startup announced that it is now seeking patient...
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