International joint action disrupts world’s largest DDoS botnets
!https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2025/11/26/bot.jpg Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control C2...
!https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2025/11/26/bot.jpg Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control C2...
!https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2025/09/22/Windows-11.jpg Microsoft says the March Windows 11 update breaks sign-ins with Microsoft accounts acro...
AleRunner writes: 'China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island,...
!https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2026/03/20/Extortion_hacker_scammer.jpg A North Carolina man was found guilty of extorting a D.C.-based technolog...
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Background A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures that would block Broadcom from termin...
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Fitbit has undergone several transformations over the past eight years. After I wrote about “breaking up” with the then‑dominant wearable, I eventually switched...
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Flying for hours on end is the bane of my existence. From sitting in a tiny seat for hours to the highly communal restroom, I must keep myself distracted throug...
OpenAI’s Desktop “Superapp” OpenAI is developing a desktop “superapp” that will combine its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and the AI‑powered Atlas brow...
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting more than 3 million devices in total, accordi...
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Prediction Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that AI‑driven bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027. He explained that a bot performing a...
Among the terminated advisory committees was the NIH Center for Scientific Review Advisory Council, which was established in 1988. The advisory council wasn’t r...
In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company....
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Incident Overview For the second time in the past month, an AI agent went rogue at Meta – this time giving an engineer incorrect advice that briefly exposed se...
What inner life? Image credit: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the phi...
Background Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman and best known for his 2000 hit “Because I Got High,” was the subject of a police raid on his home in Augu...
For sale to the FBI Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people’s trash. FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during the Senate Select...
In thrust we trust “Where we are today in space warfare is very similar to where air superiority was in the 1930s.” Artist's illustration of True Anomaly's Jack...
Acquisition Overview OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open‑source Python developme...
Incident Overview For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee i...
Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, acc...
Meta partially reverses its decision on Horizon Worlds VR support Meta is partially reversing its earlier announcement to drop VR support for Horizon Worlds. T...
Impolite, but Not Defamation Cops asked the jury for millions after Afroman used raid footage in music videos. On Wednesday, Afroman won a widely watched defam...
Image: A Tesla Cybertruck gleaming in the lot of the Tesla showroom in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, on March 29, 2025. Photo by Simone Lueck / The Verge These...
Image: A Tesla Cybertruck gleaming in the lot of the Tesla showroom in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, on March 29 2025. Photo by Simone Lueck / The Verge These p...
Amazon still has a bunch of M4 MacBook Airs in stock, and they're much cheaper than their newer M5 cousins. By Haley Henschelhttps://mashable.com/author/haleyhe...
OpenAI announced its acquisition of developer‑tooling startup Astralhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-to-acquire-developer-tooling-startup-astral.html to s...
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OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human‑AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare....
Overview Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, “pushing the U.S. retail behemoth...
Announcement Epic Games and Disney are deepening their partnership. In June, Epic announced that Fortnite creators would soon be able to make custom Star Wars‑...
For decades now, Counter‑Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve...
For decades now, Counter‑Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, however, Valve...
For decades now, Counter‑Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, however, Valve...
At some point in North America, the atlatl was replaced by the bow and arrow, thanks to the latter’s increased arrow accuracy, distance, velocity, more frequent...
Stories discussed in this episode - Apple acquires MotionVFX, maker of popular Final Cut Pro plugins and morehttps://9to5mac.com/2026/03/16/apple-acquires-moti...
Overview The ConnectAir transmitter is about the size of a charging case for wireless earbuds. I’ve never been comfortable logging into streaming services on a...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a Reuters report stating that Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 bill...
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